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I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that World of Warcraft has every ability to be just as destructive to someones' life as, say, heroin.

I actually have friends who have tried to hit me up for their membership fee when they couldn't afford it, and others who actually spent time and talked to me more when they were on heroin than when they played WoW. It's amazing, but the behavior patterns are the same, in my opinion (although IANA-whatever). I even know someone who lied to their wife about how many accounts he was actively playing ...

Every time I hear about some awful DDoS attack, some small part of me hopes that it's the WoW servers... I imagine millions of dateless wonders and pimply faced teens who have never seen the light of day, jonesing for their digital fix.

Brilliant, Blizzard, brilliant. You managed to create a dangling carrot of a game with no perceivable ending, where millions and millions of people slave away to do ... absolutely nothing. Substance W anyone?

We might as well discuss this factual article that declares Nintendo is(are) the Democrats as Sony is the GOP

Totally Non-biased : Hilarious :: Factual : Ludicrous

This 1up article reads like it was written by someone in need of adderall. It jumps from thought to thought, often talking almost exclusivly about the other console in the wrong space before declaring a winner seemingly completly against their own reasoning, only to end abruptly with no final overall comparison.

If we are going to play the stereotype game, let me inject a thought here. When I meet someone who says "I play WoW" I immediatly lump them in the pile of "junkies, addicts, and freaks". Really, 40% of all WoW players are addicts, and addicts are inherently untrusty folks because their addiction over powers their reason.

Additionally, WoW reinforces the computer geek stereotype... people leading solitary lives, sheltered from the sun, staring at their monitors. Zero human contact; all lost in a fictional realm.

Side question, have everyone seen the Wizards of the Coast new paper ad campaign? "If you're going to sit around and pretend to be an elf all night long, you might as well do it with friends." Gotta love it.

Don't forget, no matter how bad D&D might get, LARPRs are a thousand times worse. *smirk*

Expert: 40 Percent of World of Warcraft Players Addicted

And just because most game engines haven't been rewritten for multicores yet doesn't mean multicores don't offer better performance for game engines.

Currently, Multicores do not offer better performance. That's the whole damn issue. We have two cores readily available, but software isn't taking advantage of it. At the present time more than two cores is just a waste of money for gamers.

I will say it again. As a gamer, if you want to get the most for your money, focus of faster cores, not more of them. Better yet, focus on a good GPU, as that's the thing that is really being taxed.

Not to say that dual cores are bad, they just aren't currently being used effectively. If dual cores are currently being used effectively, 4 or 8 will be essentially worthless....for a gamer.

Please begin your education by reading this: Single Vs. Dual Core

The article will point out to you the benefits of single core in gaming. Furthermore the article doesn't even scratch the surface of cost/benefit analysis. If you are gaming, it's better to spend your pennies on faster cpus rather than more of them as gaming currently does not take much advantage of multi-core scenerios.

We are all dumber having read the putrid waste that spews forth from your keyboard.

"As long as the audiences continue to look for cam-slut poses on the female clan pages, that's where the money will go. And of course, the female gamers have to give up the easy money. I don't doubt that there are many good looking or perhaps not so good looking female gamers who could do well. And no, I don't think the first successful female clan will have to be comprised of butt-ugly chicks either, but in reality it shouldn't matter whatsoever what they look like. It's the combination of audience and sponsor expectations, combined with willing participants, that creates the current environment."