Overheard Dinner Conversation

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I used to get together with some friends once a week at a local Chili's to discuss our results/plans for the turn of Middle Earth Play by Mail wargame we were on. Imagine a couple guys in suits and ties, and a couple guys in T-shirts & shorts, all with briefcases sitting around eating chips, and discussing how best to assassinate the Witch-King of Angmar and mobilize troops to protect the southern flank of the Greenwood from the Dog Lords heavy cavalary.

I think we got the best looks when we pulled out the full size grid maps of middle earth and began putting pins and markers out to plot troop movements.

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That's ok I was talking about how best to assassinate Mr. Johnson at our table in a local dunkin donuts when two cops walked in. "Well the guns are in the car. I just say we walk in and shoot Mr. Johnson and anyone else in the room then frame so and so." Had to have a long talk with the officers to explain to them about shadowrun and role playing games in general. Best part was when they asked to see inside my trunk and saw the gun case.
"What's in there?"
"Would you beleive me if I said little green men?"
"...Are you trying to be a wise with me?"
"Officer if you'll just open the case its full of warhammer 40k models."
*opens the case* "Well I'll be. Hey Ted this guy really does have little green men in that gun case. You can go but I suggest you don't talk about your games in public. Someone could get the wrong idea."

I almost had a heart attack though when he opened that trunk with the gun case sitting right there. My friend thought I was going to get shot haha. Looking at it now its a riot but being there it was not all that funny at the time. haha

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Recursive irony story:

I ran into a woman I hadn't seen in a very long time, and we got to chatting about this and that, when I mention I play this game. She then mentions that she is a *very* fanatical WoW player. I know I shouldn't think this, but I'm still struggling with the concept of a middle aged mother leading WoW raids at four in the morning, when she mentions to me that she was one of the midnight shoppers to buy the WoW expansion that went on sale, and she just *couldn't* get over the ~90 year old man waiting in line ahead of her, just dying to get his level 70 smack-down.

I think it says something both good and yet scary about the video game marketplace that there is no segment of the population that isn't playing something, and yet its happened so fast that everyone is still surprised to hear who *else* is gaming, especially on line.

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It's funny about 7 years ago a friend and I were talking about MMOs. One of the hottest topics between us was what sort of impact they would have on society if many more than the current (at that time) people got involved with MMO gaming. At the time we were just debating for the fun of it. We knew that the type of impacts we were talking about couldn't happen because MMO gaming couldn't grab enough people to make a difference.

Yet, here we are. I wonder if there will be a day where MMO gaming is thought of in the same vein as going to the racetrack or watching a sports event.

"Goodnight Tom"

"Nite Steve, hey you going to be on X server tonight?"

"Nah, going to watch X with the wife."

"Well, good night then see ya tomorrow."

Will people skip out of work in such numbers on release day that it's acknowledged as a problem by employers? Will E start doing shows about developers? Rhetorical questions to be sure but fun ones to think about none-the-less.

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My brother and I will, from time to time, begin talking about CoH/V, occationally very excitedly, around our family. We'll be going on and on about build ideas and pvp plans. you should have seen some of the looks we got when we were talking about the IOs in i9. rambling on about percentages and such. specially from mom. ya see, i learned how to draw in math class. for me to talk anything math realted without grumbling is always odd.

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If you really want to get noticed in a restaraunt, enter dressed in full plate armor complete with dents from the days battles.
I used to be in the SCA (Society for Creative Anachronism).

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Did something like that one time... Went to Burger King in garb after a Shire business meeting. A lady asked me if I was in the SCA - and I couldn't help but respond "No, I'm in a play!".

Non SCAers may or may not get the joke....

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That's not a nerd, that's a redneck.

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If you really want to get noticed in a restaraunt, enter dressed in full plate armor complete with dents from the days battles.
I used to be in the SCA (Society for Creative Anachronism).

