35 posts tagged “world of warcraft”

lol epic...

Broken DVD 1

I used to have hair all the way down to my waist. I loved my long hair, however I felt this desire to chop it but I knew unless I did it without thinking I would never do it. There were so many positive benefits to me chopping my hair, for one it would be easier to manage and clean my hair and I would look more professional at work.

One day some years ago, the wife, kids and I were at the mall and I looked and saw the hair place and no one was in there and so I pivoted on my feet and marched in and asked them to chop it. Right then, right there it was a moment of the left hand doing something without the right hand knowing. It was Do or Die and the time had come and the hair which I had growing since the sixth grade was going out.

The wife and kids looked on with much amusement. They laughed the entire time and it was awesome.

Now let's fast forward a few years, in fact it was two years ago. I used to love chicken fingers, breaded seasoned chicken fingers. I liked them in sandwiches, in salads and I really liked them all alone with some honey mustard. Then one day I was horribly food poisoned by them and I started getting sick and we are talking very violent sick. The kind where you sit on the toilet with a trash can because it is shooting out of you from both ends with such force that you really wished for death to take away the pain. The kind of pain that made you cry and look for a knife or gun so that you could end it. It was bad. It only lasted one day, but the result afterwards refuses to go away. I don't eat chicken fingers anymore, I just don't. When I see them, I get a sensation in my stomach of revulsion.

Both of those stories were told because in an indirect way I am reliving those experiences.

Now I am not violently sick, at least not that way. I was reading the news about this "Baby Grace" situation. Where the little girl was beaten, held underwater and then smashed around until she died and they put her in a plastic tub and shoved her the garage for a few months before dumping her body in the Galveston waterway. I have children myself and this story absolutely horrifies and sickens me. They then revealed that the mother and boyfriend met playing World of Warcraft and suddenly the revulsion settled in. Like the chicken fingers from the food poisoning, the thought of World of Warcraft was actually turning my stomach. People that play this game were responsible for the atrocities done to this little two year old girl.

I would never harm my children and I know the game did not do it, but it horrified me to such a level that I think it scarred me and soured me towards my favorite game.

I asked the wife to delete the files from the computer and I deleted them from the laptop.

She wanted to know if she could break the CDs, something she has been more than eager to do for a long time now. I hesitated however, doing so would mean the end of my days in that game for good. Sure I could always rebuy the game some people say, but I am a penny pincher and I rarely spend money on myself for anything so it it highly unlikely I would ever repurchase the game.

I told the wife no at first and then while working in silence, my mind began to question why I would want to go back? If I am so disgusted by the game would I want to leave a door open?

So like the time I got my hair chopped, I spunk on my heels and marched to the wife and I told her... break them... shatter them now or I will never do it. Do it now before I change my mind.

She smashed them.

It was a very weird feeling for me.

I feel lighter... very free.

I always complained that I need a hobby before I quit. With me playing however, I was not looking for a hobby. I am going to get back into my art, perhaps drawing a comic of some kind. Work on my writing and some friends of mine are going to do a weekly podcast.

My family has a long history of drug addiction. While I did not fall into drugs... I did fall into an addiction with Massive Multiplayer Games. In the past it was Asheron's Call, Star Wars Galaxies, EverQuest and these days it is World of Warcraft.

I need to break the addiction.

Video Games themselves have never been the problem. If I got a console game, I would play it with my family and if I played alone I would only play until the end of the game and then I was done. I can play Marvel Ultimates on my XBox and be fine and content for an hour and then I can go do something else. Plus I will play that one with my son and I do have some games that the wife will play with me and that is some serious fun... especially if she starts shouting out curse words.

Good times...

I have tried to quell my MMORPG (Massive Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game) addiction in the past. Each time I have attempted I made some mistakes that left me stumbling back towards them over time.

1. I did not fill the void with something productive... something that will keep me away from these types of games. Something creative for instance.
2. I did not destroy the copies of the games.

So I need to ensure that I quit cold turkey and for good this time.

I have recruited Potty Mouth's help and this is the plan.

