Hi Zam-WoW community,
I was thinking earlier today; during my freshmen year of college I came across a youtube/news video about this kid who was hooked on WoW. There are also a few shows that talk about this life changing kind of game--The Guild, to name one. So it struck me today, I'd like to know what you all do outside of the game, or, if you do play all day, what you would be doing if you were not playing.
So, what do you, the interesting person behind the monitor reading this post right now, do?
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Tell me anything; tell me anything and everything. I am genuinely curious.
One last thing, I am not just asking what you do for "work", lol though that fine too, but stuff going on that makes you "you"; for instance, I play the guitar, but very poorly I might add. In other words, what do you love to do that is not WoW (or MMO) related?
@Ollamnh what is that saying about sanity? those who question if they are insane are really sane, and those who question their sanity are really insane? Something like that. I highly doubt you are the epitome of boredom.
@PigtailsOfDoom I've heard that SW:TOR is a really good MMO, and I am also an English major :D Get that sh*t done with man! Because at some point an English degree will equal a high school diploma :P
Edited, Feb 1st 2012 12:28am by ovshanevo
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I haven't really been playing much recently. I typically only log in once a week, to do a Firelands run to absorb essences for my legendary.
But aside from WoW, I play SW:TOR a bit (haven't played it in a few days either), and I'm currently looking for work. I'm taking some time off school, and I'm majoring in English with a minor in Medieval Studies, with the career goal to be a high school English teacher.
But aside from WoW, I play SW:TOR a bit (haven't played it in a few days either), and I'm currently looking for work. I'm taking some time off school, and I'm majoring in English with a minor in Medieval Studies, with the career goal to be a high school English teacher.
ovshanevo wrote:
So, what do you, the interesting person behind the monitor reading this post right now, do?
Sorry to disappoint you, but I pride myself on being the the epitome of UNinteresting, the very Avatar of Boredom.
Currently unemployed, do some volunteer work to stay sane. Odd jobs, I prefer the physical stuff to socializing, so I'm glad we're reaching the time of year when things warm up and there are various landscaping/repair projects. It's nice to drive past a school that used to be a run-down church and see the places I know I helped clean it up. With social stuff it's harder to convince myself I made a difference without fishing for sompliments.
Now that my post-surgery recovery is out of the way I'm back in the job market, I play wow as a diversion. But I have been spending more time on Steam games lately just to change things up.
I farm... well not in big-ag sense I don't have thousands of acres of mono-crop but I get great enjoyment of my berry bushes and can the produce they give me and the rest of the garden has really cut what I need to buy meal-wise. I raise animals cows, chickens, pigs so far but this year I am looking to do rabbits and worms for composting. I like the hands on... I get much more satisfaction from hauling water for the animals (though I do have automation plans for some of it as I "See" ways to improve the operation) ie directing the rain off the barn roof to a raised tank to water the animals instead of hauling it :) Not really automating it but lightening my load) than I EVER got from going to the gym and paying for the priviledge.
I farm... well not in big-ag sense I don't have thousands of acres of mono-crop but I get great enjoyment of my berry bushes and can the produce they give me and the rest of the garden has really cut what I need to buy meal-wise. I raise animals cows, chickens, pigs so far but this year I am looking to do rabbits and worms for composting. I like the hands on... I get much more satisfaction from hauling water for the animals (though I do have automation plans for some of it as I "See" ways to improve the operation) ie directing the rain off the barn roof to a raised tank to water the animals instead of hauling it :) Not really automating it but lightening my load) than I EVER got from going to the gym and paying for the priviledge.
I do whatever currently holds my fancy. Right now, it's Pathfinder RPG, a few shows on Netflix(Malcolm in the Middle and Burn Notice get much of my attention), whatever game I'm playing right now(replaying Mass Effect 1 and 2 in preparation for ME3's upcoming release), watch TV and anime in general with my roommates.
In addition to all that, I visit my parents once a week, try to keep the house just above unacceptable on a cleanliness level, cook most of our meals and work five nights a week.
