The Real Truth about World of Warcraft... (BB Version)

[MIA305dumbbells]

This thread makes strong reference to the South Park episode, Make Love, Not Warcraft.*

Background info:
I played WoW with my brother before we got into working out and having a life. We played for 2 years, misc. Yesterday, I was chilling with my homie and my brother and the South Park episode came on tv. After quitting WoW, I found this episode extremely hilarious and somuchreallife.jpg. I kept looking at my brother after some part to see him about to lol at some parts because so much of it is true.*For those misc brahs that are thinking about playing the game (and I have seen multiple threads on this) here is what the game is like. You do NOT want to get sucked into it.*

Social Life:
The episode shows what happens in real life since the beginning. How Randy tells Stan to go socialize with friends and how he should get off his computer to do so. For a WoW player the game is considered "socializing" since it's an MMO. You will start to find WoW as something that fills your socializing void and, in fact, develop this habit of staying in playing instead of actually going out and socializing.*

Dying:*
In WoW, dying sucks. Whenever the high level dude in the episode kills any character, they all rage. Cartman, Stans dad, the Blizzard board members, and even the high level dude rages when he gets killed in the end. In addition, when Cartman hosts the meeting, you see other characters complaining about dying when they were doing something in-game. This is all so real, damn it. Let me tell you that there's nothing more annoying than having to start at a graveyard that is far as fuark away from your corpse. I mean, most times it takes forever to walk to your body.

Hewhohasnolyfe:
The blizzard admins that talk about the high level dude call him "He who has no life". Lets face it, to get good at something you have to devote time to it. A good basketball player practices his free throws, a good musician has a band, an talented painter studies theory to enhance his drawing skills, singers, etc. The same thing applies to WoW. When you become "good" at WoW you have reached the no life status. Getting good is just an excuse to keep playing the game. "Holy fuark, man. I'm sofa king good at this game".

Neglecting:
Randy gets into the game. When a new person starts the game they're bombarded with quests to complete. In the SP episode, when Randy starts playing and his boss asks him for whatever papers he had to do, he goes on to play WoW completely ignoring his boss.*Hell, when I played and I got asked to do something pfffft phuck dat shet, ima sign up for another bg. Players become lazy and unmotivated to do things out of the game.*

Maps and drawings:
Lol, the maps and drawings on Cartmans meeting are so accurate.

Boars:
Although this part is fake, the concept is true. People will do anything to level up, especially now since the game has changed a lot since when I played. This is just another excuse to sit on the computer and play WoW.

Gaining Weight:
You could be 100% ectomorph, but playing WoW reflects on your body wether it's gaining weight, developing carpal tunnel, getting acne, losing muscle definition, sometimes people develop a hunch back, and even losing skin pigmentation. Also, you see the characters desks clustered with food/drinks. When I played WoW there came to a point where that's what happened to me. I would have cups, plates, silverware, etc all over my phucking desk. It was disgusting.

Sword of a Thousand Truths:
This is the way I understood this part... Randy rushes and tries to get this sword to Stan. When sucked into WoW, you feel that everything has to be done in a rush. You don't really understand why, but it's because unconsciously you want to go back and log onto WoW. In the episode you see Randy speeding and shet to play.

Killing He who has no life:
When you're this elitist brah in WoW and people kill you, it's like a punch in the gut. You don't want noobs killing you, this just makes you feel beta as phuck. LOL at the dudes face when he dies.*

What do we do now?:
LOL this is my favorite part of the episode. In WoW, wether it's pve or pvp, and you finish the game, people don't quit, or take a break. Finishing the game just means that now you can finally play the game.

I am not hating in any way. In fact, if you play WoW you probably don't relate to this. It's just a strong generalization that is true to some degree.*

Look for yourself:
http://www.southparkstudios.com/full...e-not-warcraft

[Boatski]

I'm not reading that wall of sh!t

[MIA305dumbbells]

I'm not reading that wall of sh!t

WoW player in denial?

[MIA305dumbbells]

fast bb
i put some effort into this shet.

