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My colleague, Lance Ulanoff, over at PCMag, posted an interesting link on Twitter a while back (you can find me on Twitter here) to an article dealing with MMORPG addiction.
It was sad and somewhat moving to read about one guy’s struggle with it. He lost his girlfriend, his job, and pretty much his life to [...]

There’s an old song called Turn! Turn! Turn! by the Byrds that comes from Ecclesiastes in the Bible. The song points out that there is a time and place for everything in life:
To everything (turn, turn, turn)
There is a season (turn, turn, turn)
And a time for every purpose, under heaven
A time to be born, a [...]

I’ve been playing World of Warcraft for about three years. In that time period, I’ve leveled the following characters:
Alliance:
* 70 Gnome warlock
* 70 Night Elf druid
* 61 Human mage
* 53 Gnome rogue
* 28 Human mage (twink)
* 34 Dwarf hunter
* 32 Dwarf priest
Horde:
* 62 Undead priest
* 13 Tauren druid
* 11 Undead mage
* 27 Troll hunter
I’ve seen [...]