MMORPG = Crack Cocaine

It's been a year since my abandonment of EverQuest. I looked back a few times, and it was very difficult to do. Even today I miss my characters and the neat stuff they did. I still have entire maps memorized and I'm sure if I were to set foot in the game again, even after so long, it would be so familiar and cozy and warm that I would take to it and be readdicted.

What helped break the habit was being too busy to play, between work and school. Today I don't have work, and I'm on self-study mode for my various projects and becoming a more marketable programmer.

But it couldn't hold a candle to Ragnarok Online. One day, Base level 24, level 19 Mage. I started just before lunch, and before I know it it's 1:15 in the morning.

According to my star sign and my year of birth, I'm supposed to have an extremely addictive personality. Not addicitive in that people keep coming back for more, addictive as in my personality and tendancies skew towards drug and alcohol abuse. Of course, when that guide was written up, MMORPGs havn't been invented yet.

Drug free, and been dry for about two and a half weeks. And I was doing so well playing Magic yesterday. I was doing SO well.