I met some of my now closest friends while playing WoW. I have since backed away because I realized how much of the rest of my life I was missing just to play one game, but I still love the game and think it is amazing.

I had a 60 human warlock and 53 undead priest before I quit.

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.