In addition to all that, I visit my parents once a week, try to keep the house just above unacceptable on a cleanliness level, cook most of our meals and work five nights a week.
I take care of my family, crochet, get into trouble with controversial topics with FB friends who post said topics, and I adore cooking :). And when not pregnant, lol expecting 2nd kid, I go to the gym and run 8 miles a day on the elliptical. :)
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I woo women with my sensuous and godlike trombone playing, I can pilot bicycles up severe inclines with unflagging speed, and I cook Thirty-Minute Brownies in twenty minutes. I am an expert in stucco, a veteran in love, and an outlaw in Peru.
Using only a hoe and a large glass of water, I once single-handedly defended a small village in the Amazon Basin from a horde of ferocious army ants. I play bluegrass cello, I was scouted by the Mets. I am the subject of numerous documentaries. When I'm bored, I build large suspension bridges in my yard. I enjoy urban hang gliding. On Wednesdays, after school, I repair electrical applicances free of charge.
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I can hurl tennis rackets at small moving objects with deadly accuracy. I once read Paradise Lost, Moby ****, and David Copperfield in one day and still had time to refurbish an entire dining room that evening. I know the exact location of every food item in the supermarket. I have performed covert operations for the CIA. I sleep once a week; when I do sleep, I sleep in a chair. While on vacation in Canada, I successfully negotiated with a group of terrorists who had seized a small bakery. The laws of physics do not apply to me.
I balance, I weave, I dodge, I frolic, and my bills are all paid. On weekends, to let off steam, I participate in full contact origami.
Years ago I discovered the meaning of life but forgot to write it down.
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That's a very old one (like, we were sending it around via VMS mail in 1992), and certainly not written by me, but I think it about sums it up.
Okay really I'm a stay-at-home mom, so, I don't get "spare time" in the traditional sense. When I choose to ignore the laundry, I instead write, read, game, or occasionally watch TV.
When I'm not playing WoW or Skyrim, I work a full time 7-4 job during the weekdays. Two days during the week, I leave work slightly earlier to make it to school for my class that starts at 4 which lasts about 2 hours. I'm currently working on my Bachelors in Criminology which I hope to be done with by the end of the summer semester. When I'm not doing this, I've currently been training myself to pass the physical abilities test for our local PD, in hopes to get into the academy and leave this dead-end job of mine.
When I'm not playing games, or working on schoolwork, I'm usually cleaning the house and cooking dinner. I'm amazed at how I can find the time to play games, but I do find it. It's the only way for me to relax after dealing with idiotic people at work.
When I'm not playing games, or working on schoolwork, I'm usually cleaning the house and cooking dinner. I'm amazed at how I can find the time to play games, but I do find it. It's the only way for me to relax after dealing with idiotic people at work.
I'm a protein chemist. Money earned from that endeavor goes to fund the wife's child rearing project. I also raise and sell a variety of genitally engineered wombats on the black market.
At this moment I have one computer that is insisting on running chkdsk, another that is busy zipping files and doing a database search, a protein digest in the incubator, and a year-end budget summary I'm procrastinating on.
Also I'm drinking coffee; it's delicious.
Edited, Feb 1st 2012 8:05am by someproteinguy
At this moment I have one computer that is insisting on running chkdsk, another that is busy zipping files and doing a database search, a protein digest in the incubator, and a year-end budget summary I'm procrastinating on.
Also I'm drinking coffee; it's delicious.
Edited, Feb 1st 2012 8:05am by someproteinguy
That monster in the mirror, he just might be you. -Grover
Teacakes, happy to know I'm not the only stay at home Mom here :). Was beginning to think I was the only one left in the world! Lol joking :)
When I'm not playing WoW, I'm usually playing something else. Or sleeping.
I study on the side, so it's not like I'm at the computer all the time, just most of the time.
I study on the side, so it's not like I'm at the computer all the time, just most of the time.
