Interlude: The lunatics are on the grass

When hackers take over a virtual world its just online mayhem. People are relocated to the bottom of the ocean, safe areas are turned into blood baths, and basically anarchy rules. As one virtual citizen put it "somehow an insane god had taken control of our world and was out to kill us all".

I couldn't help but draw the parallel with real life where crazy shit happening just means an insane President and his cronies have siezed control of the country by hacking into our social and political systems. Unfortunately we've yet find the reset button that will roll us back to 1999. Perhaps there was a Y2K bug after all...

And while hackers are running riot in Shadowbane, other script kiddies are doing donuts all over AOL land. AOL is going to need all the help from Microsoft it can get, lets hope they weren't relying on Microsoft giving them security advice :-)