Posted by Bob Mackey
I don't play MMORPGs, mainly because living in the same house as an MMORPG victim was one hell of an eye-opening experience. My stepdad has been playing Everquest since 1999, and my greatest memory of his nearly decade-long addiction is the day I walked down into our basement and saw him watching TV on the couch while Everquest played silently on a nearby computer. Wondering why he wasn't glued to the keyboard, I asked why he abandoned his game. The answer: "I'm traveling." His character was sitting on a ship.
That was not the life for me.
For some inexplicable reason, I was tricked into signing up for the free trial of EVE Online a few summers ago, due to all of the absolutely crazy stories of mass warfare coming out of the guild affiliated with the Something Awful Forums. It only took me a few days to learn that EVE Online is more fun to hear about than to play; it's basically "I'm Traveling:" The Game. But perhaps I should let Zero Punctuation's Yahtzee explain my point in a much more entertaining way:
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About Bob Mackey
For a brief period of time I was Bull from TV's
Night Court, but some of you may know me from the humor column I wrote for Youngstown State University's The Jambar, Kent State University's The Stater, and Youngstown's alternative newspaper, The Walruss. I'm perhaps most well-known for my bi-weekly pieces on Something Awful. I've also blogged for Valley24.com and have written articles for EGM, 1UP, GameSpite and Cracked. For all of my writing over the years, I have made a total of twenty American dollars. It's also said that I draw cartoons, which people have described with words such as "legible." I kidnapped the Lindbergh Baby and am looking to do so again in the future.
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