Rant #1,257,482.3

[smibbo]

Okay, it's not funny anymore. I'm talking about people saying the exact same freaking thing whenever the name "EverQuest" gets mentioned.

I'm not a fucking addict, okay? Trust me, if I was an addict, I'd never go out, I'd never sit down to dinner with my family, I'd never make social plans, and I'd sure as shiite never bother posting on LJ. The fact is, I DO go out, I DO spend lots of time with my family, I do get the housework and the finances done and I DO socialize! (all of which is more than I can say for SOME people who just love to toss that very serious accusation around lightly)

I'm not a fucking addict, get it? Neither are my roommates or my guildmates or anyone else I am fairly well acquainted with who play. I am not embarrassed to say that I'd rather stay home and play sometimes than go out and spend money I don't have. Then again, I often stay home and watch a rented movie instead. Sometimes I stay home because people are coming over to see me and my beloved. Sometimes I read a book. Sometimes I talk on the telephone. Or play music, or clean house, or work on a project, or read to the kids etc. Then again, sometimes we DO go out. Sometimes we spend all day out doing something fun for the whole family. In fact, we have been doing that every Saturday. We've gone on trips, been tubing down the 'hootch, gone to 6 flags and the zoo, and had picnics too.

Yeah, we do all those things IN ADDITION to playing on-line games occasionally. If I played half as much as people think I did, my character would be a LOT better and a LOT higher level. Trust me, I have met people in-game who do nothing but play. I know what they are like and it is a sad thing. That is not ME or my friends.

Engrave this into your skulls people: ENJOYING something does not make you an ADDICT.

I don't call you an alcoholic every time you mention liquor, I don't call you a raver if you mention going dancing, and I certainly won't call you a bookworm if you wanna tell me about your favorite tome.

QUIT CALLING US ADDICTS! IT'S NOT FUNNY

Comments

[holzman.livejournal.com]

Amusingly, I've tended to have a different thought when I hear someone plays EverQuest: As a Sony employee, let me be the first to thank you for all that money.

[not-hothead-yet.livejournal.com]

for $13 a month, yall sure provide lots of fun!

Thanks to you as welcome.

[danorsong.livejournal.com]

I think if you can update on LJ your not an EQ addict cause well. i've know two and it really bit. It got to the neglecting baby type level of addiction and it was so sad. SS got called because it was oh so neglectant.

[not-hothead-yet.livejournal.com]

y'see? I've heard of that level of addiction and that's what I think of when people call me "evercrack addict" - that's SO not me! (or anyone else in the house)

Thank you for understanding.

[aussie-nyc.livejournal.com]

Whenever someone mentions EverQuest to me, I think of Curt Schilling and mention him right back. I guess I'm addicted to sports references.

here's your chance

[not-hothead-yet.livejournal.com]

who the heck is Curt Schilling?
Enlighten me.

Re: here's your chance

[aussie-nyc.livejournal.com]

He's a pitcher for the Boston Red Sox (and several other teams before that). A very big star in baseball. Where most of those guys play sports video games when on the road, he logs in to play EverQuest instead.

[kellinator.livejournal.com]

Good post!!

[not-hothead-yet.livejournal.com]

Thanks.

Maybe not to EQ, but you are an addict.

[twr.livejournal.com]

Cass, I'm only saying this because I'm your friend. Call it an intervention, I guess. But you've got all the signs of addiction--you can't go more than a day or two without a fix. I don't think you could go a week clean no matter how hard you try. And when you don't get your fix soon enough, you're cranky and irritable--you're so addicted now that if you did manage to go a week without it, I think you'd start hallucinating.

But I want you to know I'm here for you. Now, I don't want to enable your addiction, but if you want to get that sleep monkey off your back, I'll do what I can to help.

I'm so glad to have a friend like you

[not-hothead-yet.livejournal.com]

what would I do without you?

[the-yellow-king.livejournal.com]

YOU are not an addict. I don't know who has been saying it, but they should be beat.
I know that I have never called ya'll addicts; I'll refer to it as crack, but last I checked I was playing a different brand of crack. :D
I've lived with an Evercrack addict. It was bad. It was also on DU. The guy COULD NOT quit. Lost his gf, lost his job, lost his car, and STILL COULD NOT QUIT.
You're not him. Never will be.
I may be addicted to RPG collecting and Jonathan may be a computer addict, but there is no Evercrack addiction in our house.