What's your pet peeve in RL?

[cidbahamut]

Re: What's your pet peeve in RL?

I honestly can't tell which side of the debate she's supposed to be on.

[Armando]

Re: What's your pet peeve in RL?

The dinosaurs' side.

[Ketaru]

Re: What's your pet peeve in RL?

Armando! My Friend Code is

0303 9119 7892

Let's evolve my Scyther!

[Taskmage]

Re: What's your pet peeve in RL?

Poe's law meets real life.

[Armando]

Re: What's your pet peeve in RL?

Armando! My Friend Code is

0303 9119 7892

Let's evolve my Scyther!

I'm at college and I left my DS. Will you be free 3 hours from now?

[Ketaru]

Re: What's your pet peeve in RL?

Indeed. But you need to start being like other losers and just play your DS in class.

- It snowed today. The hell?!
- One of my loser coworkers called out "sick" and I had to cover for her. Surprise surprise!
- What to eat for lunch...

[cidbahamut]

Re: What's your pet peeve in RL?

- What to eat for lunch...

Cupcakes.

[Ketaru]

Re: What's your pet peeve in RL?

More pouring my soul to FFXIonline!

So as much as we all like to say, despite being Final Fantasy XI players, we do have lives outside the game, I think I do steer dangerously close to being one of those socially inept losers who couldn't have a life outside the house if their life depended on it...which is literally does...sort of.

In an effort to turn this around, I joined a group called the New Jersey Young Professionals that likes to do cool shit like laser tag, networking, speed dating, and drinking a lot. So far, I've been to one of their events, the St Patricks Day party. And I'll probably be meeting some of them for Happy Hour or Singles Mingling. My alcohol consumption is probably going to increase exponentially since, prior to St Patricks Day 2011, I was effectively a non-drinker.

Anyway, how is this for socially inept? My introduction to everybody I met at the party was, more or less, "Hi, I'm Kevin and I suck at meeting people so don't mind me if I say something strange. What's your name?"

Why can't I just walk around with a green exclamation mark over my head and I show up on peoples' iPhones as somebody "looking for group"?

[Taskmage]

Re: What's your pet peeve in RL?

Perhaps a pink question mark would be more appropriate. :3

I have the same problem, though. All my socializing is done through a browser or an IM pane since I quit FFXI. You don't meet very many people that way. And of course, since the internet is so delightfully non-local, most of the people I consider to be my closest friends are people I've never seen face-to-face, and can't share a hug or even a smile with when we desperately need to. It's a good thing in a way I guess in that it keeps me from slutting it up with Aks and Murphie and a couple of others not present, getting into social situations far too complex for my borderline autistic mind to handle, but this feeling of being alone in an imaginary crowd gets old, neh?

[Aksannyi]

Re: What's your pet peeve in RL?

Level your sub, noob.

I have no serious response. I just wanted to make that joke. :/ Also, I am fairly socially inept. I did have to ask a friend for a favor today, though, and boy did it feel good to have a hug. You know what I miss most about my kids? Daily hugs.

[Ketaru]

Re: What's your pet peeve in RL?

Perhaps a pink question mark would be more appropriate. :3

What the eff is a pink question mark? It's green in Final Fantasy XI.

[Taskmage]

Re: What's your pet peeve in RL?

That's the icon they gave to new players after they created the mentoring system.

[Aksannyi]

Re: What's your pet peeve in RL?

It's more red, I'd say.

[Ketaru]

Re: What's your pet peeve in RL?

Oh right...well then I want a GM icon at my workplace. There are a lot of useless coworkers I would like to give the banhammer.

[Taskmage]

Re: What's your pet peeve in RL?

It's more red, I'd say.

SHH! It's not as diminutive that way.