Hands up if you've ever done household chores instead of playing a video game.

(I realise I'm talking to an imagined audience here, you don't actually have to raise your hands.)

/played

12 hours.

It doesn’t feel like that. Not even close.

It feels like I’m just at the beginning. It feels like I’m still in the tutorial stages. Technically I still am in the tutorial stage.

I’d have finished most AAA video games by now.

When I was 19 years old I lived in New York for three months. The largest city I had ever visited previously was Glasgow, population: 500,000. Tiny in comparison.

For the first week I wandered New York City with my head pinned to the sky, the back of my skull glued to the base of my neck. Complete awe. This place. The scale of it. The possibilities. It’s a miracle I didn’t get robbed.

I’ll never forget my last day in the city.

“You monster.”

I receive this tweet from a friend, literally seconds after logging off from a two hour session in World of Warcraft.

“Great,” I think. “What have I done now?”

Then it clicks. No. It couldn’t be. Surely not.

I think I am starting to enjoy World of Warcraft.

That was unexpected.