World of Warcraft is a game that should be classified as a drug. It might not be smoked, swallowed, or injected… but it’s symptoms are the exact same as an illegal drug. It is horribly addicting and is getting renowned for ruining lives.

The following are first-hand accounts of the devastation WoW has on it’s devoted players… all quotes are completely unedited and pulled from a number of online forum threads, discussing their experiences with WoW players. Posters and names are not included for anonymity.

I knew this guy in college that used to be really social. Had a hot girlfriend, lots of friends, was physically fit and looked decent.

He got WoW and within 6 months his girlfriend was gone. Started fucking his best friend who is also no longer his friend. Guy ended up gaining 30lbs and turned pale as a ghost. I went in his room and he had like 15 bottles of urine stacked up along his desk because he ‘couldnt leave the raid’

He had 20+ pizza boxes stacked up along the wall of his room. His room smelled like death. His sheets were stained brown from when he did sleep. he lost his job and flunked out of school. He lives at home with his parents now I think, I havent seen him in a year or so.

Im glad I never bought that game, cause I feel like I wouldve turned into something like the people in these stories. I never want to touch this game.

my MMO horror story:

…played for over 4 days straight, 103 hours.. was camping for a Ghoulsbane in Guk.. I only stopped after 103 hours because I fell out of my chair and passed out from exhustion .. spent the next 6 days in hospital .. still didn’t get the bloody sword.. a guildy gave me one off of one of their twinks..

my friends brother was married, had two children and a home and all that stuff.

he got hooked into wow and quit his job and stopped supporting his family.. his wife eventually left him and took the kids/house, he moved back in with his mother. the guy had met some girl in wow that lived 1000 miles away and actually disappeared to go meet her/live with her. fast forward a few months, my friend brings over his brothers computer asking if theres anything i can do to help find him. all they knew was he left to go meet a girl he met online.

well, i dug through the computer and found wow screenshots and chat logs of the girl and her name, and eventually found an address and we tracked him down.. but afaik it’s done no good, he’s still living with the girl he met in-game and has completely abandoned everything here. his ex-wife and children live with her mother i think.

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Amazon is usually known for reasonably priced books or CDs, but some of the other high-priced items they carry may surprise you.

I stumbled across this site recently which has a large list of any and all high-priced items on Amazon, but in this post I’m only highlighting the ones I found particularly interesting.

How would you like to own your own, personal space suit for only a million dollars? Of course, if you got that, you’d also need your own $10 million space ship. With those you can bring back a $1 million space rock paperweight… a great addition to any office!

Read the reviews on the space rock, they’re pretty good.

People say BMWs have expensive parts (I drive an M3), but at least I don’t drive a Civic! They have to pay almost $900,000 for an aftermarket exhaust.

And I know Amazon sells a lot of random things like some auto parts (above)… but a full auto parts store?

If your a chemistry geek, Amazon has a great deal on a magazine subscription… only $6,000 per issue!

And of course, for the lady…. Amazon sells a certified, 7.12 carot, half-million dollar diamond.

Digg That is an improved, more secure version of Digg This. It fixes a number of security holes and bugs, while adding additional functionality and stability.

If you’d like to first read a little background information on Digg That, please check out this post: Digg This Blog Security Vulnerabilities Found.

First of all, download the plugin source code here and place it in your wp-content/plugins/ directory. Then go to your control panel and activate it. Be sure if you’re running the unpatched “Digg This”, you deactivate that plugin completely. This version is an upgraded replacement.

Then modify your template files to add this line:
<?php digg_that(); ?>
on the index.php page right before the <?php endwhile; ?> line, and on the single.php page right before the <p class=”meta”> line.

