I have been clean for!

MoquiaoMoquiao Join Date: 2003-05-09 Member: 16168Members
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<div class="IPBDescription">wie.</div>Ok, so i was first watching :

<a href="http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=-5327497459334792260&q=wow" target="_blank">http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=...92260&q=wow</a>

which is a video on the addictive qualities of wow.

then, i read up some things on wowdetox.com

long story short, my 13 hours+ a day of playing wow, are gone, ive had a friend change ALL my account passwords ( mine, my 2nd, my gf's, my friends that i knew passwords for) so i have 0 wow access.

its 17:21 as i type this, and by now usually i have played for around 5 hours.

so i need you to help meh! what can i do? link me some little flash games to entertain me till a REASONABLE time to sleep <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tounge.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":p" border="0" alt="tounge.gif" /> give me advice or w/e <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tounge.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":p" border="0" alt="tounge.gif" /> basically, im bored already. people who dont have anything constructive to say.. go die. thats all <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":)" border="0" alt="smile-fix.gif" />
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  • ThansalThansal The New Scum Join Date: 2002-08-22 Member: 1215Members, Constellation
    edited May 2007
    *some class please* --Comprox

    or:
    www.miniclip.com
    www.popcap.com
    www.wiicade.com
    www.animesuki.com
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  • XythXyth Avatar Join Date: 2003-11-04 Member: 22312Members
    It's always good to see another person escape the clutches of WoW.

    I'd reccomend going outside or something instead of just looking for flash games. You could go outside, or possibly read a book. Better yet, read a book <i>while</i> you are outside.
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  • OmegamanOmegaman Join Date: 2004-01-11 Member: 25239Members
    Mazel tov! <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":)" border="0" alt="smile-fix.gif" />
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  • TychoCelchuuuTychoCelchuuu Anememone Join Date: 2002-03-23 Member: 345Members
    I guess I'm in the minority when I say the quality of WoW was enough to make me quit of my own accord. I mean come on, at one point you're just grinding the same instances over and over to get better gear to do what? Grind some more instances over and over.
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  • puzlpuzl The Old Firm Join Date: 2003-02-26 Member: 14029Retired Developer, NS1 Playtester, Forum Moderators, Constellation
    <!--quoteo(post=1630041:date=May 30 2007, 05:32 PM:name=TychoCelchuuu)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(TychoCelchuuu @ May 30 2007, 05:32 PM) [snapback]1630041[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->
    I mean come on, at one point you're just grinding the same instances over and over to get better gear to do what? Grind some more instances over and over.
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    Bragging rights and pecking order within the guild are motivators for a lot of people. The pvp system is another motivatort too.
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  • TychoCelchuuuTychoCelchuuu Anememone Join Date: 2002-03-23 Member: 345Members
    <!--quoteo(post=1630046:date=May 30 2007, 09:40 AM:name=puzl)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(puzl @ May 30 2007, 09:40 AM) [snapback]1630046[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->
    Bragging rights and pecking order within the guild are motivators for a lot of people. The pvp system is another motivatort too.
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    Meh, I played with a bunch of friends from the NS community. Everyone was an officer (or nobody was, I can't remember) so it wasn't like rank was a big deal. And PVP was sort of fun, but if it's a choice between the moderately entertaining WoW PVP where I can only stay competetive by doing that boring PVE, or the highly entertaining PVP I get from every other multiplayer game (for which I do not have to pay monthly) I think I know what I'll choose.
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  • MoquiaoMoquiao Join Date: 2003-05-09 Member: 16168Members
    <!--quoteo(post=1630037:date=May 30 2007, 05:26 PM:name=Xyth)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Xyth @ May 30 2007, 05:26 PM) [snapback]1630037[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->
    It's always good to see another person escape the clutches of WoW.

    I'd reccomend going outside or something instead of just looking for flash games. You could go outside, or possibly read a book. Better yet, read a book <i>while</i> you are outside.
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    I will be outside as much as i can, but im healing from knee surgery, so tbh "sitting in" is what i DO have to do mostly atm xD

    ty for those links <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":D" border="0" alt="biggrin-fix.gif" /> will check them out <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":D" border="0" alt="biggrin-fix.gif" />
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  • ShzarShzar Join Date: 2003-09-21 Member: 21098Members, Constellation
    <a href="http://www.addictinggames.com" target="_blank">www.addictinggames.com</a> is the site I go to lots for when I'm dreadfully bored. I also think it's important to not let yourself get cabin fever. As Xyth suggested, go outside, take a stroll when you feel the urge to WoW well up within you. Resist!
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  • RoverRover blargh Join Date: 2003-09-23 Member: 21139Members
    <a href="http://www.i-am-bored.com/" target="_blank">http://www.i-am-bored.com/</a>

    + anime/manga
    + (re)play old single player games (including console games)
    + lurk /b/ moar
    + watch pr0n
    ...
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  • ThaldarinThaldarin Alonzi&#33; Join Date: 2003-07-15 Member: 18173Members, Constellation
    Get a girlfriend worked for me the first time round.

