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May 18, 2005
World of Warcraft Therapy
So, I'm playing World of Warcraft these days. I'm a level 11 Night Elf named Settee, and we're trying to work up to creating a guild called "The Living Room" based on furniture -- the furniture naming convention was Chris's idea, the Living Room guild was mine. I need to chose a trade. I can chose between being an engineer (and make robotic chickens and stuff), or a leatherworker, or a tailor, or a blacksmith, or an alchamist or an enchanter.
What I really want to be is a therapist. I think it would be awesome if you could chose that. You'd have to train first to get your credentials. And the other players would have to use you because they'd have an added bar called (Pete's idea): "Angst" and when it got too low they'd have to get therapy.
Pete also pointed out it would be best if you could only counsel people that were the same level as you. And I thought maybe if a therapist of a higher level counseled someone of a lower level maybe they'd both end up WORSE off.
You could combine it with alchamy and make drugs for people,too. (I thought crack dealer would also be a good profession.)
You could do couples therepy for parties or guilds that aren't getting along.
And I was thinking you could even do real "e-therapy", since you have the chat windows. You could talk to people about their problems with their parents or wives, or even do couples therapy. Online thereapy seems to be fairly robust on the web, so massively multiplayer online game therapy just seems like the next logical step.
Shane and Arne were also thinking you could have a self-help series: "Taking Your Career From Level 1 to Level 60 in 2 weeks" etc. (with lovelife, weight loss, etc.), which would maybe be a book series using WoW as an analogy catered towards the WoW crowd, or maybe you'd do it within the game.
This is one of those things where I'm pretty sure it probably exists in this world of avatars and such -- there are references to avatar therapy, but I think there's more than one meaning of the word avatar.
I think I may go be a leatherworker. Either that or an engineer. Pete's being an engineer, but maybe we can have two. We've got a game date tonight -- Armoire, Settee, Ottoman, Chaise and Catafalque (what, you don't have a catafalque in your living room?).
Posted by mary at May 18, 2005 1:54 PM
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Can I play warcraft with you? I could be knicknack or something. Updated: I can't put my email address in this because it tells me it's a spam post. RAD!
Posted by: Lyza at May 18, 2005 2:27 PM
Yes! Please do! Knicknack is a great name, and it's about time we had something more than large overstuffed pieces in the room. Tchochkies (sp?) would be good, too -- can we name our pets? because if so I'm definitely naming my pet that. We're playing tonight at 8. Like I said, I'm only a wee level 11 -- but another way of looking at it is, I go all the way to 11.
yeah, the spam block thing kind of sucks but it's better than the alternative, that's fer sure.
Posted by: Mary at May 18, 2005 3:03 PM
I wanna be a shit shoveler at the Kentucky Derby. Any ironworkers out there? Maybe an alchemist would be even better.
Oh- your game needs unions, e.g., Shit Shovelers Local 591.
Posted by: Teem at May 19, 2005 10:43 AM
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