my brother has been playing this more on than off the past..i dunno, 4 or 5 years, and i always considered it a bizzare, unhealthy passion thing of his. but after some of my other friends talking about it and a few lengthy discussions with my brother, i started. my friend warned me about it, and..to be honest..its ok. i understand why it can suck hours out of your life. for one thing it seems to take forever to get anywhere you need to go. and if you have friends on there, then its really like youre all just hanging out anyway. but i dont feel like my life changed or anything. i feel pretty normal. its fun, but not total life devotion fun. maybe thats just because i need to lvl..

I spotted a couple really good music videos people produced all the visuals for just by recording the World of WarCraft gameplay.

Here is another one – a kind of gothic WarCraft rock video

I finally broke down, after 2 years of avoiding it – and bought World of WarCraft a few nights ago.

This evening, I came across the WorldofWarcraft Crazy Christmas on YouTube so now I am in a rush to start playing it.

The user manual for the game is slightly daunting but I think I actually will read it before playing.

One thing that is helping me get acquainted with the game more quickly is watching the videos (screencasts, they are called) recorded from the game by people who like playing it.

One thing that is cool about WoW for programmers is that you can customize it using the Lua programming langauge and XML.

I may not keep playing this for a really long time but I think I will give it some serious attention this winter.