1. I will begin by deleting all characters on my World of Warcraft account. I will not say goodbye to anyone, I will not take one last look. I will simply start up the game and begin deleting the characters.
2. I will then stop the billing on the account and remove the credit card information.
3. I will then step away from the computer and go into another room while Potty Mouth or my wife changes the password on my account to something that I could never figure out in a million years.
4. I will then destroy the game's serial numbers.
5. Destroy the discs
6. Rip up any booklets
7. Then I will begin to snap the discs and rip the books for my old MMORPG games, Star Wars Galaxies, Asheron's Call, EverQuest... whichever ones I still have the software and the books for.
8. I will then set the entire thing on fire.

Additional destructive steps may be involved... I would perhaps run over everything with my van. If I can get a steam roller that would be even better.

These games have made me grumpy, helped me gain weight, wasted time and made me grumpy.

I cannot do this alone. I need to face my addiction head on with the support of my friends. Both online and offline.

I need your help in filling the void left behind. Show me the love... send me paper, pencils, colored pencils, drawing books. Perhaps a computer tablet to do digital art. Got an old digital camera? How about a single dollar donation? That will buy me a nice graphite pencil. Can only donate 50 cents? Awesome, I can probably get a nice gum eraser. Perhaps an art bag. Drawing books? Anatomy books? Perhaps one of those goofy wooden men you can pose to get perspective down?

I am going to get back into my art... I write now, but I also want to draw and create something with my hands.

Potty Mouth and I will in return video tape the entire process to show all of you that indeed everything is being destroyed.

The destruction will commence immediately over the next month and as I come up with destructive ideas I will have them video taped and placed online... everything will be up on the following websites.

http://MainMor.vox.com
http://jnumber1.vox.com
http://www.MainMor.net
http://MainMor.LiveJournal.com

Any donations made will go directly to art supplies, a camera if there are enough donations... anything to jump start my brain and physical creativity.

I will review, post and display most works created and will post everything I can to various art and photography websites and I will give back by creating some creative commons art of some kind that people can freely use for whatever.

If you cannot help with a donation, no sweat... I ain't doing this for that reason. I am doing this to live a more meaningful life and to experience new things besides the world of Azeroth. I am doing this to take back control and steer my own ship.

Many of the ideas were brought to me via the WikiHow.com article 'Break a World of Warcraft Addiction'

Spread the word... digg this article... tell friends, family and doctors.

Here is the wishlist. If any of this is out of your range or you have slightly used supplies you want to pass on to me... please contact Potty Mouth directly and not me. I am using him as a 3rd party ringleader. So that you can see that I am on the up and up regarding this.

To the makers of this game...Blizzard ... you made a great game. I am doing this not out of hatred...lol...

I formulated a plan to help me with my World of Warcraft problem. I talked to Potty Mouth and he loves my plan. Friday I will make a post about what I intend to do and I want you all to get excited and rally around me on this one.

I am feeling incredibly hopeful right now.

Yes, for the last 2 weeks I have been playing World of Warcraft and honestly I am a bit disgusted over myself with it. I quit that game to fill up my life with events and hobbies. Something more productive, something more creative and instead I found myself bored so badly that I went back to that game.

Things went well for a few months, I was reading books to my wife and when we ran out of books to read... I lost my mind.

Potty Mouth thinks I should take up Porn. But what do I do after those 5 minutes? Bada dump dump... disssss....

I have not been exercising, I have been playing that damn game, I have not been doing anything creative.

However... my diet has still been VERY good. I have stuck to it and have been honest and loyal to eating healthier. So there... a silver lining.

I will never stop playing Video Games, I love to play them. However MMORPGs suck up WAY too much time. When I am playing an XBox game for instance I may play that game non stop for a few days or even a week...but after that and the story is told and I have beaten it... I can move on to do something else.

I need to get my hands on a XBox 360 and a Wii.

That Wii will be a huge benefit for me.

Where did they get all those sexah moves? Someone took the time to show us.

I have  1 World of Warcraft account... it has a lvl 70 Nightelf Priest on it and a level 67 (like 4 bubbles from 68) Human Rogue on it as well.

I want a new Nintendo DS... if you want to Paypal me cash...cool.

My son bathed my Nintendo DS...and I need to replace it. Also if I get rid of my WoW account I will not be tempted to play it.

Enjoy this one from http://www.destructoid.com

World-of-warcraft-comic

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