I’m over committed, sort of. But most of the commitment is in my head.
I dunno. Gymnastics is fun, but painful. Not sure where I want to go with that. Spanish would be cool. it’d be neat to actually see a language through to conversability for once. WoW is a time suck, but a net social one that beats the gay chat media establishments hands down. I’ve been neglecting lj lately, and it has been good to me in the past. Met some great people on here. Gym time would both extend my life and improve the quality of it. Plus, you know, rippled abs are hot (not that I’ll ever have them). A yoga class or the like would be good too. If I want to go anywhere with the environmental thing, I’m going to have to put time into keeping up with it. And for that matter, reading the news eats major quantities of time. It’s all just crazy.
(as an aside, I never ‘got’ why people put the “Not enough hours in the day” shtick on wedding invitations. It’s almost like saying “Well, my biological clock is ticking, so I guess this schmuck is the best I’m going to do”. Doesn’t fit with the rest of the flowery language, anyway.)
…Did you just compare WoW to a gay chat establishment?
I think I’ve been playing a different game than you have.
Check out the Stonewall Champions guild on Proudmoore. 400+ members, about 98% of them gay.
I only didn’t go back because they’re not caual enough for me.
I figured SWC and the taint would be larger than that, but what do I know? =) What is the limit on the number of characters in a guild?
Before I stopped playing, the last count had been some ~300 individual accounts, with 500+ toons guilded. This is SWC alone, I never played Horde-side.
There is no actual guild member limit set by Blizzard, but it was found that at around 500 toons the in-game guild list went all wonky, so they instituted a “One Main, One <60 Alt" rule.
I do not know if the guild list problem was fixed in TBC.
not casual enough? How so? =)
Guild Leaders were 95% focused on end-game content, and were becoming more and more elitist, climaxing at the creation of a separate, “serious raiders only” guild: Champions of Stonewall. When CoS was created and so limited, I didn’t have a problem. But when the announcement went out “No one’s going to BWL except those who are here for 75% (or something like that) of 40-man raids, because we need to finish Naxx before TBC is released”, I lost all faith in raiding with that guild.
Any other instances were pretty much “just shut up and do what we say, we’re doing this to get people geared up and we don’t want to spend any more time than necessary.”
General in-chat friendliness. At times I felt like I was intruding because I was talking randomly in /g.
I guess you could say the guild was just too large. And when a social network gets that large, it just isn’t as fun anymore.
My new guild is only around 100 toons, no limits on alts, every guild leader I’ve met has been uberfriendly, and people pretty much trip over each other to throw help at you. I even moved Zanir (60 main, iconified here) from Proudmoore to that server (Whisperwind) to join the guild as well.
They’re both massively multi-user online experiences, where one’s avatar/pictures may very well have nothing to do with the actual appearance/nature of the individual in person. =)
And they’ll both suck up as much time as I let them.