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    Game » consists of 9 releases. Released Nov 23, 2004

    World of Warcraft is an MMORPG that takes place in Blizzard Entertainment's Warcraft universe. At its peak, it boasted a player base of over 12.5 million subscribers, making it the most popular MMO of all time.

    Excessive Gaming; or Old Habits Return...Complete Mess

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    #1  Edited By KaosAngel

    I've been playing WoW about 14 hours a day at a minimum, and finally hit level 43 with my Rogue. 
     
    I started to play around 5 a.m. today and just got off in an Inn, after a lot of looting and solo'ing VC for money.  Kinda short on gold, atm.   
     
    Man, I went from a solid 3.4 GPA to a 1.5 GPA in my senior year of high school because of WoW, and ended up losing my chance to go to Swarthmore because of it.  Granted, I ended up going to Japan as the fall-back, but excessively playing WoW ruined my life in high school. 
     
    This is my first time back in WoW in 4 years, 4 years I was clean from it and brushed it off.   This is what I accomplished in the few days I've been back: 
     

    • Haven't Showered Yet
    • Empty Bottles of Everclear, beer tonic water, AMP, and Hoagies (some unfinished and rotting on the floor)
    • Pissed in TWO bottles due to being too lazy to go to the bathroom
    • Missed My First Mock Trial for Law School Yesterday
    • Haven't Worked on My Research for Another Class
    • Got An Outline Due at 4 p.m. Today for My Night Class
    • Haven't Answered A Single Call All Weekend
     
    On the bright side, I now have 43 gold, so I can buy myself my tier 2 mount, got some good loot with the guild I just joined with, and some other stuff.  In HS I used WoW as an escape tool from the pressure of my parents and whatnot, but now...I got no excuse, I mean...law school isn't even stressing me out.  I'm just addicted to it.  It's like legal fucking crack.  I don't even wanna have sex or do anything else, I just wanna get more loot and shit.      
     
    Hot damn, never expected this.  It's all because GT5 got delayed too, damn...that's the first time I even thought of GT5 since I started WoW.  x.x
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    TaliciaDragonsong

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    #2  Edited By TaliciaDragonsong

    You sound proud.
    Get out and act like a sane person which I know you are.

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    #3  Edited By pwnasaurus

    do you have a mount? could you use your G27 with it?

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    #4  Edited By Tordah

    ...And this is why I will never go anywhere near WoW.

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    #5  Edited By sagesebas
    @KaosAngel: Boo Hoo learn restraint, and manage your priorities better
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    #6  Edited By wolf_blitzer85

    The real question is where are you keeping your piss bottles after they are used?

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    #7  Edited By sagesebas
    @Tordah: I used to play it and never once got like this
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    #8  Edited By DEllen

    Shit this sounds like WoW's extremely detrimental to your life. You should probably get away from it and NEVER go back if it's this bad.

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    #9  Edited By Jack268

    You're not 80 yet and you're doing all that shit? wtf

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    #10  Edited By Bobby_The_Great

    Seriously, just quit the game. It's just a bunch of 1's and 0's dude, nothing that shows anything to your life. Games are for fun, and peeing into bottles and skipping school doesn't sound fun.  
     
    Unless, that's your thing. I quit playing and I'm never going back because it's just a time sink, you don't get anything out of that game, just grind and grind and hope your luck is good to get better gear.

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    #11  Edited By Gargantuan

    Wow, you have a rogue and you piss in bottles, that's like supa underground! 
     
    You're creepy.

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    #12  Edited By HitmanAgent47

    I told you it was like digital crack and it's going to ruin your life.

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    #13  Edited By HandsomeDead
    @TaliciaDragonsong said:
    "Get out and act like a sane person which I know you are. "
    Have you read his other blogs?
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    #14  Edited By PS3RG

    If you pissed in an empty bottle because you are too lazy to go to the washroom then you seriously need to introduce your computer to a hammer. Seriously, smarten the fuck up.

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    #15  Edited By jacksukeru

    Bah, that's nothing! People have died playing that game.

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    #16  Edited By kishan6
    @KaosAngel: you just love you some blizzard dont you?
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    @HandsomeDead: 
    I have, but from the talks we had he seemed like such a good kid!
     
    Come to think of it, don't they always say that when a guy becomes addicted to drugs? :P
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    #18  Edited By Quacktastic

    Delete your guy, uninstall the game and pretend it never happened.

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    #19  Edited By RsistncE

    LOL, and there goes your future...down the shitter.

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    #20  Edited By CL60

    14 hours a day and you just hit 43? You suck. I just started a new character like 3-4 days ago, and he's 69 right now.

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    #21  Edited By CL60
    @DEllen said:

    " Shit this sounds like WoW's extremely detrimental to your life. You should probably get away from it and NEVER go back if it's this bad. "

    It's only bad if you're stupid. Like with anything. I also have a sneaking suspicion that he is lying about most of this stuff. KaosAngel trolls a lot.
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    #22  Edited By galiant

    Geez, I've played WoW on and off since summer 2005 and it hasn't taken anything away from my life or grades. I'm thinking I'll start up again when Cataclysm hits. 
     
    You ought to invest in some self-discipline, really...or therapy? Something's obviously not right when you're pissing in bottles and secluding yourself like that. I didn't even do that when I was actively raiding, and you're only level 43.

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    #23  Edited By TorMasturba
    @KaosAngel said:
    " I've been playing WoW about 14 hours a day at a minimum, and finally hit level 43 with my Rogue. 
     
