RAWR! So... I luv guildies. I am pretty sure I am not alone in this, but guildies are awesome. Not merely because you do group activities in game together like dungeons or pvp, and not because they call out world bosses to each other, or do world completion together, or even because they throw yet more low lvl food in the bank for no one to use :D
They are awesome, because we do things like, sitting around on TeamSpeak talking about nothing, or run around naked in Lion's Arch dancing around guildless people to recruit. It is hilarious to do the lottery and have the fall of Thor suspense music as someone pulls out tickets on Twitch live, only to find out some noob no one knows won the pot. We laugh at mass suicides and we tease each other constantly.
Guildies are awesome because they laugh with you and are there for MORE than just the game. There isn't anything to really RAWR about guildies. I just felt like saying I appreciate mine :D
Soooo if you are on Sanctum of Rall in GW2 and want a good guild, check out Dionysianrights.net and maybe you too, could join in the laughter :D.
Rawr :)
Wednesday, June 5, 2013
Friday, April 19, 2013
Gamer love
RAWR!
I keep finding that gamers over and over again get the same reputation in the way of 'finding love'. Gamers can't get a girlfriend/boyfriend. Gamers don't get laid. Blah Blah.
I think this is basically due to two things. Firstly, a lot of gamers game to escape the 'real world', and to get away from people or things in their lives. Some people don't just play because it is fun, but because it is a distraction from that which they don't want to think about.
Because of this, a lot of the same gamers, tend to be reclusive. People like to say, "All the good ones are taken," about finding Mr./Ms. right. All the good ones aren't taken; just, a lot of us are gamers and don't get out much.
Many gamers would rather be gaming than at a pub or in a club with loud music and sweat smells and jostling humans everywhere. It isn't that they don't want to be in a relationship, it is just, that the kind of person they would want to be in relationship with they most likely wouldn't meet at places like that.
It makes it harder to find someone in the first place, since the person you are looking for, as a Geek, is another Geek, who, just like yourself, doesn't get out much.
The second issue, and I see this a lot, is gamers get with someone, and that someone, rather than accepting EVERYTHING about the gamer, including their gaming, instead, thinks, "I can change them" and thus huge issues occur. Most gamers game everyday. A lot are like me and play 4 hours min a day. You try to take that away, and it is like trying to take eating away, or art from an artist, music from a musician. It doesn't work. The gamer becomes sullen and depressed and anxious. The relationship fails. A lot of people who are gamers will only date another gamer due to this. I see a lot of gamer with gamer relationships work, but it isn't really that most of them game together. It is the respect for the gaming.
I do know some people who have relationships that work very well that have a gamer and someone who is not a gamer together, but the person who doesn't game respects that the gamer needs to game just as much as the gamer respects the other person's hobby. For instance, a friend of mine has 6 kids with her husband, and they seem to have a happy marriage. She games min 2 hours a day, and he watches Star Trek while she is gaming. She thinks Star Trek is fine, but would rather game. He thinks there isn't anything wrong with gaming, but would much rather watch Star Trek. They do other things together, and as a family, but they dedicate time to each other's hobbies, and do their own thing for a couple hours and feel refreshed. Chasing your partner around all day (not to mention kids) can be mentally draining for anyone. This is their mutual escape time. Neither tries to deny the other doing what they enjoy.
I have met people who found out I was a gamer and automatically dropped the whole dating thing just because of that. I have met people who thought it wasn't a big deal at first and then changed their minds later, having secretly been hoping I would change. I have met those who were gamers and discovered that all we had in common really was gaming. I have turned a girlfriend into a gamer before just by her playing with me cuz I liked it and she wanted to try. Shrug. It all comes back to the same thing in the end.
Just let people be themselves and you be yourself and the relationship will work if they do the same.
I keep finding that gamers over and over again get the same reputation in the way of 'finding love'. Gamers can't get a girlfriend/boyfriend. Gamers don't get laid. Blah Blah.
I think this is basically due to two things. Firstly, a lot of gamers game to escape the 'real world', and to get away from people or things in their lives. Some people don't just play because it is fun, but because it is a distraction from that which they don't want to think about.
Because of this, a lot of the same gamers, tend to be reclusive. People like to say, "All the good ones are taken," about finding Mr./Ms. right. All the good ones aren't taken; just, a lot of us are gamers and don't get out much.
Many gamers would rather be gaming than at a pub or in a club with loud music and sweat smells and jostling humans everywhere. It isn't that they don't want to be in a relationship, it is just, that the kind of person they would want to be in relationship with they most likely wouldn't meet at places like that.
It makes it harder to find someone in the first place, since the person you are looking for, as a Geek, is another Geek, who, just like yourself, doesn't get out much.
The second issue, and I see this a lot, is gamers get with someone, and that someone, rather than accepting EVERYTHING about the gamer, including their gaming, instead, thinks, "I can change them" and thus huge issues occur. Most gamers game everyday. A lot are like me and play 4 hours min a day. You try to take that away, and it is like trying to take eating away, or art from an artist, music from a musician. It doesn't work. The gamer becomes sullen and depressed and anxious. The relationship fails. A lot of people who are gamers will only date another gamer due to this. I see a lot of gamer with gamer relationships work, but it isn't really that most of them game together. It is the respect for the gaming.
I do know some people who have relationships that work very well that have a gamer and someone who is not a gamer together, but the person who doesn't game respects that the gamer needs to game just as much as the gamer respects the other person's hobby. For instance, a friend of mine has 6 kids with her husband, and they seem to have a happy marriage. She games min 2 hours a day, and he watches Star Trek while she is gaming. She thinks Star Trek is fine, but would rather game. He thinks there isn't anything wrong with gaming, but would much rather watch Star Trek. They do other things together, and as a family, but they dedicate time to each other's hobbies, and do their own thing for a couple hours and feel refreshed. Chasing your partner around all day (not to mention kids) can be mentally draining for anyone. This is their mutual escape time. Neither tries to deny the other doing what they enjoy.
