You know you play EQ too much when ... (resurrected!)

[Kheera]

On my way to work this morning I saw a couple people trudging along the side of the road with a gas can ... I felt badly since I didn't dare offer a ride to strangers, when I suddenly thought, "Oh! I can buff them! Let's see, sow, yes, maybe HoS in case they run into something nasty..." ^_^;


Kheera
52 kitty shaman on Tunare

[Lilosh]

I currently have a cold, and a headache.

I have had to stop myself from shouting "Want to Buy Tylenol!"

At least I didnt add "Please Send Tell, KTHX"


-Lilosh

[Morpheaous Mindtap]

heh, you too, huh?

i was fever and throwing up the other night.. now it's all about head congestion and sneezing.. every other word out of me is Ah Choo!!

God, i hope this ends soon....

[Pooka]

How about when you try to put the cottage cheese in the toaster with the bagel and hit 'combine'

=^.^=

[Dawnlin]

Ok, real situation.

I live in a dorm and sometimes don't put the shade up before going outside. One day after an EQ session this happened, and as soon as I stepped outside I saw it was pouring the rain. My first thought was, "Wake of Karana!" Then I had a reality check and was sadly disappointed *sigh* hehehehe

[Neilani]

I was watching the movie "Evolution" with my guy the other day, you know, the cheesy one with David Duchovny?

There's a part where a woman is walking down a golf course hill to meet a man, who unfortunately (and unbeknownst to her) had discovered a very vicious little creature in a nearby water trap. He starts to run in her direction, they see each other, and then she sees the monster.

Dumela looked at me and said, "He'd better not keep running towards her; he'll train that monster on her."

I almost cried because I was thinking the same thing.

--Nei

[Aoladari Raveynfyre]

I wish someone would train my boss (and his wife) out of the office today.

Sometimes I look at liscense(sp?) plates on the back of cars and see common abbreviations for tells or items in game and get to thinking about it and laughing.

[Raolinx]

When you ask yer wife/gf (or husband/bf)( who hates "evercrack" for plat when she ask ya to go to the store, because yer outa money.

[Verdandi]

...when you catch yourself thinking you need to remember to set your afk message before you leave work for the holidays.

[KyrosKrane]

You want bad, try this.

Yesterday, my mom and my aunt (who's visiting us from far away) asked if I could drive them out to a mall. My mom wanted to visit a really nice cafe there; they have these dancing fountains that are really fun to watch. She said, "We can just sit by the fountain for a bit, have a cup of coffee, and relax."

Honest to God, my first thought was, "Cool, I can practice fishing while medding."

:oops:

[Sotako Yatako]

You get remined of your younger days in Crush Bone, Oasis, and your mid level days in EW while watching Lord of Rings. And you get flash backs to trains when the Orcs attack. :D

Your out for a road trip and repeatedly think to your self. " This would be much faster with a port." or (if your main is a porting class), You want to go some places so the first thing you do is thing of the closest druid ring or wizzy spire/platfurm is at.

[Tassrin]

Your buddy in RL says something that you like and you say "slash agree" (we do this all the time, no thought involved)

You run the risk of hypothermia when it gets cold because, "Hey, Barbarians don't wear shirts!"

You expect a semblance of courtesy from salespeople in RL along the lines of, "a_Old_Navy_Salesperson says 'Hello Soandso, have you seen the new a_half_zipped_pullover I just got in?'"

For those of you in the sales business, how do you greet your customers? ;)

For those of you in the sales business, how do you greet your customers?

Scowling, ready to attack.


What a_half_zipped_pullover?

[Lilosh]

I would imagine that most retail people would Glare Threatingly.


Scowls = I come over and attack

Glares = Come near me for more then 3 seconds, and I attack.


<grin> Leave the nice sales people alone, and no worries.
Come over and ask the dumb question, or be a snotty snit, and you get Glared at.


Not in retail,
-Lilosh

[Tassrin]

What a_half_zipped_pullover?

