[Billthedrill]

Neal Stephenson figured this one out in Reamde. When your game becomes a medium for real exchange, you become a target for real crime.

Great novel, BTW. Russian mafiosi and Muslim terrorists meet a British-Chinese secret agent, an ex-KGB assassin, and a gang of enraged locals somewhere in the hinterlands of northern Idaho. Contains the phrase "gun nuts that make the Pathans look like Quakers." I may have that tattooed to my manly bicep if it doesn't have to spiral around too many times...

[Disambiguator]

Great novel, BTW. Russian mafiosi and Muslim terrorists meet a British-Chinese secret agent, an ex-KGB assassin, and a gang of enraged locals somewhere in the hinterlands of northern Idaho.

I spent last weekend in the hinterlands of northern Idaho, and all I saw was birds and fish. My son thinks he saw a moose (no sisters were bit).

[Noumenon]

Hey! We resemble that remark.

Side note: I recently up graded all of my optics to compensate for my aging eyes. Red dots ftw.

[tbw2]

I read somewhere about the WoW gold farms and other role playing games, where China has people earning in game money and items that are sold by the head of the “farm” for real world money.
And the officials like it because it generates jobs and gets guys off the streets.