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Did something like that one time... Went to Burger King in garb after a Shire business meeting. A lady asked me if I was in the SCA - and I couldn't help but respond "No, I'm in a play!".

Non SCAers may or may not get the joke....

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I was a performer at a local faire that used to be held by a college here, and one saturday evening after it closed up the ENTIRE performing population all headed to the same little place to eat... all still in garb.. some still in character... and all thirsty, hot, and hungry.

So I imagine from the perspective of the hostess on duty when the entire royal family, a few dozen bards, 10 musketeers, 8 pirates, a handfull of knights, 3 jesters, 7 jugglers, a tumbler, 15 beggars, a few merchants, 5 criers, 13 squires, 8 elves, a mess of fairies, and puck walk in and say we would like to sit together... the night got really odd. I can only feel sorry for them being caught so off guard by our sudden raid, as there were only 2 waitresses on duty that night. After a few hours of insanity, we departed leaving behind us all the tables from 2 of three rooms lined up in 3 rows, cluttered with dishes, an exhausted staff, and 3 large punch bowls filled with tips. We know were an obnoxious lot, but we try to make up for it,

***note, the attendance numbers above were tossed up in quick estimation, as I do not remember the exact amke up of our party apart from in total 71 people came along for the fun.

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If you really want to get noticed in a restaraunt, enter dressed in full plate armor complete with dents from the days battles.
I used to be in the SCA (Society for Creative Anachronism).

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Did something like that one time... Went to Burger King in garb after a Shire business meeting. A lady asked me if I was in the SCA - and I couldn't help but respond "No, I'm in a play!".

Non SCAers may or may not get the joke....

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I was a performer at a local faire that used to be held by a college here, and one saturday evening after it closed up the ENTIRE performing population all headed to the same little place to eat... all still in garb.. some still in character... and all thirsty, hot, and hungry.

So I imagine from the perspective of the hostess on duty when the entire royal family, a few dozen bards, 10 musketeers, 8 pirates, a handfull of knights, 3 jesters, 7 jugglers, a tumbler, 15 beggars, a few merchants, 5 criers, 13 squires, 8 elves, a mess of fairies, and puck walk in and say we would like to sit together... the night got really odd. I can only feel sorry for them being caught so off guard by our sudden raid, as there were only 2 waitresses on duty that night. After a few hours of insanity, we departed leaving behind us all the tables from 2 of three rooms lined up in 3 rows, cluttered with dishes, an exhausted staff, and 3 large punch bowls filled with tips. We know were an obnoxious lot, but we try to make up for it,

***note, the attendance numbers above were tossed up in quick estimation, as I do not remember the exact amke up of our party apart from in total 71 people came along for the fun.

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Now that sounds like a smashing good time!

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Playstation 3 - XBox 360 - Wii - PSP

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Why would you want to talk about anything BESIDES computer game!?! Its a multimillion dollar industry that helps drive PC technology and home electronics advancment. Its an interactive entertainment that tops passive "you tell me what happens" entertainments like tv and books. What are you talking about? Oh thats right...you kept to yourself. Like a loner. Serial killers are often loners.

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I once volunteered to be a 'victim' at a local Boy Scout First Aid Meet, along with a bunch of my fellow Explorer Scouts. The local National Guard came 'round and made us up with prosthetic broken bones, pancake bruises, lumps, gashes and fake blood...

... and afterward, we went to Taco Bell. Without removing the makeup. Priceless.

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I'm giddy to hear there are CoH players in my own town (yes i know ncsoft is here in town but still) all my roleplaying friends moved off or joined the army (doing the same, reserves, as soon as my recuiter stops being lazy) and would love to make new friends into coh.

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Happy Wintereenmas! Blessed are the children of the D-pad, who follow the ways of the W-A-S-D. -Veritech

"let's face it, this is not the worst thing you have caught me doing" - Iron Man

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That's not a nerd, that's a redneck.

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Sir, you fail internet geekery 101.

