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on 5/30/07 at 3:16pm

This is a long article about one person's adventures in one of the online-gaming worlds (Eve Onlne). Fascinating. Extremely well-written, it shows exactly just how one person can take dominate and fool others. If you don't like to read, don't have a decent knowledgable background, don't bother. There are numerous references to random things that make it even funnier.

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