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Thursday, August 27, 2009

Rules for “the game”

So the Dearly Departed is going to spend several hours each day fighting rouge wars and conjuring up magical creatures or fishing or riding your new flying mount.  Fine.  However, they may not:

1) Monopolize the television remote control, and leave it stuck on a channel broadcasting some unknown sport in Spanish.  Clearly their focus is elsewhere – let the other people in the house enjoy themselves.

2) Complain when the remote control is commandeered from their desktop and the channel is changed to “Food Network Challenge - Amazing Disney Cakes”

3) Play “the game” in the family common area, and then get frustrated when the family invades “their” space.

4) String the LAN cable out into the family room directly in the walking path where tiny feet can step on it and trip over it so they can sit with the family while they play “the game” and not have to deal with the intermittent wireless connection.

5) Take “the game” too seriously.  Honestly, if they die in a raid or have to start an instance over – it is not the end of the world – and we should not be punished for their slow mouse finger.  We did not conjure that spell that killed their character – We didn’t throw that mace – and We certainly did not mean any harm against them whatsoever.  If their character wants to be in a bad mood, that’s fine – but their real life needs to be their normal cheery self.

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