Re:"It's just a game," "You're taking it too seriously," "It doesn't matter"
Re: All arguments of the form "It's just a game," "You're taking it too seriously," "You have no life," "It doesn't matter:"
If this discussion about World of Warcraft does not matter because it's a just a game, then no discussions about World of Warcraft matter, because it's just a game.
There are over 10 million World of Warcraft active accounts. That's over 10 million people who spend thousands of hours logged into a game that doesn't matter.
Every day, people around the world spend millions of dollars not only on subscription fees but on server transfers, vanity pets, character recustomization, and other things that don't matter.
Excluding repeat hits, there are 46,000,000 pages on Google today about World of Warcraft. That's forty-six million people spending hours of their time even outside the game talking, calculating, arguing, writing, and laughing about something that doesn't matter.
And for all these tens of thousands of labor-hours, these billions of dollars spent, these megawatts of electricity spent to facilitate discussion on something that doesn't matter, no one is telling them that they should stop discussing, arguing, calculating, writing, or laughing about something that doesn't matter. You want us to stop talking not because what we have to say matters any more or less than any other discussion, but because you don't like what we have to say. It makes you uncomfortable.
You are here, on a page that doesn't matter, spending hours of your time reading articles that don't matter written about things that don't matter and composing replies that don't matter.
You are spending your leisure time reading articles about a recreational game set in a fantasy world in which you spend substantial amounts of money and time, and you are trying to dismiss other people's feelings and concerns with the argument that what they feel and believe about this game is less valid or important than what you feel and believe about this game.
Your argument is invalid.
If this discussion about World of Warcraft does not matter because it's a just a game, then no discussions about World of Warcraft matter, because it's just a game.
There are over 10 million World of Warcraft active accounts. That's over 10 million people who spend thousands of hours logged into a game that doesn't matter.
Every day, people around the world spend millions of dollars not only on subscription fees but on server transfers, vanity pets, character recustomization, and other things that don't matter.
Excluding repeat hits, there are 46,000,000 pages on Google today about World of Warcraft. That's forty-six million people spending hours of their time even outside the game talking, calculating, arguing, writing, and laughing about something that doesn't matter.
And for all these tens of thousands of labor-hours, these billions of dollars spent, these megawatts of electricity spent to facilitate discussion on something that doesn't matter, no one is telling them that they should stop discussing, arguing, calculating, writing, or laughing about something that doesn't matter. You want us to stop talking not because what we have to say matters any more or less than any other discussion, but because you don't like what we have to say. It makes you uncomfortable.
You are here, on a page that doesn't matter, spending hours of your time reading articles that don't matter written about things that don't matter and composing replies that don't matter.
You are spending your leisure time reading articles about a recreational game set in a fantasy world in which you spend substantial amounts of money and time, and you are trying to dismiss other people's feelings and concerns with the argument that what they feel and believe about this game is less valid or important than what you feel and believe about this game.
Your argument is invalid.