Gloom and how it gets that way.

to actually think you are better/smarter than most around you.

Quite frankly, sometimes it's hard not to. People can only let you down for so long before you stop having faith in them.

I'm so detached, I can't help it. I know its self righteous and stupid and all that but... for some reason, I just can't help but live my life inside my head. Everything I do and say... its like its calculated.

Video games appear to becoming more and more addictive. D2 was way too addictive for me, and I played A LOT during my first two years of college. I was lucky enough to have already met a good core group of friends during classes, and they always got me out to go drinking, partying, and chick lurking. Honestly, if it wasn't for them, I would've probably gone through the same thing you're going through now. I was constantly cutting classes, pushing off projects, papers, studying, etc. just so I could play Diablo constantly.

I mean, there were weekends when most of my friends would go home for the weekend, and I didn't go out and just played Diablo all weekend. When they came back, I would lie to them and tell them all kinds of fabricated stories about parties, blacking out, etc. just so they didn't think I was such a complete fag. I would then tell myself that I'm not going to do that again, because I was only kidding myself and ruining my college experience, but low and behold, when the next opportunity arose, I would do the exact same thing.

I did that for my entire first year of college, and during my second year, I forced myself to stop. It wasn't easy, I'm telling you, but it was neccessary. I called up people, joined intermural sports, worked out at the gym, ran a lot, etc. just go get myself out of my dorm room and away from Diablo. And it definitely worked, believe me.

Being addicted is never good, no matter what it's too, except for sex. You seriously need to get away from it, and stop yourself from getting too much of a superiority complex. You need to force yourself to do extraciricular activites. You made the first good step, now finish it off!

Being addicted to video games is a tad bit a new fad nowadays. I was addicted to games when I was younger, but I'm not so much anymore. I can't find any game to be addicted to.

Advice, cash in all your WoW hours on eBay and give up MMOs forever. I came to the same realization you did about WoW (this time applied to City of Heroes/EVE) and while I didn't put nearly as much time into it as you did (probably less than 1/10th) I realized that it is totally pointless and not worth the destruction of effort/motivation it causes.

I was going to attempt to sell my account on e-bay, but when I think about all of the time that I myself put into it, it's not really worth it to me. I'd rather keep it and hop on to screw around from time to time.

My mage has ~200 days played time. That's 4800 hours. At minimum wage, that's Just under $25,000.

I mean, that's not really a good comparison, but it puts into perspective how much I've played the game.