# How to tell if you're playing World of Warcraft too much **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 16, 2005, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-tell-if-youre-playing-world-of-warcraft-too-much/294853 "2005-03-16T18:13:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Weirddave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/919ad9/32.png) [@Weirddave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Weirddave)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2005, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-tell-if-youre-playing-world-of-warcraft-too-much/294853/1 "2005-03-16T18:13:59Z")
I was watching an old Tom and Jerry cartoon, and Tom took a big bite out of a drumstick he picked up off of a platter. Immediately I thought: “Hmmm. Charred wolf meat, I know how to make that”. I’ve only been playing for 5 days! ---
**Author:** ![kellner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c2a13f/32.png) [@kellner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kellner)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2005, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-tell-if-youre-playing-world-of-warcraft-too-much/294853/2 "2005-03-16T18:59:20Z")
You notice that it’s 4 am. What bothers you most is that this means several hours of mindless killing and mining until you have a chance of finding a decent party for those elite quests. (The fact that all German players are from the same time zone makes this especially severe) ---
**Author:** ![Athena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/35a633/32.png) [@Athena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Athena)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2005, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-tell-if-youre-playing-world-of-warcraft-too-much/294853/3 "2005-03-16T19:11:00Z")
I was at the grocery store the other day, and noticed they had frozen squid in the freezer case. I thought to myself “Hmmm… I need frozen squid, don’t I? Wasn’t I going to make something with frozen squid? What recipe was that?” After a few minutes, I realized it was the Grilled Squid recipe I’d just purchased in WoW, and it was Winter Squid I’d been looking for, not frozen. I’m going to take a few days off from playing, I think. I guess it’s not all bad - at least I’m no longer trying to mez annoying people. ---
**Author:** ![Lightnin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lightnin/32/180_2.png) [@Lightnin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightnin)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2005, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-tell-if-youre-playing-world-of-warcraft-too-much/294853/4 "2005-03-16T19:19:16Z")
> [@Athena](#): > > I’m going to take a few days off from playing, I think. I guess it’s not all bad - at least I’m no longer trying to mez annoying people. You think you’ve got it bad? I just sapped one of my coworkers so I could speak to my boss for thirty seconds. ---
**Author:** ![Slacker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6bbea6/32.png) [@Slacker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slacker)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2005, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-tell-if-youre-playing-world-of-warcraft-too-much/294853/5 "2005-03-16T19:20:32Z")
ROFL. If only… 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Jayn\_Newell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Jayn\_Newell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jayn_Newell)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2005, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-tell-if-youre-playing-world-of-warcraft-too-much/294853/6 "2005-03-16T19:32:38Z")
When you close your eyes and see glittering corpses. Once I was playing when a friend came over who also plays. She said “Nice shirt.” “Yeah, thanks I made it myself.” “You did?” “Yeah, it’s a lesser adepts robe…oh, wait, you mean my real shirt. I bought it at Eclipse.” ---
**Author:** ![Kayeby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9de0a6/32.png) [@Kayeby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kayeby)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2005, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-tell-if-youre-playing-world-of-warcraft-too-much/294853/7 "2005-03-16T21:56:47Z")
My sister was standing at a bus stop in the city and thought to herself “I should just hearthstone home!” She actually started digging around in her bag for the stone before she realised and was deeply ashamed. ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2005, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-tell-if-youre-playing-world-of-warcraft-too-much/294853/8 "2005-03-16T23:02:15Z")
> [@kellner](#): > > You notice that it’s 4 am. What bothers you most is that this means several hours of mindless killing and mining until you have a chance of finding a decent party for those elite quests. (The fact that all German players are from the same time zone makes this especially severe) What hours do you play? If you can sneak onto an american server you can get parties at all hours=) I am on elune and am on at some of the darndest times, like 0600-0900 german time=) hm, names on elune - margali, aruvqan, bestrafung, erfrieren, kuscheliger, geamhreadh, and sonnenschein - all alliance=) ---
**Author:** ![tisiphone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@tisiphone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tisiphone)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2005, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-tell-if-youre-playing-world-of-warcraft-too-much/294853/9 "2005-03-17T17:28:34Z")
How 'bout when you find yourself looking for the cast times for Charm Spouse and Hibernate children? 😃 The answer is entirely too long…I think I have to respec. _mumbles_[sub]I am a hopeless geek, I bought the zboard with the WOW keyset two days ago…nothin’ worse than a recent convert, I guess[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Domokun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c77e96/32.png) [@Domokun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Domokun)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2005, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-tell-if-youre-playing-world-of-warcraft-too-much/294853/10 "2005-03-17T19:44:28Z")
…you greet friends with “Zug zug” or end conversations with “Keepitreal!”