July 06, 2005
Still Still Still not Faustus.
This (via) is the strangest thing I have seen in a while, and so I have to link to it. Because. Video Game Sweatshops.
He lives in the Fujian province of China, but his place of business is online—he plays Lineage II. He's paid about 56 cents an hour to work in a videogame "sweatshop."
If the term sounds familiar, it's because of Lee Caldwell. The notorious MMORPG scripter got busted four years ago for admitting that his company, BlackSnow, hired workers in Tijuana to earn gold by "farming" in Ultima Online. Caldwell sold that in-game tender online for a handsome real-world profit while only paying his employees pennies on the dollar.
There are, of course, stranger things.
The latter is surreal, the former is subreal. Unless the former is real, and the latter is surreal. I'm not actually sure; reality bothers me, and I'm not entirely awake.
Posted by Faustus, MD at 09:48 PM
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1) Logan said (on 07/ 7/05 at 12:39 AM):
And to think that there are LJ trolls out there who run rampant for free.
Will you be my heterocrush? Kthx.
2) JO said (on 07/ 7/05 at 03:28 PM):
Hi Lauren, keep up the good work =) Send my love to Faustus whom i dearly missed.
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