Sorry, if you aren't from the US or if you don't watch a lot of television you might not have got that reference. Old Navy "Evil Trendy Clothing Store" did a series of commercials that resembled the old "Family Fued" game show. They were selling pullover jackets that have a zipper that only goes halfway up, thence a half-zipped pullover.

Did I mention they were evil?

______
Tassrin

I have to stop the subtle humor on this board.

I was replying as if it was in brackets...

Old Navy commercials come in loud and clear around here.

[Tassrin]

Okay, well I feel like the densest person in the world. I should've immediately recognized the bad grammar that EQ forces on us all!

What a_half_zipped_pullover

an_old_navy_salesperson says: "Its something with a zipper, that makes the holiday's hipper. That'll be 10000 Platinum, 9 Gold, 5 Silver, and 1 Copper. Or your very [soul]."

______
Tassrin

[Lilosh]

Why do you want my soul?
What soul?
What is a soul?
Soul?
I have a soul.

*gives up*

And delftones, I got it the first time, so don't feel bad.

-Lilosh

[Tassrin]

Standard_EQ_Broken_Quest_01_(TM)

______
Tassrin

[Chenier]

What lore?
What information?
I will go.
continue


is my PoP macro key for dealing with pre-/post- flags NPCs.../grumble

[Draggar]

I went to cook dinner the other night, chicken, potatoes and stuffing.

I couldn't find the "combine" button.

OK, so I was gaming all day, I'm out of it.

The next day, i was making a soup out of the left overs, I put it all in the pot, and once again, looked for a :combine" button...

:roll: :D

How many of you get up out of bed (you wake up in the middle of the night, morning, afternoon...) and run to your computer to see if you set your /AFK while a trader?

And the wrost?

I have a second PC up just so I can research while on EQ.. :shock: ;)


I wish for a SOW during my commute, and I wish I could 'intimidate' the users I have to deal with...

[Draggar]

You get remined of your younger days in Crush Bone, Oasis, and your mid level days in EW while watching Lord of Rings. And you get flash backs to trains when the Orcs attack. :D

:mrgreen: :D

Thats good, and reminded me a few months ago, when I was in my low 20's (21ish?) I was derailing a train by the Orc Scoutsman, I was fighting 4 legos, 3 slavers (or more?), Warden, Scout, and I don't know how many centurions.

Yes, I died. When I came back, I saw my corpse in a sea of orc corpses...

Now I know how Boromir felt.

[csolar eklipse]

Was in a D&D session with about 4 others freinds the other day when we got jumped by a group of zombies, skele's ya know the usual undead we barely made it out alive when the first thing i said in char was who the hell pulled that train ...........

[Draggar]

Its bad when you start to confuse your age with your main's level... :shock:

[Ilona]

Its bad when you start to confuse your age with your main's level... :shock:

My druid got to level 28 on my 28th birthday :)
Good job I don't age quite as fast as she does! :D

[Lilosh]

I have two alts who are *quite* close to my age.


My main is not.


-Lilosh

[Phabos]

While driving down the highway yesterday, I spotted something on the shoulder that looked at first glance like a small bag and my first thought was, "I should click it just to see what it is," and my second was "I wonder if I am moving too fast to pick it up."

Phabos
Drunken Paladin of Brell

[Pojodan]

I have a custom made bumper sticker that says
HONK if you need a Rez!

And everytime I'm outside at night I hear those **** birds in my head... y'know, the backround noises in any wooded area in EQ at night

[Lilosh]

This is so sad.


I saw a license plate on the way to work this morning
"FT4 XY7"


And All I could think was
"FT4? I WANT ONE!"


-Lilosh

[Ilona]

I have a custom made bumper sticker that says
HONK if you need a Rez!
How often do people honk at you? :twisted:

[Milla]

At my job, there are two letter abbreviations for all of our buildings around town. Two of the buildings are CT for Centennial and BW for Broadway. On more than one occasion I almost said Cazic Thule or Burning Woods out loud to coworkers when referring to those buildings.

