Computer Game Pimps

On August 02 2012 13:18 WilDMousE wrote:
So you're 15 now... this is not new in the world.

On August 02 2012 13:18 WilDMousE wrote:
So you're 15 now... this is not new in the world.

On August 02 2012 13:18 WilDMousE wrote:
So you're 15 now... this is not new in the world.

On August 02 2012 13:50 Nymphaceae wrote:
Have any of you taken part in some form of cyber bullying, in which most people wouldn't really consider it cyber bullying? I feel kind of bad about this, but when I first started playing Broodwar, Pokemon was still kind of hot. I had this friend in my clan who I played UMS with a lot. He was from Philly, and was a christian extremist. He didn't believe in Pokemon, because of the evolution, and would get really mad at me for playing it. I told him that I quit the game, and that I was really happy that he was looking out for me. I asked him if he thought I would go to heaven, and he said, "I think so." I told him good, because I really want to see him there. He asked me if I wanted to be his girl friend, so I was like yes! He got really happy, and truly did love me, but he didn't know that I had another boyfriend from Texas on Broodwar.

I ended up pressuring both of them into believing that I thought they were cheating on me. I ended up requiring them to write a long detailed diary about their days, and I said that I would write one about my day too, so it would be special for if we ever got married.

The Texas guy wrote about how much he could lift, and his position on the football team, and how all the girls would talk about how hot he was. The guy from Philly would draw out the maps he was making for UMS, and would tell me about his special "I love you! <3" code. He ended up writing over 100 pages in a notebook just about UMS map creation, and micro/macro builds (He improved significantly over this time too). The football player guy only wrote about 20 pages, but it was over just 15 days. I thought the guy from Philly was joking about writing that much.

When I received the notebooks from the 2 guys, I ended up mailing the two guys each others notebook. The really religious guy was extremely impressed by how much he thought I worked out, and how fast and strong I was. Then from other clan members, they started telling me that this guy was talking a ton about me, and that they were curious if I could really squat 400 lbs. I was like yeah, I do it everyday. I had no clue what I could squat, probably because I had never lifted weights in my life.

This caused a lot of drama, in which one guy called me a liar, and then the guy from Philly ended up cursing at him, which was the only time I had ever seen him curse on the game, or talk in all caps. Then they showed him on youtube, that if i could really squat that much, then I would be like a professional, and he asked me why I lied. I said I meant 40 lbs, but then he asked me if I could really bench 300 lbs. I was like yeah why? That's when he found out I had been lying to him, and I had to go in front of this clan trial thing for lying like that.

I ended up telling the story about how I switched the notebooks, and that he actually had a crush with the guy from Texas. He ended up sending me a picture of him crying, and it really broke my heart. I felt so bad for lying to him.

On August 02 2012 13:50 Nymphaceae wrote:
Have any of you taken part in some form of cyber bullying, in which most people wouldn't really consider it cyber bullying? I feel kind of bad about this, but when I first started playing Broodwar, Pokemon was still kind of hot. I had this friend in my clan who I played UMS with a lot. He was from Philly, and was a christian extremist. He didn't believe in Pokemon, because of the evolution, and would get really mad at me for playing it. I told him that I quit the game, and that I was really happy that he was looking out for me. I asked him if he thought I would go to heaven, and he said, "I think so." I told him good, because I really want to see him there. He asked me if I wanted to be his girl friend, so I was like yes! He got really happy, and truly did love me, but he didn't know that I had another boyfriend from Texas on Broodwar.

I ended up pressuring both of them into believing that I thought they were cheating on me. I ended up requiring them to write a long detailed diary about their days, and I said that I would write one about my day too, so it would be special for if we ever got married.

The Texas guy wrote about how much he could lift, and his position on the football team, and how all the girls would talk about how hot he was. The guy from Philly would draw out the maps he was making for UMS, and would tell me about his special "I love you! <3" code. He ended up writing over 100 pages in a notebook just about UMS map creation, and micro/macro builds (He improved significantly over this time too). The football player guy only wrote about 20 pages, but it was over just 15 days. I thought the guy from Philly was joking about writing that much.

