Quote Originally Posted by abelardx View Post
OK So I tried Eve Online. Not very much but at least I now have some minimal experience with an mmorpg.

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It's cool. I can see how many people like it. Personally though I didn't care for it and I probably won't try any more. It's just too much like real life but without any real life payoff. I'm going back to learning programming, and I'm also really interested in bird watching, classical music, and most recently ballet. I should be spending all my non-poker time learning data analysis but tbh it's not that fascinating.
Yeah, I didn't want to completely piss on your dreams of finding solace in an MMO, but when it's all said and done, video games do seem like just a huge huge time sink with relatively no redeeming qualities...