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Sir_Tainly 08-30-2001 06:10 AM

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci...00/1507296.stm

Hmm I was ok until the penultimate paragraph, then I thought-

Some people need to get out more!http://www.ironworksforum.com/ubb/no...miles/wink.gif

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AzureWolf 08-30-2001 06:21 AM

is this crap serious? Online therapy sessions?!?!?! Okay everyone if I become clinically depressed if NWN comes out a month late shoot me.....please.

http://www.ukobservers.net/cwm/games/poke/202a.gif

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"I was born of darkness. My fathers eyes closed before mine opened. I am not of this world or the other, and I have the right to be what I am..."

Epona 08-30-2001 06:24 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by AzureWolf:
is this crap serious? Online therapy sessions?!?!?! Okay everyone if I become clinically depressed if NWN comes out a month late shoot me.....please.

http://www.ukobservers.net/cwm/games/poke/202a.gif


Now, Azzie, you seem to be taking this rather badly. Perhaps it would do you some good to talk about your dark thoughts with a group of like-minded people. Just take a seat and share... http://www.ironworksforum.com/ubb/no...es/biggrin.gif

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Sir_Tainly 08-30-2001 06:25 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by AzureWolf:
is this crap serious? Online therapy sessions?!?!?! Okay everyone if I become clinically depressed if NWN comes out a month late shoot me.....please.

http://www.ukobservers.net/cwm/games/poke/202a.gif


Do we have to wait for NWN to shoot you http://www.ironworksforum.com/ubb/no...es/biggrin.gif

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AzureWolf 08-30-2001 06:34 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Epona:
Now, Azzie, you seem to be taking this rather badly. Perhaps it would do you some good to talk about your dark thoughts with a group of like-minded people. Just take a seat and share... http://www.ironworksforum.com/ubb/no...es/biggrin.gif


Share about my passion of world domination? Or maybe just maybe my plans to take over the world might be a delusion of grandeur? Na that couldnt be it.http://www.ironworksforum.com/ubb/no...es/biggrin.gif
And no you cant shoot me now Sir T! I have to go to Amsterdam first!http://www.ironworksforum.com/ubb/no...iles/smile.gif

http://www.ukobservers.net/cwm/games/poke/202a.gif

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"I was born of darkness. My fathers eyes closed before mine opened. I am not of this world or the other, and I have the right to be what I am..."

Sir_Tainly 08-30-2001 06:48 AM

this link was sent round the office (not by me) and has created a right stir between online gamers and some others who derride using a computer for anything other than progamming LOL. Who is sadder than who touch LOL http://www.ironworksforum.com/ubb/no...iles/smile.gif

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Tancred 08-30-2001 11:17 AM

Well, you know... I suppose you can at least understand online players... you spend all that time learning how to play UO, and then your character is born. You learn with him, you speak through him - he is, effectively, an extension of your personality, except he inhabits a universe that is a hell of a lot more interesting than this one. Slowly, you and he become closer and closer, as do the people you meet in that world. Your character meets new friends, and so through him you do too. Friends that you come to know and love, friends who will die to protect you, and vice versa. You begin to see your 'real' friends for the hypocritical creatures they are, and realise that life in a virtual world is so much more dramatic, so fulfilling than the one I live in real life. I become a part of an online family, enjoy life with some fantastic people and love some fantastic women. There are always dragons for me to slay, more heroics to win me more praise and gold. Everyone adores me, the hero, in that world. My companions stick by me through thick and thin; Minsc guarding my back, Imoen at my side and, holding my hand, the love of...

Erm.

Well, you get the idea.

Tancred

(embarrassment factor 9)

[This message has been edited by Tancred (edited 08-30-2001).]


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