I also once said "sigh" out loud to my Mom. She thought I was nuts.

[Stokvorn Warwalker]

I was driving the kids to school this morning, and was about 4 cars behind a school bus.
When it stopped to pick up some kids, one of the cars drove right past the red lights. I
told the kid “ to bad I can not root & nuke that fool mob.” :D

The kids said:” I was being weird again.”
:roll:

[Lilosh]

At my job, there are two letter abbreviations for all of our buildings around town. Two of the buildings are CT for Centennial and BW for Broadway. On more than one occasion I almost said Cazic Thule or Burning Woods out loud to coworkers when referring to those buildings.

I totally empathize.


At work, a key combination I have to press hundreds of times is VT.

I always think Vex Thal, even though I have never been there. :)


-Lilosh

[Lymlym]

heh I kept typing /tell or /ooc during AIM or ICQ chats :roll:

[Lilosh]

I confuse the heck out of my friends by starting AIM sentences with /1

Thank you serverwide.eqtraders


:-)


-Lilosh

[Kirstin Thornhill]

A lot of my friends on AIM get messages that start out with '/r' or '/gu' when I am tired...

I saw a car with the tag number '65W-ODS' and spent a while trying to figure out what a warrior, even a level 65 warrior, would want with an Obulus Death Shroud...

One of my bosses at work is forever messing up the computer system, or otherwise rendering it unstable or unusable. We call him 'The Tinkerer.' (It sure is nice working with other EQers...)

[Keridwyn]

Yep. I see me in many of these. Walking to lunch the other day, I stepped over a piece of wood lying on the ground -- oak bark ground spawn, I was sure!

[Quicheng Dragonfist]

2 weekends ago my guild met up in RL down in Austin TX. (Illumin Cathari - Sol Ro)

One night in the hotel bar, I bet a beer with a fellow guildie that he wouldn't treat the bartender as a Soulbinder.

He walked right up to the bartender, looked him square in the eye, and said "Bind my soul".

The bartender said "huh?"

I jumped in and said "he'd like another Shiner" lol

[Lilosh]

In a conversation with someone, they asked how my car was holding up. I wanted to tell them that it was holding up, but just barely. Looking back, I am kind of ashmed, but still grinning.


Lilosh: "My car is glowering at me dubiously"



-Lilosh

[Bumperr]

Last month, I had a really good night gaming (and 4 hours sleep) and while driving to work that next morning, I reached over to the radio controls and was looking for the "sense heading" button, lol. I sat back and started thinking that humming the tune for EQ was bad enough but...... :) Bumperr Willowthorn, 58th Druid on Xev

[Quinner Sparrowhawk]

I was driving home late from seeing a performance (Lord of the Dance) and was not sure if I turned the right way to get back to the highway. I mentally searched for the sense heading button and am very glad the car was dark and my wife couldn't see me :oops: .

More than once I have wanted to say lol out loud.

[Morani]

And All I could think was "FT4? I WANT ONE!"

The fact that I didn't even pause to think about that one and my most casting heavy character (and main) is a level 36 RANGER! :D

When a friend of mine was relating a story to another friend and myself about someone who ticked him off and I replied (without thinking) "slash RUDE!" The friend relating the story stopped and asked me what I just said (didn't understand.) I turned to my other friend (again without thinking) and just said "Newbies..." Fortunately he was an EQ player so he understood... and nearly hurt himself laughing at me.

[Cubwynn]

My friends catch me referring to their dogs as Gnolls (big dogs) or Kobolds (little dogs).

[Twofury]

When a friend of mine was relating a story to another friend and myself about someone who ticked him off and I replied (without thinking) "slash RUDE!" The friend relating the story stopped and asked me what I just said (didn't understand.) I turned to my other friend (again without thinking) and just said "Newbies..." Fortunately he was an EQ player so he understood... and nearly hurt himself laughing at me.

