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[Raoune]

My whole household is playing, so that's good(I tell you, it's never off). But my other friends think I'm insane.



I've also had a dream with Leliana in it. I've also decided it's a good name for a daughter... ak.

[SusanStoHelit]

ejoslin wrote...

I found myself telling a good friend of mine about this game, and going on about the romances.  She does NOT play video games.  At all. 

I'm visiting my best friend at the moment. Sitting here on my laptop at her dining table, while she reads reclining on the couch. She does not play computer games of any sort. I talk about them to her all the time.

So I read this thread out to her - and we both laughed. Her response is: I listen to her talk about her grandchildren, about the theatre, about politics and current events; she listens to me talk about SF/fantasy books, and games, and comparative religion. It's a two-way street.

Real friends who care about you are willing to listen to things you find interesting - or at least to put up with it in return for the same courtesy. If they're not willing to do that, then they're not real friends. The same applies to you of course.

And before I got into computer games - about 5 years ago - I still had 'obsessive' interests, they were just different ones. Computer games are no better nor worse than any other thing you might theoretically be obsessed about.

[ejoslin]

SusanStoHelit wrote...


I'm visiting my best friend at the moment. Sitting here on my laptop at her dining table, while she reads reclining on the couch. She does not play computer games of any sort. I talk about them to her all the time.

So I read this thread out to her - and we both laughed. Her response is: I listen to her talk about her grandchildren, about the theatre, about politics and current events; she listens to me talk about SF/fantasy books, and games, and comparative religion. It's a two-way street.

Real friends who care about you are willing to listen to things you find interesting - or at least to put up with it in return for the same courtesy. If they're not willing to do that, then they're not real friends. The same applies to you of course.

And before I got into computer games - about 5 years ago - I still had 'obsessive' interests, they were just different ones. Computer games are no better nor worse than any other thing you might theoretically be obsessed about.

*grin* Some of my kids' friends say I'm the only mom they know who plays video games, but others have moms who also play. And you're right, I know.  My friend has just had a string of bad luck when it comes to guys she's been dating, and I laughed so hard when she said that.  And she would totally go for Alistair.

[StarMars]

Lots of ladies here lol. I hope I'm not intruding this girl talk. 

anyway I just noticed:

LadyVaJedi wrote...

LOL!!! I told my husband that why don't we rename out cat Samwise to Alistair and he just shakes his head.

Did you get that name from the Blizzard graphics artist?

[Jaulen]

I'm the only one of my hubby's friend's SOs that game at all. I wish more games like this were MP, it's a lot of fun having a household of people over for food and gaming and drinks over a weekend.



Used to love RPGing in highschool and college. Then, in college I found MUCK, MUSHs and the like....and I am so sad to say, got kicked out of college for a semester due to *ahem* declining grades.....and this was back in the early 90's so it was all unix and telnet...



Never got into WoW (thankfully). Or I think I would have been unemployable. Heck, had never played a 'video game' (since Ms PacMan) until meeting my hubby and having him introduce me to Baulder's Gate on the PS2. (I stayed up two days in a row playing that game with no sleep).



For awhile b4 DA:O I was watching a lot of anime and reading magna (and cursing that the writer for NANA was sick and the series was on hold).



Hubby and I even decided at one point that if we had a second kid and it was a girl, we'd name her Winry (spelling! from Full Metal Alchamist).





Dang long work trips......it always gets me sucked into something that I didn't bother with at home (book series, the TV series House, anime, manga, drawing, news sites, and now DA:O)

[Xandurpein]

My own program to cut down on playing Dragon Age begins tomorrow, when they release Mass Effect 2 in my country. No doubt it'll just change one vice for another, but I am more than happy with that. How can Bioware even manage to release two games such as Dragon Age and Mass Effect 2 withing a few month's?

[Jaulen]

*rubs hands together gleefully*



Husband out of town for work. I can play all night and not worry about being given the evil stare of STOP GAMING death.



