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Distracted Gaming - What I Do During WoW Time
A few weeks ago WoW Insider did an article on a pair of users hooking up their treadmills to World of Warcraft. Yesterday they added to that piece with numerous stories from their readers about how they work out during their WoW playtime. Apparently a lot of players do the treadmill/walking thing while strolling around Azeroth with some losing 10, 20 even 100 pounds! The stories got me thinking. What the hell do I do when I play WoW? Growing up in the age of multi-tasking causes me to get bored with one thing quickly. Some would call that ADHD but I just consider it being efficient! Most of these things I do while just messing around in World of Warcraft or during downtime. However, there are many that I have done while raiding, for better or worse. Some of my more common WoW sidebars are:
- Browsing the web/checking e-mail/WoWHead etc (dual screen ftw).
- Writing/researching articles for my various websites.
- Drinking/eating.
- Working at my day job.
- Playing other games – I played Paper Mario (N64) start to finish during Molten Core downtime.
- Playing with my ferrets.
- Watch TV, movies and sports (especially the NFL).
- mIRCing.