A friend of mine convinced me to play WoW again. He's decent enough and I never really disliked the game(besides the monthly fee and the time it takes) but the people can annoy me in particular the people on this server tend to vast immature idiots who want people to do everything for them and don't want to run dungeons and such themselves like the ( Read more... )

Well so a friend of mine started playing WoW because his girlfriend bugged him into it(that's a reversal isn't it?) and he started talking about ti and eventually coaxed me into coming back into playing it on the server he and his gf were playing on ( Read more... )

http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2008/04/23/2225382.htm?site=catalyst&topic=latestRead more... )

For those who play video games or Dungeons and Dragons - do you get an odd thrill out of simply going over the strategy guides (for video games) and... what's the term... "expansion manuals" (for Dungeons and Dragons) that's almost as strong as the game itself? I don't play D&D (just read the manuals) but I notice this oddity. Is it just me, or is ( Read more... )

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It's addictive as hell, and hey, I'm donating food!

So, I was reading a discussion (from 2005) about manipulation - "If someone is gifted with words or naturally charismatic, should they make an effort not to speak better than anyone else? Is using your gift at speaking the same thing as manipulating someone?" - and someone used the example of a poker game. If Alice is very good at poker, should she ( Read more... )

Yesterday I noticed that there was another Aspie across the poker table from me. I'd reckon he's about twenty-eight years old, obviously a professional poker player. Indeed, at one point, another player asked him, with a trace of bitter sarcasm, "You play this game every day?" and he said yes. He does play very well ( Read more... )