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How Warcraft Really Does Wreck Lives
An anonymous reader writes "There's a great blog post about how World of Warcraft can ruin lives, it's written by a person that was for a long time a member of the largest council on what is now one of the oldest guilds in the world." This is a story that is very familiar to a lot of folks. I know people who are actively wrecking their lives and risking their jobs by playing too much of a video game.
LFG for WoW Addicts Anonymous, PST
"The Burning Crusade expansion for WoW is coming, so named because of how the game devours human lives, leaving them a smoldering ruin." ~ Tycho
Mom....bathroom
I don't have time to wreck my life...I've got a raid schedule to keep.
There's this married woman I really like. Do you guys think I'd have a chance with her if I introduced her husband to WoW so that he'd get hooked and not perform important functions like working and another I don't need to remind you of? I haven't played it myself so I'm not sure how effective this would be.
Apology to Ubuntu forum.
Didn't need a report to tell me that...
My former roommate once asked me: "Have you experienced World of Warcraft?"
I replied: "No, I don't do drugs."
Uhm, he's still claiming to be the oldest guild in the _world_. You do know there's a world outside of WoW?
It's called MUD.
- These characters were randomly selected.
You can read a lot more stories like that one at the EverQuest Daily Grind. Anytime I feel like I'm getting sucked into gaming too much, to the exclusion of my family or friends, I read a few stories there and get scared straight again.
Pick axe handles don't kill people, the internet kills people (tubes are dangerous)
The revolution will not be televised... but it will have a page on Wikipedia
Breaking news: the FDA has reclassified nicotine, heroin and alcohol as unrestricted food items in the same category as regular table salt. They justified the move with the assertion that "too much of anything is bad for you, be it salt or drugs or alcohol". When asked about the long history of research that shows that some substances are quantifiably more addictive than others, they dismissed it as "scientific technobabble."
No, but the guns create a culture of violence that tells them its ok to shoot people.
Really? The little guns do that? Or do the people do that as well...
By this logic, slashdot create a culture of slacking that tell people it's ok not to do work.
Seven hours? Amateur. No wonder you posted AC.
Didn't you see 2001: A Space Oddessy? It was that black monolith and all those bones laying around that made people kill people. It's not the guns but the stupid aliens!
only 7 a week? I clock up 5/6 a night and about 16 hours a day at weekends, but thats only if I dont have other things to do or other plans (which is most the time)
now I put it in writing thats quite a lot, but I can stop playing any time, as I demonstrated at the weekend by playing an entierly different game....
Yah, but that's like when Slashdotters talk about being married, or having kissed a girl. We all know they're lying.
"Computer games can't affect kids that much. I mean, if Pacman had affected us as kids we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching pills and listening to repetitive music."
For those that missed it the first time...
WoW meets LotR
No it's not.
Transistors and Beer!!