How is this for awkward?

[Rocketpunk]

Where were you when I posted the "Are there any WoWers up in here?" thread a few months back?!

That's where I got the acronym GIRL (Guy In Real Life).

I haven't played any females, though. Unless you count a male blood elf. ;-)

My teenage son got me playing World of Warcraft for about a year. (It's a really addicting game should you get into it; almost as addicting as ECF.)

You get to choose your character's sex, and both of my characters were human women, a warrior and warlock. You spend the whole game watching your character's backside as they jog from place to place, so I figured I'd rather see a woman's backside more than a guys.

I don't know why I felt like sharing that.

 

[Baditude]

Where were you when I posted the "Are there any WoWers up in here?" thread a few months back?!

That's where I got the acronym GIRL (Guy In Real Life).

I haven't played any females, though. Unless you count a male blood elf. ;-)

I never saw the thread, sorry. I'm so glad I got away from that game. It was literally like having another life in cyberworld, with professions to make money in between completing quests in order to level higher for more powers. To be successful in the game you have to spend hours upon hours playing.

At least when here on ECF, my time online is put to pratical use.

 

[Kopfstimmen]

So, I know I'm late, but is this the "question Rocketpunk's sexuality" thread?
Not to worry, dude, I knew you were a guy. Nice avatar, though.
Regarding your OP, I'm on the side of the "help the guy out" people. If he wants help directly from you, fine. If he wants second hand assistance from his ex, fine, too. Keep in mind that you aren't loaning him money or something. You could be helping him avoid a long and painful death through lung cancer.

 

[Baditude]

So, I know I'm late, but is this the "question Rocketpunk's sexuality" thread?
Not to worry, dude, I knew you were a guy. Nice avatar, though.
Regarding your OP, I'm on the side of the "help the guy out" people. If he wants help directly from you, fine. If he wants second hand assistance from his ex, fine, too. Keep in mind that you aren't loaning him money or something. You could be helping him avoid a long and painful death through lung cancer.

That certainly would be the altruisic approach. Not everyone would be comfortable in that situation, considering the past and current history of the parties involved.

I remember a former girlfriend's mother was friendly enough with her ex that she, her ex and his wife, and her current husband would get together to play cards, rotating the location once a month. I thought that odd, yet admirable, at the same time.

 

[Kopfstimmen]

That certainly would be the altruisic approach. Not everyone would be comfortable in that situation, considering the past and current history of the parties involved.

I remember a former girlfriend's mother was friendly enough with her ex that she, her ex and his wife, and her current husband would get together to play cards, rotating the location once a month. I thought that odd, yet admirable, at the same time.

Well, to my credit, I put my money where my mouth is, too. I remained friends with my ex for a long time after we broke up. I probably still would hang out a little, but I had to move away for job reasons, so we grew apart.
PS. Gotta admit, it could sometimes be a little awkward, though.

 

[Baditude]

Well, to my credit, I put my money where my mouth is, too. I remained friends with my ex for a long time after we broke up. I probably still would hang out a little, but I had to move away for job reasons, so we grew apart.
PS. Gotta admit, it could sometimes be a little awkward, though.

Same here. Although the divorce with my wife was extremely difficult at the time, because we had children together we always made an effort for them to keep their best interests to heart. We eventually became able to be true friends again, even loaning small amounts of money to each other when one or the other was down and out at the time. When she remarried, her current husband couldn't understand our relationship and was extremely (and still is) jealous of me; even though he is a cop and twice my size in height and weight (and carries a loaded gun, to boot).

To this day we avoid physical proximity with each other. He leaves insurance bills for my kids on the windshield of my car instead of knocking on my door and handing them to me.

He doesn't likely know it, but my older teenaged kids treated me and her to go with them to see Loverboy, Pat Benatar, and Journey at an outdoor concert last fall. I have to admit it was a little strange at the time, but our kids loved that we were a family once again if only for an evening. By the way, it was a GREAT concert.

 

[akatina]

Family bonds are always there, and to quote a Cosby episode from the way back machine "Just because I love you doesn't mean I like you right now." (or maybe it's the other way around, I dunno).

My parents were divorced by the time I was 5. They remarried EACH OTHER when I was 18. I testified at their second divorce hearing FROM EACH OTHER in 2008. A year later my dad had a stroke and became unable to care for himself. Guess where he lives. Yup: with my mom...

 

[SilentScreams]

Maybe late but well, I'm with those that say help the guy out. Usually I wouldn't but my thoughts changed a few years ago.

For those saying there might be something weird to it, well there might be but in the end it's the right thing to do.

I know all about the ex's and their new takes... I mean I live with my exfiances folks. We split about 4 years ago. Around 3 years ago we tried again it didn't work. Oh well we tried. Around that time was when the economy was falling apart. I lost my job house car everything. Had it not been for her parents I would have been on the street. They offered me a room helped me find work. Not the best but its work at least. I've lived here now 3 years and we get along ok. There's no arguing we treat other reasonably. Do I like the guy she's with? Hell no. Would I help him? That would depend on the situation. If he wanted to get into vaping I probably would. Anything else and I would probably not.

