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[Recidiva]

LotRO has inbuilt voice chat in game, and quite a good one too. People use it a lot and seriously you cant do lot of complicated group stuff without voice, typing is not an option lot of times.

I was surprised when I found out my GM in LotRO was a woman, she mostly used her male character. On the other hand her husband had all female toons. We had more than few chuckles with unsuspecting people trying to hit on him

Yeah, that's more my experience. People hit on my husband all the time and call me "Sir" respectfully enough that it's really all about selling an image and nobody questions it. I guess the point is more that you really can only tell the bad roleplayers, and you wouldn't suspect the good ones.

I don't use voice chat, bumps me straight out of any roleplay I'm trying to do. I have negative interest in raiding or gear. I'm there for immersion. Nothing for me is less immersive or more irritating than rolling for gear. So I guess I'm just in a much more gender-ambiguous (if not irrelevant) place. But when the gender of the actual player has become known, I've been surprised enough times to really never assume. Although jokingly I've made up a rule. If you try to call me "sis" - you're probably a guy. Who talks like that?

I think the folks that are the loudest or most obnoxious about cyber or gear or riding other people in game just aren't there for the same reasons I'm there, so we rarely cross paths (other than me putting them on ignore) or get into any depth about anything.

Also, if that's their main interest in the game, I think it would be unfair for me to expect backstory or character development or staying in character, so we just won't have anything in common. But of those people that do value backstory or roleplay ability or capacity, I've found incredibly talented people, male and female.

 

[PertPerth]

As there's no way to tell the actual gender of the real player unless you know the person, someone's chosen gender online doesn't mean it reflects the gender identity of the player.

Quoted for emphasis. I have several guy friends who play female characters. And I have a male one (though he's currently gathering dust). My grandmother was onto something when she said taht I should have been a boy - I am good at maths, enjoy games... and I kick some online ass whilst gaming (without sucking up to the boys) and I do it in pink high heels.

 

[Recidiva]

Quoted for emphasis. I have several guy friends who play female characters. And I have a male one (though he's currently gathering dust). My grandmother was onto something when she said taht I should have been a boy - I am good at maths, enjoy games... and I kick some online ass whilst gaming (without sucking up to the boys) and I do it in pink high heels.

I'm good at math. I'm bad at sucking up.

And my keyboard glows a soft purple.

 

[StrayKat]

and I do it in pink high heels.

Now that is an interesting subject - what do you wear when playing games.

I have some 10 bathrobes in different colors, I change them depending on mood, no underwear and my husbands old slippers 5 sizes too big for my feet. Sexy huh?

 

[Recidiva]

Now that is an interesting subject - what do you wear when playing games.

I have some 10 bathrobes in different colors, I change them depending on mood, no underwear and my husbands old slippers 5 sizes too big for my feet. Sexy huh?

Black sheepskin ankle slippers.

I have pink fluffy ones and such...but these are the most comfortable. And my feet are size 12, I have to shop where drag queens shop if I want anything girly.

I work at home, but I do get dressed. Except for the slippers thing.

 

[Homburg]

I work largely from home, with frequent trips into the field. When I'm home, I'm almost always wearing shorts of some sort and sandals.

 

[StrayKat]

And my feet are size 12, I have to shop where drag queens shop if I want anything girly.

I know only EU sizes, I wear 35 and I have to shop in Italy to find something that isnt for kids. God punished me with tiny feet for some reason.

 

[Homburg]

Do you have small hands too? If so, it may be related to an enzyme issue during puberty. A friend of mine is this broad-shouldered, 6'1" tall guy with teeny tiny hands and feet. The feet are an issue as they hurt when he runs. As he is in the military, this is a problem. His feet are just not large enough to distribute the stress of his body running. His small hands, however, are an asset, as he is in the military as a surgeon. Smaller hands mean smaller incisions, which is a good thing for the patient.

Anyway, when he was in med school, he learned that it was a nutritional defect during puberty.

 

[StrayKat]

Yes, small hands too, I can never find gloves either.
But I am small overall, I doubt its nutrition since my mother insisted on feeding me on all kind of "healthy" food. Maybe it was my very early puberty, I got completely formed and stopped growing when I was 13.
I come from genetically small family from my mothers/grandmothers side as well, lots of small and annoying females with distinct similarity in looks and temper. We didnt have a boy born in the family for generations.

