So last night I was waiting outside EBGames with about 40 other people who share the same addiction I do, so naturally some people were chatting about their various experiences with the game. Behind me there was a complete noob who kept saying noobish things and a female with a strangely deep voice who claims to be in a bleeding edge raiding guild. I was actually ashamed to chime in on the following discussion, because I was thinking of how it would sound like a foreign language to the security guard standing nearby:

Person 1: I've been running Scholo non stop for my devout headpiece but the damn thing won't drop.
Person 2: Oh well I'm waiting on my last piece of Tier 3... my warrior is so pimped out.
Person 1: I keep getting pwned in the BG's by warlocks who dot me 3 times and run away.
Person 2: That's why you spec shadow and get silence.
Person 1: Yeah I was grouped with this shadow priest the other day, and he kept healing me somehow.
Person 2: Yeah I was shadow for awhile, it's that one ability... why can't I think of the name... GOD what is it?!
Me [sheepishly]: Vampiric Embrace

Anyway, would anyone else like to share any funny and/or nerdy conversations you overheard or participated in while waiting in line last night?

This is what I heard last night.

Person 1: You see the best way to make AV balance and what they should do is blah blah blah

Person 2: Totally! I can see it, blizz need to (more technical details here)

Random people from the crowd : Everyone know AV favor alliance

Person 1: That garbage is not true!

Same random person : *scoff*

Hot girl walk to the end of the line with a group of hot girls.

(Nerdy guys stare and all conversation is halted)

(Nerdy guys start to talk about AV again)

(Nerdy guys near hot girls try to make small talk, but is ignored by said group)

Random person near top of the line : Omg, they're hot, can't believe girls play WoW.

Other : Shhhh

(Nerdy guys start to get into convo about thinking most girls were fat and ugly that play wow)

(Girls straight up ignore all trash talking)

Pretty much when like that, didn't help that the guy I stood next to have a habitual spitting problem, as in he had to spit ever 10 second and sometime, directly near my face. >> THought I would have to fight him after I ask him to stop spitting. Had to avoid his trail of saliva.


Gonna pre order it next time.

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Q u o t e:
People argue about forums crap irl?

Jesus christ

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Q u o t e:
Omg, they're hot, can't believe girls play WoW

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When I first read this, I took it to mean that he said

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Q u o t e:
Oh Em Gee, They're hot, can't believe girls play WoW

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We had plenty of nerdy conversations going on last night, but the point at which I, myself, realized I was a full-blown geek was when I and a couple of strangers whipped out our TCG decks and started playing. On the ground. In the middle of Wal-Mart.

Good times.

In the line at Fry's, with about 2000 other people by now, which almost stretches once around the building and soon after my friend and I get there the guys behind us start saying:

person 1: Man, I'd better not meet any alliance here. I'll have to punch 'em in the face.
person 2 : Haha! or PvE Alliance!
person 1: Haha! OMG, PvE!!

(and now I start hoping that I don't have to start talking to them at some point in the night)

person 2 : PvE. What do they call it? What kind of server?
person 1 : Carebear servers!
person 2 : Hahaha! Yeah! Carebears!!

so me and my friend just mind our own business for a while, and then somehow we do end up talking to them, and the issue of my character comes up...

person 1 : So what server you guys on?
me : Silvermoon. It's PvE
person 2 : Awww. PvE??
me : Yeah...
person 1 : What's your character?
me : ... ... Gnome Warlock...
person 1 and person 2 : Gnome!? Warlock?!?! Hahahaha!!
person 3 (from in front of us) : Man, mentioning that you're a gnome warlock out here is the only way to get ganked in real life!

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Q u o t e:
*snip*

Pretty much when like that, didn't help that the guy I stood next to have a habitual spitting problem, as in he had to spit ever 10 second and sometime, directly near my face. >> THought I would have to fight him after I ask him to stop spitting. Had to avoid his trail of saliva.


Gonna pre order it next time.

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You don't have to worry; they were referring to the hot girls.

Me: This is the line for Hello Kitty Island Adventure x-pack, right?

Crowd: KILL THE UNBELIEVER!

Me: *flees on foot, successfully escapes by increasing speed to a quick walk. Crowd, gasping for breath, gives up after five steps*

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Q u o t e:
Me: This is the line for Hello Kitty Island Adventure x-pack, right?

Crowd: KILL THE UNBELIEVER!

Me: *flees on foot, successfully escapes by increasing speed to a quick walk. Crowd, gasping for breath, gives up after five steps*

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I lol'd

At the store I was at, we actually discussed what we did before the expansion, somewhat in preparation.

