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Re:Stop Treating Marijuana Like Heroin by sago on Saturday August 13, 2016 @09:15AM (#12281342)
We used to say something similar about MUDs. Don't start, because you'll end up spending days and nights on a terminal in the basement of the library and your work/outside life/everything else will be put on hold.

Multiplayer games... the drug of nerd generation X?

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Re:Stop Treating Marijuana Like Heroin by koolba on Saturday August 13, 2016 @09:41AM (#12281457)
> We used to say something similar about MUDs. Don't start, because you'll end up spending days and nights on a terminal in the basement of the library and your work/outside life/everything else will be put on hold.

> Multiplayer games... the drug of nerd generation X?

MUDs, MUSHes, Doom, Quake, Starcraft, shit posting on Reddit, dropping knowledge bombs on HN[1] ... the venue changes but it's all the same waste of time. Not necessarily a bad thing either.

[1]: Feel free to swap HN and Reddit.

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Re:Stop Treating Marijuana Like Heroin by ZoF on Saturday August 13, 2016 @10:06AM (#12281548)
>MUDs, MUSHes, Doom, Quake, Starcraft, shit posting on Reddit

This is my progression as well :^)

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Re:Stop Treating Marijuana Like Heroin by koolba on Saturday August 13, 2016 @10:33AM (#12281644)
> This is my progression as well :^)

I never said that list was arbitrary or randomly generated :D

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