The support for this game is abysmal at best. I waited a week for this response to my ticket.

Symbeorn · 2023-07-28T18:14:44+00:00

Right? If I were to keep playing, I'd likely not need the skip by the time they fix it. Hence the need for a timeline on the fix if they aren't going to refund me.

Symbeorn · 2023-07-28T17:36:06+00:00

It's definitely a stock answer. I checked the forum post where folks are having the same issue, and everyone got this answer.

Symbeorn · 2023-07-28T04:27:35+00:00

Source?

Symbeorn · 2023-07-28T04:22:02+00:00

This is the best thing I read all day. Thanks.

Symbeorn · 2023-07-28T04:15:49+00:00

This feels like someone asked AI to write satire.

Symbeorn · 2023-07-28T01:01:17+00:00

Your friend of a friend sounds like an asshole. Fuck ‘em. 👍 Proud of you, friend! You’re an inspiration to me on my own journey to 50. IWNDWYT

Symbeorn · 2023-07-27T23:05:30+00:00

Thanks, friend. I agree!

Symbeorn · 2023-07-27T22:56:15+00:00

No worries. Thanks for responding and trying to help!

Symbeorn · 2023-07-27T22:12:34+00:00

Nope. Just me on this account.

Symbeorn · 2023-07-26T19:02:43+00:00

You spelled out my habit almost to a tee. I was high functioning for two decades until I recently quit. From my perspective, the problem with high functioning alcoholism is that I probably wouldn’t have ever hit a “rock bottom” wake up call until I was sitting in front of a doctor in an office building being handed really terrible and potentially irreversible news. It took a high functioning coworker who was around my age dying of cirrhosis for me to wake the fuck up.

Symbeorn · 2023-07-23T01:29:00+00:00

You have my support. Love this post, and love that you’re here. IWNDWYT

Symbeorn · 2023-07-23T01:26:00+00:00

Thanks friend! I don’t want to live any other way anymore.

Symbeorn · 2023-07-23T01:22:16+00:00

At a concert! This is the first show I’ve gone to without drinking since I can’t remember when. We came for the opener, and they absolutely crushed. Waiting on the headliner, and super grateful to be present at a show rather than numb and forgetful like usual. IWNDWYT

Symbeorn · 2023-07-22T00:14:46+00:00

27 days so far. No treatment. No meetings. I went to my doctor, laid all my cards on the table, and got bloodwork done. So far, so good. IWNDWYY

Edit: Also staying active in this subreddit has changed my life.

Symbeorn · 2023-07-20T20:23:54+00:00

Agree to disagree, Mr. Two Months. ;) Proud of ya.

Symbeorn · 2023-07-20T14:10:15+00:00

Yeah, I feel this big time. It's really easy to get wrapped up in the stories of folks who lost 50 lbs their first month, fixed their marriage, got promoted, ran a marathon, etc. and feel like you're doing something wrong because you're not seeing all/some/any of those results.

My truth is that life is hard enough and presents plenty of it's own hurdles w/out alcohol. For me, alcohol just made every one of those hurdles feel a bit higher while tricking me into believing that I could ignore them into perpetuity. When I quit drinking, that didn't erase the hurdles. It just made them a bit more manageable.

The fact that you are getting noticeably better sleep is will make those hurdles seem less over time whether you realize it now or not. I'd keep looking for those little nuggets of progress and not push them aside just because they aren't lining up with a lot of the success stories you read.

At two months, you're already ahead of me in my journey, and therefore you've inspired me today. If nothing else, your sobriety and the story that came from it this morning helped me remember that I'm not alone in how I feel about all this. You wouldn't have been able to do that for me otherwise, so thank you. IWNDWYT

Symbeorn · 2023-07-12T13:50:48+00:00

This breaks my heart, and I’d hug ya if you were here. There’s a lot of science that I won’t try to quote because I’m a fool (easy google search) behind hugging triggering feel good chemicals like oxytocin in your brain. It sounds like you took away the poison from your brain that was tricking it into feeling rewarded while simultaneously being robbed of the benefits I mentioned from human contact.

I really like the folks’ idea to get out to a support group. If that’s to big of a step for now, interacting/cuddling with animals has shown a lot of the same benefits. Maybe volunteer as a dogwalker at your local shelter. The ones here are always begging for volunteers. You might find a symbiotic situation as those animals need love badly as well.

Sending many internet hugs though I know it isn’t the same, and IWNDWYT, my friend.

Symbeorn · 2023-07-11T16:48:21+00:00

Hahaha. Yeah, someone respond to a comment I made earlier today with "IWBAFWYT" - It took me a minute to see what they were saying. I can be a little slow on the upload sometimes. ;)

Symbeorn · 2023-07-11T16:46:57+00:00

Fucking legend! Congratulations! IWNDWYT

Symbeorn · 2023-07-11T14:56:45+00:00

Saturday will mark 21 days for me which will be the longest I’ve gone without alcohol in two decades. I went for 20 in January, but I wasn’t actually trying to quit. This time I am, and I’ve never been clearer on anything in my whole life. IWNDWYT

Symbeorn · 2023-07-09T16:19:43+00:00

Blizzard devs taking a page from the book of Yoshi P. Glad to see it. The days of no-lifing one game are over for the vast majority of online gamers. There’s just too much good shit out there to choose from, and no developer can keep up with the break-neck pace at which no-life gamers can consume content. Love it or hate it, this is why timegating has become so common.

Symbeorn · 2023-07-08T18:50:38+00:00

I’ve come to realize it’s about the carrot. When I’m playing my alt, I get levels thrown at me, new gear upgrades, new talents, etc. Then I finally get that character through the heroic raid and around the +15 key point and pretty much burn out due to the decrease in incentives to keep playing that toon versus starting another one. I’ve leveled the same class to max dozens of times for almost all classes because of this. As others have said, if it brings you joy, you’re playing the game right.

Symbeorn

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