How Warcraft Really Does Wreck Lives

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How Warcraft Really Does Wreck Lives

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Wednesday October 18, 2006 @02:37AM from the something-to-think-about dept.

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.

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I need help by bl00d6789 · 2006-10-18 02:38 · Score: 5, Funny

LFG for WoW Addicts Anonymous, PST
1. Re:I need help by eldavojohn · 2006-10-18 02:46 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  *stands up and addresses the circle of Slashdot*
  
  My name is eldavojohn. I am a WoW addict and I need help. Yes, this is a real addiction, I have sucked dick for monthly payment cards.
  
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  My work here is dung.
2. Re:I need help by x2A · 2006-10-18 02:52 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  haha, the fools, playing WoW when they could be posting on slashdot instead.
  
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  The revolution will not be televised... but it will have a page on Wikipedia
3. Re:I need help by steveo777 · 2006-10-18 03:44 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  If he's playing with a Powerbook or any Dell, he probably won't have the opputunity to have any grandkids.
  
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  This sig isn't original enough, it's time to come up with something witty...
4. Re:I need help by Alchemar · 2006-10-18 03:53 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  You can window the game and do bo
  
  [shift]-[tab]F132
  /script CastSpellByName("Heal" Rank 4);
  /say "Healing Party Leader - Don't run"
  
  [shift]-[tab]
  
  th at the same time.
5. Re:I need help by Scrameustache · 2006-10-18 04:02 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  My guild is probably more advanced than his, and my gut is in BETTER shape than when I started playing. PS- over 100 days /played. And my GF still hasn't broken up with me.
  
  You forgot to mention your enormous penis and your luxurious mansion.
  
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  You can't take the sky from me...
6. Re:I need help by Anonymous Coward · 2006-10-18 04:06 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  The MOMENT my GF said "You should spend more time with me and less with WoW" (cliche'd but true), I dropped WoW. Didn't take me a moment.
  
  So...you're totally whipped, then?
7. Re:I need help by KingMotley · 2006-10-18 04:08 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  This begs the questions...
  
  Are you cute?
  
  and
  
  I have some unused play cards, maybe we could make a deal?
8. Re:I need help by NeumannCons · 2006-10-18 04:17 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  haha, the fools, posting on Slashdot when they could be playing WoW. oh wait...
9. Re:I need help by C0rinthian · 2006-10-18 04:28 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  Sex > killing cartoon dragons.
10. Re:I need help by IcyNeko · 2006-10-18 05:30 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  Woo, that makes you a bonefide hero, don't it?
  
  By the way, your it'll be hard for your girlfriend to break up with you considering that she's 1) a Night elf, and 2) tied to your wow account.
11. Re:I need help by Dragonslicer · 2006-10-18 05:48 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  Sex > killing cartoon dragons
  Only on Slashdot would this statement get modded Informative.
Yearning Crusade. by Honest+Olaf · 2006-10-18 02:39 · Score: 5, Funny

"The Burning Crusade expansion for WoW is coming, so named because of how the game devours human lives, leaving them a smoldering ruin." ~ Tycho
Cartman put it best... by dduardo · 2006-10-18 02:42 · Score: 5, Funny

Mom....bathroom
Oh please... by CaseM · 2006-10-18 02:43 · Score: 4, Funny

I don't have time to wreck my life...I've got a raid schedule to keep.
Reminds me... by UbuntuDupe · 2006-10-18 02:43 · Score: 5, Funny

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.

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Apology to Ubuntu forum.
1. Re:Reminds me... by eln · 2006-10-18 02:49 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  It might work, but after leaving a guy for playing too much WoW, she probably wouldn't let you play it at all. Now honestly, do you really want to give up WoW for a woman? Think of your guildmates.
2. Re:Reminds me... by Hoi+Polloi · 2006-10-18 04:16 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  I know of a certain person who'd I'd like to see stop going to work, meeting people, submitting bills, etc so I'm sending a set of WoW install CDs to:
  The White House
  c/o Pres. G.W. Bush
  1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
  Washington, DC 20500
  
  Keep an eye out for a female elf with a Texas accent.
  
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  It is by the juice of the coffee bean that thoughts acquire speed, the teeth acquire stains. The stains become a warning
Re:oldest? [-1 offtopic] by Rakshasa+Taisab · 2006-10-18 02:47 · Score: 3, Funny

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.

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Re:Let's be frank... by x2A · 2006-10-18 02:59 · Score: 3, Funny

Pick axe handles don't kill people, the internet kills people (tubes are dangerous)

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Re:Blame the victims by lucabrasi999 · 2006-10-18 03:08 · Score: 4, Funny

I play World of Warcraft. I average about seven hours a week

Seven hours? Amateur. No wonder you posted AC.
Re:did ya read GP post? by eln · 2006-10-18 03:46 · Score: 4, Funny

Yah, but that's like when Slashdotters talk about being married, or having kissed a girl. We all know they're lying.