Now i have hurt myself laughing. Happened to me too though. *sighs* i really got to get me another hobby that doesnt use such weird lingo :D

[Sarcazzm]

what was that thing called? RL?... was it... "Real Life"...?

bah. i forgot...

...

where is the door?

[Pojodan]

I hear car honks sometimes, but I never know if they're in responce to my bumper sticker =P

Heh, sometimes when I'm walking around somewhere I'll get this urge to lookj up and to the left to see which way I'm going (My compas is in the top left corner of my screen)

Aaaugh! those **** birds are at it again!

[Gargazon]

My wife was going to the store and asked me if I needed anything. Without thinking I replied 5 stacks of dots. To make things worse, she came home with 5 packages of those dippin dots...the ones where they are dots of candy on the paper. She said "no idea why you wanted these, but I managed to find them." :oops:

Note: wife does not play EQ so she wasn't doing that deliberatly.

Yah Garga.... you lost me at 'wife went out of her way to buy something for you without knowing why'.... was funny until you went all science fiction there.

That coupled with the rarity of 'dots' and the absurd lengths needed to go to to acquire them shows that your post was entirely made up.

Sorry, a bit tired... and I have no clue what a stack of Dots is, and I've played the game almost a year, hehe.

[Twofury]

Sorry, a bit tired... and I have no clue what a stack of Dots is, and I've played the game almost a year, hehe

Dots, as in peridots. used by clerics for symbols and stuff

[KyrosKrane]

and I have no clue what a stack of Dots is, and I've played the game almost a year, hehe.

Peridots, I imagine. Dot is a common (if confusing) slang term for them. It's not five stacks of Damage over Time. :)

[maddenus]

I must admit i wondered why you would want to be Dotted :)

Sorry, only slang for Peridot's I had heard of was Peri's... and that I've used often.

It is the currency for my monk whenever he is away from town, because money weighs too much.

I kinda thought the 't' was silent in it... like peridoh, so that is even more confusing as to why you'd abreviate and change how it's said.

[KyrosKrane]

I kinda thought the 't' was silent in it... like peridoh, so that is even more confusing as to why you'd abreviate and change how it's said.

Oddly enough, I thought the same thing about the pronunciation. Hence, I verbally call them "doughs". Though I like your interpretation, too -- "Doh! That was stupid. Need a rez. Need a dot!" :D

[broodingwolf]

I run up to my dogs to play chase and I yell RAR a monster is after you EVAC EVAC!

I also say Veto and make a slashing motion.

When I want to avoid something (like a chore or something) I make the iksar FD sound. Fortunately I live with EQ players so this is all normal behavior. I've never said /g but I have typed it or /rep SO many times in aim its not even funny.

I find ground spawns all the time in RL.

I was bored in a meeting and perked up because I was like, hey /baz and look for cheap flawless hides... oh wait never mind... :~(

[Altanis Blazewielder]

Hmm, last week a friend walked up to me at work and was talking so fast I could barely understand her. I told her to stop spamming us, and she just looked at me. Non-EQ people give you the weirdest looks sometimes )

[Annywyn Picnicmaker]

Actually thinking "hmm whats my faction at with (insert whatever person/place here)?"
heh

[dahna]

...when you turn on your computer, run EQ and use the RNG for choosing your number while playing the loto (hotkey: /rand 1 49 repeat x 5), sigh

[Clementine]

When you start hearing EQ music when you're not even in front of your computer and hitting the 'r' when chatting with friends on IM :evil:

[Nizanko]

My non-EQ friends were amused by the concept of trains when I explained it to them during a D&D session...
and we use "n00b" in common parlance these days...
and I have on occasion *thought* "rofl" but never said it....

I somehow feel I'm coming up short here.

So, I guess that just means I need to play more!

P.S. Hi Clem! ;)

[Zaura Vu]

When you're late for work and consider shouting for SoE.

