Not that long ago, I heard a supposedly true story about something that happened in South Korea. Apparently, a young man died while playing World of Warcraft… for 36 hours straight. I’m not quite sure if he ate or used the bathroom, but obviously he did not sleep. This man has set the archetype for dim-witted gamers, and is a disgrace to Koreans across the world. I personally have never played World of Warcraft before, and I don’t ever wish to either; I’d rather not get addicted to something that doesn’t even make me high.

What is the true purpose of these games? We accomplish nothing by gaming except for wasting our lies and making ourselves stupid. People think these games are fun and entertainment, when they’re actually mere repetitive tasks done over and over again, with a bonus of animated graphics. To "train" or "level up," you must complete the same task hundreds, thousands, or even millions of times.

A few days ago, I remembered a game that I was a beta tester for. AdventureQuest Worlds is a multiplayer game written using Flash, by Artix Entertainment, the makers of BattleOn, DragonFable, and MechQuest. I went back to AdventureQuest Worlds and logged in, to find that the game was no longer in beta testing mode, but now public. I had gotten myself to Level 2 while the beta testing period was effective, and when I logged in, my profile was transferred over as-is to the public version. I clicked around for a little while and killed some monsters, training my account up manually to Level 3. While I was training, I met another guy training in the same spot, and we talked for a little while. We added each other to our Friends Lists, and he left.

I then realized that each time I clicked and waited, I was doing the same thing over and over, just like any other role-playing game with monster fighting. I concluded that it was pointless, and was about to log out and do something else.

ALL OF A SUDDEN I REMEMBERED THAT THE GAME WAS WRITTEN IN FLASH.

USING MY ULTIMATE PACKET TRANSFER SNIFFING AND SOCKET IDENTIFICATION SKILLS, I SPAMMED THE ADVENTUREQUEST WORLDS SERVER WITH THOUSANDS OF DATA PACKAGES THAT MADE IT SEEM LIKE I WAS FIGHTING THE MONSTER OVER AND OVER AND OVER AGAIN WHEN I WAS JUST SITTING HERE!

WITHIN MINUTES, ADVENTUREQUEST WORLDS THOUGHT I DEFEATED HUNDREDS UPON HUNDREDS OF ENEMIES AND AWARDED ME WITH THOUSANDS OF GOLD AND EXPERIENCE!

I went from Level 3 to Level 20, the level cap, in one day. I maxed out my gold capacity of 1 million. Later that evening, I came across the same guy again that I had met earlier that morning. He saw me, and asked in disbelief, "Are you the same guy as the one I met this morning?" With my affirmative response, he "…" for a while, then said "wtfhax?!"

As clearly described, the only ultimate goal in gaming is to reach the level cap, the gold cap, or whatever maximum there is to your character. What people spend months completing, I was able to finish in one day with some background knowledge on Flash and a good internet connection. Is it really worth it when there’s people out there like me, completing the same tasks in less than a fraction of the time? I guess there’s only thing you can say… "wtfhax?!"