Because, even if Brent is bad company (having never hung out with Brent, I can't say), those people are still retarded for using such a lame excuse as "I have to play a video game".
I was going to say that before I realized you did. Phone browsing makes you miss things.
Not entirely sure if the "WoW is an excuse to lie to people about how you feel about them" is supposed to change my opinion of the product or just troll me, but whatever. Moving on.
you guys are making the argument that since gambling and alcohol ruins lives they should be hated
I...
think you might've lightened up your stance on alcohol in the past few years, otherwise I'm going to have to assume that you're agreeing with the sentiment.
I guess I should clarify that my "WoW player = fuck off" stance, while obviously exaggerated to begin with, really only applies to making new friends rather than keeping old ones. I've never, uh, "dumped" a friend for getting to deeply an MMO, or any sort of bad behavior. But I do tend to avoid MAKING friends if it seems like that's what they do, cause at that point I suddenly find them just that much less interesting. Personal bias, obviously.
RE: Not being familiar with new WoW: Classic was right (somehow) in that yeah I'm prooooobably not going to know very much about what a game I find calamitous looks like after almost three expansions. All I know is gleaned from people's behaviors towards it, which from my vantage point seem to be, yes, noticeably less obsessive but still rather frightening sometimes. Maybe I
do need new friends, but still, I wouldn't say the game's "fixed" its problem of being... well, a problem for many people. And if it's just encouraging people to
pretend that they have an unhealthy obsession with it... well that's kind of unhealthy too, honestly.