![]() ![]() So far as I could tell, all of my hardware was working as it should out of the box. ![]() I did a minimal install and was up and running with a basic system in about 30 minutes. I've messed with FreeBSD in the past, and have some degree of familiarity with it, so this time I wasn't going in blind. So, I threw FreeBSD on my IBM Thinkpad T20 the other day for shits and giggles. And here I was, thinking I was done with games entirely. Hopefully the honeymoon is almost over and I'll start playing less, but I'm already starting to feel the first symptoms of MMORPG addiction. I'm wondering if it's even possible for me to play this game reasonably, without sitting my ass down in front of the computer and pounding through 8-hour marathon sessions as I've been doing so far. I find myself being pulled into WoW the way I was originally pulled into EQ, only this time around the stupid annoyances that always drove me away from EQ are absent. At level 17 now, I am still gaining levels without even noticing it, and I'm just flat out enjoying almost everything about the game. Yet, even though I know what's happening, I just don't care. Of course, as the levels increase, I do start to feel the Skinner Box closing in around me - quests involve killing more monsters, levels take longer to complete, and you have to rest longer after tough battles. Now along comes WoW, the game that I always wanted EQ to be, and I find myself simply loving it - combat is fun and fast, quests are interesting and varied, and talents and skills are actually powerful against the monsters you're fighting. Very few games had even held my attention beyond a day or two, and I had begun to suspect I was done with gaming entirely. The rewards became more infrequent, the tasks more monotonous, until you were left just scratching your head asking why you were bothering - but you'd keep playing, because you just had to get that next level.Īfter leaving EQ, I simply hadn't encountered another game that had that kind of hold on me. You did repetitive tasks to get more power, over and over. What happens when it's actually fun inside the Skinner Box?ĮQ was, well, not very fun. ![]()
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