Thursday, September 11, 2008
23:29 by FoxTwo Time really flies.
It's been 7 years since the world changed. I remember that back on 11th Sept 2001, the fateful day, I was writing on my (then) soapbox, complaining about something. That was like 9am in the morning, Singapore time.
I remember that I got home from work, went online and played Neverwinter Nights with my buddies from USA, Australia, Spain and Netherlands. I remember that suddenly, the American members of the party just stopped their attacks and heals, and the rest of us died. Then one of the Americans said "OH MY GOD! TURN ON YOUR TV QUICK!"
It was 8.55pm. I remember it very clearly. I was still joking in party-chat "Hey you forget, not all of us are Americans. What's on our TV won't be the same as what's on yours". None of the Americans in the party moved their characters. No one typed anything. For a full 10 mins or so, the rest of us non-Americans kept asking them what's up.
Finally one replied - "The New York twin towers are burning!".
30 mins later, when news came on at 9.30pm here in Singapore, the grim footage was shown to us. It was very surreal. It just looked like something out of a Hollywood disaster movie. Except this time, it was real.
The game was very quickly forgotten. The party moved into a tavern and we just talked. No attacking monsters, no running, no nothing. We just sat at the tavern and talked. When the towers collapsed later, people started logging off. The whole PW (persistent world) started to become scarce, which is not surprising since the server is an American server, and most players on it would be Americans.
(Remember this was waaayyyy before social 3D worlds existed. This was back in 2001, and games like Neverwinter Nights were revolutionary back then)
Makes me think that the "bad day" I had at work today paled in comparison to the bad day 4000 Americans had back in 2001... they perished.
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23:29 by FoxTwo Time really flies.
It's been 7 years since the world changed. I remember that back on 11th Sept 2001, the fateful day, I was writing on my (then) soapbox, complaining about something. That was like 9am in the morning, Singapore time.
I remember that I got home from work, went online and played Neverwinter Nights with my buddies from USA, Australia, Spain and Netherlands. I remember that suddenly, the American members of the party just stopped their attacks and heals, and the rest of us died. Then one of the Americans said "OH MY GOD! TURN ON YOUR TV QUICK!"
It was 8.55pm. I remember it very clearly. I was still joking in party-chat "Hey you forget, not all of us are Americans. What's on our TV won't be the same as what's on yours". None of the Americans in the party moved their characters. No one typed anything. For a full 10 mins or so, the rest of us non-Americans kept asking them what's up.
Finally one replied - "The New York twin towers are burning!".
30 mins later, when news came on at 9.30pm here in Singapore, the grim footage was shown to us. It was very surreal. It just looked like something out of a Hollywood disaster movie. Except this time, it was real.
The game was very quickly forgotten. The party moved into a tavern and we just talked. No attacking monsters, no running, no nothing. We just sat at the tavern and talked. When the towers collapsed later, people started logging off. The whole PW (persistent world) started to become scarce, which is not surprising since the server is an American server, and most players on it would be Americans.
(Remember this was waaayyyy before social 3D worlds existed. This was back in 2001, and games like Neverwinter Nights were revolutionary back then)
Makes me think that the "bad day" I had at work today paled in comparison to the bad day 4000 Americans had back in 2001... they perished.
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