I suppose one could consider a hierarchy of hobbies since a hobby of teaching children to read after school is more useful to society than a WoW playing hobby, but beyond that, what people do with their spare time is really no one else’s business, as long as no one’s getting hurt.

One of my classmates has Blizzard shirt and a horde hoodie and he wears them fairly often. I’ll ask him if it’s a good conversation starter.

I have classmates that play WoW too and we talk about it sometimes, but we have reaaaaaally different takes on the game. They’re extremely casual (although I bet they know every 5 man instance way better than I ever will) so it makes for strange conversations.

I’ve often gotten into WoW conversations with my RL friends who play too. I’m not ashamed but I try really hard to not be that person who talks about nothing but WoW. Plus, I find I want to talk about guild stuff and WoW blogging, and they just want to talk about loot and minipets.

I’ve done that game a little bit with my classmates who play. I try not to talk about WoW too often though, since I don’t want to be known as the girl who just talks about WoW all the time.