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Children Concerned By Parents' Web Habits
praps writes "Children are becoming increasingly worried about their parents' Internet habits, according to a report just released in Sweden. Unsurprisingly, dads surfing for pornography is the most common problem, but chatroom addiction also featured in the report — as is a mother who has become obsessed with World of Warcraft. 'This summer she has been sitting up all day and all night and she forgets what's important to me,' wrote the woman's 13-year-old daughter. 'And when she's not at the computer she's like a lost soul. She just looks straight ahead and says nothing.'" There are also a lot of scammers out there who like nothing better than to find retirees who they can sucker into get-rich-quick schemes involving real-estate, stock options, and convincing the neighbors to be part of a "downstream" for MLM marketing ploys.
Some things are more prone to cause addiciton than others. Video games are not just simple escapism, they are specifically designed to hit our reward centers in consistent ways. They can be very addicting.
But that is no reason to impose any kind of rules or restrictions on them. It is simply a reason to educate people. "Hey, you might want to watch yourself if you play video games, and just make sure they aren't taking over your life to the detriment of your job, health and relationships."
That is really the most that needs to be done for ANY addictive substance. Any other 'solution' causes more problems than it cures.
- None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. -- John Milton
Leaning sex from porn can be a really bad idea. There is a world of difference between good porn-sex and good real-sex. /.ers ever experience the difference ;)
Sex in porn is meant to LOOK good on film. The people participating in porn are ACTING.
Many "moves" that are great IRL are too subtle to show up in porn and many porn "moves" aren't that great IRL. Not that most
There are a lot more interesting things in SL than just the furry scene, Although if that's what your into I suppose that's what you will find. There are some interesting persistant world Sims for Star trek, Battlestar Galactica and Star Wars amounst other things.
I Need someone to rebuild a Digitech Digital Delay pedal for me....for me...for me...for me.
Before women were given the opportunity to do something other than spit out kids and sit at home they had absolutely boundless options to keep themselves from going crazy. Sure some of them were completely convinced of the "love my family, I'm a happy homemaker" idea, but most would develop unhealthy obsessions with (I'll start with the benign and work down) cleaning, reading, TV, eating, drinking, and whatever was the most legal version of morphine at the time. Did I mention sex/adultery? Now if your mom goes to work and comes home to play wow instead of spend time with you, just go ahead and assume you're an unloved wretch of a child. Also, tell the bitch to get you an account and a computer then pwn her ass in the Arenas.
No, and I'm delighted to find out that it was a normal Swedish newspaper.
Scandinavia just has some sense of humor which is great. Aftenposten had some pretty funny articles in the past too.
Here is a second hand example:
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_1706617.html?menu=
and another
http://www.aftenposten.no/english/business/article709784.ece
Je me souviens.
>You first have to get other gear that gives you the bonus points you pretty much need
>to even stand a chance in other dungeons. WoW is now, IIRC, at "Tier 6". I.e. you do
>that whole thing six times before you're at the top.
Just a point of clarification:
WoW's tiered systems work in conjunction with a "gear reset" (or "mudflation", if you prefer the negative term) each expansion. Quest rewards from each expansion will roughly equal the tiered rewards you earn from raiding previously.
For example:
In classic WoW, a level 60 player might go to MC, BWL, and Naxx (raid dungeons), and get Tier 1-3 armor.
In BC (the first expansion), a level 60 player can still go to the old raid dungeons for gear, OR they can do solo/small group quests for similar rewards (while simultaneously leveling to 70). If you do many quests and dungeons, you will be wearing gear that is similar to Tier 3 once you arrive at level 70, and be ready immediately for Tier 4 content, even if they've never set foot in any of the previous Tiers (raids) before.
Blizz has already said the same sort of gear reset will occur for WotLK. A new level 80 player in WotLK will be wearing Tier 6-equivalent quested gear, and will be immediately ready for Tier 7 content.
present day... present time... hahahaha...
Not debunking that it is excessive, but your math is flawed due to your lack of play mechanics (no offense meant, you're just underinformed is all).
Yes, there are 6 tiers of equipment, but the first three are remnants from level 60, all but useless, and almost noone even tries for them, except for maybe nostalgia. Tier 4 is even becoming dated enough that most people skip it and jump right into Tier 5. Thus, there are usually only 2 tiers to go through.
Another number change for your formula is that there are not eight items in each set. T4 and T5 only have 5 pieces. T6 has 8.
Also, there is Player vs. Player (PvP) gear available which is as good as each of the tiers. Most players go to the battlegrounds between raids, which is more time, yes, but results in less actual raiding. PvP gear is "guaranteed", whereas the Tier stuff, you just have a chance at getting. If you waste enough time each day in-game (oh, say 12-14 hours a day), you can get the equivalent of Tier 5 in PvP gear in less than a week.
Supposedly, there will be no more Tiers ever again, that they are going to a new system, but still, there will be upgrades at some point, yes.
Your statements have the correct intent, just a bit exaggerated due to the game working differently than your math made it seem. It's actually much shorter of a time, and much easier to get the top level gear than it used to be way back when.
A great number of people are stopping their subscriptions with WoW due to how easy it is to "max out" the game, even when new content rolls out, they just devour it in hardly any time at all. In the past it used to be a challenging game compared to what it is now. Blizzard has slowly "dumbed down" the game so that they can obtain a larger user base who want a casual game.
The question was asked of the poster, not of the mother in the article. At least read a comment if you can't RTFA.
Oh please, enough with the melodramatics.
Blizzard just likes to crack jokes, that's all. When you change your account details for example, a message tells you that it is a historical event that will one day be remembered by your descendants or something like that.
I no longer play WoW but I don't think my time spent on the game was a bad experience.
Actually, first of all - the kids were present. Second - if you read my post, they were regulars and did speak with us on that level often.
Dont go on like that unless you read the post your going on about.