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And there was (and still is) a shitstorm of dumb gay jokes in wow
I have deleted the extraneous information.
Really though, it's pretty depressing. The community at large is pretty bad with homophobia and sexism.
It really is true that playing as a female character sometimes people will. not. leave. you. alone.
Doesn't help that a lot of men pretending to be women in game tend to use their sex to get stuff.
Fixed that for ya. I knew a guy who was like that, big time creeper.
I'd bet that's mostly what it is, but have no way of backing that up.
I will say that I wasn't acting anything like that when people pestered me. The weirdest was probably a guy following me around a small village insisting that I take equipment I couldn't even use for forty more levels despite my insistence that he go away and that this wasn't my first character and that fuck you I know what I'm doing stop bothering me. I eventually took his "present" just because I couldn't get him to leave me alone otherwise. He told me to PM him if I needed him and then left.
It was really bizarre. I was kind of annoyed and a bit disturbed that he wouldn't leave me alone at my insistence though.
Actually, someone once partied with me because they "needed a girlfriend" after moaning about it in a city for half an hour. I was pretty disturbed until they said they weren't looking for a romantic partner, just a girl to play with. I'm still pretty sure they were lying, but whatever. THAT was probably the weirdest pestering I got.
the video game community is fucking terrible everywhere. it's exactly what you would expect from a culture defined by preening, anonymous adolescent boys in a competitive enterprise.
if you want to play videogames, better bring some friends because the odds of you running into someone who isn't a horrible douchebag is low.
Actually, it's more like the MMO community has a whole rainbow of different flavors of fucking terrible, and different flavors tend to be more prevalent in certain games than in others.
I dunno the same retards in WoW are the same retards in Xbox live, are the same retards in barby horse adventures. Greater internet fuckwad theory man.
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I would like some money because these are artisanal nuggets of wisdom philistine.
And there was (and still is) a shitstorm of dumb gay jokes in wow
I have deleted the extraneous information.
Really though, it's pretty depressing. The community at large is pretty bad with homophobia and sexism.
It really is true that playing as a female character sometimes people will. not. leave. you. alone.
The player base is pretty terrible. It's not just because it's popular. The awfulness of it drives good people to seek other, smaller games
well let's be honest here
the video game community is fucking terrible everywhere. it's exactly what you would expect from a culture defined by preening, anonymous adolescent boys in a competitive enterprise.
if you want to play videogames, better bring some friends because the odds of you running into someone who isn't a horrible douchebag is low.
This is the reason I don't bother with multi in just about any game unless it's with my friends. L4D pubbing is horrible, but playing it with friends is one of my favorite games.
No, Jeep. That Australian chick is in every MMO. Strangest damn thing.
WoW is the only MMO I've used vent in.
I dislike vent. I don't enjoy talking to people on the phone, why would I enjoy talking to 15 people at once in a bad conference call that never ended?
A youth spent MUDing gave me the ability to type out what I want to say well enough. I see no reason to not continue to do this.
Thanks for making me not want to play WoW again, [chat].
i hope you mean this sincerely
Actually, yes.
I haven't played WoW since roughly around the time right before the first expansion came out, and while I'm occasionally tempted to see how drastically it's changed since then, pretty much any extended WoW [chat] makes me realize what a bad idea that is.
[Chat] is also quite adept at making me never want to play LoL.
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edited January 2011
really i can think of only two australian females
the cat
and kylie minough
so i'm not really working on a really broad sample here
So checking more on the company I have interview number 2 and so on seems like one of the brokerages that works with really rich people and such. So lets see if I get the job.
i think that dynamic has defined pretty much every single SE++ male-female relationship ever
I don't even mean to imply its all women, but seriously there are ladies on the internet who hook up with dudes for stuff (be it in games or outside of them) and then break up with them when the stuff train stops. That's straight up whoring.
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I would like some money because these are artisanal nuggets of wisdom philistine.
Every raid I've ever been on there is an Australian chick who is witty, but also rather cold and bitchy and all the guys suck up to her in vent.
I don't know if that's like a mandatory role that needs to be filled in every guild, but I raided with multiple guilds as a filler person and there was always an Aussie chick. Different chick each time, but essentially the exact same person.
was it the cat?
No, because The Cat would have told the fawning, flirtatious, desperate, sad losers to fuck off and pay attention to the raid.
