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5 fun real life facts that started in the world… of warcraft

Let me shed some light on this wow addiction. I have first hand experience because I have played off and on for at least a couple of years now that I think about it. While it is wrong to just assign blame solely on the game thereby avoiding all personal responsibility. It is more complicated than that, I agree in essence with what Lucian said above. People become addicted to the social aspect of the game and whats more, because you are in a way communicating with real people, it can be rationalized that at least its not as bad as being totally anti social. In fact whether you believe it or not, it is actually quite a bit more social than people that do not play. You can log on and immediately be amongst like 30 people that you talk to every day if your in a guild. Whats more is that a voice chat program called Ventrilo is so common in the game that almost every group you join you can talk to like a party line on the voice chat program. Its extremely seductive because its like a great big party of people chatting and there does not exist the same social phobia or acceptable behavior that happens in real life. You would not strike up a random conversation with someone on the street, in wow you would and do and in about 30 seconds you can be cracking jokes with that person and perhaps 10 of his friends. All this traditionally text based but currently voice chat is so common it could easily be a real life conversation with like 10 people in less than a minute. Couple this with the daily problems issues of life with stress and making plans and its easy to see how you can get totally swept up in raids and the team work aspects of the game that are lacking in your daily life. I have quit wow but it was one of the hardest things I have ever done. #1 because it was easy to play and talk to people I knew online. #2 because it felt like I was leaving behind a ton of people I have joked and laughed with for more than a few months. Just because you do not talk to people in the game face to face does not make it any less personal especially because I really did chat with them like a phone conversation. This got long sorry. Hope this sheds some light on things.
Comment Posted By Scott On November 20, 2008 @ 7:08 pm

Exit the game, my Lord?

i figured it out....had to download dosbox. if anyone else has this problem this is the fix. download dosbox (google it you will find it) in the c-prompt you have to type in the directory for the file the .exe is in once you have mounted the game into c: (mount c c:**place you directory here**) get to the c: prompt by typing just that "c:" once there type "dir" look for the file name of the .exe or just type it from memory and the game will load in a small window. to make it full screen hit alt+enter hope this helps if any one else is having trouble.
Comment Posted By scott On November 7, 2008 @ 11:07 pm

i unzipped it but when i rean the .exe the screen flashed like it was going to run and then it went back to the folder. is it not vista compatible maybe?
Comment Posted By scott On November 6, 2008 @ 8:58 pm

yo how do i mount it in order to play or do i need to burn a disc to have in the rom drive? it tells me that it doesn't register the sierra which im guessing means its not recognizing a platform to read from....thanks for the DL tho...been looking for this game for prolly a week before i got ur copy
Comment Posted By scott On November 6, 2008 @ 12:31 am

Why I hate Italians (I)

I WAS NOT ENLIGHTENED BUT CURIOUS .. HAD A CONVERSATION WTH A YOUNG ITALIAN MALE ABOUT DESSERTS. THE DESSERTS ARE FRENCH HE SHOT BACK THAT HE HATES THE FRENCH? WHAT IS IT ABOUT THE TWO COUNTRIES THAT THIS YOUNG ADULT WOULD MAKE SUCH A STRONG STATEMENT? HE SAIS THE TWO COUNTRIES HAVE BEEN AT IT SINCE THE BEING OF TIME? PLEASE SEND AN ITELLIGENT ANSWER. I ENJOY THE COMPANY QUITE FRANKLY OF EVERYONE NO MATTER ON THEIR HERITAGE. ONLY IF THE PERSON IS GENERALLY NOT KIND TO ANOTHER HUMAN BEING. EVERYDAY IS A DAY IN SCHOOL FOR ME HUNGRY TO LEARN MORE ABOUT WHAT AND WHOMEVER I COME ACROSS OR ENGAGE IN DIALOGUE WITH. THANKS FOR YOUR KNOWLEDGE ON MY INQUIRY. SCOTT
Comment Posted By SCOTT On August 1, 2009 @ 10:35 am