New drugs, World of Warcraft (WoW),
Go read this article about WoW : http://soulkerfuffle.blogspot.com/2006/10/view-from-top.html
Been there, done that and got the t-shirt. Not with WoW but with some others games like: Diablo, Starcraft, Counter-Strike... name it. I used to be a Hardcore gamer.
That's why I fear to play this game. That's why I try to resists. I am like and as been smoker haunted by the temptation. I known, I said the same about "Blogging" but the difference is there is money involved to. Story like that goes by hundred. It's like "Crack". Remember -Everquest-, every one? I never played that king of MMORPG but known who did it.
Who never hear about Asian guy dying for none stop playing? Dancing so much that there heart explodes? Ok I never heard about explosion cause by gaming, but Murphy’s Law…
Whatever you do, there will be excess, you can’t stop that. But you may help those people. Everybody might go down the barrel, but for the majority it’s going to be for a really short period of time. Sometimes we evade ourselves, but the problem come when your involvement start to reach you in others aspect of your life. When it’s happening it’s might be because you have gone too far.
Watch yourself people, and have Fun. Gaming IS FUN.
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Some days I spend only 1 hour in front of a computer, but this only happens when I am camping in the woods or on a surf vacation on a remote beach. Normal days is more like 10-12 hours. Some days I can hit 20. My all time record is 118 consecutive hours (I swear it's true). At home, I eat in front of my computer, always. But I'm not addicted to anything, lucky me. It's usually work. A bit of play, a bit a chatting, but mostly work. I can't always concentrate on what I'm doing, I think I have attention deficit disorder. In previous jobs, often, I used to stare at the monitor for a very long time, doing nothing, just staring, and my mind escaped. I was dreaming awake, but looked so concentrated at my screen that no one would disturb me, or even question wheter I was working or not. But I wasn't. I could stare at that screen for an hour. Sometimes I would come back to my senses and realize that the content of the screen was inapropriate for staring, so I would load up some complicated source code and whatnot, and drift away again. Computer programing isn't all fun and excitement, you know. Sometime it sucks.
I don't have a point, by the way. I'm telling you this for no reason.
World Of Warcraft... seen it once or twice. Penny-arcade.com talk about it a lot. I know at least one addicted geek personally. I never played it, but get the point.
"Initial-D" and "Maximum Tune", those I know. I was addicted to that. For those that don't know, these aren't just arcade racing games (which you will find in most arcades), these are cultural phenomenas. These games introduced something cool: the tune cards. The machine gives you a card, the card holds you car, its upgraded/tuned parts, your scores, best times, races won against other players... your identity. When you win races, you level up, and little stars are printed on the card. Then you flash the card and show the stars. Pop the card in the machine, challenge the player on the side, it's on. You win, get tune points, upgrade the car, get more stars. You want the next level. You want the "10 won races in a row" because then your car is on fire. Fuck yeah. Maximum Tune is evil because it seems you can upgrade forever, and you want to upgrade, because the card doesn't just have stars, it has your car's HP written on it. So you want to have 800 HP to flash around.
Yeah, I understand WOW because I spent loads money in Initial-D and Max Tune. I don't even want to know how much. Judge, you mentionned crack?
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