It's like WoW Cosmo!
If you enjoy being made to feel like an anthropological subject of pity and envy, go read this scintillating NYTimes Article. It's about how MMO gamers find love. ZOMG. I agree with the commenter who says it feels like we've warped back in time 10 years. However, that's not the issue I have. It's this one:
The person who inspired this NYTimes-worth piece, one Ramona Pringle, started playing WoW herself to learn what it was all about. Why?
I was at a giant gaming convention in the summer of 2009, and was amazed by the amount of couples I saw, walking hand-in-hand, pushing baby carriages. When I returned back to New York after that shoot, I looked at my best friends - beautiful, fun, successful women - and was struck by a startling realization: These girls are all struggling to find the right guy, yet MMO gamers seem to be finding true love.
Wow. Just...wow. All I can read there is, "My friends are normal, and they can't date, but these fat weirdos are all getting laid. WTF?!?!?!" Is it just me?
The rest of her site is just amazing in its badness. I'm mostly kicking myself for not thinking to capitalize on this earlier. I could have told you that a female healer forgetting to heal herself is the quintessence of sacrificial femininity. I just thought that no one would buy it. Silly me.
The person who inspired this NYTimes-worth piece, one Ramona Pringle, started playing WoW herself to learn what it was all about. Why?
I was at a giant gaming convention in the summer of 2009, and was amazed by the amount of couples I saw, walking hand-in-hand, pushing baby carriages. When I returned back to New York after that shoot, I looked at my best friends - beautiful, fun, successful women - and was struck by a startling realization: These girls are all struggling to find the right guy, yet MMO gamers seem to be finding true love.
Wow. Just...wow. All I can read there is, "My friends are normal, and they can't date, but these fat weirdos are all getting laid. WTF?!?!?!" Is it just me?
The rest of her site is just amazing in its badness. I'm mostly kicking myself for not thinking to capitalize on this earlier. I could have told you that a female healer forgetting to heal herself is the quintessence of sacrificial femininity. I just thought that no one would buy it. Silly me.