Please "talk up" if your comprehension white-shifts. I will use simple-happy language-words to help you understand.
I work full-time. I usually go visit my elderly mother on Sundays (long drive). Occasionally I will cook something or do some household chores that need doing. I chat with my boyfriend about all sorts of things.
Mostly though, I play games. Recently I opened up a Steam account and I picked up a lot of interesting games around Christmastime on sale. There are several that I have been working on lately like Morrowind and Dungeons of Dreadmor. Terraria is also quite fun and addicting as well as King's Bounty.
Before I played WoW, I played other games like Civilization and Heroes of Might & Magic. Before that I used to play a lot of board and card games. I've been a gamer since my teens when I used to spend hours playing with my Atari 2600. I don't have too many other hobbies at the moment but I also used to do ceramics, painting, cross-stitch, gardening and lots of other things that tended to cost me more money than WoW does.
Mostly though, I play games. Recently I opened up a Steam account and I picked up a lot of interesting games around Christmastime on sale. There are several that I have been working on lately like Morrowind and Dungeons of Dreadmor. Terraria is also quite fun and addicting as well as King's Bounty.
Before I played WoW, I played other games like Civilization and Heroes of Might & Magic. Before that I used to play a lot of board and card games. I've been a gamer since my teens when I used to spend hours playing with my Atari 2600. I don't have too many other hobbies at the moment but I also used to do ceramics, painting, cross-stitch, gardening and lots of other things that tended to cost me more money than WoW does.
I'm aghast and insulted at the insinuations and assumptions that everyone here plays Warcraft.
Good. Day. Sir.
Good. Day. Sir.
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When I'm not playing WoW I'm usually involved in a number of other anti-social behaviors. I use to prefer heinous crimes, but they brought too much attention. Now I resort to certain forms of animal cruelty. The fuzzier the funnier, that's my motto.
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I used to do other activities, but then i took an arrow to the knee…
I work full time during the day, then go home and try to relieve the wife who is a stay at home mom right now. Evenings normally include fun activities such as giving our son a bath, feeding him, and saying the word "no" 156 times before bed time.
I don't have much time anymore for anything lol
I don't have much time anymore for anything lol
Please "talk up" if your comprehension white-shifts. I will use simple-happy language-words to help you understand.
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I also raise and sell a variety of genitally engineered wombats on the black market.
Those must command a pretty penny.
Mazra wrote:
I work in adverting and used to play WoW about 4-5 hours a week. Usually just a casual Friday night raid. Currently I'm playing SWTOR, roughly 4-5 hours a week.
When away from my computer, I love to stay active. I play soccer 2 nights a week for the running and I walk my puppy, whom I adopted recently, every night. My life long friend and I are also on a trivia league team and do that once a week.
I'm trying to stay active and in shape before I get too old. Just a casual gamer.
When away from my computer, I love to stay active. I play soccer 2 nights a week for the running and I walk my puppy, whom I adopted recently, every night. My life long friend and I are also on a trivia league team and do that once a week.
I'm trying to stay active and in shape before I get too old. Just a casual gamer.
Well, for recreation I've mostly played WoW for the past 3 or so years I guess. I've taken hiatuses (hiatii?) and played Civ V for a bit but bored of it quickly, and recently spent a couple months on Skyrim only WoWing for raid nights, but I'm kind of bored of Skyrim now too and have been back to WoW full time.
For work, I do maintenance at large apartment complex.
I got to within one class shy of a forensics degree but never finished. I've also gone to school for cooking, music, and English. I've played guitar off and on for 25 years or so but haven't really picked one up in a couple years now. I do have a collection of about 20 assorted guitars/basses/mandolins and a pile of amps and effects. Probably ought to get back on that some time.
For my useta's, I played soccer growing up for 12 years or so and bowled competitively for quite a while. It's expensive to pay your way through the pro tour though and being young with a growing family it wasn't going to happen.
