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I quit my job to play more World of Warcraft for the summer in high school. I went back to the same job, only to quit when Oblivion came out. I was a kid in high school with no bills other than car insurance and gas, so I horded money away and spent as little as possible. I was able to support 2-3 months off for each month I worked. I did telemarketing for $9/hr, back when minimum wage was around $5/hr, so for a high school kid I was doing alright. Priorities.
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I wrote multiple essays about games and gaming during middle school and high school. More or less any time we were allowed to pick our own topic for a project it was gaming related somehow. My 8th grade English teacher happened to also be a huge gaming nerd as well, so it worked out well for that year grade wise at least.
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I spent over 3,000 hours playing Counter-Strike: Source, joined a team and came 5th in a league called Enemydown when it was big (200+ teams), I then left for a better team and once they broke up I joined a griefing group called GoronCity, my social life is still dead to this day because I spent so much of my teenage years on Counter-Strike: Source.
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Ohhai posted:I spent over 3,000 hours playing Counter-Strike: Source, joined a team and came 5th in a league called Enemydown when it was big (200+ teams), I then left for a better team and once they broke up I joined a griefing group called GoronCity, my social life is still dead to this day because I spent so much of my teenage years on Counter-Strike: Source. I basically did this to myself my freshmen/sophomore/junior year of high school right after WoW came out. Ugh. I wised up senior year and poo poo has gotten better, but man....so embarrassing.
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I kept multiple laminated copies of the most up-to-date Final Fantasy XI skill chain charts on my desk all through my second year of college.
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I cried at the end of a Donald Duck comic a few years back. Completely justified in my eyes.  It was Don Rosa's "Letter From Home" and everyone who reads DD here in Finland absolutely love Don Rosa. People have gotten married because of his comics.
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I used to play Dungeons and Dragons and my friends and I made up somatic components for all the spells, so when we cast a spell in the game we had to bust out some moves in real life. I had to write about the characters in a book for high school, I copied the character sheets from Dragonlance Adventures word for word.
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Jesus Christ I'm so happy I never once touched an MMO, let alone something like WoW. On the other hand, I still collect these: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loeb_Classical_Library One time my friends and I tried to play D&D, back in high school. I think I was the DM, though we knew gently caress all about the rules. Anyways, I had a story involving the elves starting a Marxist revolution in Cliche Fantasyland and completely overturning centuries of feudalism and magic. It really didn't go anywhere from there, and we never talked about it again. Foyes36 fucked around with this message at 00:06 on Nov 25, 2012 |
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Nov 25, 2012 00:04
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Pfirti86 posted:Jesus Christ I'm so happy I never once touched an MMO, let alone something like WoW. Didn't Marx say that capitalism was a prerequisite for the degree of class consciousness that would enable a full socialist revolution? Otherwise your elves would have overturned feudalism and created something more like capitalism.
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Chamale posted:Didn't Marx say that capitalism was a prerequisite for the degree of class consciousness that would enable a full socialist revolution? Otherwise your elves would have overturned feudalism and created something more like capitalism. Well they could have always created something like the Leninist USSR  , or Maoist China .
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The premise is preposterous anyway because in any Cliche Fantasyland the elves have all the privilege: long lives of leisure, magical power, ancient and well-entrenched civilizations (you don't get more "old money" than elves). They'd never be the ones to start the revolution.
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But what about dark elves
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Dark elves are dependent on other elves to provide free waybread, treehomes-- you name it. They just cannot take care of themselves.
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Terper posted:I cried at the end of a Donald Duck comic a few years back. Same, but Carl Barks' "Back to the Klondike". I always knew Scrooge had a heart of gold.
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I showed up to a date after watching my team lose a big football game and I was still half lit but didn't want to break it off. Then I talked to her about football for most of the time, and there was football playing on the TVs and I watched that a lot through a lot of awkward silences, talking to her about blitz packages. This wasn't even that long ago. Why can't I find a Canadian girl that's as stupidly into American sports as I am? Oh well. Gotta be you.
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I've had an SA account since 2005. I was in middle school in 2005.
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cumsitter posted:Dark elves are dependent on other elves to provide free waybread, treehomes-- you name it. They just cannot take care of themselves. Halflings are the natural revolutionaries of the fantasy universe. If only they could free themselves of the bucolic false consciousness in which they are trapped. [edit] Come on, no one else ever played a "Demagogue" character in Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay? How could you not be tempted to lead a uprising of midget revolutionaries! Ain't no-one going to alienate my second breakfast! [edit edit] So many memories of excellent characters and events: the halfling who insisted he was a Dwarven Berserker and went on a quest to get a bottle of piss from an elven virgin so he could permanently dye his hair orange...the Cyberpunk 2020 Russian ex-Special Forces underground boxer with two bionic arms who would tear his shoulder blades apart every time he rolled a double perfect...the day the gamesmaster realised that none of the characters had ever eaten anything and we spent two hours making dice roles to see who could get to the phone, order a pizza and then shoot the door open...the time I accidentally described a Sabbat vampire lord as having a pet with the head of a woman and the body of a basset hound (I never had a dog when I was young)...the time we had a bet to see who had enough Celerity to take the hubcaps off a moving car. I miss roleplaying. GuestBob fucked around with this message at 04:53 on Nov 25, 2012 |
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The first letters I ever wrote, at age six, were not addressed to Santa, or my parents, or anyone else in my family. The first two letters I ever wrote were to Reagan and Gorbachev. I wrote them asking them to stop the cold war and to destroy their nuclear weapons. I didn't live in the US at the time, so my father mailed them to the respective embassies. And only the Soviets replied.