[Woodeckt]

Saw a BMW today on the freeway with a plate that said

ZONED

Wife and I both looked at each other and busted out laughing and said where is the TRAIN and dang newbie did not even OOC or SHOUT for us.

LOL

[Sanna]

... when you are at work or a far away class and want to Gate back to your dorm or cast Ring (or Circle) of Japanese, so you don't have to walk all the way across campus.

When you wish you could cast sow on yourself to get to that class.

When you wish you could Sneak out of your English class, or even just Hide and sleep. (Oh wait, I already do the latter.)

When you hit F9 to try to refresh an internet page (instead of F5).

When your roommate tells you her noob frog alt just dinged 6, and you say, "say rock on!"

When your roommate is COMPLETELY UNFAZED by that statement.

When your roommate asks you, "Watcha doing?" And you calmly reply, "Brewing up some Vodka." And she's unfazed by that too. (meanwhile your bf on the phone is like, "........")



Or, when you write things like:
http://pub86.ezboard.com/fblackcrown52169frm1.showMessage?topicID=179.topic - LOTR-TT EQ style
and
http://pub86.ezboard.com/fblackcrown52169frm1.showMessage?topicID=180.topic - Nerf em All!
These by Landriell of Sullon's Black Crown guild.


EQ is just too funny to be taken seroiusly. (So is spelling.)

[Phabos]

Lately, when writing notes to people, I am tempted to add /smile or /bow at the end...

I also find myself in the habit of saying "grumble" out loud. Thank you serverwide.eqtraders...

Phabos
Drunken Paladin of Brell

[Lilosh]

I've started using the phrase "scowl" a lot more then I probably would have normally.


It aptly describes my mood most of the time.


-Lilosh

[WileeCastus]

It was real bad when myself & 2 other EQ friends decided to try a night away from EQ and play a LAN connected game of Diablo II. We're all in the same house playing and 1 friend was constantly grabbing all the gold & gem drops before we even got a chance to see them. Suddenly, you hear "**** you !! you filthy 'Ninja Looter'" :D

[Morani]

OK, that's REALLY funny. I just did the same thing with Dialbo II and I keep messing myself up by THINKING like I'm playing EQ. I never realized how much of the patterns of combat I've gotten used to from EQ. And ANYTHING we talk about is, of course, in EQ lingo since we seem to have FORGOTTEN how to refer to spells without using things like buff, debuf, DoT, Etc. :)

[Lilosh]

I just saw something funny , and Immediatly thought

"Man, I wish I had a screenshot of that!"


-Lilosh

[Farnyr]

:? ....I think im the worst of everyone. On more than one occasion, I have said, out loud, in public "I wish I could screenshot real life".

Not to mention thinking I can gate home from class, or thinking I can skill up by making dinner, etc.

[Faymar]

My other-half asked me how dinner was coming along and I responded "All the pre-combines are done." Scarily, I hadn't really thought about what I said until he asked me if Roast Beef and Potatos was trivial.

A friend still laughs at me about baking in game, FINALLY I got 250 and screeched happily and bounced about and then said "Oh &%$£ my onions are burning AFK!" and ran into the kitchen where my RL food was ruined. :/

[lonewylfe]

You find a spider web on the wall and wonder if you can farm spider silk from the spider that made it or if it's only going to drop spiderling silk.

[RAGATHOR]

You have twins named Dain and Tormax.

[Farnyr]

Ragathor are you serious?!

Dains a really neat name(I go for seldom used names), but I dont know if I'd choose Tormax...not that its a bad name or anything or....*sigh* *removes foot from mouth*

[Lilosh]

My first born is Named Yelniak.

She doesnt move much, but if anyone gets near her, without alot of Candy/Toy faction work, they are toast.


-Lilosh

[Farnyr]

Noish, this is no way sarcastic, but, you have children? I didnt know....

[Lilosh]

I dont.

