Gaudy Baubles

[thoughtspiral]

I've been meaning to post about this forever. But then, distractions and flood and everything. Anyway, back in April I let my World of Warcraft subscription lapse. It wasn't a hard decision at all, since I hadn't played in over a month; the game simply didn't interest me any more. Everything I wanted to do and everybody I wanted to play with were

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[rbandrews]

That's basically why I quit, minus the other MMO. The game after a while was just repetitive and frustrating. Nobody wanted to play with me, which suited me fine since I didn't want to play with anyone else, but everything is very difficult alone. That, and I kept thinking "I could either play WoW or write code. Writing code is productive and good, but if I don't play WoW then I'm wasting the money, so I should play WoW."

When I left (over a year ago now) they didn't have that screen, but I wouldn't have minded it. In a world of bland corporation-speak, I like a little personality. Maybe the trash-talk is a bit much.

I've started playing Neverwinter Nights online recently, and it's a lot of fun. You can get on to a persistent world server, and it's just like an MMO except all user-made content, and typically you and your friends are the only ones there. Plus, it's free.

[thoughtspiral]

Is that NWN1, or NWN2? Because I sure did love me some NWN1.

[rbandrews]

One. I heard two wasn't as good, and anyway no Mac version.

[q99]

The first I don't mind (Blizzard has a reputation for putting in joke comments) but yea, the second is in bad taste.