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07-05-2009, 08:03 PM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: West Coast of Canada | |  Help a TBer give up WoW
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Seriously. I've got a problem. Thats the first stage, right?
Basically I can give it up, but I always end up back after a little while. 6 months is the longest, and latest time away. In the past its been anywhere from a week to maybe a month. Even the annoyance of the really long install process didn't turn me away this time, and I literally sat there till it finished.
Its really bad, and I get headaches if I stare at a computer monitor for too long, worse if its 3d graphix im starin' at. Xtra strength Tylonol has become my friend. 
In the past I've basically replaced it with bass playing, but even that isn't doin' it this time. |
07-05-2009, 08:10 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2007 Location: Clarkston, MI | | | You could just trow it away, or have more fun and go Office Space on it's ass.
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07-05-2009, 08:11 PM
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Endorsing Artist: Aguilar amps | | Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: usa | | | smash all your play /install discs...change your account password by closing your eyes and typing random crap and hit enter...masturbate more.
that's all i can give you.
good luck.
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07-05-2009, 08:14 PM
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07-05-2009, 08:15 PM
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Endorsing Artist: Lyt Pedalboards Beta tester: Source Audio Moderator | | Join Date: May 2002 Location: Connecticut | | | FWIW, a good LCD monitor will GREATLY reduce your eye wear compared to a CRT monitor.
Otherwise, get a girlfriend. You won't have nearly the time or money for WoW like you used to, and you probably won't want to play it nearly as much.
Real girls>elf girls any day of the week. |
07-05-2009, 08:18 PM
| | | | Once you become something without life, only Randy Marsh will be able to save you.
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07-05-2009, 08:19 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Arlington Texas | | Yeah my old CRT did that too me, however that thing was dying. A properly working doesnt.
hmm, how to give up WoW? uhh.. Play a manly game like Quake!  You'll never want to spend 5 hours herding chickens for a fabulous stick of wonderland again.
Seriously, just cold turkey it. |
07-05-2009, 08:27 PM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: West Coast of Canada | | Actually I get headaches off my LTs LCD screen. Like I said tho, its only really bad when I play something thats all 3D.
I could look at waveforms in audacity all day and only get a minor pain....
Perhaps I should just get rid of it....
1) Take credit card off account, thereby suspending it
2) Change PW (and other security stuff) to something random (faceroll the KB?)
3) ????
4) Profit  |
07-05-2009, 08:33 PM
|  | Supporting Curmudgeon Moderator | | Join Date: Jun 2000 Location: Suburban Chicago, IL | | | A close friend got divorced over his wife's web game addiction. Just say no.
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07-05-2009, 08:35 PM
|  | I'm a tumbler, born under punches | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Northern California | | Quote:
Originally Posted by HeavyDuty A close friend got divorced over his wife's web game addiction. Just say no. | Or maybe he should just find a woman with a web addiction of her own. Then the two of them could sit in the same room and not talk to each other for hours. It would be like training for marriage. |
07-05-2009, 08:40 PM
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Originally Posted by TheBigO Or maybe he should just find a woman with a web addiction of her own. Then the two of them could sit in the same room and not talk to each other for hours. It would be like training for marriage. | Run a GIS on "The Dangers of World of Warcraft."
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07-05-2009, 08:41 PM
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active musician | | | | | dude u gotta fall in love with your bass. If you don't it is time to buy a good one. There is nothing that separates me from my bass, and that is the way it has got to be for you. This is not a WOW problem but a lack of interest in bass. Find it buddy. Find it.
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07-05-2009, 08:45 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Boston | | | Roll a warrior. That will make you want to quit real quick.
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07-05-2009, 08:46 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Frozen Wastelands of Michigan | | | Sell all your gear in the game, and give all your gold to some player in the game. Then delete all your characters. Thats what I did, but I didn't like the game much to begin with.
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07-05-2009, 08:47 PM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: West Coast of Canada | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Ben Lesser Run a GIS on "The Dangers of World of Warcraft."
I think you'd appreciate the comic. I'd post it here, but it's got naughty language in it. | LOL @ the "FOR THE HORDE" car crash... |
07-05-2009, 08:51 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Wantagh, New York | | | Who the hell has time for WoW. You clearly do not spend enough time on TB, get your act together buddy. |
07-05-2009, 09:06 PM
| | Supporting Curmudgeon Moderator | | Join Date: Jun 2000 Location: Suburban Chicago, IL | | Quote:
Originally Posted by TheBigO Or maybe he should just find a woman with a web addiction of her own. Then the two of them could sit in the same room and not talk to each other for hours. It would be like training for marriage. | Read it again...
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07-05-2009, 09:06 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Where am I?!?!? | | | I had a mild addiction to runescape. Yeah I know, but I didn't back then. Then I discovered it kinda sucked. I gave everything away and now am better. Good luck, I suggest you do pretty much everything suggested here, give away, break disk, girlfriend. Go for it! Also you could look for something you really want to buy, like a new pedal or something and calculate that it takes x months not on wow to have a new pedal completely budgeted for! Just a thought, how much does it cost a month?
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07-05-2009, 09:10 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Alabama | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Nyarlathotep Seriously. I've got a problem. Thats the first stage, right?
Basically I can give it up, but I always end up back after a little while. 6 months is the longest, and latest time away. In the past its been anywhere from a week to maybe a month. Even the annoyance of the really long install process didn't turn me away this time, and I literally sat there till it finished.
Its really bad, and I get headaches if I stare at a computer monitor for too long, worse if its 3d graphix im starin' at. Xtra strength Tylonol has become my friend.
In the past I've basically replaced it with bass playing, but even that isn't doin' it this time. | I have given up WOW for bass completely. delete your toons. i know how hard this will be. delete them. break your install disks. close your account and list it in your firewall, so you can't log in. Its better this way. I started when the game started. I have quit playing, am now engaged, playing with a band and taking a roll in my kids life. not to mention I go places and have also lost weight.
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07-05-2009, 09:18 PM
| | I'm a tumbler, born under punches | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Northern California | | Quote:
Originally Posted by HeavyDuty Read it again... | No, I got it. Just a bad joke that maybe that's the kind of woman the OP needs.
Nothing wrong with spending time online if you enjoy it (Lord knows I spend enough time on TB) but once it starts interfering with real relationships (or creating new relationships) it's gone way too far. | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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