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  • #46
    Re: In game/ real life couples?

    I really keep thinking I should post in this thread. I need to get me and my wife somwhere good to take a good screenshot of us together.

    It's funny. My wife had never really played any video games before FFXI. Her parents hated them and convinced her they were a horrible waste of time (while vegetating in front of a TV for hours and not engaging your mind isn't). The only time she played a game before meeting me was when she was in the hospital as a child and they had a Nintendo which she played Super Mario Bros. on. Her parents weren't too keen on that either.

    Well she held fast that games were stupid but I got her a little hooked with FF VI. Eventually she played other games like The Sims and enjoyed them. I got her involved in FFXI a month or so after I had started. It took her a long time to get into it but eventually she became as much (or more) into it than I was.

    She now has WHM and BLM at 75 and is now leveling BRD to 75. She's very knowledgable about her jobs and it always well equipped. It really has made our relationship better overall.




    That story up there was pretty sad but there are definitely benefits to playing with your significant other. Why the game might sometimes bring up new fights it also gives something very engrossing for two people to be very involved in. It's constant conversation fodder. There have been times when we've been in a real bad way with each other but to some extent our need for each other in the game has kept us together in real life and help us get through some rough patches. We scarcely fight about much of anything any more.
    A Day in the Life of a Taru

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    • #47
      Re: In game/ real life couples?

      About the above quoted story...

      http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/sh...Number=6473889

      http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/th...&T=8999586&P=1

      http://www.google.com/notebook/publi...GKIgoQyNOi-7Yh about halfway down the page

      I'm not sure it's real.
      [GM]Dave>> Did you initiate the quest?
      Player>> Yup.
      Player>> I talked to the guy.
      [GM]Dave>> And what did "the guy" say?
      Player>> Something about a guy and a boat.
      Player>> I think.
      [GM]Dave>> Do you work for Brady?
      Player>> No. Why?
      [GM]Dave>> Just wondering.

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      • #48
        Re: In game/ real life couples?

        Originally posted by Ceolwulf
        I kind of suspected as much.

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        • #49
          Re: In game/ real life couples?

          Originally posted by Aelathir
          If that story is true, that guy has more to worry about than a cheating girlfriend. Also, his girlfriend has some issues.
          I'll take fake for 200 Alax.
          I use a Mac because I'm just better than you are.

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          loose

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          • #50
            Re: In game/ real life couples?

            Originally posted by Mhurron
            I'll take fake for 200 Alax.
            It's the daily double! All right, Mhurron!

            I didn't believe it anyway, but the links above confirmed it.

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            • #51
              Re: In game/ real life couples?

              Well I feel stupid now...

              Which FF Character Are You?

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              • #52
                Re: In game/ real life couples?

                Don't feel stupid! It's a good piece of writing, atleast... minus the vulgarity... and the bad ending...
                [GM]Dave>> Did you initiate the quest?
                Player>> Yup.
                Player>> I talked to the guy.
                [GM]Dave>> And what did "the guy" say?
                Player>> Something about a guy and a boat.
                Player>> I think.
                [GM]Dave>> Do you work for Brady?
                Player>> No. Why?
                [GM]Dave>> Just wondering.

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                • #53
                  Re: In game/ real life couples?

                  My husband and I (the most recent picture I have, I took a picture of me poking him for some reason.)


                  We don't have an "in-game" relationship other than a farming/skilling/pt'ing one. We're not married in game, just in real life.
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                  • #54
                    Re: In game/ real life couples?

                    Originally posted by Ceolwulf
                    Don't feel stupid! It's a good piece of writing, atleast... minus the vulgarity... and the bad ending...
                    Agreed. I was very skeptical (erring on it being false) but I was still somewhat saddened/angered by it.

                    Fiction can do that, and there's nothing wrong when it does.
                    The Knight of Faith resigns the dream, only to believe it.

                    Many tanks to Trita/Tagi for the signature.

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                    • #55
                      Re: In game/ real life couples?

                      Originally posted by Linra
                      Well I feel stupid now...
                      At least you still have a soul. I managed to break into fits of laughter while reading. Sometimes I really hate myself for that.
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                      • #56
                        Re: In game/ real life couples?

                        Originally posted by Aksannyi
                        My husband and I (the most recent picture I have, I took a picture of me poking him for some reason.)
                        We don't have an "in-game" relationship other than a farming/skilling/pt'ing one. We're not married in game, just in real life.
                        So I take it he took you off his B-List?

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                        • #57
                          Re: In game/ real life couples?

                          I've had something similar to that happen to me as the story above... but I'm not quite as cranky (read: self destructive) as the guy who told the story...

                          Suffice to say... revenge was sweet, and destroyed about 5,000 hours worth of quested gear and artifact armours (across her and her new lover's guild)... so much so that it wrote my name into the games history, and several PvP rules and systems were changed because of it.

                          The joys of MU* PVP and warring guilds. ^^

                          I've mellowed since then, but I'm still certain that I'm flypaper for freaks where women are concerned. While I think that sharing FFXI with someone special would be amazing, I'd want to share it with the right person...

                          Linra, don't feel bad that the story is fake, there's still much truth in it anyways, and sometimes people do bad things. Showing that you feel bad is a good thing.

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                          • #58
                            Re: In game/ real life couples?

                            My RL girlfriend and I both play. Interestingly, we met in-game before we met out-of-game, though we have many many mutual friends IRL (hense how we started talking in the first place). Eventually we met IRL (as was bound to happen considering we regularly hang out with the same people), and have been dating for a year now.

                            In-game we do stuff together about once a week or so. Usually farming, various quests, missions, stuff like that. Rarely XP together.

                            In-game, her character is engage to the character of a RL friend of ours, and mine is a lonely bachelor! Woe is me, emo emo angst.

                            First picture is my girlfriend (Elisen) on her main, myself in the middle, and our friend "Chocoboy" on the right. Second and third characters are Pikkles and Iscream, mine and my girlfriend's mules respectively.
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                            • #59
                              Re: In game/ real life couples?

                              lol, I still think it could be real. I mean, the "original" one could be real, and it could just be people changing the name of the game and posting it on other forums.

                              It probably isn't real, but there are some details that make it seem pretty damn real. I guess the ls leader living closeby is really unlikely...

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                              • #60
                                Re: In game/ real life couples?

                                Originally posted by Hamlet
                                lol, I still think it could be real. I mean, the "original" one could be real, and it could just be people changing the name of the game and posting it on other forums.

                                It probably isn't real, but there are some details that make it seem pretty damn real. I guess the ls leader living closeby is really unlikely...
                                Well, it could be real, I suppose, but not necessarily for FFXI, or even for WoW. Maybe EQ though. Then again, anytime the Something Awful Forums are involved I tend to lean towards 100% fake. They love that sort of dark humor.

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