Gloom and how it gets that way.

Still, he needs balance. Take time out of every day to do something more productive than WoW. Being good at WoW won't mean shit 5 years down the road. Creating and reinforcing friendships now could mean all the difference to you 5 years down the road.

Still, he needs balance. Take time out of every day to do something more productive than WoW. Being good at WoW won't mean shit 5 years down the road. Creating and reinforcing friendships now could mean all the difference to you 5 years down the road.

It's hard to balance WoW with life.

Other games, sure. WoW is too much of a time sink.

I can play Baldur's gate for 30 minutes or less, save my game, and go do what I need to do, come back later and finish whatever I want to do. You can't do that in WoW, especially if you raid.

The main problem I had with raiding was, I had to plan 4 hours out of my life to play a video game. And these 4 hours had to be consecutive.

I get home ~5:30, raid at ~6:00, finish ~10:00 or later, and it's time for bed.

So, anything I needed to do in that time doesn't get done, I grab fast food for dinner(3 nights in a row.) My health started deteriorating, and I started having to catch up on shit.

I can spare 4 hours to play video games, but not 4 consecutive hours. I have things I need to do.

Real life friendships > WoW + friendships you get from that game.

No computer game should be the downfall of your social life. Period.

Go hiking. It's relaxing to just be isolated out in the woods.

Go hiking. It's relaxing to just be isolated out in the woods.

That's a good idea.


And thanks for the helpful words Kagom.

I'm going camping in a couple of weeks, looking forward to just relaxing(and getting drunk.)

Nothing to worry about out in the woods, except for bears and such.

Bears mean nothing.

Any time. I've been in your situation, sort of, before and I understand how it's aggravating and depressing. But just have a little faith and it'll turn out okay. May need work, but these things do find a way to work themselves out.

And go hiking and camping out. You won't regret it.

Penny, your's is the only post I read. I don't know what everyone else said.

This is a hard attitude to take towards the world and very conceited to say the least but it greatly alleviates depression to actually think you are better/smarter than most around you. The impression I get from you on the forums is that you're a fairly smart guy, and that sort of attitude may not be far from the truth at all.