My favorite video game experience was some 12 year old Halo 3 player bombarding me with messages on Live "HEY I HEARD YOU WERE A BUNGIE EMPLOYEE GIVE ME THE RECON ARMOR." No matter how many times I told him that no, I was in fact a mere college student, he kept demanding it from me. He only stopped bothering me after my Live Trial ran out and I stopped playing Halo.
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and then get lectured by some douche about how i am giving the government a free loan and i could be investing that money or some shit
I made the mistake of following their fucking guidelines when I got married "Sure I'll claim 1 it says do that if you're married" DONT DO THAT! You end up owing a lot of fucking money.
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I would like some money because these are artisanal nuggets of wisdom philistine.
No, Jeep. That Australian chick is in every MMO. Strangest damn thing.
WoW is the only MMO I've used vent in.
I dislike vent. I don't enjoy talking to people on the phone, why would I enjoy talking to 15 people at once in a bad conference call that never ended?
A youth spent MUDing gave me the ability to type out what I want to say well enough. I see no reason to not continue to do this.
i like having voice chat in video games. it's fun to bullshit with your friends while you're doing something else. also it's useful for some kinds of games.
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firewaterwordSatchitanandaPais Vasco to San FranciscoRegistered Userregular
No, Jeep. That Australian chick is in every MMO. Strangest damn thing.
WoW is the only MMO I've used vent in.
I dislike vent. I don't enjoy talking to people on the phone, why would I enjoy talking to 15 people at once in a bad conference call that never ended?
A youth spent MUDing gave me the ability to type out what I want to say well enough. I see no reason to not continue to do this.
Back when I wow'd/raided I always got headaches because of the incessant chatter of people discussing random irrelevant bullshit the second important raid information wasn't being handed out/discussed. This used to go on for 5 or more hours straight.
I mean, sure it's nice being social and all but when there's 15 people around there is just never a quiet moment.
If I ever had the desire to run a guild and set up a vent server I'd automatically have everyone muted other than people running the raid or who need to be able to speak to organise things during an encounter.
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Irond WillWARNING: NO HURTFUL COMMENTS, PLEASE!!!!!Cambridge. MAModeratorMod Emeritus
Thanks for making me not want to play WoW again, [chat].
i hope you mean this sincerely
Actually, yes.
I haven't played WoW since roughly around the time right before the first expansion came out, and while I'm occasionally tempted to see how drastically it's changed since then, pretty much any extended WoW [chat] makes me realize what a bad idea that is.
[Chat] is also quite adept at making me never want to play LoL.
but lol is funnnn
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Yes. It's a little smaller and shorter, but it also adds a lot of awesome stuff. The kind of awesome stuff that makes you not want to play AC2 again because it doesn't have that stuff. It also advances the overall story, including the modern day stuff.
there were at least three times I can think of where random dudes on wow gave me giant piles of stuff just for being a girl
Do they think you're going to put out or something just because they gave you a +12 Vorpal Sword? I really don't understand that sort of creeper mentality at all.
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Irond WillWARNING: NO HURTFUL COMMENTS, PLEASE!!!!!Cambridge. MAModeratorMod Emeritus
and then get lectured by some douche about how i am giving the government a free loan and i could be investing that money or some shit
I made the mistake of following their fucking guidelines when I got married "Sure I'll claim 1 it says do that if you're married" DONT DO THAT! You end up owing a lot of fucking money.
It means "married, and a single income household" really.
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firewaterwordSatchitanandaPais Vasco to San FranciscoRegistered Userregular
edited January 2011
I'm no alcoholic homeless dude who records commercials for Kraft, but most people I ever had to listen to on vent for wow either had awfully grating voices or wouldn't shut the fuck up about bullshit in the game. Or generally both.
the video game community is fucking terrible everywhere. it's exactly what you would expect from a culture defined by preening, anonymous adolescent boys in a competitive enterprise.
if you want to play videogames, better bring some friends because the odds of you running into someone who isn't a horrible douchebag is low.
It is shocking to me the number of people who use the term "n***er" over XBox Live. Invariably, with a drawl.
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I'd bet that's mostly what it is, but have no way of backing that up.
I will say that I wasn't acting anything like that when people pestered me. The weirdest was probably a guy following me around a small village insisting that I take equipment I couldn't even use for forty more levels despite my insistence that he go away and that this wasn't my first character and that fuck you I know what I'm doing stop bothering me. I eventually took his "present" just because I couldn't get him to leave me alone otherwise. He told me to PM him if I needed him and then left.
