The Guy With A Life, as he will never cease to remind you, has A Life. He is engaged in gainful employment, and he'll never miss a chance to remind you of that. You will know if he has a significant other or kids, because he'll tell you that too.
The Guy With A Life, although he may have a pretty good career and material situation, lives a Life of unrequited passion and profound lack of self-determination. Despite his material success, and decent job, he has no real power. Most often, the Guy With A Life has poor powers of self-analysis and does not understand himself well nor what makes him tick. He is often a typical yuppie, superficial and stereotyped in tastes, manner, and outlook.
When the Guy With A Life sits down to play WoW, he sees himself as superior to others, because, don't forget, he Has A Life. But finding his will to power frustrated in his Life, in WoW, free from the fetters of his peers and polite society, he becomes a vicious little prick. He misses no chance to inconvenience, frustrate, or be high-handed towards others, just as he is the uncomplaining, pliant victim of such behavior in his Life. He will refuse to do anything that he is not obligated to do; he never misses a chance to not be generous, or to say, "No." In this sense, he is complement and quite similar to what would initially seem to be his inverse, the Guy With No Life. Their conduct in the game world is mutually driven by what they cannot find outside it.
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