 

[Homburg]

Oh, he ate fine too. It is nutritional in the sense that treatment requires a dietary supplement, not in the sense that the person doesn't get enough food.

Apparently, it is undiagnosed almost 100% of the time, as how can you tell your kids hands and feet aren't growing as quite as quickly as the rest of them?

 

[StrayKat]

Ah it might be then, I never thought about being different much since I have tons of aunts and cousins with small feet. It only comes as annoying when one has to buy particular kind of shoes and most of the time I wear sneakers.

Oddly enough, my kids have relatively normal feet size, not big but not that small either. They were both bigger and taller than me by the age of 15.
Its funny when you wear shoes that your kids grew out of, in my house the "inheriting order" of shoes and clothes was my older daughter, my younger daughter and me in the end

 

[Nymphomaniacal]

Ah it might be then, I never thought about being different much since I have tons of aunts and cousins with small feet. It only comes as annoying when one has to buy particular kind of shoes and most of the time I wear sneakers.

Oddly enough, my kids have relatively normal feet size, not big but not that small either. They were both bigger and taller than me by the age of 15.
Its funny when you wear shoes that your kids grew out of, in my house the "inheriting order" of shoes and clothes was my older daughter, my younger daughter and me in the end

And im opposite I has big feets
Ill give you some of mine so we both even out to medium size how about that??

And as for the gender thing, Im mainly talking about people you CAN hear in ventrilo. There was one girl the other day in our naxx run, bribing the boys trying to get them to come to her 16th birthday party and acting all ditzy. I was like wow, way to be safe!

 

[StrayKat]

And im opposite I has big feets
Ill give you some of mine so we both even out to medium size how about that??

Yes.... I like

And as for the gender thing, Im mainly talking about people you CAN hear in ventrilo. There was one girl the other day in our naxx run, bribing the boys trying to get them to come to her 16th birthday party and acting all ditzy. I was like wow, way to be safe!

Makes you wonder how much parents actually know about what their kids do online these days. I am really glad mine grew out of those "dangerous" years without much interest in internet.

 

[Recidiva]

Makes you wonder how much parents actually know about what their kids do online these days. I am really glad mine grew out of those "dangerous" years without much interest in internet.

My daughter always sent anybody who asked what she looked like a picture of Eddie Izzard.

I her.

 

[Recidiva]

Done with Dragon Age Origins.

I'm sure I'll probably tinker with replaying. Can't right now. Broken heart.

After a few hours of resetting the game to try to get the right options, and failing to do so, I think I'm going to have to concede the field to there being no possibility of a genuinely happy ending. Rather like Fable 2.

Great game though. Made me laugh and cry. Lots.

I'll just have to break a few pieces of furniture and continue cursing for a bit before I give it another try. When I get my spirits back up I'll wade through it as an evil son of a bitch and kill and torture everyone. That'll make me feel better. I might not have a happy ending, but there's still revenge in sight.

There's a slight possibility that if I have no scruples or no morals and want to put in double the effort, I might wrangle something partially resembling a happy ending. Maybe.

Curse you Bioware!

 

[Nymphomaniacal]

My daughter always sent anybody who asked what she looked like a picture of Eddie Izzard.

I her.

Lol nice.

 

[Abraxas Winterlight]

my favotite pet is now Lil K.T.

http://www.wow-turk.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/lilkt.jpg

 

[Recidiva]

Awww...so cute!

What does KT stand for?

 

[Abraxas Winterlight]

Kel'Thuzad

last boss in Naxx

 

[Recidiva]

Kel'Thuzad

last boss in Naxx

Who's a little evil bastard? Who is? You are! YOU ARE! Awww.

 

[Abraxas Winterlight]

he just sounds wicked. has the naxx echo & everything

 

[Abraxas Winterlight]

new quest tracking feature in 3.3

read this & rejoyce

 

[Homburg]

new quest tracking feature in 3.3

read this & rejoyce

Sounds like almost-Questhelper.

 

[Abraxas Winterlight]

Sounds like almost-Questhelper.

it's pretty dang close.

also, they are supposed to have a mechanic to let you see what quests you have completed.

once that goes live I just may try & get that loremaster achievment

 

[Abraxas Winterlight]

Who's a little evil bastard? Who is? You are! YOU ARE! Awww.

little evil bastard. heh.

this is a pet tailor made for a Dom