You Spend Too Much Time in Achaea When...

Madelyne

I'm a freelance writer. Today instead of writing:

Then you'll hear why it's okay to grieve in your own way, and benefits of that type of individualized grieving.

I wrote:

Then you'll hear why it's okay to grief in your own way, and benefits of that type of individualized griefing.

Oops.

Amanu

You use -our instead of -or in almost every other application.

Klendathu

Amanu said:

You use -our instead of -or in almost every other application.

Because that is the correct way to spell, philistine

Ahmet

When you're writing out pour or sour and question whether or not you should use the u.

Amanu

Klendathu said:

Amanu said:

You use -our instead of -or in almost every other application.

Because that is the correct way to spell, philistine

Depends on where you live, ya country bumpkin. :P

Taryius

Pre-facing all your skype messages with say

say Hey bud, how are you?

Don't know how many times I've apologised for that

Omor

Who uses say? " is easier.

Mathilda

Why even use " when you can avoid hitting shift and just go for the '.

Taryius

Mathilda said:

Why even use " when you can avoid hitting shift and just go for the '.

Well bury me in an ant hill and smear my face with jam, you learn something new everyday!

Telinus

Who even uses ` when you can avoid touching your keyboard and just be AFK?

Jozlyn

Taryius said:

Pre-facing all your skype messages with say

say Hey bud, how are you?

Don't know how many times I've apologised for that

This is how my family and friends know I've started  playing heavily again.  then come the lectures

Jinsun

I start writing ideas for RP and item customisations on legal pads in my spare time. Specifically, when I'm waiting in jail for a client. Can't have a cell phone or laptop in there, and need a way to pass the time, so sometimes my paralegal will find stuff like "Why is there a note in here about a mask that screams and triggers?" "The fuck is this?" "What is the Unknowing?" I normally try to remember to rip those pages out and stick them in my pocket, but i've forgotten them before...

Jadys

...you go to the lake with your son, end up running for your life from some cranky, overgrown geese, and think you are going to need administered oxygen after. 

Melodie

Jinsun said:

I start writing ideas for RP and item customisations on legal pads in my spare time. Specifically, when I'm waiting in jail for a client. Can't have a cell phone or laptop in there, and need a way to pass the time, so sometimes my paralegal will find stuff like "Why is there a note in here about a mask that screams and triggers?" "The fuck is this?" "What is the Unknowing?" I normally try to remember to rip those pages out and stick them in my pocket, but i've forgotten them before...

I was writing Mhaldorian choir music and rituals while subbing in middle school room classrooms before, and boy oh boy, a student found them once and I was sure to hide them beneath things ever since. I'm lucky that kid liked me so much and never reported it.

Jinsun

Melodie said:

Jinsun said:

I start writing ideas for RP and item customisations on legal pads in my spare time. Specifically, when I'm waiting in jail for a client. Can't have a cell phone or laptop in there, and need a way to pass the time, so sometimes my paralegal will find stuff like "Why is there a note in here about a mask that screams and triggers?" "The fuck is this?" "What is the Unknowing?" I normally try to remember to rip those pages out and stick them in my pocket, but i've forgotten them before...

I was writing Mhaldorian choir music and rituals while subbing in middle school room classrooms before, and boy oh boy, a student found them once and I was sure to hide them beneath things ever since. I'm lucky that kid liked me so much and never reported it.

Everyone at our office knows I'm a giant nerd which, coincidentally, helps a lot in my field. I just say "text rpg" and they drop the paper like they've picked up a life ending pathogen. I mean... they're not wrong...

Accipiter

Does anyone remember that time we had the exact thread on public? I tried looking for it but turned up blank and now I think it was all a delusion. Back in early 2000s or so.

Krypton

It begins with #7105.

Lyrin

I spend most of my work time in a windowsy environment but occasionally ssh to a solaris server to do stuff.   Sometimes I log in and forget what I'm there for, so I'll do "qw;bw;rm;rn;ql" then remember it's not Achaea.

Lyrin

Telinus said:

Who even uses ` when you can avoid touching your keyboard and just be AFK?

I've written a script to automate my unresponsive afkness.

^(\w+) tells you .+

send("")

Sarathai

Lyrin said:

Telinus said:

Who even uses ` when you can avoid touching your keyboard and just be AFK?

I've written a script to automate my unresponsive afkness.

^(\w+) tells you .+

send("")

I am going to test this next time I see you online.

Accipiter

Krypton said:

It begins with #7105.

Man, these are still so relevant 17 years later. Thanks for that.

Coamenel

Lyrin said:

I spend most of my work time in a windowsy environment but occasionally ssh to a solaris server to do stuff.   Sometimes I log in and forget what I'm there for, so I'll do "qw;bw;rm;rn;ql" then remember it's not Achaea.

I mainly maintain RHEL systems, you know I've picked up achaea again when I log in and starting hitting keypad+5 instead of the usual "ls-for-no-reason". Keypad+5 being my achaea "look" keybind ...

Valaria

i do 'say ...' on some instant messager app... awkward

Claron

I had a dream recently where I won a ticket to an Achaean concert/play in Portland, OR.  I went with a friend first, and then drug some relatives along to the second showing.  It involved a forestal character who became Mhaldorian (there was a ritual which involved snapping the neck of a beloved childhood toy made of wood.)  In the second showing, an audience member made a different "choice" (through like a little touchscreen by her chair) and the story went totally differently and ended earlier.  I was disappointed, because the first showing had cooler music.

Tahquil

You spend up big and publically in any consecutive promotions, then complain about being broke or having little money to survive on RL .. then spend up big on the promotion again  within the next fortnight.

Vallie

Worked from home for a day last week, for the first while I kept replying to people prefacing everything with a '.

Then I was wondering why my code didn't compile, and realized I had replaced a bunch of ;'s with |s. Apparently queuing code doesn't work.

Berenene

When you have to create user accounts in an active directory and the user has a surname of Hasan and you accidentally get through the entire account creation process and wind up with Hashan...3 times.

Dochitha

When you type QW in WhatsApp. 

Siena

When you play achaea and look at the clock after a little while and realize it is after 4 am...two nights in a row.

Sarathai

When saying "I'm about to log out" means staying logged in for another hour.

Asmodron

When you're known by all your family and some friends as the nerd that plays "that typing game". The same game they all assumed you were doing some major hacking when they first saw you.