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World of Warcraft

video · in 22 sources (2017–2020)

Includes: World of Warcraft: Shadowlands

Sources by year: 2017: 1 · 2018: 6 · 2019: 5 · 2020: 10

Threads

Also named in the threads: Ali promises to play World of Warcraft: Shadowlands and stream it on Twitch when it comes out in November (2020) · Ali streams on Twitch (2020)

Often together

What comes up in the same parts of the videos; the number is how many parts.

Twitch (3) · BMAT (4) · Facebook (2) · UKCAT (2) · Emmanuel College (2) · Cambridge (4) · United States (2) · University of Oxford (2) · 6med (2) · University of Cambridge (3)

What the videos say

The most important statements of each year; all statements.

2020

  • 2020-03-13 · The KEY Study Techniques for Exam Success — Ali: Now a doctor, YouTuber and business owner, Ali says that if one of these goes wrong he has the others to fall back on. — 00:43:26
  • 2020-03-24 · How to be More Productive in Lockdown — recommendation: Ali Abdaal (channel): Asked how Ali started learning the piano, the channel answers that he used random YouTube videos and the learn piano subreddit. — creator comment
    • In his third year of medical school, studying psychology with a lot of spare time, Ali was tempted to restart World of Warcraft, but asked what his future self would want and taught himself the piano from YouTube tutorials. — 00:00:58
  • 2020-04-17 · Answering your Questions — Ali wishes he had taken music more seriously and got better at music theory: he has played the piano for five years, since his third year of medical school, and can play chords and sing along but never learned to read music. — 00:22:17
  • 2020-04-26 · What Makes People Successful? — Hasan Kubba: Less money and status can give you a fire in your belly to succeed, Hasan Kubba says: well-off students he knew at university just played World of Warcraft with no motivation to get a job, so being born rich is not necessarily good. — 00:09:13
  • 2020-05-17 · My Productive Birthday in Lockdown - Day in the Life Vlog — Ali practises reading music on the piano by trying to play the Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone soundtrack. — 00:02:44
  • 2020-07-26 · The Surprising Benefits of Gaming — Ali says he has spent about 180 days of his life playing World of Warcraft and is thinking of getting back into it when the new expansion comes out. — 00:00:00
    • Ali cites a 2017 UK study of 708 players of massively multiplayer online games such as World of Warcraft and Fortnite: gamer identity related positively to self-esteem and social competence and negatively to loneliness. — 00:03:54
    • Ali plans to play the World of Warcraft expansion Shadowlands when it comes out in November 2020 and stream it on Twitch, and maybe occasionally on YouTube. — 00:04:53
  • 2020-10-04 · My BIGGEST Rejections in Life — Ali: In August 2007 Ali emailed Blizzard Entertainment for permission to use its content in a non-commercial browser game he wanted to look like World of Warcraft. — 00:02:44
  • 2020-10-14 · Revamping My Living Room - Day In The Life — Ali credits James with inspiring him to learn to play the piano. — 00:01:56
  • 2020-11-22 · My PRODUCTIVE Apartment Tour (2021) — Ali is learning songs from The Greatest Showman, teaching himself to read music, and now takes piano lessons to get better at the piano. — 00:15:36
  • …and 3 statements more in 2020 — all statements of 2020

2019

  • 2019-02-14 · Valentine’s Day Live Stream — Ali played World of Warcraft for about four years between 14 and 17, clocking 180 days of playtime, about three to four hours a day. — 00:25:18
    • Ali started learning the piano in his third year of university, when he had a piano in his room and was doing psychology, a very relaxed year. — 00:42:55
  • 2019-02-24 · How to study for exams - The Retrospective Revision Timetable — Ali: The first problem Ali had with a prospective revision timetable: it asks you to foresee which topics you will struggle with six weeks ahead, and when something came up, such as friends or a World of Warcraft raid, he did not follow it. — 00:01:34
  • 2019-03-30 · Monthly Favourites #7 - Ali Abdaal — Ali learned the piano by exploration, bashing out notes and playing by ear, and discovering music theory afterwards gave him a profound insight he thinks he would not have had by the traditional route. — 00:05:40
  • …and 1 statement more in 2019 — all statements of 2019

Also named in: Arrogance, Expectations & Inspiration - Personal Q&A with my Brother · Ali & Taimur Abdaal

2018

  • 2018-05-01 · First Live Hangout + Rapid-fire Q&A — Ali: At secondary school Ali was addicted to World of Warcraft, with about 180 days played in total over some three years, which he reckons at three-plus hours a day. — 00:32:04
  • 2018-05-07 · Live Q&A + Hangout - Bank Holiday vibes - Ali Abdaal, Cambridge medical student — Ali does not play games any more; he used to play World of Warcraft. — 00:33:47
  • 2018-05-29 · Live Stream - Hangout — Ali no longer plays video games: he once clocked about 180 days of playtime on World of Warcraft, but now thinks video games are a bit of a waste of time. — 00:10:29
    • At school Ali spent a lot of time learning to code and playing World of Warcraft; he wishes he had not played and had started music earlier, which would have benefited him more. — 00:14:21
  • 2018-06-12 · Live Stream - Tuesday Evening Hangout — Ali is learning to read music and some music theory: since taking up the piano he has mostly played by ear, and his playing is now well ahead of his reading. — 00:19:31
    • Unsure about video games in general, Ali thinks playing with friends you know in real life is really good: he made two close school friends, Chris and Omar, playing World of Warcraft together. — 00:21:23
  • 2018-08-03 · Life Advice - 50k subs Q&A — Ali: Like the basic attack in a role-playing game such as World of Warcraft, used when no other move is available, studying was Ali's default whenever nothing else was going on, so he always had something to do. — 00:02:48
  • 2018-10-01 · Is university worth it? The non-academic value of university — Ali says some students spend their unstructured university time playing video games such as World of Warcraft, Overwatch or Fortnite, which is fine, while others join societies and pick up new hobbies and skills. — 00:01:56
    • Ali suggests using gaps in the university timetable to learn skills: with a two-hour gap between lectures you might as well learn to play River Flows in You, to play it on the piano at Cambridge's Grand Arcade. — 00:02:53

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