The point wasn't to act like a douchebag, it was to follow only the rules laid out by the game and see how upset people get when he acts like there isn't a real world outside of the game. The heroes are supposed to fight the villians and treat them like bad guys. You know, like actually role-playing within and RPG.. something barely anyone does, including people who say "aye" instead of "yes."

It truly isn't. I've studied with this professor and he's merely mocking a study we conducted at LSU (he worked here during the post Katrina mess). He's discovered nothing new from his study other than getting to play games with his students on state payroll. Thanks to the last few years of budget cuts at LSU because of the former NASA head being the head of our organization and losing his god damn mind we don’t have the disposable income to waste time and funds on a silly study. We’ve conducted research on forums, Joystiq.com, Home, and Xbox Live before though, but they were nothing out of the ordinary and hardly news worthy.