just venting, airing out, talking shit, personal beefs, problems, anger management, and etc thread

[xbuzzerx]

It seems like the more one plays online games, the more "serious" one becomes, in pretty much all senses of the term. New occasional players talk about how fun it is. Hardcore ones bitch about the latest patch or how that asshole in the guild fucked up the last quest. I'm thinking that might be true to some extent f most "hobbies", though - God knows my movie-obsessed friend can be vicious if you talk about movies wrong.

Lex

When you hear jargon about guilds and guild drama and stuff you're hearing about MMO's which have notoriously elitist and hardcore crowds. There really isn't very much in an MMO for a casual or light gamer as they pretty much all revolve around heavy timesinking to get anywhere... and keep you paying that monthly fee. There are "casuals" in MMO's but they never get anywhere and they're probably not the people most likely to talk about gaming.

 

[maxpowr9]

>implying gamers need any qualification to QQ.

You must be a Sony fanboy then. Just wait till they charge the same fee as Microsoft for online materials.

 

[dereperez]

When you hear jargon about guilds and guild drama and stuff you're hearing about MMO's which have notoriously elitist and hardcore crowds. There really isn't very much in an MMO for a casual or light gamer as they pretty much all revolve around heavy timesinking to get anywhere... and keep you paying that monthly fee. There are "casuals" in MMO's but they never get anywhere and they're probably not the people most likely to talk about gaming.

I used to very lightly play WoW; played on my own terms only. Didn't get sucked into that raiding "thing" and enjoyed the game in a way that most people questioned how I could enjoy it. I hate having to make raid times or structure my life around log-on schedules...never saw the fun in that.

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Lady Sybil died.



<a tear or two fell>

One of my favorite shows. Her death was definitely a shocker. I did NOT like the Xmas special to Season 3 though.

 

[xbuzzerx]

You must be a Sony fanboy then. Just wait till they charge the same fee as Microsoft for online materials.

Errrr uh? I don't console game at all.

I used to very lightly play WoW; played on my own terms only. Didn't get sucked into that raiding "thing" and enjoyed the game in a way that most people questioned how I could enjoy it. I hate having to make raid times or structure my life around log-on schedules...never saw the fun in that.

Agree. I consider myself permanently out of the MMO market. The fact that they're all just WOW clones now would be a secondary reason after the one you mention.

 

[maxpowr9]

Lady Sybil died.



<a tear or two fell>

SPOILER!!!!...

Spoiler

just wait till Matt dies in the season finale

 

[dereperez]

Errrr uh? I don't console game at all.



Agree. I consider myself permanently out of the MMO market. The fact that they're all just WOW clones now would be a secondary reason after the one you mention.

A lot of peeps talk crap about WoW every time a new flavor of the month MMO comes out. Last I read, WoW still has by far the most subscribers. AFAIK, SWTOR died a quick death, after being lauded as being much better than WoW.

 

[dereperez]

SPOILER!!!!...

Spoiler

just wait till Matt dies in the season finale

That finale was so forced. I mean I understand that said actor/actress needed to leave the show due to film project in the U.S....but it was the silliest and most cheesiest thing ever....

 

[xbuzzerx]

A lot of peeps talk crap about WoW every time a new flavor of the month MMO comes out. Last I read, WoW still has by far the most subscribers. AFAIK, SWTOR died a quick death, after being lauded as being much better than WoW.

It's not really so much an issue of whether WOW taken by itself was a good or bad game. It's that every single MMO has followed its formula to the letter practically in terms of-- timesink, level, raid. They could do a lot more with the genre than just copy WOW but that's almost all they've done, and if someone wants WOW why would t hey not just play WOW?

 

[dereperez]

It's not really so much an issue of whether WOW taken by itself was a good or bad game. It's that every single MMO has followed its formula to the letter practically in terms of-- timesink, level, raid. They could do a lot more with the genre than just copy WOW but that's almost all they've done, and if someone wants WOW why would t hey not just play WOW?

One could see why they would copy WoW. It's a "winning" formula. Just give it it's own storyline/plotline and own character classes.

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I hope I didn't hurt you too much with our catfight



I have to wake up in 4 hours. And I have a 45 minute commute. Crying.

Why are you still up?? Insomnia?

