Gadgetory

like when I still go to a keyboard my hands automatically go to the keys that I'm used to play i I've been obviously a player of the Warcraft games right from the start but into World of Warcraft was was basically I used to be running killed for a game called ultima online as that game started to wind down we were looking for a new game to do so we moved across the world warcraft I started playing a game called runescape and one of my friends told me why are you playing this there's a better game out there Cold War Craft why don't you try that I actually got into the game through my manager in retail that's working at game at a time I had a bit of a addicted manager and what he'd reach an agreement where he'd spare me the disgrace of having to deal with irate customers if I got off the shop floor and power leveled one of his characters for him obviously there was kind of a division amongst the client as to whether we should split on whether we should be hauled or alliance so I kind of had this Sophie's Choice moment where I had to decide which which side I would go with as the as the group of real real world friends and players had kind of divided themselves out so it became a tauren warrior and I really like that starting area it was really fun and I really like my character she was female she was black and white and so I called a free gianna it's just like a Frisian cow there were a lot of cow puns going around with Torah names at that time yeah and mage gnome and yes I bounced around everywhere inglot the rogue apex the warrior siphoned the Warlock I would always play as generally once what's called a tank which is sort of our heavily armored character which is up up front for you know to take all the damage and hopefully deliver as much as possible as well I wouldn't say that was much of a lira Leroy but I was I was certainly you know I I was good at standing in one place and bashing stuff what can I say I'm gonna get to the highest reputation for our tarik valid all you do is stay there you have the doing can have to participate and you went gang reputation however while has a Idol timer so after five minutes it will kick you out I would set the timer my watch for four minutes in 30 seconds and then go to sleep soon i watch agua I run to my computer hit the space bar which mate makes your character jump and then it would reset the timer we basically told all the bars of the world started in stormwind as am to organs and we would drink virtual beer and regular be at the same time until the hour worgen selves are standing on the tables in all these bars throwing up and there we a as our virtual characters got virtually drunk and virtually threw up we then got virtually thrown out of this virtual bar there must be some entrepreneurial way of making gold no one else's thought I took all my characters clothes off and sort of dance and I thought spoke aloud so that other characters could see like sea shanties and stuff and I was basically busking I thought if I singing off shanties and maybe I'll get gold that way while you're on the your mount you could just type / peggle and a pedal landlord pump up so like that became my main thing for ages I do journeys that were like them to a point and back to play peggle i don't ask me why i didn't just play peggle outside of it there were two people in our guild who one of them proposed to the other in game and that was really cute so we all came together and did like this little engagement party in game which was really fun it was a lovely experience being in a world that just felt full of other people all doing their own things like beetling around and crafting things and selling stuff just exploring the world I just remember being amazed that that there's this virtual world it was it was it was so big and theoretically you could walk across it from one end to the other in in real time and it would take you ages but you could do it it was like Saturday afternoon around four o'clock and I realized that I hadn't eaten since Friday nights the pressure to keep up with the gear that we needed and preparing for raids it was quite difficult with a full-time job PVE stuff wasn't getting you anything you were doing it over and over again and you had to go and take on the lich king or do x and y against the giant boss and that was kind of like I don't really want to do that it was kinda like a second job so it would be at work I'd be here for like 10 hours right and then I would go home and I was like I gotta do this I gotta do this I do my dailies i realized that i was turning down real-life events and stuff because i'd said that i would like tanker raid that night or something and if you don't you know if you don't show up then how are you gonna get on a raid the next night I ran out of time quite literally I mean I was spending a lot of time doing it and it then and then work really sort of became very busy and active and I just had to kind of let it go if I wanted to if I wanted to pursue the career I was hoping to do some very very happy times and I can't ever feel that there was also like it immense time and personal potential wasted it's such an addictive quality and I look back and it's weird because I look back on and really fondly but I would never ever go back again you know i would say don't play it