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Offline Bobaganoosh

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« Reply #15 on: September 06, 2006, 10:56:05 PM »
Wow is fun, to a point... I have a level 60 and a couple lower level alts so I understand how Wow is very fun and very addictive... but sometimes you need to take a step back look at the bigger picture... in total I have played a total of 67 days 6 hours and 23 minutes.. thats 67 days I will never get back... sure I was exploring this great world of digital wonder.. but.. in 67 days you can do alot more than sit at a computer wasting away, yelling at your guildies becuase they can't seem to get thier act together when you get to Rag.

What you need to do is tell your friend that Wow is clearly affecting him in an adverse way.. tell him that as a friend, you dont want to see him live his life in front of a computer screen... if all else fails, remove wow from his hard drive while he's sleeping.
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« Reply #16 on: September 06, 2006, 11:52:08 PM »
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...thats 67 days I will never get back...


You can't really qualify that, though.  You never get any time back, regardless of how it was spent.

You spend like 33% of your life sleeping, which you never get back, and sometimes you don't even remember that.
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« Reply #17 on: September 06, 2006, 11:53:40 PM »
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...thats 67 days I will never get back...

You can't really qualify that, though.  You never get any time back, regardless of how it was spent.

You spend like 33% of your life sleeping, which you never get back, and sometimes you don't even remember that.


That means combined with my MMO playing and sleeping, I've wasted 41% of  my life, owned.
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« Reply #18 on: September 07, 2006, 04:20:28 PM »
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...thats 67 days I will never get back...

You can't really qualify that, though.  You never get any time back, regardless of how it was spent.

You spend like 33% of your life sleeping, which you never get back, and sometimes you don't even remember that.

That means combined with my MMO playing and sleeping, I've wasted 41% of  my life, owned.


Well at least you have time for virtual girlfriends.
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« Reply #19 on: September 07, 2006, 04:24:46 PM »
No way man, h-games aren't about virtual girlfriends, they teach you meaningful lessons like :

the significance of toilets in Japanese culture
what to do if you're a space marine somewhere in the distant future
how to get women over bad cases of performance anxiety
how to seduce your stepmother and ruin your father's marriage
what to do if you're in a creepy mansion filled with demons
how to deal with strippers from the future landing in your room
what to do if you are trying to ruin the family of the man who ruined your family

Really, quality stuff.

Did I mention toilets? Games after my own heart.

Oh, and also, h-games != dating sims.

There's very[/i] little "dating" going on.
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« Reply #20 on: September 07, 2006, 04:39:59 PM »
I don't know why, but I find that the very idea of "dating sims" disturbing...

I guess Im lucky, after 20-30 minutes of any game, (RPG or action it doesn't matter) I get motion sickness and a headache and I have to stop and go outside and get away. yet, I have no problem staring at my computer in my office 7 hours a day.. hmm
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« Reply #21 on: September 07, 2006, 05:43:27 PM »
(Thankfully) I've never played WoW, but I've gotten hooked on my fair share of MMORPGs, they're just too damn realistic, its like living a world, where you aren't you.  I've successfully gotten out of my MMO phase (for now) now I just need to get off Oblivion.
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« Reply #22 on: September 07, 2006, 07:25:44 PM »
Don't want to waste time sleeping? Try some METH! That'll get those numbers down real quick!
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« Reply #23 on: September 07, 2006, 07:58:50 PM »
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...thats 67 days I will never get back...

You can't really qualify that, though.  You never get any time back, regardless of how it was spent.

You spend like 33% of your life sleeping, which you never get back, and sometimes you don't even remember that.


I'm saying 67 days of my life could have been better spent is all... i could have been skydiving, strengthening relationships with friends... hell, even playing airsoft... im just saying it was a waste of my time unlike sleeping which prevents you from going crazy or dying.
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« Reply #24 on: September 07, 2006, 08:00:53 PM »
Time wasted isn't wasted if you enjoyed it.

Which you did, this fact is certain.
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« Reply #25 on: September 07, 2006, 09:18:54 PM »
I'm gonna have to ditto Vince here.  Ones mans waste is anothers Nirvana.

I've wacked tons of my life on MMORPGs' and enjoyed almost everyminute of it.

My friend and I did a calculation once about shaving.  If you start shaving when you are 18 and spend 10 mins a day shaving till you die. you will have spent 6 months of your life shaving.  Do those that think that MMORPGs' RPGs' etc are a waste think that shaving is a waste?  I would rather be slaying stuff in virtual worlds than scrapping the hair off my face.

IMO,
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« Reply #26 on: September 07, 2006, 10:14:26 PM »
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 I would rather be slaying stuff in virtual worlds than scrapping the hair off my face.



I'd rather be out enjoying life than sitting in front of a computer screen staring at pixels and polygons that will never bring me true happiness... but that's just me. Honestly all Wow ever really brought me was frustration. Frustration from leveling, frustration from raiding and frustration with guild drama. I was striving for some sort of goal that was never within reach in the first place... when you have a full set of tier 2 or now tier 3 epics... what do you really have? REALLY? Nothing. It's just words.. on a screen.. in a world that doesn't exist.

I just think people need to take things in moderation.. i know way too many people who play wow at an average of 100 hours a week... there's only 168 hours in a week, they don't sleep, only eat when necessary and then go to school.. when it gets to such a point.. is it even worth it? Grown men with families have lost thier wives over wow, a woman I knew divorced her husband of 5 years and thier two sons to live with a 19 year old she met on wow... only to leave him for another wow addict 4 months later. I know not everyone who plays wow is like this, i certainly was not, but I can see that there are alot of people who are.

IMO, People like this need to learn to see the true meaning in life... go out and give back to the community, visit another country, go DO SOMETHING!

I hope my rambling has accomplished something.. but maybe i'm contradicting my own arguement by wasting my time posting about wasting time...

Oh well,

Boba.
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« Reply #27 on: September 09, 2006, 01:29:30 PM »
Solution=Beating the living shit out of him untill he understands that you are right, and he is wrong. It's the only logical solution to these sorts of things. Addictions can only be handled in one way, and that's an ass beating.
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« Reply #28 on: September 09, 2006, 08:31:01 PM »
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Solution=Beating the living s*** out of him untill he understands that you are right, and he is wrong. It's the only logical solution to these sorts of things. Addictions can only be handled in one way, and that's an ass beating.

I will help you with that ...jk... 8)
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