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Gamer Plays Over 30 Warcraft Characters
If your significant other complains that you play too much World of Warcraft, just show them this article about a user named "Prepared." He plays an amazing 36 World of Warcraft accounts on 11 different computers at the same time. He is his own raid group. "It costs me exactly $5711 in subscription costs per year with 36 accounts on the 6 month pay schedule," he writes. "Not bad considering I'm looking at it like it's a hobby and there are more expensive hobbies out there than World of Warcraft."
What's worse... he has both a job and a wife.
If you ever reach total enlightenment while drinking beer, I bet it makes beer shoot out your nose.
It depends partly on whether you're a language descriptionist or a prescriptionist.
However, anecdotally the negative connotation seems stronger with "nerd" than "geek"--which can be seen in things like "Geek Squad" (you can be sure marketing's focus groups tried out "nerd squad") where geeks are helpful, and movies like "Revenge of the Nerds" where the nerds are losers.
In this instance, the person in question is definitely in the "needs to seriously consider getting a life" category.
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There aren't any 40 man instances in Burning Crusade or Wrath of the Lich King so really he should have stopped at 25.
No.
Geek means fascinated with technology, knows how it works, has social skills.
Nerd means fascinated with technology, knows how it works, has no social skills.
If you want to see the visible difference, watch Wargames, specifically the part where David goes to Jim and Malvin for help. Jim is a geek, Malvin is a nerd.
but you forgot about the outdoor raid content like Doom Lord Kazzak that can be encountered by the max of 40 people raids.
But this is of course a bit old, there have been people Multiboxing (http://www.wowwiki.com/Multiboxing) for some time now in WoW.
Of course no - everyone knows that female elves are used as nubile slave girls.
But keeping 11 systems update can does he have a WSUS sever to keep the windows update bandwidth down.
The horrid disregard for punctuation in that sentence is both sad, and hilarious at the same time.
Stupidity only gets you so far, then you've gotta try