I prefer to run, and I sustain an average of 8 minutes per mile in 5ks so I'm not an unfit slob. I don't run marathons though, I just run and swim for fun and exercise's sake.
I do all of this because it's fabulous stress relief, it's a great time-filler when I don't have the space/time to work (e.g. cooking/restaurants, boarding flights, random 5 minutes at places, right before bed), and WoW in particular enables me to spend time with friends no matter where they're located. I can do this in the first place because I don't do things many people do such as watching TV.
It's funny how people are incredibly judgmental about WoW but they find it incredibly impressive I read a lot of books and sustain reasonable times in runs. I find more rational reasons to play WoW (reasonably, that is, and not by ignoring people to do so) than to read. They're both hobbies. Take anything to an extreme and it's bad. But WoW overall is not as bad as the one off horror story you'll read about about parents ignoring their kids to raid.
http://us.battle.net/wow/en/character/nordrassil/Spink/advan... is my main WoW toon (already level capped for the current just-released expansion and raiding), with weeks of /played time.
http://www.goodreads.com/review/stats/2444699-jane is the last couple of years worth of books I've read. How many people do you know read 50+ books a year?
I prefer to run, and I sustain an average of 8 minutes per mile in 5ks so I'm not an unfit slob. I don't run marathons though, I just run and swim for fun and exercise's sake.
I do all of this because it's fabulous stress relief, it's a great time-filler when I don't have the space/time to work (e.g. cooking/restaurants, boarding flights, random 5 minutes at places, right before bed), and WoW in particular enables me to spend time with friends no matter where they're located. I can do this in the first place because I don't do things many people do such as watching TV.
It's funny how people are incredibly judgmental about WoW but they find it incredibly impressive I read a lot of books and sustain reasonable times in runs. I find more rational reasons to play WoW (reasonably, that is, and not by ignoring people to do so) than to read. They're both hobbies. Take anything to an extreme and it's bad. But WoW overall is not as bad as the one off horror story you'll read about about parents ignoring their kids to raid.