Live action WoW

[TheShiz]

Originally posted by: MisterJackson
They should do a documentary on how it destroys peoples lives.

"guns don't kill people. I do."

 

[QurazyQuisp]

Originally posted by: pontifex

Originally posted by: Baked

Originally posted by: pontifex

Originally posted by: MisterJackson
They should do a documentary on how it destroys peoples lives.

only if you have no self control

Go smoke some crack if you don't understand the concept of addiction.

we're comparing a video game to a drug. now we've really got something here.

Isn't crack a physical addiction, not a mental addiction? WoW is a mental addiction, you can break it.

 

[weirdichi]

Hire Ewe Bolle to direct it! YES!

 

[MisterJackson]

I've never played WoW, but have (rather had) a friend of 17 years who plays that game religously. He has a very intelligent, very smoking hot girlfriend who was very understanding of the 8 to 9 hours of WoW gaming right after work (they live together) up until a point.

It actually was tolerated by her longer than most because she enjoyed the solitude, but it eventually led to her coming to me. She told me she had tried to leave him a few months earlier, even getting a lease on a place and having her family come down to help her move her stuff. He pleaded for her to stay and she did, she even said things got much better for awhile.

Then it went back to him going down to his office/basement/game room and shutting out the world again in no time. Keep in mind this is an IT professional for a very large company, not some kid in highschool with very few obligations. Even his cousin, one of his best friends, started asking me if I knew what was wrong with him, why he never came out or replied to emails or phone calls. I just acted like I didn't know.

The funny thing is this guy used to talk about how bad off his sister was now because she was spending so much time on Everquest (this of course was years before WoW came out). He used to mock those people, and now he's one of them.

It got to a point where his girlfriend (of 4 years mind you) was coming to me more and more. Had he known this he'd be livid as he was pretty protective of her. It was bad because he didn't care if she was gone for a few hours in the evening, hell, he likely wouldn't have known anything had she not said "I'm leaving to go do xyz errand.". He suspected nothing because he was so engrossed in developing online relationships. she told me that one time he ditched Christmas dinner with her family to have a "meet" with his other clan members. His reasoning to her, he was the "highest level mage" or some sh1t to that effect, and "he'd get the cooler loot in this raid because of it".

I couldn't betray him when she came to me though, even if he and I weren't speaking to one another anymore. So I severed communication with her. She got mad about that and I feel really bad because now she feels like she has no one and is trapped. She teaches, so she cannot support herself financially on her own because of school loans and other things.

I think about her every day.

So yeah, that game has very addicting properties and is messing up lives. And yes, self control is a wonderful thing, but addiction, to anything, is usually more powerful until you recognize what you do is a problem.

Like I said before, I've never played the game, and likely never will. I simply choose not to because I have a very addictive personality and as it stands I don't have enough hours in the day. A time consuming game is the LAST thing I need.

It looks like tons of fun seriously, but it's not for me. I'm not condemming the game or slamming the people who play it, I'm merely making an observation.

Neither is cable TV "Schadenfroh" 😉