These days, when my friends and I hang out, I pretty much just sit there on my laptop while they’re playing World of Warcraft. I’m pretty much exhausted browsing the internet or playing around on emulators, so I’m looking for suggestions as to what else I can do. And, no, I already tried playing WoW myself, and it doesn’t appeal to me in any way.
You mean gaming suggestions or your sick of gaming and want to pursue something else suggestions?
You and your friends could pick up paint ball or laser tag.
or you could you know start a book club or somthing.
Read! That’s what I do.
I’m looking for suggestions of things I can do on my laptop that don’t include porn. Flash games are fine, interesting sites, etc. I’ve read most of The Onion’s archives at this point.
BTW, I’m not sure how well I could play paintball or laser tag in my friends living room without disturbing their game of WoW… >_>
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Go to quizilla and take a whole bunch of those quiz things. They’re entertaining and you can find out things like what’s your favorite color and which sailor scout you would be! 
The obvious answer is to work on your shrine…
Play Wo-- er… Play FFXI
Play some online games that you havent tried yet, and i agree with lanyx FFXI, that is a fricken sweet game to play. I dont know of many PC online games, seeing how i dont play them often.
Play DRoD.
You could create a swarm of <a href="http://snowflakes.lookandfeel.com/
">Paper snowflakes</a> Or play all the weirdass flash games on newgrounds. Or play something like Tibia or Illarion… orrr~ just watch flash movies til you drop, play <a href=“http://abc.go.com/primetime/millionaire/funandgames/funandgames.html”>who wants to be a millionaire</a>, <a href=“http://createbands.com/”>make a rockband</a>, <a href=“http://www.google.com/search?q=bubble+wrap&start=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official”> play bubble wrap</a> … plentay!
What are the specs of your laptop?
Edit: Regardless of the specs you could try some of the games here : http://www.gametunnel.com/
I have to third reading. It really is a nice way to spend your time if you find a good book or magazine. If you want something more to do with your laptop, you can probably kill a lot of time playing Nethack.
Play Urban Dead. It’s a nice timesink for like, five minutes a day.
That’s Fighting Fantasy [the gamebooks], and not the FF we’re familiar with.
If you need a quiz to find it out, you’re either (color-)blind or in need of psychological assistance.
And come to Fortera. I’m currently living in Carlin.
Write. Daydream. Although, your probably well-versed in the last one if your making this topic due to your boredom.
You could read some fanfiction on the internet…or play some chess on the internet. Or look up black history, that’s a good one, for sure.
Play CS:S with me and some other people on a server where, if you suck, it doesn’t matter
Sorry, I’m monumentally bad at FPS games, to the point where I normally don’t even buy them. The only ones I even try are the drastically unrealistic ones, like Unreal and Quake.
Compaq Presario X6000 Custom:
Intel Pentium 4 3.2 GHz
1.25MB of DDR2 533 RAM
100GB 7200RPM HD
256MB ATI Radeon X600 Mobile
17" WSXGA Monitor w/ TrueBright
etc.
I would be playing Civ IV on it, but Civ IV’s bugs make my laptop freak out.
As for playing an MMO, I may not have made it clear, but I disagree with MMOs in general. I played FFXI for a while (until I was a lv25 whm/13 blm), and I tried WoW (until I was about lv9), and both games just bored the hell out of me. I can’t stand just random fucking quests with no driving force. They just throw you into a game with no path, no objective, and no ultimate goal. That just annoys the hell out of me. I can only take levelling and collecting equipment for so long, and I got most of that out of my system on Dreamcast w/ PSO.
As for reading, I don’t normally lug around books in my laptop case (most of my books are hardcover), so that’s not much of an option. When I’m at home, I read. I’ve been reading “The Age of Anxiety” by Haynes Johnson lately, and then I’m moving on to “The World is Flat” by Thomas L. Friedman, but, again, I’m having a bit of a hard time lugging those around w/ my laptop.
No offense to people, but most quizzes and things like that online are pretty lame. I’m pretty dead set against sites like Newgrounds and eBaum’s World. I’ve spent more than a few lunch breaks at work reading through Wikipedia for fun (looking up random topics from Yum! Foods to the Seven Great Wonders of the World), and I’m starting to get burned out on that.
I really just made this thread because I’m really sick of being the one person in a room of eight people that’s NOT playing WoW. I tried playing it on two seperate occasions, and it just doesn’t do anything for me. The concept of MMOs appeal to me, but in practice, they frustrate me more than anything. I hate having to wait for other people in order to do something I want to do (because it’s too hard or impossible to solo), and I hate even more becoming part of a “guild” or “linkshell” or something only to be bitched out when I couldn’t be online for a raid or instance or whatever. Video games are entertainment, and, thus, should be played when I want to play them, I shouldn’t have to form a commitment to the game that I must meet in order to excel.
Perhaps, in the future, they’ll make an MMO that’ll appeal to me. If one character, after enough effort, can become strong enough to do anything, but can still party with people to make things easier, then I’d be okay with that. If the game didn’t offer the same quests for every single person, but rather had set goals, and when those were completed by one group, they could never be completed again, only to have new goals listed daily (new dungeons, new bosses, new dillemmas to save damsels from), then I’d be really interested. But, as it is, with practically every MMO simply being a lesson in leveling and collecting armor, I’ll pass. If I wanted to do that, I’d just play Dragon Quest, and at least then there’d be a final goal that I could apply those levels and armor to.