World of warcraft
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?
( fuck shit up the best you never had, Tue 19 May 2009, 12:08, 26 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

Used to play it
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.
(Potty Jag har smör i min rumpspringa, Tue 19 May 2009, 12:10, Reply)

Nope.
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.
( Cawl, Tue 19 May 2009, 12:10, Reply)

You know I play it
I have real life friends who play as well.

It's a fun game, but it's just a game.
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Tue 19 May 2009, 12:15, Reply)

It is life-wasting
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.
( whenanimalsattackhumans clad in global hypercolour, Tue 19 May 2009, 12:21, Reply)

It's sad when this happens
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.
(Potty Jag har smör i min rumpspringa, Tue 19 May 2009, 12:31, Reply)

It's difficult to comprehend
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.
( whenanimalsattackhumans clad in global hypercolour, Tue 19 May 2009, 12:49, Reply)

I fell into this trap three times
as an escape from severe depression. It properly fucked me up.
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Tue 19 May 2009, 13:23, Reply)

I used to be really into my video games, even played and won a few prize-money competitions back in the day.
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.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Tue 19 May 2009, 12:25, Reply)

My favorite game, by a long shot, is Portal.

( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Tue 19 May 2009, 12:26, Reply)

The Cake is a Lie!

( Devil_In_Tights the *real* DiT!, Tue 19 May 2009, 15:10, Reply)

There you are
I don't blame you.
( warmfuzzies Isn't here, Tue 19 May 2009, 21:06, Reply)

I play it... occasionally.
I would never let it take over my life.
( jim_bob can herd cats., Tue 19 May 2009, 12:27, Reply)

I used to play a lot when I was at uni
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.
( Captain V, Tue 19 May 2009, 12:31, Reply)

I've been clean for several months now,
but there's a one-year prepay card a friend gave me still sitting in my wallet...
(wellgroomedwookiee is a filthy-minded hobgoblin, Tue 19 May 2009, 12:47, Reply)

Shame your insides aren't
That fart still haunts me! *cowers*
( Captain V, Tue 19 May 2009, 12:52, Reply)

Haggis
clearly doesn't agree with me.
(wellgroomedwookiee is a filthy-minded hobgoblin, Tue 19 May 2009, 12:55, Reply)

Haggis
Doesn't agree with anybody!
(Herr Doktor Lemminge Is bored, so cheer me up!, Tue 19 May 2009, 13:56, Reply)

I play
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.
(b3tamax Mate, you're fat and I'll throw you in the river, Tue 19 May 2009, 13:20, Reply)

My boss's wanker of a 25yr old son
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*
(Psyche finishes work at the end of June! Yay!!!, Tue 19 May 2009, 13:31, Reply)

I do
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!
(Herr Doktor Lemminge Is bored, so cheer me up!, Tue 19 May 2009, 13:55, Reply)

Am I one of those Normal ones?
What do you think of me now?
(PsychoChomp, Tue 19 May 2009, 14:01, Reply)

Nope, I didn't know you played
I was referring to others. Besides, I don't know if you're nice
( fuck shit up the best you never had, Tue 19 May 2009, 14:27, Reply)

Yep I play on the same server as DG, spangolin and Wormuls,
I'm not nice though.
(PsychoChomp, Tue 19 May 2009, 15:10, Reply)

I guessed that
well done
( fuck shit up the best you never had, Tue 19 May 2009, 16:31, Reply)

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

Why do you think I joined /talk?
OT gets a little much sometimes
( fuck shit up the best you never had, Tue 19 May 2009, 15:45, Reply)