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World of Warcraft Can Boost Your Career
Hugh Pickens writes "Forbes reports that although videogames have long been thought of as distractions to work and education rather than aids, there is a growing school of thought that says game-playing in moderation, and in your free time, can make you more successful in your career. 'We're finding that the younger people coming into the teams who have had experience playing online games are the highest-level performers because they are constantly motivated to seek out the next challenge and grab on to performance metrics,' says John Hagel III, co-chairman of a tech-oriented strategy center for Deloitte. Elliot Noss, chief executive of domain name provider Tucows, spends six to seven hours a week playing online games and believes World of Warcraft trains him to become a better leader."
Elliot Noss, chief executive of domain name provider Tucows, spends six to seven hours a week playing online games and believes World of Warcraft trains him to become a better leader."
Six to seven hours a week? There's a term for someone who plays such an excessive amount of online games. Let me see if I can think what it is... Oh yeah. I remember now.
That term is "NOOB".
If you ever come into a situation where you have to train 10 or 25 people not to stand in fire, you call me.
"JESUS CHRIST! JOHNSON! GET OUT OF THE FIRE!"
Headlines: Area man saved by the Mimiron fight.
Guns don't kill people, "with glowing hearts" kills people.
I haven't been on there since the turn of the century.
Honestly, I think the correlation of correlation not being causation is simply that - a correlation. Since correlation is not causation, we can not be certain that correlation not being causation is not simply a correlation, rather than a causation.
The hours passed in Slashdot are also very productive. /. removed my upper bound on the douchebaggery and reasoning logic purity I'm capable of displaying.
If extending the discussion enough to win it by attrition doesn't work, I can switch to "that argument is falacious and I'll explain you why, in excruciatingly verbose detail" mode.
Now I just need to spend some time in 4chan and I'll be able to discuss on level even with a partially retarded frog.
Exactly.
In other news... New Study Finds Some Can Balance Work And Hobbies!
And how does that saying go? Ah yes, I remember now:
"All work and no play makes Jack a dull noob."
Meeting chairman: Let's give these negotiations a break, for a while.
[Executives leave the room]
Sales team leader: Look guys, we haven't convinced them that we're the best guys for their production line. I think they recognize that our services are best of breed, but we still need to get it in the bag. They're in there, deliberating right now, about whether to go with us or the competition. Does anyone have any ideas how we can close the deal?
Sales team member 1: Well, I think we could highlight that we have a longer track record than the compet...
Sales team member (Running back into meeting room): LEEEEEROOOOOY JEEEEEENKIIIIINS!!!!!!
I hate printers.
"The Rest Of Your Life" is like a MMORPG but it's really boring and repetitive, leveling up takes way too long, people steal the really good drops, you can never get enough gold, and there are too many n00bs.
If you like WoW, you'll LOVE TRoYL
TroYL won't get a subscription from me till they fix the respawn bug. Seriously, it seems once you die in TRoYL you just get stuck in the graveyard, no spirit healers or anything - I know some people who have been waiting to respawn their chars for years now and the developers simply don't seem to care about fixing this glaringly obvious bug that really hampers gameplay. Nobody is prepared to take even the slightest risks in bossfights because of it.
Having said that, one thing I do miss about TRoYL - it had the best implementation of /fucking I have EVER played.
Unicode killed the ASCII-art *
I didn't spend years playing Dungeons and Dragons and not learn a little something about courage.
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
So you mean every time you die you roll a new character ? What a grind !
Unicode killed the ASCII-art *
Nothing like family in the company to get you QQ's taken seriously !
Unicode killed the ASCII-art *