That or this place is just empty. Owell.

[xdestron]

You're 19 and just realizing all this now? Do you realize how long WoW has been out for?
Hell, I can remember playing the original WoW to level 20 and quitting forever, back in 2005,that was 6 years ago.

[zartine]

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[ClothesRod]

Gaining Weight:
You could be 100% ectomorph, but playing WoW reflects on your body wether it's gaining weight, developing carpal tunnel, getting acne, losing muscle definition, sometimes people develop a hunch back, and even losing skin pigmentation. Also, you see the characters desks clustered with food/drinks. When I played WoW there came to a point where that's what happened to me. I would have cups, plates, silverware, etc all over my phucking desk. It was disgusting.

playing wow actually did the opposite for me.

i used to be a fatty hardcore, and i didnt understand anything about fitness. i thought i was that way naturally because my family is all large.
when i played wow i used to pvp. and i couldn't eat chips and chain eat icecream because the action was so frantic. i got very skinny fast, and i could actually move around.

it felt so good that i started doing push-ups on my downtime. just moving around and being free in my body was uplifting.
i made the conclusion that getting fit was alot like wow. you do 14 pushups so that later you can do 15. then you do 15 so you can do 16. what makes it great is there is no end.

this actually helped me get out to the gym to take my fitness to the next level. i applied similar tactics to when i would arena and pvp ie. look up the best exercises online. find out what the actual "mechanics" of exercise were.
once i was in the gym and i actually know what i was doing i eventually quit wow to focus on other things in a similar fashion.
and to this day i actually lost 40lbs of pure fat and have gained about 35lbs of lean mass.


im actually thankful to wow. in some ways it actually saved my life (srs) although i might be an exception.

[farquezy]

OP, you are just retarded.
You can be addicted as **** to a MMO and still have an amazing life unless your version of an amazing life comes from watching Nekolodeon and MTV.
MMO are great fun and can help a lot of people, I know back in 2007 when I was super depressed the only thing that kept me coming back was the community and intense fun I had on Guild Wars.

I sure a **** miss playing an MMO and regret quitting every second.
U mad?

[sh4un]

so what im understanding is you gave up playing wow to sit on the couch and watch southpark?

[theheffnerr]

Social Life: Basic time management skills needed here, I raid 4 hours a day 3 times a week, go to school 5 days a week, lift 3-4 days of the week, play tennis 2 hours a day twice a week, and still have time for the GF and doing things around the house.... Hewhohasnolyfe: see "social life" Neglecting: Current GPA 3.5 get all my **** done, no debt *Gaining Weight: past 2 years I've lost 100lbs... People gain wight when they get a job some times... so every one must gain wight if they have a job.*

[TheStender]

OP hasn't played recently if he still thinks getting back to your body after dying takes a long time.

[jeahmane]

Thanks for filling us in about the truth behind an old as hell game, and tv episode. BTW, anyone who doesnt clean up food on their desk is just a dirty c*nt

[injectcelltech]

hate how people make it out to be such a bad thing. i played for around 5 years and had a lot of good times. did I play too much? maybe in some peoples opinion, but i had a good time and wouldn't have done anything more productive if i didnt play, still go to school and bull****

[MIA305dumbbells]

Bamping this bc of sudden breakthrough of WoW threads.

[Cronoh]

i played wow for like 4 years, and yes it ****ed up my life, but its hard to blame WoW. I was at fault, for getting addicted to stuff that has no real value, same goes for everyone else. Don't blame Blizzard because the video game they made was awesome. When you can have fun and be engaged for hours at a time, it is really hard to want to quit that style.

[MIA305dumbbells]

i played wow for like 4 years, and yes it ****ed up my life, but its hard to blame WoW. I was at fault, for getting addicted to stuff that has no real value, same goes for everyone else. Don't blame Blizzard because the video game they made was awesome. When you can have fun and be engaged for hours at a time, it is really hard to want to quit that style.

I'm not denying it's a bad game. It has gotten a lot worse than what it was before, though. I'm just comparing and contrasting this South Park episode to real lyfe.

