I playd WOW for about a year... I've always been a huge fan of Rpgs so Mmorpgs were a natural next step...
Honestly to me its the same as us old school players who used to play first person shooters offline (doom, wolfenstien, quake)... and now play on-line first person shooters.
I never let it consume my life and playd it less than Ive play counterstrike... Honestly though after a year I just got bored with it.
That's how a lot of things are... look at drugs and guns.
Some people can handle them... Some People can't.
the last guild I was in when I played had doctors, dentists and pollice officers in it. 90% of the ppl I met and were guilded up with back when I played were adults with kids and full time jobs. a lot of ppl just use wow as there escape. and it doens't take that much time 2 make an end game character and get gear.. they made wow really easy.
but as vlad said, it's about moderation and some ppl just aren't good at moderating shit in there lifes.
Maynard - The WCS Guy
direct result of the current and upcoming generations being brainwashed (in a way) by the media. MTV, Reality Shows, Shows featuring famous ppl that have no reason for being famous except being famous, and fashion magazines.
I'm sure that every generation has a felt this before. Could you imagine how the parents of the baby boomers felt when they realized they have spawned a massive amount of offsprings? The economy, housing and entertainment (free-time) were not ready for them. But a few people from the older generation along with a few from the baby boomers created the jobs, housing and entertainment for themselves. I stress the 'few' because they as a generation didn't each do something, it was the few who saw an opprotunity and did something. Most of it was money motivated, and that's not bad, and now we (americans) have a very advanced entertainment district (movies, tv, games), theme parks (not as popular as before) and plenty of housing. They probally felt that their generation was doomed, until they grew old and saw what they did and frowned on the next one. lol.
As far as doing nothing and not betterting themselves.... currently there apppears to be a lack of resourcefulness in the young adults. It's like most of the parent generations just did the minimum in raising their kids and didn't focus as much on preparing them to do things on their own, to go out and figure how to acheive something when they don't have the tools or education, how to rely on themselves. BUT this is obvious in all generations, not just this one.
It just seems like current and upcoming generations are worthless because the media portrays the current american lifestyle as "graduate highschool, move out, get a job/join military/college, party, and overall live on your own resources" when in reality it's "graduate High School, Join military/get loans and grants to go to college, don't move out of parents house because you can't afford housing because you can't find a job and overall depend on your parents for the next 10 years while you go in and out of college... and for those military types that don't go the full 20, get out, go home, can't find a job, live at home for the next 10 years....etc" [very generalized statements].
Understanding that your in the military, you find pride in what you're doing and accomplishing. Many other people find the same with what they're doing... even if it's just waking up on time to catch a show, class or work. While the kid lying about what he did is lame, I feel that you may be overgeneralizing the overall generation for what you as an individual has seen in other people, the media and through word of mouth.
Over all, you are justified in the way you feel because I feel the same way alot of times, but I still have faith in our generation and future ones. Also, the more dumb kids out there, the better the chances I can make a quick buck from them!!!!.