Here are some additional options you can use with that hook

digg_that($begin, $end, $show_post2digg, $support);

The digg_that() function has four optional parameters:

$begin - Any HTML content to place before the Digg button, such as a div opening tag.
$end - Any HTML content to place after the Digg button, such as the </div> tag that $begin started.
$show_post2digg - A boolean option for showing a 32×32px Submit to Digg icon and link when a post isn’t dugg already. Notice it on my blog.
$support - A boolean option for showing a link back to Digg That’s homepage under your Digg button. It doesn’t show on undugg posts, but only the few ones that have a Digg article about them.

So for example, if you wanted to wrap your button in a CSS-enhanced DIV to only show on posts that are already dugg, but not show the little gray man if it’s not dugg (for example, if you have your own social bookmarking icons already on your site), it’d look like this:

<?php digg_that(”<div class=’diggblock’>”,”</div>”,false); ?>

And if you missed the link earlier to download the plugin source code, it’s here.

There are a number of things on the internet that suck- here’s my top 10:

10. Multi-color, rapid flashing banners congratulating me for being the millionth visitor. If I were really that lucky, I should start playing the lottery.

9. Popups piggy-backing on a link… I click the link to go somewhere, and while the page changes, an ad pops up in front of me. Site Point is an example sites that do of this. Actually, I think pop-ups in general describe number 9 best.

8. Chain emails. Email is not new anymore. Everyone uses it, and the novelty is wearing off. When will people learn that Bill Gates isn’t watching who they forward it to, and will not donate $1 to some armless, legless, kid with cancer living alone on the streets of Uganda by the name of Janji.

7. Trying to unsubscribe from an email advertising list you didn’t want to be on in the first place, and then have to send or confirm 30 additional emails during the removal process… later to find out you’re still getting the same spam, only now it’s coming from a different From address.

6. Having to sign up or register for every other website on the internet. When will they create one master login for everything? Google’s going in the right direction.

5. RIAA and MPAA. I’m tired of every other news article being about who they’re sueing, or how much money they’re losing now. Either get new techniques, or give up already. P2P will never die.

4. As a web developer myself, I can’t stand websites that break standards. If I view some site in Firefox on Ubuntu, it better look identical to IE on Windows (unless of course it’s IE that breaks the standards, ugh).

3. Broken links. Don’t you just hate it when you FINALLY find that perfect resource, and the links broken? Then on top of that, there’s no old cache of it? It’s just plain gone. Makes your heart sink, doesn’t it?

2. Slow loading websites. Like I mean sites that feel as if they were hosted on someone’s old 486, connected via their residential 56k dial-up. If you run a website, spend a few dollars and buy decent hosting.

1. Community-based websites that completely sell out. For example, MySpace has more advertisements crammed into every page than I would have previously thought possible.

The U.S. government is currently wrestling with the problem that they actually lose money every time they produce a penny. As the problem persists, it could end up costing a lot more.

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Go to Jet Blue’s website, select a destination then type pbj.

Instantly a clip from the Family Guy will appear and start playing.

It was probably made by some developer who thought no one would ever see it but him and his friends… yeah he just got fired, haha.

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Running late to work, change the lights to keep you from being late. Man uses device everyday for two years and gets $50 ticket when finally caught.

Also, here is a link with more information about MIRTs and how to build your own for $20 (which I don’t condone of course).

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Interesting story about what kind of cars billionaires drive. You’ll be surprised. Broken down Volvos? Old Lincolns? And of course the Porsches and Bentleys.

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I’ll type up a bio one day… really. 

For over 100 years Wrigley’s Gum has contended the benefits of chewing were “just plain common sense”, however now Wrigley’s has decided to launch a multi-million dollar, multi-year campaign to scientifically prove that chewing gum is indeed good for you. Wrigley’s has always been pushing the limits of traditional bubblegumhood, with their oral-care gum netting over $1.4 billion a year. However all new product launches have not been so successful; in 2003 they halted production on the flopped “Surpass”, an antacid gum. With studies focusing on stress and weight management, cognition, and focus, we’ll see just what Wrigley’s comes up with at the end of this campaign.