Via Broken Toys: A Loyola University professor named David Myers says that the thousands of hours he spent playing the online RPG City of Heroes/Villains weren't just for entertainment purposes. He was actually conducting a "breaching experiment," a sociological exercise in which "conventional social norms [are:] breached and the consequences of those breachings [are:] examined in order to better understand the mechanisms by which social order [is:] re-constituted."

In layman's terms, the guy deli