Signs You Are Addicted To WOW And AE...

Twenty Signs that you are addicted to World of Warcraft (wow):

1) You have more than one level 80 character.

2) You post links to the armory for your multiple characters, on your blog about wow addiction....
Winterblaze....... Shadowskiss....... Jadegoddess

3) As soon as the expansion was announced you reserved names for the new characters you are going to make. (yes i have them reserved...Worgenlefay worgen mage...figured if I was going to play alliance then it should be my favorite class and Shamania goblin shaman.)

4) You leave work early or call in sick to raid.

5) You know your WoW friend's real name, but it's still easier to call them by their game name.

6) You refer to opposing sides of anything as Horde vs Alliance.

7) When some kids outside the Circle K ask if you would buy some beer for them you respond "I dont buy beer for lowbies".

8) When the microwave timer dings, you yell "GRATS!"

9) You kill a rat and then go back later to see if it respawned. Then when revisiting the rat incident you think, I'm a level 80, it should have died in one hit.

10) You get a bank statement and think "i gotta go do some dailies."

11) You look in your mostly empty fridge and almost instinctively look for the conjure food and water button.

12) You tell your coworker that your boss is a noob

13) You're being extremely annoyed by someone and think to yourself, 'if i spam fear, i can run away".

14) After sex, your lover demands more and you ask to wait for a cooldown or for a stamina buff

15) You ask the car dealer if your rep will get you a discount on mount training and cost.

16) Your getting mugged and you attempt to bubblehearth.

17) When one of your friends is complaining about a real life issue, you respond with QQ.

18) You hesitate to eat lamb/pork/turtle.

19) You pass a cop and wonder if you aggroed and then if you did aggro the reason you gave for speeding was that you were under the effects of crusader aura.

20) When someone asks you if you have leadership or managerial experience you say "I am an officer in a guild"

I'm only guilty of the first 6 signs! I hope you enjoyed my WOW list. Don't hesitate to leave a comment if you think of any other signs.



Twelve Signs that you are addicted to Astro Empires (AE):

1) You play on more than one server.

2) You link the profile of your character(s) into your blog about being addicted to AE .......... Lady Sylvanas of Fenix........ Lady Sylvanas of Gamma ......... Madam Rogue Wave of Helion

3) You set your alarm and get up in the middle of the night to make a hit.

4) You check to make sure that your ques are full 3 or more times per day.

5) If you are a teen and your parents ground you, you tell your friends that you are being perma occ'd.

6) You see a car accident happen and you wonder how many recyclers it would take to suck up the debris.

7) You hear a noise outside the house and check the scanner to see if anything is there.

8) You beat up an old lady and steal her purse, when confronted by police you claim that it was because she had weak defenses.

9) Your neighbor moves away so you sit outside his house with a shotgun waiting for it to become a UC.

10) You name your children or pets after the servers that you play on.

11) You tell your dog to shut up or you are going to derb him

12) You think God is a noob for colonizing an earthly.

That concludes my AE list, luckily I'm only guilty of the first 4 signs. I would love to hear some other signs, so if you have any ideas feel free to leave a comment. ☺

A Little History

My husband (Karl) and I have been married for 10 years, we have no children other than our 2 dogs (whom we spoil alot)and we are gamers. The funny thing is that every game that we play together now i used to hate with a passion. I used to be the stereo typical gamers wife, who would nag every time i saw him playing, I didn't understand how he could spend so much time playing video games. The only games i had really played prior to our marriage was the occasional game in the arcade while waiting on a movie to start and a few games on the Super Nintendo, which my brother played on more that I did. The first 2 years we were together we couldn't afford a computer, (now we have 3, a desktop each and a laptop lol) so he mostly played the PlayStation which he had before we got together. That used to really annoy me because I would have nothing else to do but watch him play or read, so lets just say i went though a lot of books during that time. Then we got our first computer and he was monopolizing the computer all the time playing PC games, which was of course another source of aggravation for me.

The Main game that he was playing was World Of Warcraft horde side (obviously vanilla wow), and boy did i used to get pissed at him for playing, i hated dungeons and raids and how long he would be involved in them. I hated how they took his full attention, I hated how there was no "pause button" like on the PlayStation, and I hated how if i would ask him to do something he would tell me he would do it after he finished, and of course he never remembered after he was done. Then one day i got sick of it and decided that i was going to try the game to see if i could understand what about it was so captivating to him. The first toon i tried out was a human warrior, i leveled to 5 and deleted it. Then i tried a Tauren Druid which i leveled to 30, at this point i got bored with it and decided i didn't care for the game. Then Burning Crusade came out, by this time we had 2 computers and he was so excited for expansion. So i decided that i would try again. I made a Blood Elf Mage we leveled together and i was hooked. I now have the Level 80 mage (my main), an 80 Warlock, and a 35 Priest (yes they are all Blood Elf, i love the look of the blood elf). He has an 80 undead priest (his main), 80 blood elf mage, 80 orc rogue, 80 blood elf Paladin, and 35 troll hunter. My hubby now has free reign to play all he wants without the naggy wife, we play dungeons together, we raid together, and we level new toons together.

The other game we recently started playing online together is Astro Empires (AE). I hated that game with about the same passion that i hated wow and now I'm addicted to it... It all started with one of his guildies giving away his account since he was unable to play anymore. The guild leadership asked Karl if he wanted to take it and they would find someone else for his lower lvl acct. Of course he said yes. His guild has a lot of wives that play with their husbands so when he was on vent (ventrilo) one day they were asking him if his wife would like to take the acct. He then started telling them about how i hated the game and how i hated him playing it... listening to all that made me start to feel bad so i told him that i would take over on a trial basis, and the rest is history.

So the moral of the story for me is that if you cant beat them join them, that i should loosen up especially when it comes to new games he finds (because i will probably end up playing them), oh, and to just have fun! :)