[LiftHeavy85]

The current wow makes it very hard for it to take control of ur life compared to previous expansions. Then again I'm botting at the moment getting as many 85's as I can before pirox stops working.

[Dabonusballa]

You can easily balance WoW or other games like that with a social life as long as you play in moderation. Not everyone gets so addicted that they feel they have to hibernate in their room and play. Just gotta have dat dere self control.

[mikeyfitness]

i disagree with this lol, i still play but only when im home doing nothing with no plans def. doesnt do anything o my social life

[SkyGuardian]

Try playing Lineage 2. It's 1000x the grindfest WoW is and the pvp system makes it so you rage even more if you die.

Back when I played it at the age of 13 and played until graduation.

Brb got chubby
Brb got acne
Brb school suffered
Brb no social life
Brb hot pockets/corndogs/anything microwaveable is main food source.
Brb reach level 58 and it takes 15 hours of straight grinding to get to 59
Brb lose 4% when you die which takes hours to get back.
Brb drop gear if you die to monsters that takes forever to get.
Brb reaching top level takes legit 2000+ hours to obtain. That time doesn't even include time spent running around town etc, JUST HUNTING.
Brb average sleep time is 4 hours.

[bhudd]

Havent played wow for about a year now after being a pretty heavy player for about 4 years. Realised i had to stop when started seeing in game creatures in real life (srs). Wasnt sure if real life. Srsly the game has the potential to control your life and the south park episode potrays this accurately.

[ShreddedRocks]

The current wow makes it very hard for it to take control of ur life compared to previous expansions. Then again I'm botting at the moment getting as many 85's as I can before pirox stops working.

fuk you brah
brb u take all my quest creeps and my nodes and herbs and ores

fuk u. made life so hard back then >.>

[ChrisRey3156]

I play WoW only on raid nights 3 times a week for 2 hours each of those nights. Other than that I'm too lazy to do anything else like level alts and crap. If I want to level an alt I make a friend do recruit a friend with me so I can just grind it to 80 in 3 days max. I can't bear to sit on WoW and do anything other than raid. On a game like elder scrolls like morrowind and skyrim(hated oblivion) I can sit on that junk for hours on end and still not be bored.

I think WoW is just really showing its age.

[Braveheart91]

-Started in TBC (Season 4) rolled a Warlock, got 3 points off Rank 1 on EU-Rampage first season doing Arena
-Raided with Havoc on the US Realms and cleared all content pre-patch (this was when I dropped out of college and scrounged off parents for 2 years, brb nocturnal)
-Re-rolled EU, joined Simulacrum on EU-Lightning's Blade, got Rank1 Season 5 and 6, Gladiator Season 7, 8 and 9 on my Warlock, made 130k gold from boosting people to 2.2k in 2's Season 5+6.
-Joined Ensidia for a month or 2 in Wotlk, raided with them, re-rolled 'coz Kungen is a phucking raging phaggot
-Got invited to Paragon in Cataclysm as a casual (did alt raids)
-Started to realize how **** the game was when we were clearing all content in a single night during an Alt Raid and half the Raid was flat out drunk.
-left to play DAOC again, BRB RR11 Mentalist, Nightshade, Berserker. Found out WoW account got hacked, got it recovered, logged in, gave a lvl 13 85k gold then cancelled my subscription.

And the rest is history!

[FSEC]

^Not sure how the currency is now, but 85k gold could equate to hundreds of US dollars (srs). I frequently bought/sold accounts and gold.

[LiftHeavy85]

^Not sure how the currency is now, but 85k gold could equate to hundreds of US dollars (srs). I frequently bought/sold accounts and gold.

u can get 85k for around 100$

[xxking]

I feel the same way as OP about the no life thing, it was not only wow though, it was also Halo, Rift, Forza, Street Fighter... I played these games 8 hours+ every day, including Saturdays and sundays... Felt good man.

Partially because whenever i play i game its not enough to be good, i have to be the best, have the best gear, etc...