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Friday, August 04, 2006


/feims anticipates the burning crusade.

if i started playing wow again, that'd be another 50 non-existent bucks down the drain, and 8 months worth of patches to download. knowing wow patches, i'll probably be downloading till next year. but despite all this griping, we both know im gonna be planting my ass on the recliner and staring at mind-blowing wow graphics in time to come.

its kinda spooky how i was just taking a break to go raid the kitchen halfway through typing this entry, and while drinking my greenbean soup, a headline in today's papers caught my eye. it was a friggin article on game addiction! holy cowwww, dudes. talk about coincidence. they even featured world of warcraft and some middle-aged female psychologist who started playing wow as a form of research.

the funny thing here is, i don't see anything wrong with becoming dysfunctional over extended periods of time as long as these periods come to an end every now and then. i mean, its a personal choice. so what if i sit at my computer all day and ignore my friends and have macaroni and porridge so that i can hold the spoon in one hand and play with the other. i dont need psychiatric help, because i chose to be anti-social for the sake of online gaming. unlike some other people, i dont think wow is wrecking my life cos im still in school, i still have dinner with my parents some nights, i still meet my friends and my boyfriend hasn't broken up with me yet. i don't deny that during these periods of obssession i become slightly self-absorbed and uninterested in the world around me, but its not like its gonna last for all eternity. AND i'm still functioning like a normal human being.

i admire the fact that people have actually opened psychiatric facilities to deal with things like this. am i just in denial, or is this really necessary?

mar de sade gnarled at 12:31 PM

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