When I received the notebooks from the 2 guys, I ended up mailing the two guys each others notebook. The really religious guy was extremely impressed by how much he thought I worked out, and how fast and strong I was. Then from other clan members, they started telling me that this guy was talking a ton about me, and that they were curious if I could really squat 400 lbs. I was like yeah, I do it everyday. I had no clue what I could squat, probably because I had never lifted weights in my life.

This caused a lot of drama, in which one guy called me a liar, and then the guy from Philly ended up cursing at him, which was the only time I had ever seen him curse on the game, or talk in all caps. Then they showed him on youtube, that if i could really squat that much, then I would be like a professional, and he asked me why I lied. I said I meant 40 lbs, but then he asked me if I could really bench 300 lbs. I was like yeah why? That's when he found out I had been lying to him, and I had to go in front of this clan trial thing for lying like that.

I ended up telling the story about how I switched the notebooks, and that he actually had a crush with the guy from Texas. He ended up sending me a picture of him crying, and it really broke my heart. I felt so bad for lying to him.

On August 02 2012 13:50 Nymphaceae wrote:
Have any of you taken part in some form of cyber bullying, in which most people wouldn't really consider it cyber bullying? I feel kind of bad about this, but when I first started playing Broodwar, Pokemon was still kind of hot. I had this friend in my clan who I played UMS with a lot. He was from Philly, and was a christian extremist. He didn't believe in Pokemon, because of the evolution, and would get really mad at me for playing it. I told him that I quit the game, and that I was really happy that he was looking out for me. I asked him if he thought I would go to heaven, and he said, "I think so." I told him good, because I really want to see him there. He asked me if I wanted to be his girl friend, so I was like yes! He got really happy, and truly did love me, but he didn't know that I had another boyfriend from Texas on Broodwar.

I ended up pressuring both of them into believing that I thought they were cheating on me. I ended up requiring them to write a long detailed diary about their days, and I said that I would write one about my day too, so it would be special for if we ever got married.

The Texas guy wrote about how much he could lift, and his position on the football team, and how all the girls would talk about how hot he was. The guy from Philly would draw out the maps he was making for UMS, and would tell me about his special "I love you! <3" code. He ended up writing over 100 pages in a notebook just about UMS map creation, and micro/macro builds (He improved significantly over this time too). The football player guy only wrote about 20 pages, but it was over just 15 days. I thought the guy from Philly was joking about writing that much.

When I received the notebooks from the 2 guys, I ended up mailing the two guys each others notebook. The really religious guy was extremely impressed by how much he thought I worked out, and how fast and strong I was. Then from other clan members, they started telling me that this guy was talking a ton about me, and that they were curious if I could really squat 400 lbs. I was like yeah, I do it everyday. I had no clue what I could squat, probably because I had never lifted weights in my life.

This caused a lot of drama, in which one guy called me a liar, and then the guy from Philly ended up cursing at him, which was the only time I had ever seen him curse on the game, or talk in all caps. Then they showed him on youtube, that if i could really squat that much, then I would be like a professional, and he asked me why I lied. I said I meant 40 lbs, but then he asked me if I could really bench 300 lbs. I was like yeah why? That's when he found out I had been lying to him, and I had to go in front of this clan trial thing for lying like that.

I ended up telling the story about how I switched the notebooks, and that he actually had a crush with the guy from Texas. He ended up sending me a picture of him crying, and it really broke my heart. I felt so bad for lying to him.

On August 02 2012 14:02 P7GAB wrote:
the fuck? this sounds so fake how would the philly guy not realise that you were a dude when he saw that you played football and having the girls talk about how hot you are, since you sent him the other dudes notebook

On August 02 2012 14:35 Mattchew wrote:
that was my notebook...

On August 02 2012 14:34 AirbladeOrange wrote:
How did that second post have anything to do with the first? It doesn't really matter all that much to me though because both are great. Please tell more stories.

On August 02 2012 14:43 wptlzkwjd wrote:
so.......did you end up buying the game or did you end up farming IRL!?! the suspence is killin me........