Yes, no guilt trip tonight!

[Thor Rand Al]

Lol I get acussed of having an affair with a game n then when I told my fiance about Alistair he goes haha so you are having an affair... "It's just a game huney"... I've tried to get him in on the game especially when I say theres nudity on it lol... He's not into my kind of games though, he likes the war games n guns n that kind of stuff

[SusanStoHelit]

I don't have kids, but all my nieces and nephews think I'm the coolest auntie ever. I can talk to them about games for hours while their parents sit there mute. So fun. And the kids drool over my pc too.

Edit: Just read 'kids' and laughed. They range in age from 9 to 25. Several of them are married, hehe.

Modifié par SusanStoHelit, 27 janvier 2010 - 11:18 .

[Jaulen]

Saw the ad spot for ME2.

Haven't played ME1......but I'm thinking of checking them out.

[Jaulen]

I have an almost 2-yr old. He runs around the house saying "Dragon!! *rawr*"



When we get home he cries "Game! Game!" Until the game is turned on so he can hear the music and see the dragon fly across the screen.........



Hubby taught him the controls for the character on the PS3. Very funny watching him play with the controller and then go "Oh no!" when he gets the PC to do/say something.

[melkathi]

StarMars wrote...

Lots of ladies here lol. I hope I'm not intruding this girl talk. 

anyway I just noticed:

LadyVaJedi wrote...

LOL!!! I told my husband that why don't we rename out cat Samwise to Alistair and he just shakes his head.

Did you get that name from the Blizzard graphics artist?

More likely from the one not-useless Hobbit.

Jaulen wrote...


Used to love RPGing in highschool and college. Then, in college I found MUCK, MUSHs and the like....and I am so sad to say, got kicked out of college for a semester due to *ahem* declining grades.....and this was back in the early 90's so it was all unix and telnet...

Try to explain to someone now what telnet is.
Or try explaining to a bunnyhopping pvper in WoW that "When I was young and hardcore PvPing your life depended on your typing speed AND correct spelling!"
Ah the good old days, when a typo could cost you your life and equipment...
Still the first thing I do on a new computer is download a telnet client... usual choice being Putty. Does zMud run on vista?

SusanStoHelit wrote...

I don't have kids, but all my
nieces and nephews think I'm the coolest auntie ever. I can talk to
them about games for hours while their parents sit there mute. So fun.
And the kids drool over my pc too.

Edit: Just read 'kids' and laughed. They range in age from 9 to 25. Several of them are married, hehe. [smilie]../../../images/forum/emoticons/grin.png[/smilie]

Christmas dinner was fun with my nephew asking me all kinds Tekken lore questions. I had to explain to him that I stopped playing that type of game around the time he was born. Now he's all proud that I stopped playing fighting games because once he was born I had a replacement

[Jaulen]

Try to explain to someone now what telnet is.
Or try explaining to a bunnyhopping pvper in WoW that "When I was young and hardcore PvPing your life depended on your typing speed AND correct spelling!"
Ah the good old days, when a typo could cost you your life and equipment...
Still the first thing I do on a new computer is download a telnet client... usual choice being Putty. Does zMud run on vista?

And yes, unfortunately, that never helped me with my spelling and/or typing problem....

*sigh*

[melkathi]

Jaulen wrote...

And yes, unfortunately, that never helped me with my spelling and/or typing problem....

*sigh*

I had a friend with a character called "Glade". For about a year, everytime I tried to send him a  tell or type his name in chat, I'd typo "galde". Eventualy, it having become a joke in the MUD, he created a character called Galde and of course the moment I tried to type that name I typoed it into Glade.
We had some good laughs born of typo.
In the end one can only accept the truth:
Typos R Us

[SusanStoHelit]

Well, unlike the the old-timers, I'd never played a computer game until 5 years ago. In fact, I'd never 'gamed' at all - it simply didn't exist where I grew up.



