You know you're an addict when...
You skip work to sate the addiction.
Thankfully I know where the line is, and I have not done this.
Even so, folks know I'm a gamer. If I'm not at work there's probably a sure bet on where you would find me on the morning of November 14, 2008.
Fortunately, you will find me at work that day, save a cataclysm that prevents the world from functioning. After all, no one ever expected 9/11 to shut our world down and make it stand still.
If anything, missing out on the initial lag is probably a benefit. Besides, I have RL things to do that evening and on Saturday. So Narai will be very far behind everyone else in her quest to hit 80!
I am not worried at all about this. I'm actually relieved that I won't be glued to my laptop for days on end, even though I'd love nothing more than to play Wrath until I passed out.
Priorities are everything, and I still have them.
Considering my parents work in recovery ministry, I know all the signs of addiction. And I do my best to avoid them all. Ignoring them gets you where it got me when I played Guild Wars and nearly squandered away an entire summer of my life doing nothing.
I vowed not to let that happen again, even though some may argue that I took the equivalent of digital weed and traded it for digital smack a few months later.
It does make me wonder how online gamers reason at times, but there's such a wide spectrum of us out there that it's hard to comprehend. There's the casual, the moderate, the hardcore, and the super-hardcore. Then there are the hopeless, strange individuals who can't pull themselves away and go through withdrawals.
If I ever become the equivalent of a Wretched (WoW players will know what I mean), shoot me in the face.
Thankfully I know where the line is, and I have not done this.
Even so, folks know I'm a gamer. If I'm not at work there's probably a sure bet on where you would find me on the morning of November 14, 2008.
Fortunately, you will find me at work that day, save a cataclysm that prevents the world from functioning. After all, no one ever expected 9/11 to shut our world down and make it stand still.
If anything, missing out on the initial lag is probably a benefit. Besides, I have RL things to do that evening and on Saturday. So Narai will be very far behind everyone else in her quest to hit 80!
I am not worried at all about this. I'm actually relieved that I won't be glued to my laptop for days on end, even though I'd love nothing more than to play Wrath until I passed out.
Priorities are everything, and I still have them.
Considering my parents work in recovery ministry, I know all the signs of addiction. And I do my best to avoid them all. Ignoring them gets you where it got me when I played Guild Wars and nearly squandered away an entire summer of my life doing nothing.
I vowed not to let that happen again, even though some may argue that I took the equivalent of digital weed and traded it for digital smack a few months later.
It does make me wonder how online gamers reason at times, but there's such a wide spectrum of us out there that it's hard to comprehend. There's the casual, the moderate, the hardcore, and the super-hardcore. Then there are the hopeless, strange individuals who can't pull themselves away and go through withdrawals.
If I ever become the equivalent of a Wretched (WoW players will know what I mean), shoot me in the face.