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Diary of a WoW Noob's Addiction
Noobab writes "There's an absolutely hilarious diary style article in CNET's Crave blog about Nick Hide's first experience playing World of Warcraft. It starts off pretty tame but soon enough the man has turned from unsuspecting casual gamer into a fully fledged 'Warcrack' addict." Your mileage may vary. From the article: "I can't say that I'm experiencing withdrawal symptoms after two weeks of fairly casual World of Warcraft play (a couple of hours a night, tops. Honest, doctor), but 'neglect of other activities' made me rather worried. Last night my girlfriend got hold of an extra ticket to Wicked, the new musical. 'I, er, I'm going out tomorrow night, I'd like to stay in and, er, get an early night,' was my pathetic effort at hiding my spiralling dependency on WoW."
Sure! It's because slashcode is so convoluted that even the authors have no idea WTF it's doing. We've had this problem for what, years now?
That's the truth as I understand it, but I suspect that another big part of it is that as long as the ad revenue keeps rolling in, the powers-that-be can't be arsed to care whether the site is working properly for everyone or not.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
Just another way to weed out the winners and losers. Winners won't fail out of school because of a computer game. Or drugs. Or because of dating. Or drinking. Or gambling. Or bad grades. Etc etc etc.
Sadly, not everyone has parents willing or able to finance their education. Life is funny that way.