If you are fortunate enough to have different categories of friends, my own experience is the same with certain drinks, it's best not to mix some or most of them (!).
I've been in that lie your ass off situation. Except instead of saying I had an upcoming raid, I lied and said I had porn to catch up on. I guess that's better in a way because everyone expects that single guys look at porn casually.
personally, i hate society and people in general and my "outside activities" involve:
walkin from house to truck, driving to work, walking to store, working, walking to truck, driving home, walking from truck to house..
then down into the basement command center that has been fortified and supplied for the impending zombie/nuclear/alien/EMP apocalypse that is coming.... soon.. trust me..
seriously it is..
i have no friends outside of my house that arent gamers, the only non gamers i associate with are my parents, and they live 15 miles away. since i only associate with gamers i dont have to worry about them showing up asking me to go "out" there since well, they are in their command center playing their games..
only way i would hear them knocking on the door is because the zombie/nuclear/alien/EMP apocalypse is happening and they want in my bunker..
course if they arent bringing weapons, food, or other supplies they already know they are SOL..
you just cant convert people into gamers now days cause most games suck. i convinced my friend to play APB with me and that game sucked so bad i dont think he'll play another game ever again. thanks APB
That article was excellent, gave me many laughs! I live in a small village full of Womans Institute, I avoid them all like the plague, my husband doesn't understand gaming either so I'm locked into a closet. I think it must be easier to be gay then be a gamer!
That article was excellent, gave me many laughs! I live in a small village full of Womans Institute, I avoid them all like the plague, my husband doesn't understand gaming either so I'm locked into a closet. I think it must be easier to be gay then be a gamer!
Not really. As long as you have other interests as well you can discuss them with your local people and talk gaming here with us instead.
The problm is if you only like gaming. But it is the same for anyone with just one interest no matter what it is, that tends to bore other people, particularly those who don't share it.
Gay isn't exactly an interest or a hobby. Of course if you live in a small minded fanitcal village being gamer and gay can both be social stigmas, a friend who spent a year in a small place in New England were considered a stanist since he was a gamer, that was 15 years ago and about pen and paper games but stuff like that probably happens still.
Close minded people always fear stuff they can't understand.
Lol, thank you for making me spew my morning coffee over my monitor!
A fun read, and yes, I'm one of those who lie, but only to my sister who freaked out over me not being able to fix her computer immediately once because I had a 20-man raid lined up and never let me hear the end of it.
My friends, gamers or not know me well enough for me to say "I have a game thing tonight" and not need to explain further.
My parents have seen me gaming since I was ten, so they just look on it as a hobby, and one that I've had for nigh-on thirty years. They're a lot more chilled about it now than they were when I ran up large (*cough*) Compuserve bills playing MUDs years ago.
Be very, very cautious in making use of option (1). It can go badly wrong. I managed to get a reluctant friend into WoW, which involved buying her vanilla+tbc. Fine I think, tiny expense. And it was cool to play, levelling my boring priest without having to actually do anything. Yay! Except . . . I quit in May. And she still plays, and wants me to come back (and I really don't) And the gifting of the game initially has set up a dangerous precedent - I'm kinda committed to buying expansions, game time or whatever every birthday and xmas (and cata is still expensive for my budget).
I guess maybe when I give in to the inevitable I might be able to get her to give me some gold . . .
Okay, this isn't only true with MMORPGs, but it's even more true with real-life RPGs, when you get together around a table -and I know this is archaic to many of you youngsters, but it's actually more fun than playing in a MMORPG- with a group of friends and go to kill Tolkien's Urukhai, in all their various forms.
What's worse is when two of your gamers get up from the table, as you're getting into the past-game's recap/introduction for the night, and they go to visit with friends who are 6 hours later than they said they would be there, and then go and talk to them, rather than brooming them in 5 or less and getting back to the game, for no less than forty-five minutes. I don't believe it's because the game was bad, but just a general rudeness. Anyway, it doesn't just happen with MMORPGs, but I think it's easier to convert someone to tabletop, hehe.
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This one hit home for me. When I used to live in the barracks back in my military days it was the worst. People would just come down the hallway and knock on your door. They'd hear you in there chatting with your raid guild on vent but still assume that since it's a video game you can just get up and leave at any time as if you're playing halo, madden, or super mario brothers because those are the only 3 games they've ever played or hear of in their lives.
Then they entice you with free beers and remind you about that fat girl that gave you a bj in the bathroom last week at the local nigh club and tell you she is probably gonna be out tonight. So then, because no amout of lying is going to save you from the real life guy knocking on your door and the slight chance that this week you can get more then a bj you end up lying to the people in your guild instead but with them you actually feel guilty about it unlike the so called real life friends. Then you log on the next day only to find out that some new guy with half the amount of points as you got the item you've been waiting months to get because you weren't there.
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If you are fortunate enough to have different categories of friends, my own experience is the same with certain drinks, it's best not to mix some or most of them (!).
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I've been in that lie your ass off situation. Except instead of saying I had an upcoming raid, I lied and said I had porn to catch up on. I guess that's better in a way because everyone expects that single guys look at porn casually.
