Thursday, August 23, 2007

Gaming Widows

According to this nifty article there are groups of individuals who have dubbed themselves "game widows" who due to games such as WoW, Everquest, Final Fantasy 11, etc have "lost" their mates.

The most striking part of this article is Sherry Myrow, who started gamerwidow.com:


Now, I'm not a specialist in the assessment of sexual orientation and I don't have any knowledge of the soft-science involved in assessing addiction. Regardless, I'm pretty sure that if you are a male who would prefer to raid WoW's Molten Core rather than her molten core? You're probably a gay, gay, gay homosexual.

I played WoW. I understand the manner in which it is enjoyable. But, come on, there is no way that WoW is better than her.
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10 comments:

  1. RoscoeAugust 23, 2007 at 10:40 AM

    She might sound like Fran Dresher.

    Or act like Vendor Trash.

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  2. _J_August 23, 2007 at 11:59 AM

    I don't think that would matter.

    Some of the Vendor Trash at Gen Con was gross. There was one girl who was a faery / nymph / demon or something...and if she was supposed to be a faery she was an ugly tree faery.

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  3. Mike LewisAugust 23, 2007 at 1:52 PM

    the people who do no about things like addiction - say that one cannot be addicted to video games - at least in any medical scene.

    for what its worth

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  4. _J_August 23, 2007 at 2:42 PM

    But what do soft science people say?

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  5. Mike LewisAugust 23, 2007 at 3:14 PM

    in this case, what do you mean by soft science?

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  6. _J_August 23, 2007 at 3:57 PM

    Were you talking about clinical addiction or "social" addiction?

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  7. CalebAugust 23, 2007 at 6:49 PM

    Hot funk, cool punk, even if its old junk
    Its still rock and roll to me

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  8. RoscoeAugust 24, 2007 at 1:09 PM

    but... I was talking about VENDOR TRASH, Jay.

    not just vendor trash.

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  9. _J_August 24, 2007 at 1:16 PM

    aah. I didn't see the capital letters that weren't in your first post.

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  10. RoscoeAugust 24, 2007 at 5:34 PM

    'cept.. they're there.. and it hasn't been edited...

    as evidenced by.. you know... your capital letters.

    unless.... landrew was... at Gen Con. as an ugly tree faery.

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