Are we cool, again? Do you have me foe'd? Can I respond to you?Necrometer wrote:I was quasi-friends with a dude (he sublet me his place for my first apartment and was a house-painting coworker for a bit) and he lived in a house with dudes who basically lived to smoke week, do coke, and play video games... this is around 1999, but yeah... even without WoW people found ways to utterly ruin their lives with bames. I guess they were supplementing with drugs so that's one testament to the power of WoW. One guy failed out of Ohio State U three times, I think. Or two times and I knew him in the brief time before the inevitable third fail-out.Pisscubes wrote:I thought the same thing when I heard about the brother in law. I mean, it's not RATIONAL to think like this but... seriously. Gayest Life Ruining Addiction Ever, right? I mean, gas huffers could look at WOW addicts and laugh.riley-o wrote:after posting this, one of my coworkers saw me watching the D3 clip (again) and told me the tale of her fucking brother losing his job and failing out of school and having to move back in with his parents all due to WoW.Pisscubes wrote:Yeah, I once suggested I might try WOW and my girlfriend shot me daggers with her eyes.
Her brother in law was one of those clinically addicted guys and failed out of school before doing some rehab program.
fucking
i mean just imagine that "son i am disappoint" conversation when you called to tell your dad that you ruined your life with a video game
christ i would completely rather go the strung out junkie route if i had my choice
at least your father could still look you in the eye
Any hows, my story with WOW is sort of different. It's a story I've told here before. My wife worked with a woman whose husband totally mistreated her and dumped pretty much out of no where. A nice enough girl, not a looker by any means, but nice personality. So, the girl moves into my In-law's apartment complex and she becomes addicted to WOW. Low and beyond, she strikes up an online friendship with some dude from the game. They meet, and according to my in-laws fuck like rabbits. They're married now. WOW maybe the most influential game that effects real life matters ever of all time.
Never played it myself. I was always against paying beyond the initial purchase, plus I'm not a fan of grinding to level up.