[...] computational processes are experienced, as something to be judged and interacted with on the basis of human skill. To experience them otherwise is to 'cheat'. An example of the persistence of such is in the rules governing many massively multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPGs) such as World of Warcraft or Runescape. Here, the use of macros, autotypers (to repeat messages), autoclickers (to repeat functions) and other kinds of bots is generally deemed to be an offence, a violation of the game. But such things, bots especially, can, in turn, be means of having fun with the rather jaded rule sets of online gaming, through griefing or more interesting means. On the one hand, the prohibition on bots argues for an assumed level playing field: that real users are playing the game, not sets of competing scripts or mechanical devices tapping keyboards. In turn, the use of gold farmers, or professional players, in MMORPGs is seen as a betrayal of such experiential requirement, but also as part of the game, when players are increasingly plugged into wider sets of economic systems through games as backchannels. [...]

[...] Since the massification of computing they have in some small ways also been able to construct themselves in relation to other forms of life. (In the sense that Ludwig Wittgenstein means when he says, "To imagine a language is to imagine a form of life.") This self-sufficiency of software, in such a context, allows (in much the same way as it allows a programmer to think he or she is working on the formulation of a particularly interesting and chewy algorithm when working at another scale, perhaps more determining, on an insurance program to more finely exclude the poor from public services) a certain distance from social or cultural norms. Things can be done in software that don't require much dependence on other factors. [...]