I have met people who found out I was a gamer and automatically dropped the whole dating thing just because of that. I have met people who thought it wasn't a big deal at first and then changed their minds later, having secretly been hoping I would change. I have met those who were gamers and discovered that all we had in common really was gaming. I have turned a girlfriend into a gamer before just by her playing with me cuz I liked it and she wanted to try. Shrug. It all comes back to the same thing in the end.
Just let people be themselves and you be yourself and the relationship will work if they do the same.
Wednesday, March 27, 2013
RAWR: homosexual marriage in gaming.
RAWR! I hope the Supreme Court rules well today, but also, that if they make it right, that more gaming will too. Games like Skyrim didn't lose love just because you could same sex marry, and game makers shouldn't worry that they might miss out on some customers by allowing all the people playing to like who they like. I remember back on games like Arcanum and The Temple of Good and Evil, where if you wanted to enjoy it, same sex or not, there was nothing keeping you from it. And back then, it was more of a contraversy. People were concerned about sales. But they were great games (ToGaE after patch). But in the end, more and more the trend is leaning toward just tossing the same sex thing in there. No one has to marry their own gender in game, so it should have no effect on gameplay for most players, but for those of us who have to pretend that ugly guy is a really butchie girl for the relationship to feel the way the makers wanted it to feel, thanks. I don't want my gameplay soured by a guy on girl storyline I have to add my own storyline to just to make it relatable. I want the impact that the designers wanted. And if they want me to feel that ignited passion, I appreciate that they care about me too, and not just the bulk of their fans who are straight. I am very happy that letting people love people is becoming the norm. I hope more game designers, even in other countries, take note of what is happening with equal marriage rights in the world, and jump on board :) RAWR :)
Tuesday, February 19, 2013
Gaming Friends
Rawr! I have to say that gamer friends are the best. My brothers were always the best, but even my best friends, for instance, one I met from ypp and she lives in China. Another lives on a farm in Idaho and we play LoL. They are my two best friends, and I have never met either face to face.
We text. We chat. We skype. And we GAME.
I have many other friends too. Some live all over the United States. Some in England or are Aussie. I like hanging out and chatting, and if something goes wrong in my life they are always there for me. Most people who I know in 'real life' are fake and never there for me at all. Guildies, crewmates, leaguemates- these are the people who match the definition of friends in my life.
Monday, February 11, 2013
Lunar Revel
Sooo RAWR... I do not like any of the Lunar Revel skins except Annie, but I hate her new look so much that it feels bittersweet that her skin is neat and her everyday form is now crap. I actually really liked her look before, in the cave with her eyes and her bear glowing in the light of her fireball... Sigh.
Oh well. Happy Chinese new year anyhoo and all. So sad Cassiopia's skin is not cooler. I dislike the horns. Shrug.
To make myself feel better about it all, since was pouting for days now, I decided I would just aram all day. Who cares about how fail skins look when you can just make people cry on Haunted Maokai :)
http://www.youtube.com/user/rainbowmoonshadow
Oh well. Happy Chinese new year anyhoo and all. So sad Cassiopia's skin is not cooler. I dislike the horns. Shrug.
To make myself feel better about it all, since was pouting for days now, I decided I would just aram all day. Who cares about how fail skins look when you can just make people cry on Haunted Maokai :)
http://www.youtube.com/user/rainbowmoonshadow
Saturday, February 9, 2013
Skyrim Replay
Sooo RAWR. I actually did a rawr about Skyrim, and in it I basically liked it, but got bored and it is highly repeatative. Blah blah.
Sooo, for almost three weeks I have been playing my Skyrim game almost exclusivly. Sometimes I get a craving and I just HAVE to play a game, and usually just a few days and the craving is gone. Skyrim I got my weird craving and I still am playing it this week when I would usually be satisfied by now.
I have prob only played five or six League of Legends ARAMs in this time. I love ARAMs and League of Legends was the game I missed the most when I didnt have my computer access for two months. Odd. Especially when I have a bunch of new skins.
I just want to wander a wide world gathering items from other people's homes and ride my horse and come home to my wife and go steal some more. Haha. Just the mood I am in.
So here's to a game that the hype has prob faded on and it keeping my interest even over a year later. :)
http://www.youtube.com/user/rainbowmoonshadow
Sooo, for almost three weeks I have been playing my Skyrim game almost exclusivly. Sometimes I get a craving and I just HAVE to play a game, and usually just a few days and the craving is gone. Skyrim I got my weird craving and I still am playing it this week when I would usually be satisfied by now.
I have prob only played five or six League of Legends ARAMs in this time. I love ARAMs and League of Legends was the game I missed the most when I didnt have my computer access for two months. Odd. Especially when I have a bunch of new skins.
I just want to wander a wide world gathering items from other people's homes and ride my horse and come home to my wife and go steal some more. Haha. Just the mood I am in.
So here's to a game that the hype has prob faded on and it keeping my interest even over a year later. :)
http://www.youtube.com/user/rainbowmoonshadow
Friday, February 8, 2013
Gaming is life... Rawr
Soooo. Right now all I wanna do is be like, GAMING time. I am sitting around with someone doing absolutely nothing productive, and this is all I have been doing for hours. Just sitting. Just listening to babbling and doing nothing. I can only think of what I could be playing instead of this. Haha. Even when not playing, all I can think about is gaming.
http://www.youtube.com/user/rainbowmoonshadow
http://www.youtube.com/user/rainbowmoonshadow
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