No, R-Tard! It's an MMORPG.

The New Season of South Park's begun. And what an opening episode! It totally rips on WoW addicts.
"We need someone with a World of Warcraft account so we can get this sword to them. Do you have an account?" Says the one Blizzard Exec.
"No. I have a life," is the other exec's answer.
Or: When they're discussing the insane yahoo that's killing everyone w/out asking for dueling permission. They talk about how good this guy is and how often he would've had to play the game to get so good their Admins can't boot them out.
"We're talking about someone with NO life."
"How do you kill that which has no life?"

ANYway--The episode is filled with excellent jokes. My sister watched it twice. The irony of this, of course, is that she's a WoW junkie herself. And she thought the episode "pwnd" to use the parlance. Naturally, this made her want to play the game even more as well as a renewed attempt at luring me in. She even offered to pay for my account. I've always liked RPG's. And if she's footing the bill, why the hell not? But I've never been as nuts about an RPG like most WoW players are.

"Butters, go out and buy World of Warcraft and join in the online gaming sensation so we don't kill you."

Suffice to say, I've been sucked in.

I have a male Troll Warrior named "Merridew". Some bastard already took Magua. On the alliance side, I've got a male Dwarf Rogue named "Fishbelly". So far, I must confess it's a relatively captivating game. But as I said, I've been an RPG fan for a long time now. My RPG-ing goes all the way back to Dragon Warrior on the Nintendo. The other biggie for me was Final Fantasy. 7 especially so. I even invested some money in the old-timey RPGs a couple years back.(Dungeons and Dragons with the book and dice.) And the game play in WoW is similar--in terms of leveling, picking up objects and learning spells/abilities. Mike tells me that there's a level ceiling and you can't really 'Beat the Game'. Here I thought I'd just piddle around and level myself up to invincible infinity. But they max out at 60. Bummer.

If Jim knew I was playing WoW--He'd shoot me, I'm sure. But he hasn't seen me go to town on Age of Empires yet. I finally got it installed on Miracle(my inhereted laptop), but need to crack to play it without the CD. But you know what? I've made up my mind that if it's OK for him to spend a day playing Zuma while I sit there, ready to fall asleep then I shouldn't feel guilty about playing AoE over here by the door while he's popping balls over at his machine.

Right?