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Freebird's is good, but I like Chipotle's rice better. And the Chipotle barbacoa is suuuuuuuper yummy!

I live in Austin, just south of Yeager Lane (almost in Pflugerville).

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We don't have a Freebirds around here, but Chipotle is amazingly addictive.

/have a strange craving for a giant burrito now

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Arc# 92382 -- "The S.P.I.D.E.R. and the Tyrant" -- Ninjas! Robots! Praetorians! It's totally epic! Play it now!

Arc # 316340 -- "Husk" -- Azuria loses something, a young woman harbors a dark secret, and the fate of the world is in your hands.

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Heck it was tradition that after the LARP everyone would go to perkins for a few hours.

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LARP? LARP? Even the geekiest gamer nerds laugh at LARPers!



LIGHTNING BOLT! LIGHTNING BOLT! LIGHTNING BOLT!



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Ha, I so laughed at this. I cannot tell you how amused I was watching my first Vampire LARP session.

*girl walks up to a random guy*

"I'm going to seduce you and then bite you."

*leader walks over*

"You can't do that without contest, do paper/rock/scissors."

*me thinking*

"Well, at least they're playing some Lords of Acid..."

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"I'm flying free with my beautiful butterfly wings!" ~ Randy Marsh

I used to go to Denny's and play Magic the Gathering all night. Luckily, they found out that while we did hog a table all night, we weren't all that demanding, and did Tip Well (as long as I had coffee refills, I was happy).

The place was deserted anyway, so it's not like they were losing money ;-)

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My memory's not as sharp as it used to be.
Also, my memory's not as sharp as it used to be.

"The tip of a shoelace is called an aglet, its true purpose is sinister." The Question

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That's not a nerd, that's a redneck.

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Drop whatever you're doing, go to the nearest video store post haste and rent "Revenge of the Nerds."

You get a free pass on this one for being in a different country.

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Sigh. Please, if there is a higher power, don't let me ever turn into that..... Posting in the CoH forums while at work is bad enough...


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What else is there to do at work?

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Gaming in Limited Times
Guide to Plant/Ice Doms

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Hey, that Freebird's is in the rotation for dinner on my regular Thursday night PnP gaming session with my buddies. Come by some thursday evening around 7 or 7:30 -ish...we're the (mostly) long-haired geeks talking about G.U.R.P.S., music, movies or City of Heroes.

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Help me here. Which Freebirds are we talking about Hancock or Parmer? Because I'm in Round Rock and I'm not driving all the way into that mess to wind up in the wrong place

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The one at Hancock - my gamer group meets at a friend's house just a short hop from there. I'll try to steer us to Freebird's tonight, but there are 3 other people who may have different ideas.

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So I get off work yesterday and have time to kill before a meeting later in the evening. I run some errands and then eat dinner at Freebird's, a local burrito joint. I'm trying to work on a story I'm writing while I eat, and these 3 guys sit down at the table next to me. And for the next hour, they engage in an extended conversation about a recent computer game campaign. I'm assuming it's World of Warcraft or something similar -- druids and healers and feral armor and tanks.

FOR AN HOUR!!!!

And when I left, they WERE STILL AT IT!!!!

Sigh. Please, if there is a higher power, don't let me ever turn into that..... Posting in the CoH forums while at work is bad enough...

-mb

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We have 5 in College Station, Texas. I ate lunch at freebirds yesterday lol.

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Lots of 50's yada yada. still finding fun things to do.
Cthulhu loves you, better start running

I�! I�! Gg�gorsch�a�bha egurtsa�ar�ug d� Dalhor! Cthluhu fthagn! Cthluhu fthagn!

You are in a maze of twisty little passages

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If you really want to get noticed in a restaraunt, enter dressed in full plate armor complete with dents from the days battles.
I used to be in the SCA (Society for Creative Anachronism).