On August 02 2012 15:05 WilDMousE wrote:

The first image that came into my mind while reading it.

On August 02 2012 15:30 Rucho wrote:
I don't really believe the second story but it was but gustingly laugh out loud funny. Good job Nymphaelaeae. You would think that your guy from philly would be hanging around here somewhere, seeing as how he was so in to BW and all that.

On August 02 2012 15:50 drunkenben wrote:
In the early days of Star Wars Galaxies, you could build faction bases that would spawn missions for rep. I'm not sure if this was something that persisted through all of the changes since I quit when Jump to Lightspeed came out, but the bases could be destroyed if you showed up with a strike force that had the correct specific professions, and at the correct time of day. We had a lot of great memories fighting in and around or guild's base as we protected it. On Christmas Day, a group from the opposing faction went around hacking and destroying bases. They posted pictures on the forums talking trash and laughing at all the guilds they had screwed over.
We were kind of pissed, but hacking a base was not as easy when people were around to protect it, so we only got two or three of them within the next week. This was back when the game was really buggy though and occasionally a small patch would do something completely unintended. I don't remember how we actually figured it out, but somehow we found a way to destroy faction bases by targeting someone in front of them with an area attack. It was really unfair because there was no way to stop it, but we were still pretty pissed about our base getting hacked on Christmas. We went all over destroying bases with AoEs when there was no way to stop us.
I did a lot of shady stuff in that game (duping credits, exploiting armor and weapons, abusing bugs for leveling professions), but I generally felt fine with all of that because it wasn't specifically aimed at hurting another player. The night we were effortlessly destroying other guild's bases however ...

On August 02 2012 16:03 drunkenben wrote:
Not me personally, but most of the guys I ran with did. We had a day where killed a Krayt dragon and it dropped 11 legendary tissues (used in crafting damage component for weapons). They were called legendary tissues, but they were more than that because unlike all the other crafting components in the game, they didn't have a serial number. This allowed us to make schematics, put them into a factory, and then produce these amazing components with any garbage tissue we could find. As far as I know one of my friends sold those weapons for basically the entire life of the game. Unfortunately the game shut down so he had to go find a job.
Another friend of mine sold his jedi four or five times to different people netting on average $600 USD each time. A few guys sold credits for money IRL. None of this stuff ever appealed to me, they would spend all day auctioning and working forums trying to get better prices for everything. Gaming was supposed to be a way to get away from working. I just liked to shoot people and kill dragons. =)

On August 02 2012 17:04 drunkenben wrote:
I always liked star wars. When the game came out, I wasn't sure about playing an MMO, but my friend talked me into it by buying me the Collectors Edition for my birthday. They played from launch, so they had a few weeks head start on me. When I first logged in, I was greeted with all the best stuff. Armor, weapons, a house, millions of credtis, they even gave me this pet cat that could kill most things in a hit or two, but didn't need any creature handler ability to use. I named him Compton, cuz he was so gangster.
Playing an MMO for the first time was like smoking weed for the first time. It was completely foreign to me, and I didn't really understand what was going on half the time. But I knew I liked it. Being naturally outgoing, I met a lot of people. Most of the guys I played with were RL friends, so if we met someone from California, we invited them to come to one of our parties. I made a lot of really great friends.
It seems like you have a ton of stories. A lot of them sound like things that happen to me, different, but the same. If that makes any sense when you read it. What was it like the first time you played an MMO?

On August 02 2012 17:30 Nymphaceae wrote:

I've actually never played an MMO in my life. I used to love to play the Mario games, but most of all I loved to play Super Metroid. I had a neighbor who never really went outside, and never really talked to anyone. He was 5 years older than me, and was special needs. In kindergarten we had these egg carton flower pots that we made for Mother's day, in which we had written "I love you Mom" on the bottom of them, so there was this big black guy who was 5 years older than me too. He gave me a black eye, smashed my flower on the bus, and then told me to pick up my mess. My special needs neighbor picked him up over his head, and threw him across the bus. I was in tears.

