You know you play too much Achaea when ...

Wysteria

Katzchen said:

Wysteria said:

Oceana said:

Usually?  :-?

My first name is only two syllables, but people can't pronounce it because they're generally pretty stupid. Cut it down to one syllable and they still get it wrong.

If it means anything, customers over the phone call me "Polyp". It's now a running gag in the office because people can't believe my name's degraded to such a state.

Yeah... my name only has four letters, granted three syllables, but yet somehow nearly every teacher I had in school would for some reason at first basically switch the two middle letters around and pronounce it wrong, shortening it to two syllables in the process. Why, I do not know.

Yeah there's a lot of dyslexic people over in the Oceanic region

Katzchen

@Kyrra Chili???

Man, and I thought it was bad when people call my youngest son Nicola instead of Nikolai. He's always dressed in boyish clothes!

Chryenth

Nikolai. That is an *awesome* name.

I get annoyed when people assume my name is 'Christian' and not 'Christopher'. It's wrong on every level.

Katzchen

Chryenth said:

Nikolai. That is an *awesome* name.

I get annoyed when people assume my name is 'Christian' and not 'Christopher'. It's wrong on every level.

I really love it, except when my mother in law calls him Nikelodeon -shudder- or when someone tries to shorten it to Nick/Nicky. If anything, it's Niko for short, but I like it too much to shorten it.

Chryenth

I would never let anyone shorten it. Ever.

Also I may or may not have just named the Knight Commander in my novel Nikolai.

Pardinen

My name is Travis.

Chryenth

... You don't get a character. Sorry.

At least your name is easy to pronounce.

Katzchen

I always did like giving my kids names that weren't too out there - that's what middle names are for - but would fit in a fantasy setting... And length. I like long names. 

Sebastian Daemon, Alexander Gryphon, and Nikolai Reid. I'm sure they'll either love or hate me for them when they're older.

Chryenth

...

Internal duologue:

Me: Hey. do we need more character names?

Muse: Errr. Not really?

Me: Sure?

Muse: Yes, sure. I can't keep track of all these people we have already, I can't have more!

Me: Awww. I'll go write them down or something, then.

Muse: [Rude gesture]

Horatio

Is it sad that even after all the time that has passed, I still frequently check GWHO and try to talk on GT?

Tanaar

Horatio said:

Is it sad that even after all the time that has passed, I still frequently check GWHO and try to talk on GT?

I aliased gt to housetell and gwho to housewho ages ago. I use both.

More recently, I aliased all gt/ht/gwho/hwho variants to clan sentaariwanderers tell and clan sentaariwanderers who. Same with CT.

Kyrra

@Katzchen, from Tilly. And I'm not that little devo person running around with the same name. -_-

I think I speak quite clearly when talking to people, so unless it's the uncommon factor, people just hear what they want to. I get the occasional gender specific pet names of Honey, Love, Darlin', as well.

Katzchen

I would probably glare at someone if they called me names like that. Since I'm not allowed to stab them and all.

Kyrra

Nobody has ever crossed the line with Babe so I don't mind. Stabbing should be allowed.

Katzchen

I did stab someone once. But he did a lot worse than call me a demeaning name. And it wasn't very deep.

Texel

Tahquil said:

Thinking about chemicals to increase extraction rates the wondering where to get them.

Not in the Fracking industry are you?

Nizaris

Texel said:

Tahquil said:

Thinking about chemicals to increase extraction rates the wondering where to get them.

Not in the Fracking industry are you?

You know you watch too much Battlestar Galactica when ... you picture Colonel Tigh swearing whenever you hear the word "Fracking".

Cinya

I just realized that I spend more time/effort organizing a text-party for my in-game family then I ever have for an IRL party.

Alyssea

When the first thing you do when you wake up is go to your computer, log into Achaea, and start reading forums (and half the time go oh -, fell asleep without logging out last night again). You don't eat, you don't take a shower, you just go straight to Achaea. Usually takes me at least two hours on weekends to actually start doing rl things. >.>

Vaehl

Uhh...wat.

Zeon

You find yourself looking for the wtf/disagree buttons when reading your facebook wall.

Katzchen

Alyssea said:

When the first thing you do when you wake up is go to your computer, log into Achaea, and start reading forums (and half the time go oh -, fell asleep without logging out last night again). You don't eat, you don't take a shower, you just go straight to Achaea. Usually takes me at least two hours on weekends to actually start doing rl things. >.>

Guilty. Have a tendency to forget to eat completely while playing too, even if it's for ten hours in a row. Thankfully don't fall asleep without logging out though, that would probably get me executed.

Alyssea

I almost wish I got executed for it. :P Would likely at least get me to start remembering. Wouldn't be so bad if timeout actually worked, but I think my laptop's screensaver coming on and logging me out messes with it, so I just stay logged into Achaea until I wake up the next morning.

Iocun

Zeon said:

You find yourself looking for the wtf/disagree buttons when reading your facebook wall.

Also in newspapers.

Eld

Iocun said:

Zeon said:

You find yourself looking for the wtf/disagree buttons when reading your facebook wall.

Also in newspapers.

Those still exist?

Kyrra

I wake up, reach for my phone and immediately check for in game messages through the website. Depending if any need a response, I then come to the forums.

I figured that staying in mobile view lets me post without losing things like line breaks and spacing but it's still bloody awful for attempting to edit quotes. Plus I have to go through all the categories to check for new posts in threads.

Now I'm awake, time to make some coffee ^_^

Katzchen

Yeah... I pretty much get up, usually late because of staying up past 3am on achaea, get redbull from the fridge, skip breakfast, check messages... forums... music on, achaea. Fully wake up about a couple of hours later, and go do something more productive for a while. :P

Wysteria

You use your Achaea login instead of your work login *facepalm*

Daslin

When you post in this thread.

Xer

When you brag about how awesome the bow you were gifted in Achaea to your RL friends in the Archery club, and all they give you are blank looks