Mazty said:
MGlBlaze said:
If you have never ran, you can't comment on it. I'm failing to see how you can actually make that more complex than it is.
If you have a disorder that causes difficulties in social understanding, how can you comment on the effect an action will have socially?
To use so many resources to get someone to level 85, the person must have been spending an absurd amount of time on WoW, helping reinforce negative sterotypes. Yes I played WoW. I quit when I realised it was extremely monotonous & unchallenging, and therefore boring.
Oh wow you are being rude. Nice to see that credible cherry on the top of your argument.
It's simple, really - some social reactions are rather predictable. Others aren't, but that has nothing to do with me having Asperger's Syndrome. Can the majority of people really say that they understand how any given individual acts or will act? For that matter there are many changes in societal perceptions all over the world, and some things one finds fine another would find unthinkable (The fact that so many Americans are opposed to public health care for some reason comes to mind, though I'm not sure on how that situation has developed).
It doesn't take much to know that a lot of people succumb to pressure from those around them if enough do it, and that many people buy into things they perceive as being reliable or having some authority. Why so many people can believe something an arbitrary celebrity says or the results of the Milgram experiment, for example.
Also, it's professions that require resources, not character levels.
How long ago was it that you played World of Warcraft, also? The further back you go the less accurate your assessments will be, not only because of changes to the game over time but also because ones own opinions can become polarised and inaccurate. If you stopped playing before Cataclysm then you should know that - based on what I have heard - the game mechanics have changed significantly. Also you yourself admit that you believe the game is monotonous, unchanging and boring which is fair enough, but you come across as being unable to accept that other people might find the game fun or relaxing in spite of the 'monotony', which is behaviour that can frequently be seen in various 'Hate-doms'. A significant number of people in fact, looking at how many people play WoW. They are no less entitled to their own opinions of the game than you are. The problem is that you appear to be holding your own opinion as fact.
Which offers one probable explanation for why you are so doggedly repeating how repetitive and boring it must have been and then drawing a conclusion from that in which there must be something wrong with the player - though it does not explain your apparent refusal to consider that the person did not waste a lot of time and let their own lives suffer during the course of it all.
How are you defining an 'absurd amount of time', anyway? As opposed to what? Are we talking a couple of hours a day? If so, that is far from absurd unless the individual has A LOT of other things going on, in which case they would probably be very stressed out individuals. Also, even at a little bit every day, you said yourself that it is only a matter of time. A person can spend several months worth of time on a game and still be considered healthy if the game entertains them and they spread it out over enough time.
Any chance you're going to offer an explanation for why you say this will reinforce negative stereotypes? Who's going to care about this news? Will this event even get into standard media?