 

[xbuzzerx]

One could see why they would copy WoW. It's a "winning" formula. Just give it it's own storyline/plotline and own character classes.

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Why are you still up?? Insomnia?

It's a winning game as far as it was a commercial success. Every game that laid out in some cases hundreds of millions of dollars to copy it and then flopped commercially, not so much. So I have no idea why they keep doing it.

And it's only 10pm here.

 

[dereperez]

It's a winning game as far as it was a commercial success. Every game that laid out in some cases hundreds of millions of dollars to copy it and then flopped commercially, not so much. So I have no idea why they keep doing it.

And it's only 10pm here.

I was talking to Kien about the insomnia. It's past 1am over there, and he supposedly has to get up in 4 hours.

 

[xbuzzerx]

Oh oops. GO TO SLEEP KIEN. Stop failing!

 

[Axxess]

I can't read in my dreams. When I force myself to, the words don't make sense. I remember seeing something written underneath a picture of fish. I forced myself to read it, and it said something like "Fish fish grobol hakala fish". In short, it read like Sloppy Seconds wrote it.

And if it isn't real life, you still may as well live it like it were.

Lex

Well, according to an episode of Batman, reading is a function of the right side of the brain while dreaming is a part of the left, so it's impossible to read in a dream. But then again it is a children's cartoon, so it could've just been made up.

 

[frankfrank]

I'll up the ante.

I seldom retire before 4am in the morning; I stay up until 5am not infrequently.

I'll see your five and raise you four.

Until I calibrated my schedule 11 days ago, I was going to bed about 9 in the morning.

 

[G-Lexington]

I usually wake up around 6am. Not planned - it just happens.

Lex

 

[G-Lexington]

A couple years back, I decided to film an It Gets Better video. I thought most of them I'd seen up to that point were powerful, but weren't very visually interesting. So I thought I'd try to change that by filming in several locations, starting at my old high school and ending in a group of supportive people. After mulling over the last shot (and the difficulty of getting a ton of people together just to stand near me for a video), I decided to enlist some help.

I asked a local band if I could "co-opt their crowd". I asked if I could film the last few sentences of my video on stage at their next concert, end with me saying "It gets better", have the crowd cheer, and then fade out. The band was really cool and said yes, and helped make it happen. It wasn't a huge crowd - maybe a hundred - but it worked out pretty well, other than being really damn dark. I then introduced the band, and they began playing.

The band's name was Churchill. They've since signed to a label, they're touring the US, and their first single "Change" is climbing the charts. Best of luck to them, and wishing them all the success in the world.

Lex

 

[refujiunderground]

A couple years back, I decided to film an It Gets Better video. I thought most of them I'd seen up to that point were powerful, but weren't very visually interesting. So I thought I'd try to change that by filming in several locations, starting at my old high school and ending in a group of supportive people. After mulling over the last shot (and the difficulty of getting a ton of people together just to stand near me for a video), I decided to enlist some help.

I asked a local band if I could "co-opt their crowd". I asked if I could film the last few sentences of my video on stage at their next concert, end with me saying "It gets better", have the crowd cheer, and then fade out. The band was really cool and said yes, and helped make it happen. It wasn't a huge crowd - maybe a hundred - but it worked out pretty well, other than being really damn dark. I then introduced the band, and they began playing.

The band's name was Churchill. They've since signed to a label, they're touring the US, and their first single "Change" is climbing the charts. Best of luck to them, and wishing them all the success in the world.

Lex

congratulations to them. lex, you're a known celebrity in colorado but you're humble so you're keeping it on the low. i heard about you.

but i'll get something off my chest. i'm in a bad mood over something personal which has nothing to do with the members on here. at this point however, i feel like taking out my anger on anybody on here preferably somebody that wants drama, has a problem with me or has pissed me off at some point. i'm going to try my hardest to simply not post if i continue to feel like this until i feel better. i'm not going to argue or go back in forth with anybody that pisses me off on here.

okay done.

 

[EuroSoccer]

God, it's so fucking cold.

Better?

 

[refujiunderground]

God, it's so fucking cold.

thought you guys were used to that type of weather over on the other side of the atlantic?

 

[G-Lexington]

Or we can vote on which JUBber gets your wrath today. Either/or.

Lex