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In other words, 10 million addicted childish people who waster their life playing WOW
by bluelu 19y ago
In other words, 10 million addicted childish people who waster their life playing WOW
- rms 19y agoSpeak for yourself. I stay away from WoW because I know just how incredibly appealing it is. I'm not sure what it says about our existence on Earth when WoW appears to be more pleasurable than existence on the mortal plane.
- Tichy 19y agoIt just caters to some weaknesses of the brain, causing addiction. That's all.
- bayareaguy 19y agoJust like YC :-) Doh! Time to get back to work!
- wallflower 19y agoWoW is just the precusor of the real-life Metaverse/Matrix as envisioned in Snowcrash/The Matrix/other SF
- bayareaguy 19y agoI don't think it's that simple. When my kids started playing I was suprised how many people they met in WoW who were depressingly sick, poor or significantly limited in their freedom (e.g. stuck on a military base) for whom WoW was one of their only options to socialize.
- wallflower 19y agoI was even shyer than I was now in college, and I fondly recall wasting away hours chatting with people I never ever met on IRC. Yes, anti-social but not really - even the most shy people need some social contact. I think that's the true power of the Internet - from WoW to Facebook helping guys meet and date women they wouldn't otherwise.
- eru 19y agoAt least virtually.