Example: I tried to knock out a few quests and get the money I could, plus clear out the quest log.

Me: I'm picking up Burning Crusade today, playing for two weeks. I'm getting Vanguard on the 30th, playing THAT for two weeks. Then i move to a new apartment and go MMO cold turkey until the internet's up and I'm unpacked.
Person 1: Ouch, that sucks. But it's a fast way to get things done if you don't have TV and internet up and distracting you.
Person 2: TV and Internet, sure, but don't forget the electricity (*bit of laughter and a brief few comments about moving into an apartment as night falls with no electricity, jokes, etc*)

Surprisingly, the only "nerdy" conversation I had was discussing MMOs in general.

The real conversations of nerdiness were discussing amongst beta testers the ups and downs of Vanguard and Lord of the Rings: Online. And the consensus that Vanguard doesn't have to take down Warcraft to be successful, they only need enough subscribers to keep themselves profitable.

If WoW loses 1 million players to Vanguard, then neither game "loses" anything. Blizzard keeps 7 million players with money flowing in and Vanguard does phenomenal with their 1 million. Other MMOs continue to thrive without the subs Blizzard has.

That was about the extent of our nerdy conversations.

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Q u o t e:

The March of the Retards is upon us!

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I have my badge! Well, just look at my avatar! Looks like down syndrome to me.

Me: Hey honey some people are going out at midnight to get the next "chapter" of that game I play.
Wife: Midnight? Is there a big sale then? I'll go with you?
Me: No that's when it comes out.
Wife: Can't they get it in the daytime?
Me: Yeah, but they want it right away, and the stores can't sell it until midnight.
Wife: I will go with you if you go?
Me: Nah we aren't going. I will get it in the mail.
Wife: OK
Me: It has pretty people now on the side I play on, so you want to try it?
Wife: I'll see. Did you show me that before?
Me: Yeah the skinny white people, with no horns or fangs.
Wife: Yeah I'll play the white girl some. Maybe.

While waiting in line, the EB Games district manager says:

"So am I the only loser here who plays Galaxies or what?"

Crowd: "..."


Met a gnome from Lothar who had full tier two but no epic mount. The nerdiest part of that conversation was when I scoffed.



Oh, the back part of the line shouted "Lee-roy nnn-Jenkins!" as they started to give out copies, someone next to me said, "If I see anyone in costume I just might hurt them," to which someone else commented, "I bet they brought their tabards."

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Q u o t e:
At the store I was at, we actually discussed what we did before the expansion, somewhat in preparation.

Example: I tried to knock out a few quests and get the money I could, plus clear out the quest log.

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A similar conversation happened near me, and I got mocked when I explained that I spent the last weekend fishing for Deviate Fish so I could disguise myself in Alliance cities until I successfully made it through the Dark Portal. You see, I accidently killed my brother outside Ironforge, and I'm convinced I'll be arrested if I show my face in Azeroth. The fact that it was an accident means little to me. He's dead and I'm convinced I'm a murderer.

Turns out, I'm an RP dork, which is somehow worse than all the other kind of dorks waiting in line at midnight to buy a video game in which people pretend to be elves and orcs and stuff.

Who'd a thought?

See: Turbo Dork!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ib-zga9KSbU

Quote:

Me: Hey honey some people are going out at midnight to get the next "chapter" of that game I play.
Wife: Midnight? Is there a big sale then? I'll go with you?
Me: No that's when it comes out.
Wife: Can't they get it in the daytime?
Me: Yeah, but they want it right away, and the stores can't sell it until midnight.
Wife: I will go with you if you go?
Me: Nah we aren't going. I will get it in the mail.
Wife: OK
Me: It has pretty people now on the side I play on, so you want to try it?
Wife: I'll see. Did you show me that before?
Me: Yeah the skinny white people, with no horns or fangs.
Wife: Yeah I'll play the white girl some. Maybe.
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I pee'd in my pants a little.

azn chick : You need to level your rogue.
azn guy : I dont want tolevel my rogue
azn chick: whatever you need to level with me.
azn guy: fine your going to follow me around and heal my butt
azn girl: oh god i dont want to level a priest
azn guy : too bad
azn girl: god your going to make me spec HOLY and follow you around
(at this point they start talking fast in there native language.)
(the girl was hot too =)

3 dorky white guys and a girl were standing around and one of them just had his chin in the air, "Yeah I have full Dreadknought, Im decked out badass" everyone else was in awe and he kept repeating how good he was.

It was the weirdest experience that this game has brought me.