What blunt fury could excite a man's wiles...
When he thrust up his fists on air for miles...
When he refuses to stampede-ground on agonizing pains...
And traverses not to unlock himself from the bondage of vains?"

What nomadic heart best describes a man's constitution...
When his vices, whims and caprices succumb not to restitution...
When his basic intentions defy lucid explanations...
And obstinates irrationality only rests onto his blind suppositions?

What blatant impetus could a man suffers in perpetuity...
When by greed he opportunely grabs all the grandeurs in sagasity...
When he illicitly seizes his love passions with shrewdest dexterity...
And incessantly advances his insatiable mundane conquests through vague eternity?

--Digna (Mother)

COUNTER-TERRORISTS WIN!
A Descriptive and Exploratory Study On
the Play Culture of Network Gamers

Dandal, Erika
De Guzman, Jinky
Yebron, Gialynn

     ABSTRACT

     This is a qualitative study on the play culture of network gaming.

     It aims to explore the basic elements of culture such as the individual meanings, shared meanings and interaction among network gamers.

     It also attempts to compare the network gamers' individual meanings with their shared meanings. Finally, it describes how the network gamers interact with the members of their own playgroup and non-playgroup.

     The basic concept of play culture and its elements are based from Mead's theory of Symbolic Interactionism, suggesting three important elements in understanding a social act: the society or group, the self and mind.

     The primary data were collected through Focus Interviews, and Observation focusing on the interaction, specifically the manifest play behaviors of the informants.

     This study used purposeful sampling, particularly the typical case sampling.

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