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How Warcraft Really Does Wreck Lives

Posted by ryuzaki0 on 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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  1. Warcraft wrecked... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ...this post.

    "Move along - nothing to see here?"

    What kind of a guild name is *that*?!

  2. oldest? [-1 offtopic] by Whiney+Mac+Fanboy · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    a member of the largest council on what is now one of the oldest guilds in the world.

    Surely if it is now one of the oldest guilds in the world, it has always been one of the oldest guilds in the world?

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    1. Re:oldest? [-1 offtopic] by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Unless the older guilds folded up recently.

      Ouch, zapped by logic!

    2. Re:oldest? [-1 offtopic] by Impy+the+Impiuos+Imp · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      In a straight-up fight, the Empire squashes the Federation like a bug. Accept it

      Two words: Genesis device

      Two more words: Phase cloaking

      "Yeah, those Star Wars guys had seventeen Death Star model VIIIs 'fully armed and operational'. Hehe, 'fully armed', what a laugh. Evidently one of these can take out a planet. BFD. So we dephased a genesis device and took out the entire solar system."

      And don't even get me started on a Spock vs. Vader melee battle, with or without light sabers. Oh, Vader gets a saber and Spock doesn't? Wide-angle dispersion stun setting, home in time for brunch.

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  3. Re:Let's be frank... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    No, but the guns create a culture of violence that tells them its ok to shoot people.