    Second time round I became more social. In particular, pubbing it alot helps.
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  • CoolCookieCooksCoolCookieCooks Pretty Girl Join Date: 2003-05-18 Member: 16446Members, NS1 Playtester, Contributor, Constellation
    Go outside, get drunk, buy a Wii. Thats what I did.
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  • X_StickmanX_Stickman Not good enough for a custom title. Join Date: 2003-04-15 Member: 15533Members, Constellation
    I played for 5 minutes..... then uninstalled it. It bored the pants off me.

    And WoW is the only Mp game, aside from Half life, that actually works through my uni's firewall.
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  • Sub_zer0Sub_zer0 Join Date: 2004-05-09 Member: 28569Members
    install ns again
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  • MoquiaoMoquiao Join Date: 2003-05-09 Member: 16168Members
    <!--quoteo(post=1630078:date=May 30 2007, 07:36 PM:name=Thaldarin)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Thaldarin @ May 30 2007, 07:36 PM) [snapback]1630078[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->
    Get a girlfriend worked for me the first time round.

    Second time round I became more social. In particular, pubbing it alot helps.
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    hehe, i have a gf, she is an avid player too <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tounge.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":p" border="0" alt="tounge.gif" /> she is quitting with me lol

    and as i said, my mobility isnt 100% cos of my knee, i can maybe go out wandering for 1 hour a day, then it hurts and i go back in <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tounge.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":p" border="0" alt="tounge.gif" /> im not being "lazy"

    and i tried to install NS but it wont work! (see help forums <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tounge.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":p" border="0" alt="tounge.gif" />)
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  • InsaneInsane Anomaly Join Date: 2002-05-13 Member: 605Members, Super Administrators, Forum Admins, NS1 Playtester, Forum Moderators, NS2 Developer, Constellation, NS2 Playtester, Squad Five Blue, NS2 Map Tester, Subnautica Developer, Pistachionauts, Future Perfect Developer
    My advice is to stay off the computer as much as possible and find other activities to engage in. By playing flash games instead of WoW, what you're mostly doing is filling up your time with similar activities; it's closer to finding a "replacement" than quitting. Otherwise you're spending all the time you would have been spending playing WoW playing flash games, which isn't nescessarily an improvement.

    Go down the pub for a while (gets you out of the house, but you can spend a few hours sitting down too, so it doesn't do your knee in too much), pick up a book or watch TV. Alternatively, start a new project of some description to take your mind right off it. If you avoid the computer during your WoW "peak times" you might find this all happens much faster and more smoothly.
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  • RuByRuBy Join Date: 2002-12-12 Member: 10732Members
    Exercise! After the first week of jogging or weight lifting it gets pretty addictive.

    Find a game you can't play more than 2 hours of. For me that's currently DoD:S.

    Find your creative outlet. Writing, drawing, whatever. It helps a lot for me.

    Read.
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  • TychoCelchuuuTychoCelchuuu Anememone Join Date: 2002-03-23 Member: 345Members
    <!--quoteo(post=1630148:date=May 30 2007, 04:29 PM:name=RuBy)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(RuBy @ May 30 2007, 04:29 PM) [snapback]1630148[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->
    Find a game you can't play more than 2 hours of. For me that's currently DoD:S.
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    Does it crash or something? Because that's how I used to limit my DoD:S playing. I'd get an hour or two tops before it goes BLARGH and gives up. I figured Valve was trying to tell me to do something worthwhile with my life.
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  • BlackMageBlackMage [citation needed] Join Date: 2003-06-18 Member: 17474Members, Constellation
    come play eve with us :p
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  • RuByRuBy Join Date: 2002-12-12 Member: 10732Members
    <!--quoteo(post=1630154:date=May 30 2007, 06:13 PM:name=TychoCelchuuu)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(TychoCelchuuu @ May 30 2007, 06:13 PM) [snapback]1630154[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->
    Does it crash or something? Because that's how I used to limit my DoD:S playing. I'd get an hour or two tops before it goes BLARGH and gives up. I figured Valve was trying to tell me to do something worthwhile with my life.
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    It doesn't crash but after about 2h I feel like WWII will never end. I guess I probably wouldn't be a very good soldier. Then again real soldiers probably didn't run down the same street 50 times in a row.
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  • TestamentTestament Join Date: 2002-11-02 Member: 4037Members
    It's funny because I just got totally bored and stopped playing one day. I don't get the point of "trying" to quit it. It's a ###### game.
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  • ThaldarinThaldarin Alonzi&#33; Join Date: 2003-07-15 Member: 18173Members, Constellation
    <!--quoteo(post=1630176:date=May 31 2007, 03:00 AM:name=Black_Mage)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Black_Mage @ May 31 2007, 03:00 AM) [snapback]1630176[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->
    come play eve with us <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tounge.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":p" border="0" alt="tounge.gif" />
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    He wanted his life back, not taken by another cruel and vicious entity! <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tounge.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":p" border="0" alt="tounge.gif" />
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