My neighbor took me to his house, and put band aids all over me, so that I would look tougher. Then he taught me how to play Super Metroid. That was my first ever video game, but I would go over to his house all the time to play it with him.

On August 02 2012 18:35 beesinyoface wrote:

I am also in tears.

You have so many great stories to tell, I would like to sponsor you for a book deal. plz respond.

On August 02 2012 17:30 Nymphaceae wrote:

I've actually never played an MMO in my life. I used to love to play the Mario games, but most of all I loved to play Super Metroid. I had a neighbor who never really went outside, and never really talked to anyone. He was 5 years older than me, and was special needs. In kindergarten we had these egg carton flower pots that we made for Mother's day, in which we had written "I love you Mom" on the bottom of them, so there was this big black guy who was 5 years older than me too. He gave me a black eye, smashed my flower on the bus, and then told me to pick up my mess. My special needs neighbor picked him up over his head, and threw him across the bus. I was in tears.

My neighbor took me to his house, and put band aids all over me, so that I would look tougher. Then he taught me how to play Super Metroid. That was my first ever video game, but I would go over to his house all the time to play it with him.

On August 02 2012 19:44 MysteryMeat1 wrote:
My dad is giving me funny looks as I crack up in the car. Nymphacea u r amazing.

On August 02 2012 19:34 GhostOwl wrote:


special needs kid did all this? i'm surprised

On August 02 2012 19:50 MysteryMeat1 wrote:
We went from Seattle to Chicago. Stayed in Chicago for a week with family. Now were heading to New York.

On August 02 2012 19:57 HaXXspetten wrote:
Well that sure as hell wasn't what I expected upon clicking this link



also wtf did I just read

On August 02 2012 20:00 MysteryMeat1 wrote:
It must be summer vacation if I'm browsing TL this early

On August 02 2012 20:01 Nymphaceae wrote:

What were you expecting?

On August 02 2012 20:04 HaXXspetten wrote:

No idea, but I really liked it ^^
Your other one's also pretty good

On August 02 2012 20:09 MysteryMeat1 wrote:
My brothers account is gold league but that was me messing around on it. He doesn't play 1v1.. cause he's an achievement whore. Im mid masters to almost highmasters depending on how much I play. Do u play sc2 or just be?

On August 02 2012 20:54 MysteryMeat1 wrote:
P. Btw that was a pretty cool build. I got another weird look when he said "r u ready" and I replied yes. I wonder what he thinks I'm doing back here

On August 03 2012 01:10 MysteryMeat1 wrote:
So if you dont play any sc then what other games do u play?9

On August 03 2012 03:46 Incze wrote:
Wow, dude. That was quite a rough awakening to what you would actually do most of the time in an MMO, except not for yourself. Good thing you left!
Never go close to MMOs. They're like black holes, except they suck time, and most of the time, money, too.

On August 03 2012 04:24 MysteryMeat1 wrote:
Got to New York and them pedestrians are the bravest people on earth

On August 03 2012 07:42 StateofReverie wrote:
day9 is the biggest computer game pimp hands down

On August 03 2012 08:15 Nymphaceae wrote:

How so?

On August 03 2012 09:04 StateofReverie wrote:

he craps on ladder, pees excellence when he does dailys, and eats noobs for lunch breakfast and desert

On August 03 2012 15:06 Alejandrisha wrote:
shit just got real

On August 03 2012 13:06 Nymphaceae wrote:


I think you're kind of misinterpreting this blog. This is more of to try to get people to stop cyber bullying. When you post something like this, it can be hurtful to the people that he's beaten. I know he's a good player, but you need to be more encouraging to the others.

There was once a time, where a big named player had a show match set up to bash on a ladder abuser. In this show match, the commentator was very rude to the player even. Neither of the players apologized to the person, but the worst part of all is that it brought an even worse image on the community.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dqYxpxegrk

On August 04 2012 02:54 StateofReverie wrote:

.........day9 bullies people into being better players. If you watch his dailys he basically forces you to become better een if you do not want to