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bwoc

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Feb 09, 2006 10:03

Please respond:
As a perscriptive linguist, if I feel that the irish dialect is the correct way to speak english, am I obligated to speak with that dialect?

Hi everybody, long time no see.

Do you know what I hate? I hate World of Warcraft. I hate FFXI as well. Videogame Addiction There are better uses of your time. These things include:

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ianrulez February 9 2006, 15:47:14 UTC

I disagree ( ... )

bwoc February 9 2006, 17:06:43 UTC

See, but you don't play anymore. And if you did, I'd respond with this:
But think of how great you could be at guitar if you spent all your time playing WoW, playing the guitar instead. You'd be phenomonal.
Again, if you studied instead of playing WoW (especially if you did it for 8 hours a day) you could do even better in your classes. Maybe you could even be a validictorian.
Certainly playing WoW is a bad way to make friends who live in Michigan.
You could read even more if you didn't play WoW.
How is playing a game where you pretend to fight with swords better than actually doing it? That's like preferring NBA all stars to actually playing basketball.
You might meet girls all the time, but I know that a lot of people who play MMORPGs don't.

Ian, I miss having you in my SI.

saiyajingoddess February 9 2006, 19:29:43 UTC

I was valedictorian. Even with my MMORPG's.

Sidenote. londonbellsing February 10 2006, 22:31:02 UTC

Although, there are a million things we do every day that we could replace with doing something more productive. Watching television, writing in livejournal...um, etc.

growing_old February 9 2006, 15:50:04 UTC

Owned.

As a recent survivor of game addiction (I know everyone remembers me with D2) and I must say that life is more fulfilling outside of the virtual genre. Some gaming is great such as N64 Smash Bros with a bunch of your friends or some other minimal commitment gaming experience. Everyone needs to ease up on MMORPG gamez, because since all this WoW nonsense took off, I think I've seen each of my friends...maybe once or twice...twice at the most. Most have been a ghost since summer. Anywho, I'm the first post so everyone can tell me how /ghey I am or how /"Andrew is a pretentious elitist asshole" as others have phrased. Whatever. F that. /Get a life.

bwoc February 9 2006, 17:07:53 UTC

"whatever" = "go to hell"

growing_old February 9 2006, 17:14:51 UTC

you got me!

saiyajingoddess February 9 2006, 16:05:30 UTC

I assure you, even with the three to six (more like eight) hours of WoW I play a day, I'm doing fine in my classes, I have friends AND I hang out with them. Dating is overrated; school provides me with all the excess stress I need. I'm also not fat and not unhealthy, but don't tell anyone I said that because I'm supposed to be on a diet ( ... )

m4ry73 February 9 2006, 16:15:57 UTC

I must agree. I recently lost a friend to the scary world of WoW, and she now has an "online boyfriend" who lives in Scotland. She never leaves her room and doesn't ever do any schoolwork. In fact we have a paper due today that I was up till 4AM writing, and at that time she hadn't even started, because she was playing WoW. I have never actually played this game, but her sad little existence is enough deterrent for me.

MMORPGs are stupid.

saiyajingoddess February 9 2006, 16:17:40 UTC

Don't blame the game for the person's mistakes. That's like blaming gun companies for murders. There's nothing in WoW that forces you to play. It's a choice.

bwoc February 9 2006, 17:17:55 UTC

Because if the addictive nature of videogames I'd say a better analogy would be blaming cigarettes for people getting lung cancer.

saiyajingoddess February 9 2006, 19:27:44 UTC

That's like saying movies are addictive, because some people choose to watch them all day instead of doing things they should be doing. You choose to play the video game, you choose when and where. Tell me, do you know anyone who's been physically hurt by a video game? If the effects are mental, it's the person's fault and not the video game's. Blaming not being able to log off on the game is looking for an excuse. You are responsible for your own life, when you log on, when you log off, when you do other things. Not the video game. It's called free will.

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superspryte February 9 2006, 16:50:16 UTC

Disagree ( ... )

bwoc February 9 2006, 16:58:59 UTC

<-confused...
you disagreed by agreeing that those are all good things to do?
Or do you also play WoW 8 hours a day like my friends do?
It feels good to be missed. <3

superspryte February 9 2006, 18:59:55 UTC

I was disagreeing with the dialect bit. ;P