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While making a blog round, I came across honorshammer‘s new post concerning his friends who don’t play WoW.  I have to admit, I was immediately thrown at just how close to home he hit with me.  I’d even go so far as to say after a discussion with Hafrot at the DFW WoW meetup, the post holds value to most WoW players.  We are all familiar with the term “warcrack”, and we have all read the articles or seen reports ripping gamers as so disconnected from reality they are willing to keep playing to the detriment of their own health.

Honorshammer’s post did a great job of highlighting the most important paradox of “normal people” who play WoW; is it just the stigma of warcrack or the title of ‘”gamer”?  I myself had the exact same twitter conversation with someone I work with, and was uncomfortable with the colliding of worlds.  I was able to finagle my way out of it with some comments about WoW tweets and geek speak, but in reality I’m just as likely to talk about WoW as I am the NFL, Iron Chef America, or Duke basketball, even if those other subjects are less frequent in my daily tweets.  The reason though is because I have a different network of people for those other subjects I enjoy.  My best friend is likely to call to talk about our survival football league; my little brother may want to talk blue devils.  As for Iron Chef, it’s like First Wives Club, The Other Sister, or any Diane Keaton movie post Annie Hall. I may thoroughly enjoy it, but it isn’t something I usually advertise.

Opposite the spectrum of  Honorshammer and I is Stompalina.  She is so comfortable with her two worlds colliding, she even commented on the podcast about mentioning both the site and her guild in a recent interview which resulted in her landing the job.  She is planning WoW meetups in DFW, and I am reluctantly attending.  In fact, if I weren’t a member of the Rawrcrew, I would have likely never attended the first meetup at all, even though in retrospect, I am glad I did.

I am left wondering what exactly are the mats for the Potion of Stompalina Cahones, and why in the world are so many of us uncomfortable taking a swig of it.  It’s not like we have any reason to be so timid when mixing WoW and our real lives.  I mean none of us are singing Leslie Gore songs when we think no one is looking right?

Time for an Ambien

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