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This is the first of a series of entries on WoW.

"I will make the assertion that the most twitch aspect of the game is fishing. It requires a good sense of timing and dexterity, and it'll likely be the area of the game least impacted by grief players and network lag. It also provides food and money, which is always good."

Wednesday is always bagel day at work. As we filled up on coffee, bagels and shmear my co-workers and I started swapping insights and stories about Blizzard's upcoming Skinner box: World of Warcraft (WoW). A good chunk of my co-workers are ex-Blizzard, so we've seen the game at various stages of development. This leads to some interesting stories.

According to the Bartle Test, when playing these types of games, I am 80% Achiever, 53% Explorer, 46% Socializer, 20% Killier. I am what is known as a "Power Gamer" - a player who uses the knowledge of the game's dynamics in order to meet their goals quickly and efficiently. In WoW, I have come to realize that I play it no differently than how I played EQ or DAoC or any other MMOG.

For more ramblings about WoW, read on.

I thought I had posted about this earlier, but I guess not.


Things other people accomplished when they were your age.


My personal list (of somewhat geeky accomplishments) looks like this:

Age 9 - wrote my first computer program in BASIC. It really didn't do much except respond to the inputs given.
Age 10 - wrote my first book. I don't remember what it was called but it involved a squirrel and his forest friends.
Age 11 - wrote my second book. The book was entitled "Twenty-First Century Adventure" and featured the jetpack-wearing Jetlag Jack and his courageous sidekick saving the world from imminent destruction.
Age 14 - Places in the top 3 of a mall video game competition, wins tickets to Universal Studios Hollywood to compete in the Nintendo World Championships. At the Nintendo World Championships, becomes a Semi-Finalist for the Southern California Region.
Age 15 - Creates the Logo used for the newsletter Mac Facts
Age 16 - Starts a computer BBS, and programs his first freeware utilities.
Age 17 - Creates with 3 friends, Visionary Studios, a computer game company whose first game is a Tetris clone called BloxJack. Also wins an award for speech and debate in Academic Decathalon.
Age 18 - Graduates High School, and begins attending UC Berkeley with junior status in the College of Chemistry.
Age 19 - Wrote my first short stories.
Age 21 - Sets a new record for drinking mixed drinks at the Office of Residential Computing on his 21st birthday.
Age 22 - Graduates from UC Berkeley with a Bachelor of Arts in Environmental Sciences - Biology. Writes a thesis on Electricity Needs for the Future. Predicts problem of exisiting plants not supplying power. 4 years later, the prediction comes true with the California Energy Crisis.
Age 25 - Serves as Technical Producer for Diablo II, which goes on to sell several million copies worldwide.
Age 26 - Purchases his own car, a 2001 Toyota Celica GT-S. This same year, also begins tutoring elementary school students in reading.
Age 28 - Becomes one of the founding members of a new computer game company.

Have I lived up to my potential? Are my accomplishments enough to justify my existence?