Shadowfate, I to am an avid fantasy reader and started with those and Dungeons and Dragons. I also play Magic the Gathering.

Rhiannon, I'm not so bad as having a panic attack. I'm just not comfortable. It started way back at the beginning of school. You remember that little guy in the back of the class that read to much? That's me. You walk into school with a book like A Game of Thrones and you're in the eighth grade......or worse, read Romeo and Juliet and understand it before the class gets past the first act........You learn to avoid crowds and people you don't know.

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I played Magic too, but like D&D, I quit because of lack of players in my area (although my son and I get the decks out once in a while to pla, but he's more a Yu-gi-oh fan than Magic).



Sounds just like me, except for a couple of things: I wasn't small (chubby and tall as more like it), Game of Thrones wasn't out that long ago, and it wasn't Romeo and Juliet I was reading/understanding (it was Lord of the Rings, 2 years before I was supposed to reqad it for class).

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my understanding of second life is that its the barrens (hoarde reference) of WOW mostly social?

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To an extent Bama is right about WOW being a place where socially damaged people can be with other socially damaged people. I got into it because a friend of mine played, and his now fiance plays. It's where I met Bama in the first place. While there are those who take it to extremes there are also those of us who do it for social interaction (built in chat system) and it is a place where you're talking to like minded people and already have something in common. I don't go out much, because I'm not big into crowds. Especially if I don't know anyone there. If there is someone there I know I generally talk to them and only them. On WOW I only talk to those that I want to, I can ignore the "crowd" because it's in a little window in the bottom of the screen. I'm not forced to be social, but have the option. Add in the fact that you get to go around and kill stuff, do quests, there's professions, dungeons and you get a fairly addictive game. I could and would live without it if I had to, but I hold down my job, do stuff around the house, and still do other stuff besides the game so why should I? Also, imo, if your relationship is broken up by a game (any game not just WOW) I think that it had issues to start with. I could be wrong, I'm not very practiced with them.

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"BOY: On a hot summer night, would you offer your throat to the wolf with the red roses? GIRL: Will he offer me his mouth? BOY: Yes. GIRL: Will he offer me his teeth? BOY: Yes. GIRL: Will he offer me his jaws? BOY: Yes. GIRL: Will he offer me his hunger? BOY: Yes. GIRL: Again, will he offer me his hunger? BOY: Yes! GIRL: Yes. BOY: On a hot summer night, would you offer your throat to the wolf with the red roses? GIRL: Yes. BOY: I bet you say that to all the boys!" -Meatloaf

While I was dating the woman I was with for so long, I tried to use it to scrape her off on other players, we even went to texas because she was in love with some young guy there..... he never talked to her again lol. it was a way for me to spend time with her (questing, watching dungeon crawls etc) without having to deal with her. I liked it because I got to flirt with people (shocking, I know) and they really seemed to miss me when I wasnt on. I noticed before that sex is the only thing im all that good at and without interacting on a sexual level (even just innuendos flirty glances and touching) I have nothing to say. I dont feel comfortable offering my opinions on things out side of a sexual nature. I'm getting over it, I think.

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-Seems we got here just in the nick of time. Whats that make us?
--Big damn heros Sir.
-Ain't we just.

yeah second life is very social like life there are some bitches and jackass and some great people..

Lord snow understand what you mean as i have a panic attack condtion that wacks out when i go to partys and such.. I still force myself . About 10 or more years ago i was almost considered agrophobic. Took alot of work but i still have attacks

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I love the night
I love the element of danger and the ecstasy of flight,
I love the night
I love to dance with a stranger and to feel his delight,
And when the dancing is through, I kick off my shoes,
And I listen to the beating of his heart