May 6, 2015, 2:59 PM

Lots of people have weird hobbies. It's easy to isolate just what we do as being particularly crazy or hard to relate but I know people who collect trading cards (holy shit is that ever an expensive past-time), who follow soccer obsessively (and bet on games, with mixed results regarding the ROI), follow causes of the week from their couch ("fuck big business, man!") or what have you. They all sink a ton of time into those things, just like we do, and I'm not even talking about other kinds of gaming (MU* has nothing on WoW).

If there's something that sets us slightly apart from most is that MUSHing is a fringe interest at best - there just aren't as many people playing any more at least compared to other stuff. Since obviously our past time's waning popularity doesn't inflict on how we can get as easily caught up in our hobbies' trappings as anyone else can in theirs, but the damage is a hell of a lot more limited compared to financial ruin from buying too many Black Lotus cards or to getting to the hospital because the wrong team's fans saw you wearing the wrong colors, I'd still say we're better off than many.