World of Borecraft
Jun. 16th, 2007 05:41 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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Why is it after almost 2 years of playing WoW, I am not bored? What insidious hold does this otherwise unassuming MMORPG have on me? Why do I feel compelled to sit and play it, night after night, hour after hour? I have done almost all the quests, I have inspected all the epic loot... I have not yet set foot in a battleground because I'm 'saving it' for when I do eventually get bored with PvE. Not only do I sit and play the game, I read Penny Arcade and the WoW forums on a regular basis. I now have three fellow addicts at work with whom I can compare stats & loot & moan about respawn rates. I am a member of the WoW tribe on tribe.net... I understand the language, the acronyms, the shorthand and have a hard time spelling 'the' - I keep wanting to type 'teh'. "Oh no!" has become, in my mind, "Oh noes!" I pwn nubs in duel regularly. I pwn, period. I have a topic to strike up conversations in public w/strangers. I really need to go to bed right now because I'm going to have interrupted sleep & I have to work tonight, but I could probably log back in & keep playing another 3 hours. (It's not all just idle time, though - I have a small exercise ball I do hip adductions with & 5-lb. barbells for working on my underarms. Doing arm-circles with weights is hard.)
Of course, I haven't done much of anything with the Alliance other than create characters who can buy bunnies from IF's suburbs & sell them to my Hordies in BB's AH. I have come to accept that I cannot play a 'lock & with Rob's consent, I deleted Kitsune & rebirthed her as a Mage. I've also never really messed with Priests & Warriors do bore me... now that Evilwyn's past lvl 40, the newness of the Paladin has worn off. She's like a warrior who sort of heals & can raise the dead. I did start yet another Druid to run w/Rob's Mage, just because having 2 low-level Mages didn't seem like a wise decision. I never seem to be able to get a Druid past lvl 20 - I get cat form & stop. Rob's got some scheme to become a non-Chinese gold farmer so he's trying to lvl a Mage to the point where he can gather up every mob in the SM & kill them all at once. I figure, well, let him farm SM all he wants - if he can't sell gold to some online wholesaler, all our toons will have epic mounts to look forward to. I can just imagine reporting his income on the IRS forms next year. Next to your signature, it has a box for 'job description'. Mine will say "hotel night auditor", his will say "non-Chinese gold farmer".
I'm wondering to myself... just how much of a barrier to becoming Buddhist is the vegetarian thing? I don't think I can stop eating meat. Just trying to avoid beef for the next month or so is almost impossible (after 2 e. coli recalls & my food poisoning, it's better to avoid it for a few weeks). My stomach's so bad right now Pepto-Bismol isn't even helping any. I eat... I run. And I'm fucking starving, too, but it seems like a waste of food because it doesn't seem to be spending any quality time inside me. My dieting attempt has changed my eating pattern - instead of only getting mildly hungry once a day, now my stomach wants food more often. It's satisfied with less, but it's far more demanding (Want food NOW!) & I get that woozy low-blood-sugar feeling now. I wish I had gotten the nauseous kind of food poisoning because then I wouldn't even want to look at food. Staying hydrated is also a challenge because as I drink water, I can hear it gurgling its way through me, kind of like the far off rumbles of distant thunder... (My dieting attempt has also shown me that dates are good food, especially when dipped in cream cheese, & they're not bad with yogurt. We went grocery shopping last night & I bought a bunch of yogurt & a bag of dates. I didn't really want the yogurt when I got home, but I dropped one on the floor & all it had was a tinfoil seal, which pretty much exploded when it hit the ground. So I tossed some dates in there & made the best of it.)
Of course, I haven't done much of anything with the Alliance other than create characters who can buy bunnies from IF's suburbs & sell them to my Hordies in BB's AH. I have come to accept that I cannot play a 'lock & with Rob's consent, I deleted Kitsune & rebirthed her as a Mage. I've also never really messed with Priests & Warriors do bore me... now that Evilwyn's past lvl 40, the newness of the Paladin has worn off. She's like a warrior who sort of heals & can raise the dead. I did start yet another Druid to run w/Rob's Mage, just because having 2 low-level Mages didn't seem like a wise decision. I never seem to be able to get a Druid past lvl 20 - I get cat form & stop. Rob's got some scheme to become a non-Chinese gold farmer so he's trying to lvl a Mage to the point where he can gather up every mob in the SM & kill them all at once. I figure, well, let him farm SM all he wants - if he can't sell gold to some online wholesaler, all our toons will have epic mounts to look forward to. I can just imagine reporting his income on the IRS forms next year. Next to your signature, it has a box for 'job description'. Mine will say "hotel night auditor", his will say "non-Chinese gold farmer".
I'm wondering to myself... just how much of a barrier to becoming Buddhist is the vegetarian thing? I don't think I can stop eating meat. Just trying to avoid beef for the next month or so is almost impossible (after 2 e. coli recalls & my food poisoning, it's better to avoid it for a few weeks). My stomach's so bad right now Pepto-Bismol isn't even helping any. I eat... I run. And I'm fucking starving, too, but it seems like a waste of food because it doesn't seem to be spending any quality time inside me. My dieting attempt has changed my eating pattern - instead of only getting mildly hungry once a day, now my stomach wants food more often. It's satisfied with less, but it's far more demanding (Want food NOW!) & I get that woozy low-blood-sugar feeling now. I wish I had gotten the nauseous kind of food poisoning because then I wouldn't even want to look at food. Staying hydrated is also a challenge because as I drink water, I can hear it gurgling its way through me, kind of like the far off rumbles of distant thunder... (My dieting attempt has also shown me that dates are good food, especially when dipped in cream cheese, & they're not bad with yogurt. We went grocery shopping last night & I bought a bunch of yogurt & a bag of dates. I didn't really want the yogurt when I got home, but I dropped one on the floor & all it had was a tinfoil seal, which pretty much exploded when it hit the ground. So I tossed some dates in there & made the best of it.)