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joepinetree posted:The first letters I ever wrote, at age six, were not addressed to Santa, or my parents, or anyone else in my family. The first two letters I ever wrote were to Reagan and Gorbachev. I wrote them asking them to stop the cold war and to destroy their nuclear weapons. Well you weren't alone! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samantha_Smith
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ghetto wormhole posted:Well you weren't alone! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samantha_Smith I don't know if I should be happy or sad that I wasn't as eloquent as her (or, alternatively, that there was no interest in publishing a letter from a boy from Brazil). All I got was a copy of Sputnik: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sputnik_(magazine)
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Terper posted:I cried at the end of a Donald Duck comic a few years back. poo poo, I was a massive fan of Barks and Rosa when I was a kid but I haven't read this story. I just did some googling and it turns out that to fully appreciate it you first have to read parts of Rosa's The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck (1995) as well as “The Old Castle’s Secret” by Carl Barks (1948), “The Fablulous Philosopher’s Stone”, by Carl Barks (1954), “Tralla-La” by Carl Barks (1955), “The Lost Crown of Genghis Khan” by Carl Barks (1956), “Return to Xanadu” by Don Rosa (1991) and “The Crown of the Crusader Kings” by Don Rosa (2005). I think I've got about half of those squirreled away somewhere but it'll take a while to scrounge up the rest ...
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I pissed away the majority of my teenage years playing Garry's Mod RP and World of Warcraft. It was fun at the time but in hindsight it's loving appalling how many video games I played, the opportunities wasted.
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-Used to draw anime characters all the time -Continue to chat, to this day, in an IRC channel which branched off from a Diablo II forum. Have met upwards of ten people from this channel over at least five or six separate occasions, most of which involved inter-state travel. -Was absolutely loving obsessed with the game Wild ARMS as a kid. My mom got sick of me playing through it over and over all goddamn day and moved the Playstation into the attic above the garage. I would still bundle up in the winter with my hat and gloves and jacket and stuff to go out there and play. -Had multiple screaming matches with my brother over Diablo II (mostly about who got to use the better family computer), one of which ended with him punching a hole in his wall. It was actually largely thanks to D2 that I had no social life whatsoever in high school. I ended up breaking a keyboard and sobbing and giving away my accounts after I hit level 99 with my first character and got hacked in the same day. -Was in Games Club at school and had a crush on one of the other members specifically because he was good at DDR. -Had a Xanga which I regularly updated. -Had several screennames with "Raistlin" in them. I thought he was just wonderful and if he was real we would undoubtedly fall in love.
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Angelina Jolie was pretty much begging me to impregnate her for a while. At one point she even offered $25,000 dollars if I would do "it" with her without a condom on. I turned her down because I was working on a Fast and the Furious fan-fiction at the time, and I really wanted to finish it before the 3rd movie came out. I hear she's married now, so that ship has sailed. Oh the perils of geekdom...
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During sophomore or junior year in high school I took a college composition course. For our final project we had to do some kind of research project about anything we liked. I can't remeber the specifics of the project, but I remeber asking if we could just turn in a short story. I asked because the previous semester I took creative writing and I already had a 200+ page Sailor Moon/Resident Evil fanfic done that I had written during my previous summer vacation. On an electric typewritter  . I spent the last month and a half of that class loving around on Lycos and mud-connector in the library. I got an A on the project with my lovely creative writing fanfic. In a college composition class. I have no idea how that happened. The teacher even asked if she could submit the story to some budding creative writer society, which was strange considering my creative writing teacher gave me a C on the story.
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I used to know the theme songs and jingles to all the cartoons and commercials during my childhood. People at school would pick one I would dutifully sing it out for them. In my mind at the time, they were marvelling at my amazing ability, and I really thought I was impressing everyone. I also have a stark memory of a particular day when I was singing the theme to Teenager Mutant Ninja Turtles. I was right in the middle of it when I suddenly realized that people were getting me to sing this stuff because they were making fun of me. I also completely blew my first chance at sexing with a lady in high school. These two girls from another school had seen me in some stuff me and my friends had filmed for film class. They thought I was cool and funny as poo poo, and they were genuinely chomping at the bit to meet me. My friend had even mentioned one of them was thought I was hot and was looking for some baseball-analogy action. So the first time I get to meet them, they seem super interested to meet me. It literally all fell apart as soon as I opened my mouth though. Anytime I went to speak I was just saying the dumbest, most inane poo poo that both of them would furrow their brows over. In the span of about six hours I went from two girls being super into me, to both of them looking to ditch my rear end the first chance they got.