But the kids think that makes me extra cool - I learned it all in the last few years, lol. Well, and I think the fact that I'm a bigger addict than they are impresses them too.

[LadyVaJedi]

Hey StarMars I am a female in real life. I am also a LOTR fan and a StarWars fan as well. I grew-up with SW. When the movie A New Hope came out in 1977 I was 5 years.

[_- Songlian -]

DPSSOC wrote...
Ok here's the my reccomendation for a 12 step program

Step 1: If Disc is not currently in your PC/X Box/PS3 skip to Step 5
Step 2: Turn on your PC/360/PS3
Step 3: Remove disc
Step 4: Return disc to proper packaging
Step 5: Find trusted person
Step 6: Give game to trusted person
Step 7: Instruct trusted person to keep the game from you for a designated period of time (I recommend a minimum of 3 months)

Reading this is enough to give me a minor panic attack. 

Me and my addiction are quite happy together, thank you very much. 

[Fanghorne]

Hey you enjoy playing the game - then keep on playing. Life is too short. We spend so much time in life worrying about what we should or shouldnt do - when in reality its all harmless anyway.



Live life. Enjoy life and if you enjoy playing DAO - then play it. You could be hit by a bus tomorrow. (far worse things in life to be addicted too...)

[melkathi]

SusanStoHelit wrote...

Well, unlike the the old-timers, I'd never played a computer game until 5 years ago. In fact, I'd never 'gamed' at all - it simply didn't exist where I grew up.

But the kids think that makes me extra cool - I learned it all in the last few years, lol. Well, and I think the fact that I'm a bigger addict than they are impresses them too.

Of course it makes you extra cool. If you had grown up as a gamer, your coolness would be a de facto one. But becomming a gamer later in life, that is special coolness

[Sialater]

I, too, was a late gamer. It's all my husband's fault. He got me hooked on KOTOR, then NWN, then... well, it was a downward slide. I was already a nerd, I just didn't play video games beyond my sister's Nintendo 64 (I don't think 007 Goldeneye counts as an RPG.) My parents always refused to get a gaming console until I was already an adult (apparently my youngest sister was far more persuasive), because they weren't "educational." I'd visit my sister when I was home from college and we'd shoot each other in the PVP games. She always cheated and looked at my screen. (Course, I taught her how to do that...)



I have a cat named Samwise and one named Strider. And I was 3 when A New Hope came out. And just to underscore the nerdiness: I have three dogs, Kira (Star Trek DS9), Arya (GRRM: Song of Ice and Fire), and Missy (short for Maleficient from Sleeping Beauty).



We get another dog, it may get named Sten.



I refuse to enter a 12 step program, however. I'm perfectly happy with my addiction. I just vary it with ME2, now, just for kicks.

[melkathi]

Sialater wrote...


We get another dog, it may get named Sten.

 

That is a good dog name. Just make sure it isn't a poodle or something like that

[Sialater]

We're a Labrador and Collie family. I think it'd be a great name for a Rott, though. LOL

[melkathi]

Sialater wrote...

We're a Labrador and Collie family. I think it'd be a great name for a Rott, though. LOL

Any molosser type dog really.
Ok maybe not a Boston Terrier...

[Jae Onasi]

Heh, I haven't played DA enough yet to need a 12 step program. Now, Kotor, maybe, but not DA.



My kids' friends think it's totally cool that I game, especially if I drop in to the living room and play Rock Band with them. When my kids are both teens, we'll go through tons of food feeding the snack-habit of kids who stop by and deal with lots of noise, but I figure it's a small price to pay for knowing where my kids are all the time, and knowing they and their friends are in a safe place.

[Jaulen]

I was 5 when SW came out in '77 too!!



Never got into video gaming (Atari/Vetrex anyone?) But I was into RPGing. Only girl in the group through highschool and college....



My cat's were named Rhell, Muriel, and Drizzit.....(can't recall the books the names were from any more)