Why do I love A Tale in the Desert? Check out this thread from the game’s forums. It starts out with one player being mysteriously dorky (or dorkily mysterious), followed by the usual chatter and drift that all message board threads undergo. But at the end, it closes out with a review and analysis of Thomas Pynchon’s The Crying of Lot 49.
How many MMORPG communities have this kind of conversation going on?