As for the others in here thinking you were female.... I learned from gaming never assume someone is one or the other. If you want to know ask.... I played WoW SWTOR and so many others I don't remember them all. Female toons does not mean female at the keyboard..... Sometimes those females are a hot set of pixels, take the female Draenei... I mean I don't care if it is a space goat if it were a real thing I wouldn't say no.....

 

[Baditude]

Maybe late but well, I'm with those that say help the guy out. Usually I wouldn't but my thoughts changed a few years ago.

For those saying there might be something weird to it, well there might be but in the end it's the right thing to do.

I know all about the ex's and their new takes... I mean I live with my exfiances folks. We split about 4 years ago. Around 3 years ago we tried again it didn't work. Oh well we tried. Around that time was when the economy was falling apart. I lost my job house car everything. Had it not been for her parents I would have been on the street. They offered me a room helped me find work. Not the best but its work at least. I've lived here now 3 years and we get along ok. There's no arguing we treat other reasonably. Do I like the guy she's with? Hell no. Would I help him? That would depend on the situation. If he wanted to get into vaping I probably would. Anything else and I would probably not.

As for the others in here thinking you were female.... I learned from gaming never assume someone is one or the other. If you want to know ask.... I played WoW SWTOR and so many others I don't remember them all. Female toons does not mean female at the keyboard..... Sometimes those females are a hot set of pixels, take the female Draenei... I mean I don't care if it is a space goat if it were a real thing I wouldn't say no.....

Thanks for sharing that interesting story. Obviously your ex's parents see you as a worthy person of their graceousness, they didn't have to go over and above what they did and are doing for you. God bless them.

Yes, my daughter picked a female Draenei. I tried to level her up for a while to help my daughter, but she wasn't into the game for long. Eventually my son took the character over and it was his main for a long time as a Healer in "raids". That made him very popular; good Healers were always in demand for raids.

 

[fourthrok]

Ive thought you were a chick because of your cute avatar. So now I know. Ha ha

At first I thought you were a girl, too. I figured out that wasn't real likely when you mentioned your "girlfriend" one time. Of course, I thought you could be gay. But something about the way you "talked" told me otherwise!

As for the others in here thinking you were female.... I learned from gaming never assume someone is one or the other. If you want to know ask..

The problem with doing that..at least as a female here...sometimes that's construed by people as being a "come on" or fishing to flirt.

 

[graybuck]

Now I feel really, really, really weird. Like now all of you are gonna search my post history to found out I was really a dude.

Did I... did I come across as effeminate?

NOT THAT THERE'S ANYTHING WRONG WITH IT.

Is this bothering you? Are you struggling with your manhood? Stand proud and shout it out. I AM A MAN, I AM A MAN. Its ok let it out.

 

[Baditude]

Where were you when I posted the "Are there any WoWers up in here?" thread a few months back?!

That's where I got the acronym GIRL (Guy In Real Life).

I haven't played any females, though. Unless you count a male blood elf. ;-)

Out of curiousity, I did an ECF search and couldn't find your thread.

I just thought of something that we used to do when playing wow. No more, "hey afk for a min. need smoke", heh?

For the unknowing out there, afk means away from keyboard.

 

[fourthrok]

About the only times I went AFK was to go to the bathroom. Or to refill my drink!

 

[Baditude]

About the only times I went AFK was to go to the bathroom. Or to refill my drink!

Same here, but I smoked in my home. Apparently others didn't or weren't allowed, and hense the above, "AFK, NEED SMOK".

I can remember being in a large group of online players of 5, 10, or more, and one of the more specialized characters (a Healer or Tank) would be AFK FOR SMOK forcing everyone else to hang around for 5-10 minutes doing absolutely nothing, waiting on that person to return so that we could proceed with the game.

 

[Kayo]

I always say, try and be the better person. I know I'm not divorced but, it seems like everyone agrees, give the guy advice....it doesn't hurt to pass your knowledge onto someone else in an attempt to help them out. Actually, we're all here for that reason...to help each other out. I think that's great!

 

[Rocketpunk]

Here ya go, Baditude.

And YES. Vaping changed my gameplay BIG TIME!

http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/forum/lounge/332597-any-wow-players-here.html

 

[Baditude]

Here ya go, Baditude.

And YES. Vaping changed my gameplay BIG TIME!

http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/forum/lounge/332597-any-wow-players-here.html

http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/forum/lounge/332597-any-wow-players-here.html#post8565322

 

[subversive]

Ive thought you were a chick because of your cute avatar. So now I know. Ha ha

Lol. Rocketpunk, I thought you were a guy because you had a chick on your avatar : P Guess I was in the minority.

Definitely an awkward situation....good luck.

 

[subversive]

Just saw the WoW chat....can you tell I like video games? : ) I am a semi-ex WoW player. For the record, I'm female and have/had all female characters. Doesn't mean much, though, when that seems to be true of all the male players as well.

Being the bigger man/taking the high road/etc is a nice thing to do and also kinda sticks it to the ex, but I would definitely struggle with that. I tend to believe that people cannot and should not be friends after a relationship ends unless children are involved. That's just how my own personal relationship works, though. We both have exes that "don't exist."

 

[EddardinWinter]

Gotta bring the party with you man! Speaking of.... how was the vapemeet?

I did not make it zapped, my son totaled his car that night so we were kinda busy dealing with that. Freaking wild cubs....what am I to do with them?