>5th grade, 2000
>half the kids in my grade play EQ and talk about it constantly (rich ass school)
>finally convince parents to buy it for me
>make wood elf warrior
>dunno how to play
>put sword on cursor and wave mouse over "a bat"
>find out you press "a"
>kill wolf
>dad says "you just walk around and kill animals? yeah, you're not playing this piece of shit"
>uninstall
>cry
>play at friends houses/cyber cafe
>2014
>P1999
>kill every wolf i see
3 months after that he took me on a tour at some game company in his office building, turned out to be Verant. Dad says, "oh you guys make everquest? sean loved that game but i thought he was a little young to be walking around killing animals." i made eye contact with one of the coders with a look that said "god help me" and i could tell he empathized completely.
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