I think for a lot of people -- when they discover computers and get obsessed -- it's just a phase... You'll get it out of your system eventually once the novelty of it wears off... ;) On the other hand some people are unstable -- they spend eternity in chatrooms and end up marrying a serial killer online.
Once I got hooked on Galicticom multiuser BBS's (actually I applied for a job there when I was 16 but they told me to come back when I was done w/ college -- I was hurt
-- their "FLASH ATTACK" game!!! wow FAST paced multiplayer gaming -- that was such a rush! Such an awesome game -- so much strategy involved -- and tricks you could do w/ macros to build customized defenses and attacks -- mine patterns, movement macros, and scripts you could write to calculate missle attacks -- and all in TEXT graphics on 9600 modems! I'd love to play it again...
Last time I visited my brother he was hooked on Quake tournaments. I was hooked on IRC a couple of years ago also -- I wrote a script for a sex robot that would seduce men all day while I was at school -- and then when they tried to talk dirty to my robot babe she would advertise my website... hehe...
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