The Liz Wooly addictive test

[Dups.]

Although levels and severity of addiction vary greatly from one individual to another, it is quite possible that you’re addicted without knowing it. Ask yourself the following questions.

1. Would you rather log into your online game than spend time with friends in person?

2. Are the majority of your friends gamers as well, who mostly get together for LAN parties to play games such as Counterstrike, Unr eal Tournament, or Diablo?

3. Do you try to find ways of playing your online game when you're not at home?

4. Do you skip appointments, miss classes, or miss days of work because you're at a critical point in your online character's advancement or adventures?

5. Are you finding yourself flirting with those of the opposite sex in the game, to build a relationship, rather in person?

6. Do you deny addiction to an MMORPG, but somehow still feel the need to play, or just keep your character and possessions updated (you may be masking it by pretending you're having fun)?

7. Do you feel your heart racing as you control your character in a flee from danger? ...to save his or her virtual life? ...when stumbling upon some serious loot?

8. Do you feel a sudden rush of intense joy and relaxation after you safely manage to steal, pickpocket, or murder another character?

9. Do you experience stronger emotions while in your online game than you do in real life? (this is very dangerous)

Hopefully you answered no to most of the questions.

If most of these items apply to you, you may be addicted and in need of releasing yourself from the on-line game.

Some gamers can do this on their own, and some need the help of fellow gamers, friends, or family.

Some even manage to live on and still be an addict, barely maintaining a balance between their virtual world and the physical world.

If you feel at all unsure about your addiction, please visit our ezBoard forums and talk about it.

Listen to other gamers.

Learn more and find out if you really need help or if you’re just hanging somewhere in limbo.

I got this from her site she started because of her son and crap.
http://www.olganon.org/

They have a message board there if you want to have your opinion

Enjoy the test! No cheating now rofl

[Ebumar]

1, 2, 5, 9 = no

8 = BIG YES

the rest are yesses

[Zygar_ Cthulhukin]

No time to take quizzes! Must get back to EQ!

[Kilmoll the Sexy]

1. Would you rather log into your online game than spend time with friends in person?

------Depends on which friends and what they are wanting to do. I am not much for going over to just sit around and watch the damn TV screen.


2. Are the majority of your friends gamers as well, who mostly get together for LAN parties to play games such as Counterstrike, Unr eal Tournament, or Diablo?


------Most of my friends are gamers of one variety or another. Some are golf buddies. Some are teammates from paintball. Some happen to play computer games. Aren't friends usually your friends because of common interests? How fucking retarded is this question anyway?


3. Do you try to find ways of playing your online game when you're not at home?


-----Yes, I try to log in through my cell phone when I am driving you dumbass. I often hang out at Walmart hoping to try a demo. Have you ever noticed they have fucking console games at Walmart and every damn place that sells video games? Why don't you fucking cry at Nintendo for a while.



4. Do you skip appointments, miss classes, or miss days of work because you're at a critical point in your online character's advancement or adventures?


-----Yes and no. I miss days of work because working with idiots who can't operate a computer is stressfull. I often sit there mindlessly killing pixels because I am addicted to not killing real people. You better be the first to watch out if I break that addiction.



5. Are you finding yourself flirting with those of the opposite sex in the game, to build a relationship, rather in person?


-----I flirt with females every chance I get, whether in or out of game. I think we all know that we would much rather see real chicks than EQ chicks. But beware.....
Mangina trick you!
Make you think you are in love,
But you can't love cock.


6. Do you deny addiction to an MMORPG, but somehow still feel the need to play, or just keep your character and possessions updated (you may be masking it by pretending you're having fun)?

-----I do not deny a mild addiction to playing games. I happen to also be a fairly competitive person, so I do try and stay as competitive as I can when I am doing something. If I am not good at something, I don't do it.


7. Do you feel your heart racing as you control your character in a flee from danger? ...to save his or her virtual life? ...when stumbling upon some serious loot?


-----Absolutely. I would feel the same if I stumbled onto some hot pron too. And if I found something as insignificant as an arrowhead or other minor artifact. I also feel this when I have a pair of boobies brushing over my head from some seedy stripper.

8. Do you feel a sudden rush of intense joy and relaxation after you safely manage to steal, pickpocket, or murder another character?


------No. I only feel like this right before I have to clean up or kick her out.

9. Do you experience stronger emotions while in your online game than you do in real life? (this is very dangerous)


------No. I hate people as much in real life as I do in video games. Video game people don't make me late for work because they can't fucking drive if a car is broken down on the other goddamn side of the highway.



Some people just try to analyze shit way too much. Just fucking live your life and stop trying to regulate mine you clueless fucktards.

[Cotto]

"""""""1. We admitted we were powerless over on-line gaming, and that our lives have become unmanageable.

2. Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.

3. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.

4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.

5. Admitted to God, to ourselves and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.

6. Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.

7. Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.

8. Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.

9. Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure, them or others.

10. Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.

11. Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.

12. Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to other compulsive on-line gamers and to practice these principles in all our affairs.""""""


