Response to Pam's Response to my Oddity for this week, Week 5

Pam, thank you so much! One thing I've noticed about your comments here and on my workshop piece is that you have a wonderful way of seeing somewhat strange connections that could blow a small piece like this wide open to the more nuanced and reflective expansions we've been trying to work toward in class. I, of course, began with the game itself and moved slightly off-subject to the obsessive culture that has grown up around it, but had little idea of how to expand this further or add in a more nuanced "reflection." I never even thought about the implications surrounding why the company would include such a warning. Granted, I feel, knowing the game and the rampant jokes written into it, that the programmers are probably just being tongue-in-cheek here, but you bet that if someone tried to sue the company because they lost their job, and I've known such people (he lost his girlfriend too, but that's another story), because they played too much WoW, the company would use any means necessary to absolve itself of culpability, including this little quip. I think suggestions like this will be the most beneficial uses of this journal because, at least to me and in my writing, I can easily generate small posts, my problem is finding the connections that expand that piece and actually make it into an essay worth writing. Again, thank you so much!