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Catdaddy33 · 09-09-2005, 09:15 AM

The fiance should be more involved, I mean she's the one that has to pick up his slack and letting him do it....

I had a friend that was addicted to an MMO. He had a good job as tech support in a call center environment, making good money and liked his job. He was playing during this time but wasn't bad yet. He had to go out on disability for surgery 4-6 weeks, and during this recovery he started withdrawling into the game. Conversations became difficult cause that was all he wanted to talk about.

Now hes a single guy and was all set to move into his own place before he had his surgery, in the meantime he was living in his Mom's basement. He somehow talked the Dr to extend his disability for another couple of weeks, during this time he was playing 16-18 hours a day noonish to 5-6 am every day. When those 2 weeks were up he called in and said he was going to be out longer...the Dr refused so he never filed the paperwork and was fired.

When I found out I went apeshit on the guy, he played it off and gave many excuses why he all the sudden hated his job. At that point, I cut ties with him, his other friends did the same. That was a couple years ago, and from what I've heard he's still unemployed living at home, gained a lot of weight, and playing on the PC. Thankfully, there are no children involved or I would have done more. If he doesn't want to help himself then I'm not going to scold him like a child.

I regret that I lost a friend, but if he can't see that losing all his "local" friends, his good job, and becoming the stereo-typical computer gaming geek living in your Mom's basement, that there's a problem, then maybe that's what he wants out of life. As long as his Mom lets it happen then it will..

09-09-2005, 09:15 AM	#15 (permalink)
Catdaddy33 Psycho Location: TN	The fiance should be more involved, I mean she's the one that has to pick up his slack and letting him do it.... I had a friend that was addicted to an MMO. He had a good job as tech support in a call center environment, making good money and liked his job. He was playing during this time but wasn't bad yet. He had to go out on disability for surgery 4-6 weeks, and during this recovery he started withdrawling into the game. Conversations became difficult cause that was all he wanted to talk about. Now hes a single guy and was all set to move into his own place before he had his surgery, in the meantime he was living in his Mom's basement. He somehow talked the Dr to extend his disability for another couple of weeks, during this time he was playing 16-18 hours a day noonish to 5-6 am every day. When those 2 weeks were up he called in and said he was going to be out longer...the Dr refused so he never filed the paperwork and was fired. When I found out I went apeshit on the guy, he played it off and gave many excuses why he all the sudden hated his job. At that point, I cut ties with him, his other friends did the same. That was a couple years ago, and from what I've heard he's still unemployed living at home, gained a lot of weight, and playing on the PC. Thankfully, there are no children involved or I would have done more. If he doesn't want to help himself then I'm not going to scold him like a child. I regret that I lost a friend, but if he can't see that losing all his "local" friends, his good job, and becoming the stereo-typical computer gaming geek living in your Mom's basement, that there's a problem, then maybe that's what he wants out of life. As long as his Mom lets it happen then it will..