"Completely untrue?" Because you haven't witnessed it and have shitty friends? "Obviously embellished?" Right. Cuz who the hell on this planet lives in a house with a wife and kid? If I were going to embellish, I'd talk about how I usually play WoW with my girlfriend, Scarlett Johansson, when we're not flying…

I believe she fell in battle. That should help.

Diablo and Pac Man are indeed both awesome games, and I spent many many hours playing both of them years and decades (respectively) before I spent many many hours playing WoW.

Agreed on the Blood Elf starting area. I hear the Worgen beginning is pretty good, but I'm still playing off The Burning Crusade! Heh…

Aha. Thanks. I guess I'm not a real WoW loser-nerd. Sigh…

I'm writing these comments while completing epic quests involving ancient dragons and magic and other realms and sexy blue-skinned horned women… IN REAL LIFE!!!

Exactly. Thousand Needles was such a bore.

Well, at least that was reasonable.

But but but this one's cute and funny! Can we keep him?

I'm not sure how I'd feel about the changes if I had been playing consistently.

"115 Reasonable Discussions Are Occurring"
…and a couple awesome people are bitching about a game they don't play. Cuz that makes sense.

But if I sit in the living room of the 4-bedroom arts & crafts style house that I own and tap said keys for a couple hours before joining my wife in bed (or check in on my daughter), I'm okay?

Hmph.
I had basically given up on WoW, just got a little bored with the whole thing, until a friend of mine (who does NOT play WoW) kept emailing articles to me about how AWESOME!!! and AMAZING!!! Cataclysm was s'posed to be.

Read it and weep:
Catalogue:

Traveller was a particularly amazing one, I thought. I loved playing as a Vargr or Aslan. The huge, multi-galactic aspect of the game was incredible, almost overwhelming. And fun.

My thoughts as well (um, except for the LARPing…).

And characters had basically no life expetancy; making it past Red level armor & weapons didn't happen much. My first (and I think only) adventure ended with me killing both the other players, lying about how they died, and getting promoted! Loved it.

Aha! Call of Cthulu and Paranoia! THOSE were the ones I forgot! Cthulu was so dark, so hopeless. Characters had Sanity Points which they would inevitably lose as the game progressed by encountering unspeakably horrible monsters and learning unmentionable truths ("Mankind is alone in the universe!"). I loved it. …

Good call re: race!

Nicely done
I didn't really want to add to the long list of "Oh yeah, D&D shaped my childhood too!"s, but I feel compelled… I don't remember exactly when my older brother got me started with D&D - I was probably in 2nd or 3rd grade. Over the years, he DM'd adventures for my characters for countless hours, and D&D…