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( , Sun 1 Apr 2001, 1:00)
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I noted on /talk that I now know three relatively normal, nice guys that play this, who I now consider otherwise. I have no problem with regular gaming, but something about WoW just makes my flesh crawl.
Anyone else on here play it?
( , Tue 19 May 2009, 12:08, 26 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

Then it got boring, and I managed to upset quite a few people. Also made some good friends I actually go out with and met my girlfriend on there.
I have watched it destroy people's live and careers. Something about the repetitiveness and the competitiveness that numbs your brain and just makes you go on and on and on. A bit like /talk.
( , Tue 19 May 2009, 12:10, Reply)

I've watched a mate play it.
Wasn't impressed. It looked shite and boring, and you have to talk to *shudders* other people.
I'll stick to regular gaming.
( , Tue 19 May 2009, 12:10, Reply)

I have real life friends who play as well.
It's a fun game, but it's just a game.
( , Tue 19 May 2009, 12:15, Reply)

Like Heroin or something.
People get in these routines (and I guess it would be rife on b3ta), perhaps as a student or on the dole and it's a routine you can't get out of.
You get your PC and online chats, and barely leave the house only for crisps and other such cheap sustenance. Weeks with no real contact with new people, months without leaving your comfort zone. All your social needs are sated by iRC and web forums. This way of living needs minimal income and you can be quite happy donig this for absolute years on end.
My brother who I suppose has had some "issues" has fallen into this trap. He doesn't leave the house, doesn't work, lives off our parents, doesn't even have his own P.C. He's just happy surfing the web and watching TV all day and that's the way his life will be. Absolutely gutting to see someone who had trials with the Scotland under 18 rugby team deterioriate into such a shell.
( , Tue 19 May 2009, 12:21, Reply)

I watched the guy who lived next oor to me at university do exactly this. No lectures, didn't come out of his room except to eat and shit. I lost contact with him when I left, but as far as I know he never managed to pull himself out of it.
( , Tue 19 May 2009, 12:31, Reply)

You know you have one life, and to think your salad days were spent in a dark dank box in a room somewhere pissing away time that you don't really want. I wonder how terminally ill people feel about this, I suppose I wonder a lot about it.
At the end of the day the guy is happy with his lot and I suppose that's fine with me. I'm done trying to get him doing anything.
( , Tue 19 May 2009, 12:49, Reply)

as an escape from severe depression. It properly fucked me up.
( , Tue 19 May 2009, 13:23, Reply)

I still really like to keep up with the gaming news, looking foward to the E3 anouncements next month, but I hardly play them. I'm more interested in the industry than the products.
I'm into Casual Games now, like PopCap.
( , Tue 19 May 2009, 12:25, Reply)

I would never let it take over my life.
( , Tue 19 May 2009, 12:27, Reply)

They call it warcrack although back then I used it as an escape: It could've been any videogame and I'd have been playing it as much as possible.
( , Tue 19 May 2009, 12:31, Reply)

but there's a one-year prepay card a friend gave me still sitting in my wallet...
( , Tue 19 May 2009, 12:47, Reply)

I play reasonably regularly, but then go for weeks or so without playing.
It's a nice distraction when I've got nothing else doing.
( , Tue 19 May 2009, 13:20, Reply)

who just happens to be my flatmate.
Plays it a LOT.
It is (in his case) because he has no friends, no life, and no personal hygiene. What makes my skin crawl is the idea that there are poor souls playing on his *team* or whatever, not knowing how much of a horrid yucky person he is in real life.
You gamers out there - you could be playing with him. *shudders*
( , Tue 19 May 2009, 13:31, Reply)

Though I don't play it as much as I used to.
I did just spend my entire lunch hour playing Lemmings though. Cripes I forgot just how addictive that game is!
( , Tue 19 May 2009, 13:55, Reply)

I was referring to others. Besides, I don't know if you're nice
( , Tue 19 May 2009, 14:27, Reply)

I'm not nice though.
( , Tue 19 May 2009, 15:10, Reply)

I think it's in many ways a good deal healthier than reading a load of blathering crap on offtopic all day ;)
( , Tue 19 May 2009, 15:36, Reply)
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