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I used to pass up on sleep to get more video game time in and just spam alarms in the morning to run on 5 hours of sleep, and in waking hours (mostly at night) was pursued by a shadow in the shape of a large dog/wolf from 2003-2007.
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I tried to impress the girl I liked in middle school by showing her my new deck of Magic, it didn't work.
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sloppy appleasause posted:I play Magic: The Gathering This weekend, an American goon placed in the top 64 of a Grand Prix Magic: The Gathering tournament in Taipei, Taiwan. Just playing Magic isn't nearly enough for this thread.
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I endured labor pains so I could finish my Skyrim quest. Twelve days between game release and baby release wasn't enough, damnit.
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My college entrance essay was on someone I admired. I picked Captain America.
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My World of Warcraft /played time is in the neighborhood of 305 days. I started playing in '06, took two separate 12 month breaks (trips to the sandbox), started raiding in Burning Crusade, ran two guilds during Wrath of the Lich King, and killed Heroic Madness of Deathwing during Cataclysm. My subscription ran out yesterday and I've made almost no real progress in the game since Mists of Pandaria was released. Oh, I also dabbled in arenas and rated battlegrounds during Cataclysm because the raiding was so abysmally bad. I think I capped out near the 1700 mark for 3s in around a month, starting in full PVE gear, and 1500-ish doing RBG PuGs. But wait, there's more! Before I started playing WoW I was severely addicted to Counterstrike (And a few other HL mods.) I was a regular at the Realityslap servers for the better part of a couple years, if anybody ever played there. Their forums went down a long time ago, though, and the community scattered to the four winds. Kinda sad, actually. I would say I was over all an above average player but definitely not league material. I'd have my streaks though, and on a good day people would accuse me of hacking. That didn't happen terribly often, though. Hand in hand with the Half-Life/CS addiction, were regular LAN parties. I still miss those days but I was definitely socially inept, even in a group of relatively geeky folk. Before CS/HL was Diablo 1, Diablo 2, and Starcraft. I spent an absurd amount of time on the Internet from '96 - '05 I also dabbled in DnD and found that to be legitimately enjoyable, although I never got to finish any serious campaigns. I would have liked to but I don't think anybody I knew had the attention span for that sort of thing. I've also played a few games of Paranoia, which while vaguely similar (Pen and paper, dice rolling) to DnD, has completely different feel to it. It's pretty comical and I recommend it to any dice rolling folk out there who've never tried it. Friend computer will protect us all from the commie mutant traitors. I also spent untold hours playing old console RPGs, notably the Final Fantasy series. My favorite one was always FFIV, although I've beaten 1, 4, 6, 7, and 9 (On the systems they originally came out for). 9 was the last one I ever bought, though. I also spent a ton of hours playing BoF 3, Chrono Trigger, and some others. When I was really young I was really interested in medieval stuff, knights and wizards and the like. Although honestly I don't think that interest ever entirely faded, but looking back at all the time I spent playing video games instead of interacting with real human beings it's not surprising that I'm pretty drat eccentric. Nerato fucked around with this message at 11:28 on Nov 26, 2012 |
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Elijya posted:My college entrance essay was on someone I admired. I picked Captain America.  ly say that a picture is worth a thousand words? [ASK] Me how not to get into college. edit: I have 25 hours in Planetside 2 since tuesday, that's not too bad though right?
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I'm staring at an action figure of Metabee, a golden hercules beetle inspired robot from an old kids tv show I watched as a child, I bought it less than 3 months ago. The mix of nostalgia and self loathing is tangible. A little less than a year ago I was incredibly into table top role playing games (I still like them, but am less fixated) and would chat about different rules systems and scenarios and settings with my best friend and her boyfriend but never got around to playing them. I just wanted to be a spacegirl In late highschool I played Pokémon competitively. I'd make gimmick teams out of bad Pokémon and play against other people's high tier teams in an online simulator, and be incredibly smug if I won. Wow I used to be a little poo poo! In early highschool I took Japanese classes (though I hated them) and pretty much only wore two sweaters the entire time, it was pretty bad. I also had dumb hair (I still kinda do).
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drat you guys, you're making me remember!! I have a whole office depot moving box filled with Dragonlance paperbacks. My Dragonlance books that are part of the main series(the ones authored by Hickman and Weis) are in a separate box. My first letter I ever wrote was a business style letter that we had to mail. I wrote to blizzard asking about a sequel to warcraft 3:FT. I was so mad when they just replied with WoW, I wanted a non-mmo you fuckers!! Oh god, I just remembered how I got into Dragonlance. I read a couple Warcraft novels by Richard A Knaak, and then found his Minotaur wars series, and wanted to read more about the main story of that world. To be fair though, Minotaur wars owns, and Minotars own.
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I recommend consulting this Guide to Dragonlance Bookshelves should you ever liberate them from their box.
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