Oh Og, kiddos! I’m starting to twitch and have been reduced to playing SOLITAIRE while we wait to connect my computer to Madondra’s (Her name is really Dondra, but I call her that as a nickname - or sometimes Shankapotumus main one.
We just spent three hours online with AT&T after adding their fastest DSL so that my toon (Wolkie) would move like he’s supposed to, and I can’t play on D’s computer because it a) doesn’t have enough virtual memory, and b) it doesn’t have the 3-D accelerator card (as I may have mentioned before?).
What we wanted to do was connect my gaming IBUY computer to her router and make it wireless, but as you may know, the folks at AT&T are not that knowledgeable, and after three hours just gave up.
I know I should have posted this elswhere, but I thought I’d get more sympathy here!
That is sad that AT&T couldn’t figure it out. They should know right away whether or not you have what it takes to do a particular setup.
It sounds like you just want to connect one computer to the router directly, and for one to use wifi. While that isn’t the optimal choice, it is doable. You would need two wifi enabled devices (one for each computer), and to enable Internet Connection Sharing on the computer directly connected to the router. If neither of the wifi devices is a wifi router, you’d be best of using an ad hoc connection to link the two computers.
I know this because, well, it’s what I used at home until one of my wifi cards blew.
As for being without Wow, uh, I lost Internet for just a few hours last night, and that bugged the crap out of me. To go 5 days without being able to do your favorite things online? Wow.
Have you seen the video of the kid freaking out when his mom cancels his WoW subscription? I’m 99% sure it’s scripted but the kid did a great job. It’s hilarious.
What we wound up doing temporarily, BigT was hook up my computer (with WoW on it) to my wife’s monitor, so I can at least play again, but my computer doesn’t have a wireless network adapter, so we’ll have to get one for it. The other alternative would be to get a 50 foot long ethernet cable…
Unless you (or someone else) has another solution?
Any time I have to go more than a day or two without logging in, I start to twitch. It once got so bad that I had to be carried to my desk while I chattered out my password between clenched teeth. They put my character on auto-follow and it took three hours of being dragged through Naxx before I could losen up to even eat some buff food.
I played that game for the first time ever last night, for a couple of hours. I really really wanted to get into it, because it looks so fun and I keep hearing people talking about it.
After a couple of hours: meh.
I found the controls too arcane and the gameplay too complicated. I wanted to kill those sixteen zombies, but I had to run around all over the place to find them, then they kept running away when I tried to engage them in combat, and I kept worrying that I was going to chase one so far that I’d forget where the high priest was…
I find this part curious. I kicked the habit about the time the Burning Crusade came out, mostly because I’d grown tired of the melodrama in my Guild. But I never found anything to really detract from the game itself. If I had the energy (and the SO’s permission) I would probably pick it up again and try to find a new guild, worst case it’d be a way to kill some time.
But most other people who quit seem to have turned completely off on it. The parts they’d gladly spend hours perfecting, suddenly became an obnoxious waste of time, even though they’d previously even enjoyed it. I mean, I can see minding if you were playing even the parts you didn’t like to participate in the parts that they did like. But these people genuinely enjoyed using an hour of the evening to kick back, do some herb-runs and chat on Teamspeak. But most of them don’t even show up on the TS channel, any more, though we know they’re still playing games, even if not WoW.
Well, you know, it’s really about achievement, isn’t it?
By that, I mean I have never seen the word Über (used correctly here, BTW) used so many times as in this game, and that word (although literally translated as “over” in German) denotes a “superior” attribute.
I play the game for achievement as well, even though, for me, it has other benefits.
I believe I once asked if playing this game might instill a sense of loyalty and/or confidence in our young people.
Is it “polarizing”?
Not for me.
For me it’s a way of remembering and making quick choices.
Also for me, it’s a way of “reaching out” and asking for help when I don’t understand something (as is evidenced by the number of questions I ask!:))
Also recently, I have joined a very friendly and helpful guild, and this has helped me not to compensate (“fake understanding something”) so much - as I do in real life.
So yeah, it’s addictive.
But for me, that’s just fine.
I love it in Azeroth, and I love whatever I experience in real life as well.
In other words, it has helped me!
Thanks and thanks to all of you for your patience!
