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You suck! -Crowd
Your mother taught me how! -Kurt Angle
Liberal Arts Major
My God...
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~ Ogordemir ~
Buddha promised me Nirvana and all I got was this lousy T-shirt.
"Democracy is the bludgeoning of the people, by the people, for the people." ~ Oscar Wilde
Message last edited by Silvas on 12/12/2006 at 01:32:18 AM
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"If I don't live diligently, I can't die. So I will fight. Even if... I have no chance of winning." ~Shinji Ikari, RE-TAKE
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You suck! -Crowd
Your mother taught me how! -Kurt Angle
Liberal Arts Major
"Remember, boys and girls: don't do double-u-o'-double-u."
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~ Ogordemir ~
Buddha promised me Nirvana and all I got was this lousy T-shirt.
"Democracy is the bludgeoning of the people, by the people, for the people." ~ Oscar Wilde
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Denial is a symptom of addiction, you know.
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"If I don't live diligently, I can't die. So I will fight. Even if... I have no chance of winning." ~Shinji Ikari, RE-TAKE
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You suck! -Crowd
Your mother taught me how! -Kurt Angle
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You: No, I can quit any time I want.
Me: Then quit.
You: I don't want to.
'Round these parts we call that denial, partna.
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"If I don't live diligently, I can't die. So I will fight. Even if... I have no chance of winning." ~Shinji Ikari, RE-TAKE
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Logic ftl.
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You suck! -Crowd
Your mother taught me how! -Kurt Angle
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"If I don't live diligently, I can't die. So I will fight. Even if... I have no chance of winning." ~Shinji Ikari, RE-TAKE
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You suck! -Crowd
Your mother taught me how! -Kurt Angle
Liberal Arts Major
This is characteristic of any addiction. For instance, I'm arguably addicted to carbonated drinks - particularly Pepsi, Martinelli's Sparkling Cider, and Orangina - despite my frequent tongue-in-cheek claims that I can go without any for an extended period of time. (And it's hard to keep up these claims when you go out and buy four 12-packs of Pepsi, two 26-packs of the cider, or two 26-packs of Orangina every two weeks. >_>)
So by not wanting to quit something I enjoy, I'm addicted to it?
Uh, no:
(1) MMORPG's are addictive for various obvious reasons. Research, or at least journalism, backs this up. (As does your claim that it's "easily overcome by will". Rhetoric ftw.)
(2) Historically, addicts claim they can drop an addiction via willpower alone, then say the reason they're not doing so is that they don't feel like it.
(3) The psychology here is rather simple. The addiction is derived from the same source as your enjoyment - indeed, one could even argue the addiction is your enjoyment. You're not going to quit because you labor under the illusion that you'll miss it too much, because you like it so much now; at the same time, you think you can quit, because your enjoyment masks your addiction.
WoW isn't a drug, the only addicting quality it has is entertainment.
An addiction to something is simply an inability to quit that something, for whatever reason. In this case it's the belief that you like WoW too much. (Because, you know, there are plenty of other things in the world that are equally entertaining. You could try reading, for instance.)
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~ Ogordemir ~
Buddha promised me Nirvana and all I got was this lousy T-shirt.
"Democracy is the bludgeoning of the people, by the people, for the people." ~ Oscar Wilde
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You suck! -Crowd
Your mother taught me how! -Kurt Angle
Liberal Arts Major
Neither of us ever assumed that. Frequency is unimportant. I drink three cans of Pepsi, four bottles of cider, or two bottles of Orangina daily, on average, and I still consider myself addicted.
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~ Ogordemir ~
Buddha promised me Nirvana and all I got was this lousy T-shirt.
"Democracy is the bludgeoning of the people, by the people, for the people." ~ Oscar Wilde
Message last edited by Silvas on 12/12/2006 at 09:19:53 AM
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That made me think you were assuming that. In anycase, I don't consider myself addicted, because after the three hours that I said I play, I get really bored with it.
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You suck! -Crowd
Your mother taught me how! -Kurt Angle
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Well, yeah, I was using the term "drug" rather loosely. You still put it 100 times better than I could, though. >_>
Martinelli's Sparkling Cider
^5
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"If I don't live diligently, I can't die. So I will fight. Even if... I have no chance of winning." ~Shinji Ikari, RE-TAKE
Liberal Arts Major
After four or five bottles of cider, I get a stomache ache. >_>
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~ Ogordemir ~
Buddha promised me Nirvana and all I got was this lousy T-shirt.
"Democracy is the bludgeoning of the people, by the people, for the people." ~ Oscar Wilde
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