what on? being abducted by aliens?
what was it, Eastpak or Jansport?
first ones maybe 
Neither, it was Italian brand Invicta. They were hugely popular here, since we are so close to Italy. They had lots of different models with lots of colors, cool designs and they were super resistant. Eastpak came later, around 1998-99 I believe, and Jansport was never that popular here.
This one is mine, I think this model itâs from 1994:
I have a little collection of them, you can still find them new as warehouse funds on eBay. The new ones are no longer this cool, they look boring and bland. 90s forever!
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I speak from experience, trust me: This is not your fault. 
Most other MMOâs have copied WoWâs recent woes by including the same systems. They are all failing to be social for the exact same reasons.
You know itâs bad when the average strategy game, like HOMM3, Civ6, or StarCraft feels significantly more social than an MMORPG⌠but thatâs the case now with all of them.
My experience with early versions of WoW is that it was very good at getting you out of your shell and into a community. And I was in a shell, believe you me. My classmates were trying to kill me! That is no exaggeration, either. WoW was tremendously helpful in my development, which is why I am so fond of it and have such a hard time letting go.
But I am finding that, these days, this isnât really the case anymore. As a consequence Iâve just slowly ceased playing WoW. It still happens, but nothing like it used toâŚ
I have many friends who are on the spectrum though. WoW does not become unplayable with autism, it really doesnât. Iâm pretty sure of it, to put it mildly.
Iâm also a bit familiar with autism⌠kindda. In the nursery as a baby I told one of the adults I could count to 1 million. She told me to prove it, expecting Iâd stop at around 10 or 20 like most kids, but by the time I had been trailing her for almost half an hour getting into the late hundreds my parents were called in . I got tested for it but I donât have it, I just really liked math turns out.
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Knowing that no one is above anyone helped me. We all share the same planet. Weâre all floating around on a tiny rock in the middle of a gigantic galaxy with a trillion other planets. Once you realise that, humans in general seem so insignificant. Why would you a human make you anxious.
Thatâs how Iâve started thinking, and I have very little anxiety while gaming. In-fact, complete opposite. Iâll add anyone to battle.net these days and spark up a conversation. Whatâs the worst that can happen?
(Fiz here, I was hiding for a bit.)
Hah. They can become stalkery and not leave you alone and creep you out. I know, just block them, and I do but still shudder
I find as I get older I care less but it still emotionally affects me for a short time. I really donât like confrontation and it sends my anxiety off but I seem to recover a lot faster.
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terrible hider
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Thatâs definitely something that gets better and better with age. At least for me.
Iâve had to deal with some proper weirdos over the years. Especially when some of them know your gender they seem to think they can talk to you however they want. Also why Iâve taken a liking to playing more male characters.
That being said though, I simply do not put up with it anymore. Any sexist comments, or weird comments after I politely ask to stop is an instant report and block. It does give you a bit of a reputation of being a B, but if you were a guy, they wouldnât say anything.
They didnât care about how they made you feel with the disgusting, weird comments, so why should you care how they feel when you block and delete them for being weird. 
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Thought it was you! For some reason it just felt like it was you talking there. No idea why youâd hide but I hope everything is okay now.
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Well I wonât go into it but after a while I thought âScrew this I want to post on Nim and people to know itâs me! No hiding!â
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Yes this is the sad thing. You can be polite but firm and they just turn horrible on you but I am done people pleasing. Itâs a hard survival instinct to fight against and I certainly wouldnât be brave enough IRL. The people who know me and care, know I am not a horrid person. I sometimes think I should make a guy for the forums lol but no, I wonât let them win.
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I wouldnât want the game get ruined for others, just to suit my unhealthy mental state.
Blizzard, please make this game fun for the majority of people.
If you choose to be altruistic and burden yourself with suffering of others, there will be no end to this, as well as you could start suffering yourself.
If we canât have fun, then lets make sure others do.
By burning yourself, shine to others.
Yup! You can do it!
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yea, screw this ill go on this dude too. used to use this dude a lot here back in legion.
but on the old forum which explains why my post is like 2âŚ
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demi god like ideas anyone
It wasnt, it sure turned out to that but no way u can say that withouit being full of sht
What do you mean? Questing, professions, bunch of grinds, all of them ways to play the game solo. Thatâs much of what made the game as successful. Even if you didnât have friends to play with you could do so much. If you died, you didnât lose XP like the mmos of that day, you didnât need a group to kill enemies in the open world, thatâs basically the definition of playable solo.
Iâm still pretty much not an endgame person myself. Leveling is still an adventure in wow if you arenât using some addon telling you how to speedrun(but It should be harder!), the world has plenty of content(you can ask Tah to tell you all about it). They made it even more solo-friendly because they realised based on how the game started that thatâs what the players want. But you go off, friend. You sure know it all!
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I donât know if I actually am (some teachers at kindergarten told my mother I could have autism but both my parents refused to accept/check if I have it)
But a weird thing that I have is anxiety when I have a low amount of consumables, like I would always have with me 4 full stack of potion of speed even if a raid like ToC requires just 12. The same with arrows, I have stack of arrows that I kept in my bag and never used for the entirety of wotlk classic.
Issue for me is once the single player game is over thatâs it. If I really like a good game or book I really dislike having it end.
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