Brain Mapping

What made me begin to unconsciously type "worlofwarcraft.com" into my internet browser address bar. (really)

Here's the scenario

It all starts here. Reading a nice little article about the "faux-code" used on a very entertaining show, although I like the spin-off better. Because I was reading the article using my RSS feed reader of choice I only saw a link to the comments on a popular link aggregation site. There was only one comment on the site, that fully followed a key law regarding internet anonymity.

Okay, my brain works... strange.

90 Days W/O Computer Games.

World of Warcraft has ruined my life.

Actually, it hasn't but I have to blame someone else for wasting so much time on something that I knew full-well when I started had no intrinsic value.

No World of Warcraft.
No StarCraft.
No Warcraft.
No Guild Wars.
No Unreal.
No computer games.

Playing games in a social context will be permissible. For example, playing Nintendo with family or X-Box with friends.

The point is to break the chain of time sinks that are most modern computer games.

This is the promise I made to my wife and myself. I don't feel like my playing habits had a negative effect, yet. But I looked at the staggering number of hours I had spent in Azeroth and I knew I had to change something.

My abstinence begins today April 24th, 2007 and ends July 24th, 2007.

Wish me luck.

WoW Summer Hiatus

I don't know if World of Warcraft is actually addictive. I do know that it is too easy to spend egregious amounts of time playing it. Actually it's less 'playing' than satisfying an overwhelming urge to get to the next level or get the next item. It's like a virtual version of Keeping up with the Joneses. Oooo, that sword gives me an additional +5 to spell damage, too bad it's only for level 24 characters and I'm only level 22, only 12 hours of grinding to go!

Here's the fruits of my addiction, they are going to gather some dust for the summer though.

Pocio
Zagloba
Dajbuzi

I'm kind of neurotic for creating new characters in the game, but these are the highest level characters I was still using.