WoW is a cheap diversion and I can sit here and talk to the family and watch shows with them while I'm on it.
For work, I do maintenance at large apartment complex.
I got to within one class shy of a forensics degree but never finished. I've also gone to school for cooking, music, and English. I've played guitar off and on for 25 years or so but haven't really picked one up in a couple years now. I do have a collection of about 20 assorted guitars/basses/mandolins and a pile of amps and effects. Probably ought to get back on that some time.
For my useta's, I played soccer growing up for 12 years or so and bowled competitively for quite a while. It's expensive to pay your way through the pro tour though and being young with a growing family it wasn't going to happen.
WoW is a cheap diversion and I can sit here and talk to the family and watch shows with them while I'm on it.
LillithaFenimore wrote:
Teacakes, happy to know I'm not the only stay at home Mom here :). Was beginning to think I was the only one left in the world! Lol joking :)
I live in the (US) South, where you can't swing a dead cat without hitting a SAHM (and where it is also perfectly legal to swing dead cats). I always joke that when we lived up north, small talk was "Where do you work?" and as we progressed further south it went from "Do you work?" to "Where does your husband work?" Don't think it's a cultural-values kind of thing, the cost of living just supports it better here.
Protein - um, did you mean genetically engineered, or... ?
Rawdeal made me LOL.
teacake wrote:
Protein - um, did you mean genetically engineered, or... ?
Probably. The pre-coffee brain accepts all firefox spelling suggestions without hesitation.
Also am the husband of a stay at home mom. In our neck of the woods it's pretty rare. My wife drops off the little one at pre-school and runs into mostly nannies and babysitters.
That monster in the mirror, he just might be you. -Grover
I've been in WoW primarily as a solo player for just over 5 years now. I don't play any other games, although once a year I might dip into Linux Mahjong or Shisen-sho for a few weeks at a time. I used to write text adventure games in the 70's/80's in various programming languages, but none of them made it into distribution.
Currently I work doing technical customer support for PeopleSoft North American Payroll during the day, and I know just two other people in my local office (of about 100+ people) that also play WoW, although it rarely comes up in conversation. Because of the long commute to/from work, I only have a few hours of the evening left, but usually this is spent with my spouse or entertaining our kittens. So WoW is usually left for weekends or on days that I might telecommute instead.
In other free time, we both like to go for walks / hikes / snowshoeing and spend time reading (usually at cafes). I (would) like to get out on my road-bike some more for fitness (used to race competitively in the 80's), but rainy weather up here in Vancouver limits that. My hobbies are mostly photography, computers and finding new delis, cafes or restaurants to eat lunch at during weekdays.
Kind of bland, eh?
Currently I work doing technical customer support for PeopleSoft North American Payroll during the day, and I know just two other people in my local office (of about 100+ people) that also play WoW, although it rarely comes up in conversation. Because of the long commute to/from work, I only have a few hours of the evening left, but usually this is spent with my spouse or entertaining our kittens. So WoW is usually left for weekends or on days that I might telecommute instead.
In other free time, we both like to go for walks / hikes / snowshoeing and spend time reading (usually at cafes). I (would) like to get out on my road-bike some more for fitness (used to race competitively in the 80's), but rainy weather up here in Vancouver limits that. My hobbies are mostly photography, computers and finding new delis, cafes or restaurants to eat lunch at during weekdays.
Kind of bland, eh?
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I'd like to know what you all do outside of the game, or, if you do play all day, what you would be doing if you were not playing.
I don't do all that much. I play guitar, exercise and read books. Would've never believed that someday I'd get into reding books, but oh well, it's great. One of the most relaxing ways I know to spend time is reading a book in a bath. That is seriously awesome.
Maybe even take something small, like grapes, to eat and something to drink. I can find myself being in the bath for over an hour sometimes.
Right now it's way too cold outside (-20c today), otherwise I would be thrownig basketball or playing some soccer outside every now and then and go for runs.
All that being said, I love playing WoW and I'm online most days.
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