WoW vs Teach

[Edwardo Piet]

I grant you I am not keen on online gaming because I can't see the point in "killing" strangers

Well...I am - simply because it's fun

The game itself is fun and playing with people I just find WAY more fun than playing with the AI (if only cos the AI sucks and the only way to make it a challenge is to give them more powerful 'characters' or 'units' or whatever - or simply a greater number of them).

But I like playing online with people more than vs the AI basically. I haven't gamed in AGES though really...I miss it but there's no time cos I'm kind of 'all or nothing' in that respect.

@ Giff, I would say if you wanna game, game. I think as long as it's not 'too much'. Although some of the best days of my life have been playing a game 'too much'... you just can't keep that up (you'd like need it for a job, and even then it's 'not healthy')

I wish I could do it (enough for me) without it being 'unhealthy' LOL - that would 'pwn'!!

EvF

[Giff]

Giff, I'd hardly describe myself as socially isolated.

You'r in self denial!

No, not nessessarily all WoW players are. It depends how much they play.

[Edwardo Piet]

Yep.

[etogre]

Back to the original topic, life has no meaning. Classic nihilism. I think you should find value in life. We die to make life important. It's better to be a "has-been" than a "never-was". You're made of atoms, but you're special because right now you get time to do whatever you want. Eventually the dust will settle and you won't get that chance. It doesn't matter that we die, because at one point in space and time, WE LIVED! Life is an incredible gift to be treasured.

Now I've gamed in WoW before and it's cool and all but if you let it own your life, that's a shame. If you casually play it, all's good. But don't forget to go out with friends, get drunk, get laid. You won't have that chance when you're 50, 60, dead, etc.

[Edwardo Piet]

I agree etogre. Great post

I would only play more regularly or 'too regularly' if you love the game AND (importantly) can play it professionally...but even then...as long as it's not too TOO much lol.

But yeah...and particular about your first paragraph on meaning (or lack thereof) and value...

Awesome. I love this quote on the subject:
"That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet." - Emily Dickinson



EvF

[infidel666]

When we are all entombed beneath the ice in our roboticized cities, it is WoW, or its more fit descendant, that will occupy our time and attention. It will keep us still to conserve energy, and engage us as needed in maintenance of what is left of our environment. Daily quests will have us guiding robots in the repair of other robots, and trouble shooting delivery of necessities, such as food and genetic material, and the extraction of waste.

So those of us playing WoW are adapting to the future more successfully than others and ensuring the survival of the human species. What could be more meaningful than that?

WTS [Soylent Green] psssst

[Demonaura]

Eve Online rules.


Humans will 100% not reach the stars is we don't build our knowledge. As we continue to pass on information as we learn new things nobody can say what sort of technologies we will discover and use.

Even if we don't make it, there's even a chance that between our extinction and the sun going boom a spacefaring species will find the evidence we left behind and will learn about our culture.

Even if everything is destroyed and nobody ever knows we existed, we DID exist and we know that we gave it a damn good run before it all ended. Maybe life will evolve on another planet, or already is/has and life will have a second shot at becoming a perminant aspect of the universe.

At least until all the suns burn out into black holes and the entire universe collapses into a mathematically infinitely small point within which everything is reduced into base subatomic particles from which the next in a long series of big bangs creates yet another new universe and we get to experience the entire process over again.

[etogre]

At least until all the suns burn out into black holes and the entire universe collapses into a mathematically infinitely small point within which everything is reduced into base subatomic particles from which the next in a long series of big bangs creates yet another new universe and we get to experience the entire process over again

Not to nitpick or anything but most modern physicists completely rule out the idea of a big bounce (the scenario you allude to). Basically, the second law of thermodynamics (entropy, what makes a bouncy ball not go as high on each successive bounce) means that eventually everything will cool down. It's purely hypothetical whether black holes explode, and one with all the mass of the universe would take an almost infinite amount of time (but hey, all we got is time in the cosmos). Black holes slowly evaporate matter into space leaving behind Hawking's radiation. Unless you disprove the law of conservation of energy, it's not possible for a big bounce.

Of course there's mixed theories on the subject, and science can be wrong. But good luck disproving established theories!

I make no claim to be an expert on the subject I heard it from world-famous physicist Michio Kaku on the science channel

[Demonaura]

the last bit was there purely for humor. Of all the theories it seemed to match since if it were correct it would give the sense of a pointless existence.


Of course, if it were correct we could create a super advanced science ship that could survive the event, and with the right technologies, the crew of that science ship would basically be god.

[Giff]

Eve online is more for serious gamers. WoW is mainly played, as I said ,becaue it's popular. It's often played by those who doesn't play so much games otherwise and think they're cool by playing WoW.

That game is overrated. Crappy graphics and is overful of irritating "fjortisar"= irrtating kids and teenagers who think they know everything and are generaly annoying.

Since Eve is so complex is it free from such irrtating unserious gamers and those of them who try to play it vanish after a short while becuase they are to stupid to understand it.

That's why "fjortisar" play WoW instead.