And there's even a site for the devoted, Revoworld . What I have done so far today, is to update my list of fellow researchers - see the left column. The above are all singular, third person genders. I, me, my, mine, myself. There was originally a bug in the game that caused characters to burst into flames - and people loved the fact that spontaneous human combustion existed in the game.
Subversion is a big part of the game's success.
That's why we put in the natural disasters. Especially Jenny Sunden from Linkoeping University, who also works with MOOs and textuality, though with focus on embodiment and sociological perspectives. Hence it seems, that if there is such a thing as a global culture - or international culture, it is always tied to a local place.