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My International Fantasy Gaming Society group does things like this all the time. (IFGS is to SCA as Monty Python is to Shakespeare, more or less.) Then we sit and tell war stories. If we hit some place like the Tipperary Inn, no one pays us any mind (lots of Rennies hang out there). When we go to one of the local buffet places, though--well, they've generally figured out it's best to give us a room to ourselves. It's fun to watch when someone new is on duty when we come tramping in, though.

Oh, and once people watch you demonstrate proficiency with bladed weapons, they seem less inclined to mock you for being in a LARP.

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The Way of the Corruptor (Arc ID 49834): Hey villains! Do something for yourself for a change--like twisting the elements to your will. All that's standing in your way are a few secret societies...and Champions of the four elements.

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I used to get together with some friends once a week at a local Chili's to discuss our results/plans for the turn of Middle Earth Play by Mail wargame we were on. Imagine a couple guys in suits and ties, and a couple guys in T-shirts & shorts, all with briefcases sitting around eating chips, and discussing how best to assassinate the Witch-King of Angmar and mobilize troops to protect the southern flank of the Greenwood from the Dog Lords heavy cavalary.

I think we got the best looks when we pulled out the full size grid maps of middle earth and began putting pins and markers out to plot troop movements.

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I keep trying to burn my friends' laminated Middle Earth map for that but they keep thwarting me at every turn. They keep trying to drag me into it, but I just can't get into plotting what grid 2467 attacking 2674 in three moves does.

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"I never said thank you." - Lt. Gordon

"And you'll never have to." - the Dark Knight

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I used to get together with some friends once a week at a local Chili's to discuss our results/plans for the turn of Middle Earth Play by Mail wargame we were on. Imagine a couple guys in suits and ties, and a couple guys in T-shirts & shorts, all with briefcases sitting around eating chips, and discussing how best to assassinate the Witch-King of Angmar and mobilize troops to protect the southern flank of the Greenwood from the Dog Lords heavy cavalary.

I think we got the best looks when we pulled out the full size grid maps of middle earth and began putting pins and markers out to plot troop movements.

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I keep trying to burn my friends' laminated Middle Earth map for that but they keep thwarting me at every turn. They keep trying to drag me into it, but I just can't get into plotting what grid 2467 attacking 2674 in three moves does.

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Brest Army Holds
Rome Army Holds

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I used to get together with some friends once a week at a local Chili's to discuss our results/plans for the turn of Middle Earth Play by Mail wargame we were on. Imagine a couple guys in suits and ties, and a couple guys in T-shirts & shorts, all with briefcases sitting around eating chips, and discussing how best to assassinate the Witch-King of Angmar and mobilize troops to protect the southern flank of the Greenwood from the Dog Lords heavy cavalary.

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No worse than heading out to Taco Bell and discussing our current Champions campaign, which involved aliens having taken over the town. Nothing gets the attention of fellow diners quicker than discussing the best place in town to drop a tactical nuke to divert attention away from our raid on their HQ...

Or heading over to the Krispy Kreme after the midnight showing of RHPS - still in costume.

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Fellow North Carolinian? Or just coincidence?

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Lady A, around here the SCA *is* the Haunted Trails group. Of course, living in a city with the motto "Keep Austin Weird", it's fairly hard to shock the locals these days.

We did manage when we came froma rained out local event and wound up going into a nearby Shoney's (since closed) for some food. The guy at the door looked very grim and demanded we put all of our edged weapons in a coatcheck. 15 people and roughly 45 weapons weapons later, we were seated. The waitress was pretty nice about it though.

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The English language is an intricate high-speed precision tool.Stop using it to bang open coconuts. ~Tokamak
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A friend and i were setting in a mall food court once discussing how necromancy the vampire discipline would effect the second ED. of white wolfs Wraith, after 20 minutes or so the people at the table next to us got up and moved to the other end of the court, we scarred people in a collage town....

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Virtue:Too many at fifty

Hi there. I don't actually have anything constructive to add to this topic. I just dropped in to make fun of everyone who posted here, because this thread is, well, getting kind of long.

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