[Mnemosyne]

I went over a friend's house last night to hang out in real life instead of hanging out in game. We pulled out her old tarot cards for fun and laid out a spread. I looked down at her cards and noticed she had quite a few Major Arc. cards in the 8 card spread and said (and I can't believe I said it outloud) "Wow, look at all those Named cards." She looked at me and answered: (all seriously) "I wonder if they drop the phat lewt, or just my fortune." /sigh I think I'm going to be taking longer than just a week off from this game. :roll:


Morgani Windlance
55 Preserver of the Nameless

<edit> I ninja'd the spelling mistakes

[Varlik]

Can y'all imagine what kind of kids Lilosh would have and their personalities? I mean, he DOES do Tech Support at a help desk.


j/k

[Gargazon]

Yah Garga.... you lost me at 'wife went out of her way to buy something for you without knowing why'.... was funny until you went all science fiction there.

That coupled with the rarity of 'dots' and the absurd lengths needed to go to to acquire them shows that your post was entirely made up.

Sorry, a bit tired... and I have no clue what a stack of Dots is, and I've played the game almost a year, hehe.

forgot to read this thread for a while. Anyhow, dots are indeed slang for peridots. and the other dots are the candy ones on paper. They are pretty horrible. Wal-mart apparently carries them though since my wife found them there.

[Dunthor Warsmith]

I say "sigh" more than I actually sigh now, and frequently say "laugh" (although I've so far avoided saying "laugh out loud"). Camp, nuke, and loot have found their way into common vocabulary, as have most "action" words. They just apply so nicely to RL, where other words fit but not so cleanly.

The peridot abbrevation dot confused me for a long time ... kept wondering why the cleric was talking about Damage over Time ;) Eventually caught on though ... I've heard them referred to as peri's a handful of times, but at least on Tunare that's a rare abbreviation. I call them "peridohs" as well, but still call the abbreviation "dots" ... doesn't make much sense, but oh well.

The primary way EQ has invaded my consciousness is Gate. My main is a melee, but I have a number of caster alts. When I'm sleepy and thinking about a trip or on a trip, and dreading the length, I've actually thought 'At least I'll only have to go one way, I can gate back' (occasionally altered to 'Do I have gate (on this char)? Then I can just gate back which would make this so much better'). Really sucks when I wake up enough to realize I can't gate, or when I try to actually remember HOW to gate and remember this is life, not EQ.

[Minta Rose]

Run, run, skip, skip. . .look behind an' wonder "where's skellie?". . .

[EnfinitiStarr8]

When you are working on a group project and someone says "Write down we are looking for people with the most money." And you write down "We are looking for the people with the most Plat." :shock:

[Moonlilly]

Your Magelo Profile looks like this. (http://www.magelo.com/eq_view_profile.html?num=608212)

(of course its fake)

[EnfinitiStarr8]

You know you play it too much when...

~you are typeing a paper and your group mate says people with a lot of money and you write people with a lot of Plat.

~you start seeing your friend's name about there heads with "guild tags" saying friend, co-worker, classmate...

~you want to send your friend a /tell using a cell phone.

[EnfinitiStarr8]

Oh, and Moonlilly, that's nothing, check out this one....

Enfiniti's Dream (http://www.magelo.com/eq_view_profile.html?num=63851)

And yes, it is fake.

Better Lothay?

[Lothay]

And yes, it is fake.

Better Lothay?

I only care about the size of the disclaimer when you're adding to a research thread. For fun, do as thou wilt, provided you don't break the rules.

~Lothay
~Evidently the resident meanie.

[Grenoble]

Getting a munchie out of the vending machine at work....and noticing that it's number is C3....

Looking at a personalized license plate and thinking of it as a "guildtag"...

Yeah, I have my moments too :roll:

[Nhin Impious]

One of our accounts at the answering service had a note that the person taking the company phone calls after hours on their cell phone was planning on being OUT OF RANGE that evening.

For a split second, I tried to right-click their name and /con them to see if they were out of range...

Bah, I hate when my EQ habits and my work habits cross...

Nhinx Aphsion