It was really bizarre. I was kind of annoyed and a bit disturbed that he wouldn't leave me alone at my insistence though.
Actually, someone once partied with me because they "needed a girlfriend" after moaning about it in a city for half an hour. I was pretty disturbed until they said they weren't looking for a romantic partner, just a girl to play with. I'm still pretty sure they were lying, but whatever. THAT was probably the weirdest pestering I got.
I dunno the same retards in WoW are the same retards in Xbox live, are the same retards in barby horse adventures. Greater internet fuckwad theory man.
pleasepaypreacher.net
This is the reason I don't bother with multi in just about any game unless it's with my friends. L4D pubbing is horrible, but playing it with friends is one of my favorite games.
WoW is the only MMO I've used vent in.
I dislike vent. I don't enjoy talking to people on the phone, why would I enjoy talking to 15 people at once in a bad conference call that never ended?
A youth spent MUDing gave me the ability to type out what I want to say well enough. I see no reason to not continue to do this.
Actually, yes.
I haven't played WoW since roughly around the time right before the first expansion came out, and while I'm occasionally tempted to see how drastically it's changed since then, pretty much any extended WoW [chat] makes me realize what a bad idea that is.
[Chat] is also quite adept at making me never want to play LoL.
the cat
and kylie minough
so i'm not really working on a really broad sample here
I don't even mean to imply its all women, but seriously there are ladies on the internet who hook up with dudes for stuff (be it in games or outside of them) and then break up with them when the stuff train stops. That's straight up whoring.
pleasepaypreacher.net
wouldnt surprise me
my story is kind of compressed - we had basically become enemies in the TM/SS pvp, and would jump on alts to trash talk
we started chatting on the forums and outside of wow, she made a horde character and i levelled a lowbie with her
then she's all "i should move there, then we can fuck all the time and play wow" and i was all "uhhhhh"
she quit her job and moved to seattle for like 3 months or something and kept messaging me about it until i put her on ignore
she then moved back and tried to get in touch with me again
what the fuckkk
No, because The Cat would have told the fawning, flirtatious, desperate, sad losers to fuck off and pay attention to the raid.
Not revel in the attention.
i always take zero deductions
and then get lectured by some douche about how i am giving the government a free loan and i could be investing that money or some shit
Holes was a good movie.
I mean, I guess he was still a child actor at that point and it was a kids movie...
But it was still a pretty enjoyable movie.
ow that's cruel will
I think that chick from that apparently crap silent hill movie is australian.
Oh and Nicole Kidman too.
like, if i loved ac2 will i like assbro
I made the mistake of following their fucking guidelines when I got married "Sure I'll claim 1 it says do that if you're married" DONT DO THAT! You end up owing a lot of fucking money.
pleasepaypreacher.net
Its an improvement over AC2's single player, swapping the rpg villa aspect for building up an entire city.
pleasepaypreacher.net
i like having voice chat in video games. it's fun to bullshit with your friends while you're doing something else. also it's useful for some kinds of games.
It's pretty fun. Been playing it off and on for awhile. If you loved AC2 you'll be pretty damn happy I reckon. Also it's cheap so.
Back when I wow'd/raided I always got headaches because of the incessant chatter of people discussing random irrelevant bullshit the second important raid information wasn't being handed out/discussed. This used to go on for 5 or more hours straight.
I mean, sure it's nice being social and all but when there's 15 people around there is just never a quiet moment.
If I ever had the desire to run a guild and set up a vent server I'd automatically have everyone muted other than people running the raid or who need to be able to speak to organise things during an encounter.
but lol is funnnn
Yes. It's a little smaller and shorter, but it also adds a lot of awesome stuff. The kind of awesome stuff that makes you not want to play AC2 again because it doesn't have that stuff. It also advances the overall story, including the modern day stuff.
Was this oroboro?
and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
Do they think you're going to put out or something just because they gave you a +12 Vorpal Sword? I really don't understand that sort of creeper mentality at all.
don't roll on shabbat
also i need to start dinner
Then I found out it's competitive and the people here take it quite seriously so I never played it again.
It means "married, and a single income household" really.
who is sionnach rua?
also it looks like rent did his part
a fellow tryhard, if you will
and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
I tend to not talk to people a whole lot, so I think I went relatively unnoticed.
I'm pretty social. I think I got muted once or twice for shooting the shit too hard in /2.