When Nerds Attack

I don't play massively multiplayer online games because I'm poor, I think people into dwarves in leather armor or blue alien chicks with big tits are probably perverts and I end up getting my ass kicked by nine year old griefers. But there are those who revel in leaving our own fucked up world full of good and evil for art-directed, sanitized fantasy and science fiction versions. But that world has spawned something of a gray market in our own for +9 Swords of Douchebagery and magical Latex Body Armor of Asscrackery (allows you to cast "Healing Handjob") or whatevs -- that's right, you can spend real money on fake money!

With all the otaku locked up at home, what's a bully to do? Well, venture online and beat up nerds for their virtual lunch money [via], and then sell the virtual booty back to the nerds for real money:

A man has been arrested in Japan on suspicion carrying out a virtual mugging spree by using software "bots" to beat up and rob characters in the online computer game Lineage II. The stolen virtual possessions were then exchanged for real cash.

Some say crime, I say "Fucking genius! Kudos!"