Seems some World of Warcraft players have figured a way to get some laughs while they play their massive multiplayer online role-playing game in their parents’ basements. Clickable Culture writes:
Players of World of Warcraft have been swapping stories about the art of “corpse graffiti,” a phenomenon I’ve seen before but didn’t realize had a name. In my first few months of play, I regularly spotted a corpse named Jeff Buckley floating face-down in a pool of water in the dwarven city of Ironforge (Buckley was a real-life recording artist who drowned in 1997).Corpse graffiti … is created by building a character with a clever name … and dropping dead in a contextually-appropriate location … As long as the player refuses to resurrect the character (a feature in the game), the named corpse remains for all to see. The primary use seems to be humour…
Oh like humour “ha ha”? No pun intended, but you ghostin’ gamers … get a life. OK, pun intended.
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Yeah, only pompous music bloggers pretending at indie cred are allowed to be snarky.
hardly ‘snarky’…more ‘stupid and immature’
wtf peter, in what world is it acceptable to joke about a guy that died drowning like that? jack off.
I don’t know, I’m a big Jeff Buckley fan, but I can definitely see the humor in this. Frankly, I’d consider making my way into the seedy underworld of MMORPGs to see a faux-Michael Hutchence hanging out in a closet (pun not initially intended, but kept upon review). See y’all in hell!
yeah, because bloggers aren’t a weeee bit on the socially inept side, either. pot? kettle.
I wonder if people understand that there are scores of people personally connected to these artists that tragically pass, people we encounter every day that have to deal with this stuff all the time. I used to be good friends with a guy who was childhood friends with a hipster musician that died tragically. After he died, every Halloween would be marked by some douchebag dressing up as the dead musician and it would kill my friend. No one likes to be reminded that the people they care about are the butt of someone else’s joke. Sure, the celebrity of certain people opens them up for a certain amount of well-deserved ridicule and shit-kicking, but to ridicule the dead salts the unhealed wounds of survivors. Just because Jeff Buckley corpse graffiti is entertaining to us that didn’t know him or knew him only as fans, that doesn’t lessen the tragic effect of the mockery. Only one guys opinion, I suppose…
Hey, Anon: Waaaaaaaaaaaah.
I second that emotion, Mr. Swiderski. Well put. So what anon? Who gives a fuck about your friend’s emo pain? And who says that corpse graffiti is necessarily salt in a wound? It’s a kind of tribute, really.
I gotta believe Jeff would find this funny.
i really wish jeff buckley had lived so he wouldn’t be so wildly overrated today.
Sufjan needs a tragic blimp acccident asap.
I didn’t realize mourning a friend’s death was “emo pain”.
Well I thought it was quite amusing even though I’m a big Buckley fan. There were thousands of Princess Diana and Steve Irwin jokes after they died, people complained about them but I bet many more laughed. I can understand it from a personal view of the family and close friends, but at the end of the day its just kids having a laugh whilst playing some crappy little game. I’m waiting for a round of Litvinenko at the moment.
Does it really matter what socially-maladjusted shut-ins, who spend there time in a place referred to as the “dwarven city of Ironforge” do with their obviously worthless time. Next…..
haha tyler…
YEHSS.
i wouldnt think people who play warcraft would know who jeff buckley was.
and i learned something today.
If it gets one person to listen to my music, then it is worth it
If it gets one person to listen to my music, then it is worth it
“I gotta believe Jeff would find this funny.”
exactly. shaddup
Jeff posts from beyond the grave?
I don’t know who’s the bigger, sadder geek – the nerdingers who come up with corpse graffiti while playing with their virtual worlds from their mom’s basement, or me, bitching about it on a web-blog.
DwD
Listen, just because an indie hero dies doesn’t mean he or she is exempt from ridicule. It’s been long enough that the wounds have sort of healed over. Well, maybe not healed over, but it’s definitely open season on Bukley jokes by now.
All snobbery about the Jeff Buckley thing aside, its actually pretty fascinating that this exists and that we’re talking about it at all. If the internet is the library of the collective un(?)conscious then this graffiti has the potential for some very provacative statements.
Then again, I wouldn’t be surprized if the gaming community squandered any potential for provacative statements in favor of unabashed racism and idiocy.
It seems more fascinating than anything that people would take the time to create “corpse graffiti.” At least it gets people thinking and talking about Jeff. We just posted some rarities today, if anyone is interested:
http://rewriteablecontent.blogspot.com/2006/11/lost-found-jeff-buckley-rarities.html
I agree with Cap’n. It seems more fascinating than anything that people would take the time to create “corpse graffiti.” At least it gets people thinking and talking about Jeff. We just posted some rarities today, if anyone is interested:
http://rewriteablecontent.blogspot.com/2006/11/lost-found-jeff-buckley-rarities.html
Who is Jeff Buckley?
And who are those gnome corpses piled up in the brazier outside Ironforge bank?
lol @ nerdy bloggers
Ah I just love you indie blog/blogger haters – what the fuck are you doing here and why the hell are you taking the time to comment anyway?! Piss off. Don’t you have some MySpace comments you should be checking instead?
Music nerds out rank game nerds now? Well, pot meet kettle I guess.
I’m gonna make a character called ‘Freddy Mercury’ die of ‘Poison’ in the elven city of silvermoon.
I’m going to make a character named Abe and leave him in a theatre.
You can call me pot-kettle if you’d like. There are some of us who fall in the middle of the music/gamer Venn Diagram, its just hard to sift through the kids who listen to ICP and talk about rape like its a funny thing. Prove me wrong. I’d love to start playing again.
rape isn’t funny unless it’s with a clown.
Can we have just ONE thread that doesn’t turn into a discussion about clown rape?
I can see the “Southpark” angle of all this, however, if the gamer knew how fkn PAINFUL it is to die by drowning, and how much grief Jeff’s death caused so many people, I really doubt he’d think it was *cool*. Btw, Jeff was a really cool, funny guy — and yeah, maybe he’d even get the joke, but really, this kiddie-crap is pretty tasteless. Why doesn’t the gamer commit character suicide and use his own corpse if s/he thinks it’s so funny? Better yet, why not create a naked Britney character and have it die with its legs spread? Just wonderin’. Whatever.
Music nerds and game nerds are often one and the same. I am both, and I believe I understand the concepts of corpse graffiti and easter eggs rather well. The thing is, it’s rarely mockery, but more often homage, and I believe that’s the case here as well.
Wow thank you Pikka Bird, how do the rest of you fucking monkeys not see that? A WoW nerd who knows of jeff buckley and his life and legacy is a good enough reason to be happy about it in the first place. Secondly, of course jeff would find it funny…if it were meant to be a joke, What the fuck kind of nerd leaves a dead character on his computer screen to make fun of someone? Third – it gets people talking about jeff and Fourth for all of you diehard’s if you’ve ever even fucking listened to just Grace, you’d know that jeff did not fear or resent death. Grace itself was a love poem to Death, and a release of his fear of dying because there is true love. Get over yourselves, the music is what matters.
that is awful and very disrespectful! To not only Jeff’s memory but to the loved ones he left behind. As a fan of his it truly makes me ill that somoene would mock his death and anyone else’s by purring it in a video game!
WTF is next make a Lennon corpse w/ a biullseye on it!
You people are severely fucked up!!