Do you spend the majority of your waking hours inside a video game?

Ever discussed- with a sick, creepy orgasmic happiness- how awesome your bard is?
Done that for longer than 20 minutes?

How about skipped a class that you’re paying money to be in… So you could play a video game instead? And if so, how does it feel being one step above actual mental retardation?

Are the majority of your friends as narrow in their social mindset as you?

In fact, do you speak to your “friends” more online than in person?

For that matter- Ever had someone break up with you and give the reason, “You pay more attention to WoW than to me”?

Is this statement true: “Leveling Up > Spending time hanging out with friends in a real social setting”?

Does the thought of discussing anything outside of a single, solitary video game just freak you the hell out?

When presented with any of the above questions, do you laugh because they’re true?

You see, the people I know that play WoW (among whom- I might add- every one of the questions above rings true for) think it’s just a goddamn laugh riot how much time they sink into the game. Folks, I’ve spent the majority of my life playing video games, but never have any of my habits even come close to comparing to those of the majority of the WoW community. I’m not gonna knock anyone for really enjoying doing something- hell, sometimes all I want to do for an evening is kill things in Battlefield 2- but when the entirety of someone’s personal life consists of doing nothing more than playing one, single video game… That’s not enjoyment. That’s obsession. For the love of fucking hell, I’ve even listened to these people talk about how tedious it gets- I mean when you’re spending hours upon hours completing tasks that you personally find insignificant and boring, what the hell is wrong with you? Did your parents body slam you as a wee tot? That’s not gaming, fucktard. Maybe I can simplify this: Not having fun =/= Having fun. Now see, I find that quite easy to understand, but maybe that’s why I’m not much for RPGs. The idea of leveling up doing boring, repetitive tasks just seemed… Well, idiotic. But hey, that’s just me apparently.

I know, there’s not a person alive who can claim they’ve never been obsessed with something in their life- but for most people, obsession ends. Not so with the people I speak of. They embrace it. They cling to it because apparently, their life and minds are so empty that a MMORPG is the absolute pinnacle of existence.

So this isn’t a laughing matter, morons. Wake up. Or kill yourself. At this point I’m more than willing to say that the latter isn’t going to cost the human race much- because there’s so much in life to see, enjoy, laugh and think about that has nothing, nothing to fucking do with World Of Warcraft. The reason people walk away from you when they hear your discussion of “omg, I’ve totally spent all week trying to conquer such and such/level up my character” isn’t because they “don’t get it”- it’s because they do, and it depresses the shit out of them that anything on this earth could be such an enormous waste of oxygen.

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