Some gamers are just plain scarey...

ArmyofHarmony said:
You did come off like one of those guys who correct people's grammar in chat rooms and warn people about removing swears from ocuk cause it gives you kicks.... can't believe you apologised for calling him a t....

i can understand if there is a risk of getting banned for swearing or something?

maybe that guy has no legs and one arm or something...never know, but living in an mmo might be his only release
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Yes I was being a bit of an idiot too
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From my original post, should I go ahead and bold it so people actually read it? If you like I'll swap the 'bit of an' to 'complete' too.

Why shouldn't I apologise for something I consider to have been out of order?
 
uhmm did you ask his permission if it was ok to post private convos on public forums? (yeah i know i'm being old fashioned here)
 
Looking at the chat the guy was basically saying he didn't care and you were the one who kept acting pretentious and not letting the matter drop.

Now you're making fun of him because he plays the game a lot. :rolleyes:
 
mart981 said:
Looking at the chat the guy was basically saying he didn't care and you were the one who kept acting pretentious and not letting the matter drop.

Now you're making fun of him because he plays the game a lot. :rolleyes:
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Here we go again... I've already admitted to being an idiot in the convo :rolleyes:

Making fun? no, saying it's scarey, yes.
 
Dano said:
Here we go again... I've already admitted to being an idiot in the convo :rolleyes:

Making fun? no, saying it's scarey, yes.
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Firstly you got angry because some guy didn't acknowledge your apology. Now you seem to be getting frustrated that people don't see the the situation in the same way as you do. Unbelievable! Hint, hint, don't post these sort of things on internet forums if you can't accept that some people might not agree with you.
 
No, I didn't get angry, I said I found it scarey, but yes I am getting frustrated but not because people don't see the situation the same as me but because they are clearly unable to read, you included.
 
Dano said:
Not scarey as in fill your pants scarey but scarey like, dude, do you even realise there is a world outside?

Was playing some EverQuest2 tonight, bunch of friends were on and we were hitting a zone called Karnor's Castle, Eq1 vets will recognise the name I'm sure :) Anyway, we had fought our way down to a named mob for a quest update, had a good little fight and killed him on our second attempt after I *ahem* screwed up the last try.

There was another mob some of our group needed not far away, he was showing on my tracking so off we trotted to go kill him, we get to the room and find somebody had already engaged the mob and locked the encounter, now alywas interested to see how people solo the harder mobs we stood around to watch, the guy in question then piped up with 'I'm not gonna wipe so GTFO' which we felt was obviously a little rude, comments were exchanged and I made a comment that I shouldn't have done, it was nothing really bad, I just called him a <four letter word, begins with T, not sure if it's considered swearing here or not...>

After about five minutes had passed I sent him a tell to apologise as I really don't like to be rude to people at all, this is the conversation that followed, while the convo was going on I happened to be looking up the guy on eqplayers.com to discover that the character was created Mar 7, 2005 and has logged a total of 495 days 12 hours 18 minutes played :eek:



Yes I was being a bit of an idiot too, but 495 days in 3 years!?!?!? Why in the 'verse (on earth just doesn't cut it tbh) would I ever want to spend that much time to play to his standards? Would any of you, have any of you ever played that much for so long?

Take into account a few hours here and there for sleep, food and toiletries and that leaves you with what for life?

As I said, scarey :eek:

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Sounds like he is doing that in life which he enjoys without causing anyone any harm. Your life is what you make it, if spending that amount of time in a game enlightens your life then go for it. Its the same thing that drives people to explore, climb mountians or tend a garden. All totaly pointless at the end of the day but so is life when you think about it. For all you know he could be wheelchair bound and the game is his window to a world in which he is not.
 
I've had people /completely/ scream me out in ooc and shout before when I lent a hand in helping them kill a mob.

Imagine getting up to let a female sit down, or opening the door for her, and have her turn around and have a go at you for being a chauvanist pig.

That sort of thing.

So, no. Not anymore. I would wait until the guy wiped or killed the mob before stepping in. Unless he expressly asked for help, I would watch and wait. I speak from experience, I've been burned too many times in the past for helping -- the OP called it correctly.

As for the argument that ensued, well I learned my lesson in Rathe mountains killing Hill Giants in EQ1. For anyone who doesn't know what these are, Hill Giants are tough, soloable mobs that are contested because they drop a load of plat. They're very popular (or were, anyway) and heavily camped. I snared one, and another player ran up and started nuking it. And argument between us played out in shout (I'm sure you've all seen these.. ahem.. 'discussions' before, and probably got involved in a few yourselves). It got worse, and we ended up trying to train HG's on each other.

Cut a long story short, after that incident I vowed to myself I would never let greed get in the way of my playing experience. It's just not worth it over what essentially is a bunch of pixels. Let it slide.
 
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Yeah but it could be worse. Have you been on xbox live. It seems to be more populated with people who are just annoying rather then people who want a good game. I've found TF2 to be populated with decent like minded gamers which is great :)
 
I know the guy you mean but only by reputation. No idea what he's doing on LDL though. He was Dissolution's Warlock on Nek and those guys have no lives outside EQ2
 
If the guy wants to play a game that much, that's his perogative.

Things get misconstrued in games, msn, anything where you can't see the person. This means you can't be 100% on their reactions, meanings etc.

A large pinch of salt is required in online games! :)
 
Nothing, very "scary" about it. Who knows, maybe he is a programmer, server admin, etc and has his computer on with the game running in the background for the majority of the time and only pops in for a few minutes to chat with is online buddies. He has been playing since 2005, so clearly he is dedicated to his hobby; what is the problem here?

Seems to me you got upset, couldn't let it go and are now using his game time to blatantly **** him off.
 
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Is it physically possible to play for that much time? I'd say there's more chance there's a bug in his playtime count. I mean, you would proably be crippled with arthiritus and have some severe mental and other health issues if you play a game 11 hours a day for 3 years!
 
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