Well look who's name is randomly thrown in to the situation. Yes folks God. See him, the big man up there. Im sure he's really fucking worried about you playing a video game. I mean what else has he got on his mind? nothing, exactly, its all us heathen Video gamers tsk tsk, for shame

[Millie]

1. Would you rather log into your online game than spend time with friends in person?

-- Friends? In my line of work, we call them 'clients.'

"2. Are the majority of your friends gamers as well, who mostly get together for LAN parties to play games such as Counterstrike, Unr eal Tournament, or Diablo?"

-- D00d, my hom13z r 1337 cyb0r hax0rs. fuc en n00b, lololololol!!!1

"3. Do you try to find ways of playing your online game when you're not at home?"

-- Occasionally I'll be walking through a crowded intersection, and the EverQuest characters will 'come to life' and chase me around town. Usually this lasts until they get bored or if I'm quivering, in the middle of the sidewalk, covered in a protective "shell" of old boxes and newspapers. If you call this "finding a way to play" EQ when I'm not on the computer, then I guess I'm guilty as charged.

"4. Do you skip appointments, miss classes, or miss days of work because you're at a critical point in your online character's advancement or adventures?"

-- Can't talk right now. I'm at a critical point in my online character's advancement.

"5. Are you finding yourself flirting with those of the opposite sex in the game, to build a relationship, rather in person?"

-- 25,000 satisfied customers can't be wrong.

"6. Do you deny addiction to an MMORPG, but somehow still feel the need to play, or just keep your character and possessions updated (you may be masking it by pretending you're having fun)?"

-- I mask it by lying there with a bored expression on my face, waiting for Furor to be finished. I keep myself 'in the mood' by trying to picture Jared Leto naked. Oh wait, we're talking about EQ here?

"7. Do you feel your heart racing as you control your character in a flee from danger? ...to save his or her virtual life? ...when stumbling upon some serious loot?"

-- When I stumble upon some serious loot, I feel the need. The need for speed, baby. Which, incidentally, is why I twitch uncontrollably OMGIAMRETARDEDCAUSEALOTISTWOWORDS and don't get much sleep.

"8. Do you feel a sudden rush of intense joy and relaxation after you safely manage to steal, pickpocket, or murder another character?"

-- Steal? No. Pickpocket? Maybe. Murder? Now we're talking.

"9. Do you experience stronger emotions while in your online game than you do in real life? (this is very dangerous)"

-- That's right, Liz. I am dangerous.

[Cotto]

Careful there Millie, you might go on a rampage against everyone what with you being dangerous and all

[Cartalas]

I wish someone from CBS would of visited this board.

[Pubin]

I like flamevault better than EQ.

[Ulvian]

1.) No, half the time unless I'm already online and in the middle of a raid (exp groups get a 15 min notice, then peaze y0) I will opt for going out with my friends to do something rather than play EQ (and Thursday nights are my "Holy goth clubbing nights" Yes I play EQ and I listen to Goth/Heavy Metal...yes...it was I who sacrificed your pet kitten last week...sorry, the dark lord commanded me to do it...he wanted its BLOOD) (cbs is going to love THIS shit)

2.) Yes, and No, most of my friends do play online games, but we very very rarely ever get together just to play games, once in a blue moon we'll hit the local arcade...ill school some "Homey G's" in Soul Calibur and Tekken 4...hey my quarter usually yields 5-10 minutes of entartainment (More if the idiot decides to get violent over loosing 5 bucks to the need of kicking my ass on a fighting game, because then I get to play "Street Fighter X Turbo" with his dumb ass in the parking lot

3.) No, ill go on message boards, chat with some friends, thats about it. Ive played EQ away from home maybe 3-4 times in as many years

4.) Never, closest thing to that was when I needed to finish up my epic, and took 14 pain in the ass hours of sitting in KC waiting for VSR to pop back in the day. (my guild at the time was too busy farming seb exp to help anyone who didn't suck GM's cock with anything)

5.) Flirting...sometimes, to build a relationship...hmm thing is people aren't always themselves while online, as the anonymosity (sp?) makes their personal traits change. Ie: Ub3r Outspoken L007 700l Wh0r3 is actually a 12 year old named "Mandy" and his mommy is about to tell him to log off and eat his Alphabet Soup. Besides, goth girls are my personal favourite.

6.) Whats the point of playing a game such as Everquest other than to kill bigger shit, help your guildies get better gear, get higher level, and get better gear in the process...RP has been a lost cause in Everquest ever since SoV came out.

7.) Well, short answer: no. Long answer, I think everyone who plays, and for example is killing the last mob in their epic/uber quest, will get nervous during the process of doing so.

8.) Steal-No, Pickpocket-No, Murder- Yes...after they are murdered I perform a black mass, usually involves 1-3 cats going missing in the neighborhood, if I run low on Cats well, there's always puddles.

9.) No, I drink too much coffe IRL, smoke too many cigarettes, drink too much booze, and smoke too much pot on club nights

Ooo ooo Am I addicted?

[Animalor]

Hmm. Ya know.. That test kinda looks like Liz Woolley is screening for a replacement son more than trying to find addicted people.

"If you say yes to all of these I want to adopt you!!"