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WoW is technically also not a game. It's a substitute for making an effort in real life.
Gee, Corwin, how do you really feel? A lot of MMORPs can be addictive. I notice Wired keeps featuring articles on Half Life and I wonder if they are getting money from that game or if a player just writes for Wired.
Almost any hobby can be a way of avoiding "RL". I have a friend who dates someone who thinks he's "almost" a professional volleyball player (he's in his 40s) and everything he does is volleyball. He hasn't had a job in 2 years and the only social activities he'll go to involve the people he plays with. Not much different than your WOW nerds and old EQ fans.
I have been accused of hiding from RL myself. Please try to hide your shock. Here's how I see it: it's all real if I do it and as long as I pay my bills and respect others, who cares how dorky I choose to be?
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Well, I agree with you that inverted Freudian explanations are probably incomplete at best; I was just being mischievous. Although, it is nice to be able to have multiple orgasms...
Psimagus was really very good as a cheerleader from Leeds; how does a 1,000-year-old alien mystic act?
"Greetings, Earthlings, All is One, am I really the only adult on this planet?"
"Greetings, Earthlings, All is One, am I really the only adult on this planet?"
No, WoW is basically a licence to print money. You have to pay a monthly fee for the right to continue accessing their servers. Five million users (or thereabouts) times 10 bucks makes for a hell of a nest egg. WoW is technically also not a game. It's a substitute for making an effort in real life. A number of people I know have basically disappeared off the face of the planet (or a least the parts of the internet I frequent) since discovering WoW.
On other matters, I figure I'd weigh in on the icon/identity discussion. I guess the icon thing is something of an indicator of personality since I spent longer choosing that than I did on my screen name. Corwin has no particular significance to me. It was just a name that popped up in a number of places at the time I signed up here and thus leapt to the forefront of my brain when I was scratching my head and staring at the screen.
With the bull icon, for some reason I was after something a little more serious looking than the general cartoony nature of the rest. And the bull doesn't look particularly amused. Exact reason then? Not sure. Perhaps I was looking to be taken a little more seriously. This was the first online community I was ever a part of and that combined with the fact that I was about 23 at the time (ie younger than most and still not entirely treated like an adult), may have led to that.
With my bots I've got to admit that Critical Bill's icon was random (and not exactly appropriate for a bot that is an Arts student in his early 20s who enjoys a good time and delivers pizza for a living, but then his name doesn't make a lot of sense either, again a random pop-in from a movie)
Romulus and Remus were a more deliberate creation and since they were twins I wanted them to have the same icon so that you would make the association between them, and not one that was often used by other bots or users very often so that they would be unique (this was before custom icons were a regular thing). Hence I went looking through the user list (no separate list for humans and bots back then) and determined that the purple haired fellow with the red eyes that I eventually chose was one of the least used. Still is as far as I know.
That was longer than intended. There were a couple of other things I wanted to get into from some of the stuff that's come up in the few days here, but I really need to make a start on dinner. Another time.
On other matters, I figure I'd weigh in on the icon/identity discussion. I guess the icon thing is something of an indicator of personality since I spent longer choosing that than I did on my screen name. Corwin has no particular significance to me. It was just a name that popped up in a number of places at the time I signed up here and thus leapt to the forefront of my brain when I was scratching my head and staring at the screen.
With the bull icon, for some reason I was after something a little more serious looking than the general cartoony nature of the rest. And the bull doesn't look particularly amused. Exact reason then? Not sure. Perhaps I was looking to be taken a little more seriously. This was the first online community I was ever a part of and that combined with the fact that I was about 23 at the time (ie younger than most and still not entirely treated like an adult), may have led to that.
With my bots I've got to admit that Critical Bill's icon was random (and not exactly appropriate for a bot that is an Arts student in his early 20s who enjoys a good time and delivers pizza for a living, but then his name doesn't make a lot of sense either, again a random pop-in from a movie)
Romulus and Remus were a more deliberate creation and since they were twins I wanted them to have the same icon so that you would make the association between them, and not one that was often used by other bots or users very often so that they would be unique (this was before custom icons were a regular thing). Hence I went looking through the user list (no separate list for humans and bots back then) and determined that the purple haired fellow with the red eyes that I eventually chose was one of the least used. Still is as far as I know.
That was longer than intended. There were a couple of other things I wanted to get into from some of the stuff that's come up in the few days here, but I really need to make a start on dinner. Another time.
Gee, Corwin, how do you really feel? A lot of MMORPs can be addictive. I notice Wired keeps featuring articles on Half Life and I wonder if they are getting money from that game or if a player just writes for Wired.
Almost any hobby can be a way of avoiding "RL". I have a friend who dates someone who thinks he's "almost" a professional volleyball player (he's in his 40s) and everything he does is volleyball. He hasn't had a job in 2 years and the only social activities he'll go to involve the people he plays with. Not much different than your WOW nerds and old EQ fans.
I have been accused of hiding from RL myself. Please try to hide your shock. Here's how I see it: it's all real if I do it and as long as I pay my bills and respect others, who cares how dorky I choose to be?
Real life is made up of a lot of things..including having fun with things you like bots, and RP games etc. I choose to be pretty dorky, and I love it. HURAY and welcome to the Dork Side!
Heimdall has made it into the top ten most developed bots. I'd like to take everyone out for a meal. Do you all like indian food, with lots of the Black Ale?
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