An intervention for Troriste:

[lethdar]

Hi pals,

At this point I feel it is appropriate to attempt to salvage what is left of this fellow's life. I've played games on and off for a while, I spent around 6 months playing wow, a bit in eqemu, and on sullon zek / diablo 2 when I was an angsty teenager. Without fail every time I quit i wonder whatever drove me to spend so much time playing such a shitty thing rather than enjoying real life.

It occurred to me, I know Troriste from sullon zek, he played 16+ hours a day then, he nerded out to 16 hours a day on his blue server before it was disbanded for exploiting dragons (lol irony), I saw his old eq nick registered on a no life guild playing wow a few years ago, and I know hes been playing non stop on blue99 since it was out.

Do you guys realize this is at least 12 years of playing video games non stop? 12 years. A dozen years, over 50,000 hours at the low end (only 12 hours a day calculated) spent on meaningless games and deleted pixels from when the game dies off. This is just from what I know, only he himself knows how long he has been addicted before I recognized him during my embarrassing teenage everquest days.

Can you seriously imagine what this must be like? At least a dozen years spent glued to the computer screen, furiously clicking away at pixels rather than building meaningful relationships, dating, educating oneself, going outside? I feel just awful reflecting on the months I've spent doing it, let alone over a decade.

Troriste/Nizzarr, please seek help if you have any hope left at all, thinking of your life seriously depresses the fuck out of me, I can't imagine what it must be like for you.