    I started to play around 5 a.m. today and just got off in an Inn, after a lot of looting and solo'ing VC for money.  Kinda short on gold, atm.   
     
    Man, I went from a solid 3.4 GPA to a 1.5 GPA in my senior year of high school because of WoW, and ended up losing my chance to go to Swarthmore because of it.  Granted, I ended up going to Japan as the fall-back, but excessively playing WoW ruined my life in high school. 
     
    This is my first time back in WoW in 4 years, 4 years I was clean from it and brushed it off.   This is what I accomplished in the few days I've been back: 
     
    • Haven't Showered Yet
    • Empty Bottles of Everclear, beer tonic water, AMP, and Hoagies (some unfinished and rotting on the floor)
    • Pissed in TWO bottles due to being too lazy to go to the bathroom
    • Missed My First Mock Trial for Law School Yesterday
    • Haven't Worked on My Research for Another Class
    • Got An Outline Due at 4 p.m. Today for My Night Class
    • Haven't Answered A Single Call All Weekend
     On the bright side, I now have 43 gold, so I can buy myself my tier 2 mount, got some good loot with the guild I just joined with, and some other stuff.  In HS I used WoW as an escape tool from the pressure of my parents and whatnot, but now...I got no excuse, I mean...law school isn't even stressing me out.  I'm just addicted to it.  It's like legal fucking crack.  I don't even wanna have sex or do anything else, I just wanna get more loot and shit.       Hot damn, never expected this.  It's all because GT5 got delayed too, damn...that's the first time I even thought of GT5 since I started WoW.  x.x "
    Read all of the above and think, "Does this person sound like someone I want to be when I'm 10, 20 or 30 years older?" 
     
    "Will this person have anything but WoW in those 30 years of time?"
     
    Your answers better be "No" for both questions! 
     
    Now delete WoW from your hard drive, RIGHT NOW! 
     
    Go explain to your Law school Mock professor or whatever he is that you got frightened or whatever, and if he rejects your explanation, just show up anyway until he lets you go back. 
    Also, NEVER DOWNLOAD WoW EVER AGAIN! (In fact, call Blizzard up and tell them to delete your account and credit card details for obvious reasons.) You clearly don't have any balance of lifestyle when you're on this drug, so get the FUCK off it!
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    #24  Edited By hakooon

    How can you be only level 43 and be low on gold when you play 14 hours a day and piss in a bottle? You're clearly doing something wrong. Also, you're crazy for pissing in a bottle because of a game. Just crazy. The only logical explanation for why someone would piss in a god damn bottle because of WoW would be if you were in some high end raiding guild and in the middle of a raid, which you're obviously not. Even then, any normal person would just tell their guild "BRB TOILET" or whatever. You can't really blame the game for this. I guess some people are just weak that way and easily addicted to things.        

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    #26  Edited By Immuniity

    You're pathetic. No way around it.

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    #28  Edited By StrikeALight

    I've never understood how people can become so easily addicted / obsessed with MMO's. I've been playing them for over 10 years (EQ/FFXI/WOW) and have never let them interfere or take over my life.  The only game where I ever felt like I was beginning to play too much, was PSO when I was still in my teens, and without much responsibities in life.
     
    I often hear WoW get singled out a lot for being a terrible influence, but its actually far easier easier to play in short bursts than most other games in the genre.  If you've never played a MMO before, and at least have some semblance of common sense / self-respect, you won't let the game become a detriment to your well-being / happiness. I often  find them  to be a fascinating experience, but unfortunately there will be some lost causes that you'll encounter along the eay, every once in a while.

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    #29  Edited By MikkaQ

    You are a disgusting person. That's all this thread tells me.

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    dude..smarten up!!!

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    #31  Edited By jorbear

    I found an unbelievable amount of joy from reading that. 

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    #32  Edited By The_Drizzle

    did you at least throw the bottles of piss away? God i hope they aren't just rolling around under your desk

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    #33  Edited By tsolless
    @KaosAngel said:

    On the bright side, I now have 43 gold "

    Heh. I got ~65G after playing for a few hours, as soon as I got to the nearest AH out of the noob zone. (Okay, I posted them and then got the money the next time I got on). 
     
    I'm pretty glad that I took up mining and herbalism. Also really glad I posted that stuff before the flood of low level mats that came from all the people rolling worgens and goblins.
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    #34  Edited By Dallas_Raines

    This topic is fake as shit.

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    #35  Edited By YoungFrey

    Nothing about this post sounds true. 

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    #36  Edited By melcene
    @YoungFrey said:
    "

    Nothing about this post sounds true. 

    "
    Agreed.  Especially since Kaos posted it. 
     
    So glad that being a chick, pissing in a bottle is NOT an option. 
     
    Although I have had guildies laugh because our computers are RIGHT under the bathroom and they've heard the toilets flush over vent if one of us went up to use the bathroom and the other is on vent.
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    #37  Edited By YoungFrey
    @melcene said: 
    Agreed.  Especially since Kaos posted it.  So glad that being a chick, pissing in a bottle is NOT an option.  Although I have had guildies laugh because our computers are RIGHT under the bathroom and they've heard the toilets flush over vent if one of us went up to use the bathroom and the other is on vent. "
    I'd use a bottle in a heartbeat, if I had a reason too.  But, "The bathroom is down the hall" does not constitute a reason.  And unless you have some medical condition, nothing in WoW is adequate reason either.  There are not FF level multi hour boss fights.  

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