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is that you?
personally, i hate society and people in general and my "outside activities" involve:
walkin from house to truck, driving to work, walking to store, working, walking to truck, driving home, walking from truck to house..
then down into the basement command center that has been fortified and supplied for the impending zombie/nuclear/alien/EMP apocalypse that is coming.... soon.. trust me..
seriously it is..
i have no friends outside of my house that arent gamers, the only non gamers i associate with are my parents, and they live 15 miles away. since i only associate with gamers i dont have to worry about them showing up asking me to go "out" there since well, they are in their command center playing their games..
only way i would hear them knocking on the door is because the zombie/nuclear/alien/EMP apocalypse is happening and they want in my bunker..
course if they arent bringing weapons, food, or other supplies they already know they are SOL..
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you just cant convert people into gamers now days cause most games suck. i convinced my friend to play APB with me and that game sucked so bad i dont think he'll play another game ever again. thanks APB
Yep, nailed it.
"Hey, do you want to go see a movie tomorrow night?" They'll ask nonchalantly, as if going out into society is a normal and acceptable thing."
Hahaha, nice one that. ^_^
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That article was excellent, gave me many laughs! I live in a small village full of Womans Institute, I avoid them all like the plague, my husband doesn't understand gaming either so I'm locked into a closet. I think it must be easier to be gay then be a gamer!
Not really. As long as you have other interests as well you can discuss them with your local people and talk gaming here with us instead.
The problm is if you only like gaming. But it is the same for anyone with just one interest no matter what it is, that tends to bore other people, particularly those who don't share it.
Gay isn't exactly an interest or a hobby. Of course if you live in a small minded fanitcal village being gamer and gay can both be social stigmas, a friend who spent a year in a small place in New England were considered a stanist since he was a gamer, that was 15 years ago and about pen and paper games but stuff like that probably happens still.
Close minded people always fear stuff they can't understand.
Lol, thank you for making me spew my morning coffee over my monitor!
A fun read, and yes, I'm one of those who lie, but only to my sister who freaked out over me not being able to fix her computer immediately once because I had a 20-man raid lined up and never let me hear the end of it.
My friends, gamers or not know me well enough for me to say "I have a game thing tonight" and not need to explain further.
My parents have seen me gaming since I was ten, so they just look on it as a hobby, and one that I've had for nigh-on thirty years. They're a lot more chilled about it now than they were when I ran up large (*cough*) Compuserve bills playing MUDs years ago.
I was hoping for some hints on how to dispose their bodies ...
after reading a couple of 1st sentences it seemed like nolife article so i didn't even bother to read it
Be very, very cautious in making use of option (1). It can go badly wrong. I managed to get a reluctant friend into WoW, which involved buying her vanilla+tbc. Fine I think, tiny expense. And it was cool to play, levelling my boring priest without having to actually do anything. Yay! Except . . . I quit in May. And she still plays, and wants me to come back (and I really don't) And the gifting of the game initially has set up a dangerous precedent - I'm kinda committed to buying expansions, game time or whatever every birthday and xmas (and cata is still expensive for my budget).
I guess maybe when I give in to the inevitable I might be able to get her to give me some gold . . .
Okay, this isn't only true with MMORPGs, but it's even more true with real-life RPGs, when you get together around a table -and I know this is archaic to many of you youngsters, but it's actually more fun than playing in a MMORPG- with a group of friends and go to kill Tolkien's Urukhai, in all their various forms.
What's worse is when two of your gamers get up from the table, as you're getting into the past-game's recap/introduction for the night, and they go to visit with friends who are 6 hours later than they said they would be there, and then go and talk to them, rather than brooming them in 5 or less and getting back to the game, for no less than forty-five minutes. I don't believe it's because the game was bad, but just a general rudeness. Anyway, it doesn't just happen with MMORPGs, but I think it's easier to convert someone to tabletop, hehe.
"The simple is the seal of the true and beauty is the splendor of truth" -Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
Authored 139 missions in Vendetta Online and 6 tracks in Distance
A non gaming freind? Have they lived under a rock since 1979?
Splendid artical ahha, alot off laughs here
This one hit home for me. When I used to live in the barracks back in my military days it was the worst. People would just come down the hallway and knock on your door. They'd hear you in there chatting with your raid guild on vent but still assume that since it's a video game you can just get up and leave at any time as if you're playing halo, madden, or super mario brothers because those are the only 3 games they've ever played or hear of in their lives.
Then they entice you with free beers and remind you about that fat girl that gave you a bj in the bathroom last week at the local nigh club and tell you she is probably gonna be out tonight. So then, because no amout of lying is going to save you from the real life guy knocking on your door and the slight chance that this week you can get more then a bj you end up lying to the people in your guild instead but with them you actually feel guilty about it unlike the so called real life friends. Then you log on the next day only to find out that some new guy with half the amount of points as you got the item you've been waiting months to get because you weren't there.
pretty much most of my friends are non-gaming friends. Actually most of the people I know are non-gaming people.
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Hanging out with friends is ALWAYS better than playing an MMO. I just play them when I'm alone and bored.
But gaming together with friends can be fun too.
Meh, if they don't accept me for who I am they can screw off imo. In other words, I don't ever feel the need to lie about my hobbys.
+1
lol brilliant article. Thanks for the laughs