The 12 levels of Immersion
 

"if the decent into total addiction was 12 steps, what # step is the step you take right before losing your job over Everquest?" – Iruinedyourday

An interesting question. I believe this is the progression one needs to follow in order to achieve total immersion. Please feel free to add your thoughts (Not you Caldabolg - you pathetic piece of sh!t).

1) Installing Project 1999
2) Reaching level 50 on your first character
3) Joining a raiding guild
4) Getting on the Batphone list
5) First time you call in sick for the sole purpose of socking a raid mob
6) Quickly leaving a real life social event to answer a Batphone summons
7) Playing more than 50 hours in a single week
8) Growing a neck beard because there is no need to shave since you don’t leave your house accept to go to work.
9) Getting fired from a job for EQ related work performance decline.
10) Getting divorced because your immersion level has hit 10 and your wife has started cheating on you because all you do now is not work and play EQ.
11) Losing custody of your children because EQ has total control of your soul
12) Stop playing P99 all together and focus solely on Forumquest meme’s and GIFs.

Heh.

Heh.

Who would you put at 12 at the moment?

s'ok to skip steps 2 through 11?

this should be on a total points scale. assign 1, 2, or 3 points per bullet depending on how sad each one is. if your total is < 6, you're okay! 7-12 is danger zone. 13-18 means you've given up on shaving your neck. 19+ means you mass-order socks on Amazon

You have gotta be a 12.

13) Abandon forumquest in favor of cosquest

http://pre10.deviantart.net/6918/th/...on-d6ddyun.jpg

*checks 1, 2, and 7...and that's it*

I'd put raiding and batphones much deeper in the list than a simple # hours played, but that's just me.

Calling Hasbinbad.