The Windmills of Certainty

T his blog post is about my time in MMORPGs, particularly Lineage ][ and World of Warcraft. These two games are very similar, but also very different, due to the mechanics present in each game. I’ll start the half-sordid tale. I ’ve been on computers since I was 4 years old. My parents read some book that I cannot remember, but the advice given in the late 70s was to get your kid(s) on computers ASAP because they were the future. Few get predictions right, but this one was. My parents went and bought a Texas Instruments computer where I learned how to program in Turtle Geometry. I was programming little Turtle scripts to draw stars and other shapes in patterns. I also made a little game with my father who helped me build a Space Invaders type game. I also played a lot of arcade games in Eugene, OR which had a business where you pay for time and don’t need quarters. My father took me there about once a week for about 2 hours at a time, where time melted away while I was smashing butto