WoW, this sucks and I'm pissed

A few of my friends have been trying to get me to play World of Warcraft (WoW), and yesterday I decided to go for it. I need something to amuse me during my freetime since there is no sex to be had for Erik. I was all excited to get to play with something new and fun, so after I got back from buying the game I immediately started installing it.

It took about two hours to install the game and load all of the patches needed to start playing. After taking that long to load, I had read up on most of the manual and was ready to dive in head first. I started the game up and almost immediately there are so many graphical distortions, I can barely see anything. The game then locks up my whole computer and I have to press reset to start it up again. At this point, the plastic on the monitor is blistering from the language coming out of my mouth.

So, after my computer reboots I try it again and once again the distortions creep in but this time I quit the program before it locks up my computer. I looked up the customer service website immediately. Basically, there is a 4 page document on the problem. Great. I go update all of my drivers, set up the configuration a bit different, and everything else it says. Nothing fixes the problem. I fire off an email to Blizzard's customer service department since the call center is closed for the weekend. Can you say enraged?

On the last page of the document on how to fix the problem, it mentions that overclocking and overheating can cause the same problem. My home computer has always ran warm, so I check this out. To keep this short, my graphics card was running at 95-105 degrees during normal use and 110-120 when running WoW. This is way higher than it should be. I started looking up ways to cool down my computer on the off-chance that it may help. Suddenly there is a loud pop from the computer and it's power turns off. I let the computer rest a bit and start it again. The fans come on, but no picture. My computer is fucked. FUCK!

Long story short, it looks like the fan on the graphics card that should've cooled it is broken. No clue on how long it's been broken since I haven't played many graphic intensive games on it since I bought it six months ago. The heat buildup might have just destroyed my whole computer. I'm writing this from my work laptop which is giving me carpal tunnel, a headache from eye strain, and a backache to boot. I can't do any of my favorite activities online, either. They require a better computer or they are things that would not be appropriate on a company owned computer. No porn, no chat, no games, no fun.

I need a life, ASAP. Know where I can find one?

Sidenote- Whoever tried to text message me on Monday at 4:29am CST, it didn't work. I got no number and no text. Since I was in ND at the time, I didn't get the message until I was almost out of the state on Wednesday. Hope to talk with you sometime.

Sidenote #2- I'm getting bombarded by anonymous commenting bots, so I'm turning that feature off. If I ever meet anyone who programs adbots like that, I'm cutting off their balls. I'm sorry for the annoyance everyone.