Comments on: To Err is Human http://girlsdontgame.com/2008/01/26/to-err-is-human/ Everyone knows girls don't play video games. Sat, 22 Nov 2008 08:05:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1.2 By: Gloria http://girlsdontgame.com/2008/01/26/to-err-is-human/#comment-1077 Gloria Sat, 26 Jan 2008 23:29:58 +0000 http://girlsdontgame.com/2008/01/26/to-err-is-human/#comment-1077 lol, i'll chip in. I remember one of my first times doing void reaver on my draenei shaman. I was the one of two resto shaman in the raid, so we were tasked with chain healing all the melee. Things are going along just fine. I'm dodging the sparks, and chain healing like a master. All of a sudden I see a mage with a skull over his head run in front of me. OH CRAP! Here comes another bomb! In my panic to strafe and run, I end up clicking my mouse madly. (I'm left handed and sometimes my right mouse-using hand spazzes out) After a few seconds of running I start spamming chain heal like nobody's business. I notice that no matter how many times I cast, the melee's health keeps going down. What the crap? I take two seconds to look up from my raid windows (I was a healer that kept all the raid windows for every party open so I could efficiently raid heal. However, they took up the better part of my screen) and see that I've been chain healing my wrath of air totem the entire time. looool. Then the time a couple friends and I were fucking around with binds on vent. I made one that was ~~~~~~~ and had it binded to like, my S key. We go into SSC the next day and I'm typing away in whispers during trash. All the sudden on vent every 3 seconds I heard, "Tilde tilde tilde." "Tilde tilde tilde" "tilde tilde tilde" and the raid leader goes, "Who's doing that?!" I was like, "lol that sounds like the bind I made yesterday. WAIT OSHI" and disabled it before I got in trouble. lol, i’ll chip in.

I remember one of my first times doing void reaver on my draenei shaman. I was the one of two resto shaman in the raid, so we were tasked with chain healing all the melee. Things are going along just fine. I’m dodging the sparks, and chain healing like a master. All of a sudden I see a mage with a skull over his head run in front of me. OH CRAP! Here comes another bomb! In my panic to strafe and run, I end up clicking my mouse madly. (I’m left handed and sometimes my right mouse-using hand spazzes out)

After a few seconds of running I start spamming chain heal like nobody’s business. I notice that no matter how many times I cast, the melee’s health keeps going down. What the crap?

I take two seconds to look up from my raid windows (I was a healer that kept all the raid windows for every party open so I could efficiently raid heal. However, they took up the better part of my screen) and see that I’ve been chain healing my wrath of air totem the entire time. looool.

Then the time a couple friends and I were fucking around with binds on vent. I made one that was ~~~~~~~ and had it binded to like, my S key.

We go into SSC the next day and I’m typing away in whispers during trash. All the sudden on vent every 3 seconds I heard, “Tilde tilde tilde.” “Tilde tilde tilde” “tilde tilde tilde” and the raid leader goes, “Who’s doing that?!” I was like, “lol that sounds like the bind I made yesterday. WAIT OSHI” and disabled it before I got in trouble.

]]> By: Adrenis http://girlsdontgame.com/2008/01/26/to-err-is-human/#comment-1081 Adrenis Sun, 27 Jan 2008 05:46:15 +0000 http://girlsdontgame.com/2008/01/26/to-err-is-human/#comment-1081 I think it's just human nature to take it personally when you mess up, especially if it's something you care about (like video games =). I was screwing around on Counter Strike a while back and was playing some matches with some random guys I had found. We'd been playing for a while and we set up a new match in an office building map. Towards the end of the match, there were two terrorists and three counter terrorists left. One of my fellow CTs said he was gonna go get the hostages and the other CT said he'd go with him. I told them that was cool and I was gonna go hunt down the last two Ts. So I'm sneaking through the offices in the building and suddenly I see a guy come around the corner in front of me. I open fire - blam blam blam blam blam When the smoke clears, I'm lying dead on the ground next to one of my teammates. The guy I saw coming around the corner was one of the two other CTs leading the hostages out. Apparently I killed him, and then the other CT - who was either as confused as I was, or saw me in the middle of a TK and decided to kill me to try and stop it - mowed me down. The chat channel absolutely erupted with "lolz" and "ur such a noobzor." Not that I heard much of it, I just quit the game. And oh yeah, we lost. >< I think it’s just human nature to take it personally when you mess up, especially if it’s something you care about (like video games =).

I was screwing around on Counter Strike a while back and was playing some matches with some random guys I had found. We’d been playing for a while and we set up a new match in an office building map. Towards the end of the match, there were two terrorists and three counter terrorists left. One of my fellow CTs said he was gonna go get the hostages and the other CT said he’d go with him. I told them that was cool and I was gonna go hunt down the last two Ts.

So I’m sneaking through the offices in the building and suddenly I see a guy come around the corner in front of me. I open fire -

blam blam blam blam blam

When the smoke clears, I’m lying dead on the ground next to one of my teammates. The guy I saw coming around the corner was one of the two other CTs leading the hostages out. Apparently I killed him, and then the other CT - who was either as confused as I was, or saw me in the middle of a TK and decided to kill me to try and stop it - mowed me down.

The chat channel absolutely erupted with “lolz” and “ur such a noobzor.” Not that I heard much of it, I just quit the game. And oh yeah, we lost. ><

]]> By: Monique http://girlsdontgame.com/2008/01/26/to-err-is-human/#comment-1083 Monique Sun, 27 Jan 2008 07:44:47 +0000 http://girlsdontgame.com/2008/01/26/to-err-is-human/#comment-1083 Gloria-- You reminded me of a healing embarrassment. My char when MC'd LoH'd Kel'Thuzad. Not even joking. Cringe-worthy much? :( Adrenis-- Friendly fire always made me uneasy. It makes you a better player eventually if that's any consolation? I always had bad luck with nades in that game, though. Most of my stories start with "and I saw a flash of light" and end with "when it cleared, I was dead." Do you still play CS? If so, wanna exchange Steam names? http://steamcommunity.com/id/monique Gloria–
You reminded me of a healing embarrassment. My char when MC’d LoH’d Kel’Thuzad. Not even joking. Cringe-worthy much? :(

Adrenis–
Friendly fire always made me uneasy. It makes you a better player eventually if that’s any consolation? I always had bad luck with nades in that game, though. Most of my stories start with “and I saw a flash of light” and end with “when it cleared, I was dead.”
Do you still play CS? If so, wanna exchange Steam names?
http://steamcommunity.com/id/monique

]]> By: Selphie http://girlsdontgame.com/2008/01/26/to-err-is-human/#comment-1092 Selphie Mon, 28 Jan 2008 09:54:23 +0000 http://girlsdontgame.com/2008/01/26/to-err-is-human/#comment-1092 Remidns me of the time I wiped the raid in C'Thun. Twice. I was hopping around on the other side of the doorway, being bored, waiting for people to buff and get ready. Then I jumped right in frnot of the doorway. I meant to jump to the right, but somehow I pressed Q. Needless to say, C'Thun chain beamed the whole fully buffed raid and Vent exploded in e-rage. I apologised like a million times and people res again, but this wasn't all of it. By now I'm so embarrassed and shocked by my stupidity and carelessness that I just want to run to a corner and stay still till everybody's buffed and ready. I'm half way looking at the ground and see somebody on the right side res me. Ok, good. I will run there and wait in safety. I get ressed, and I start running towards the spot... And C'Thun beams the raid again. Apparently somebody had ressed me on the other side of the doorway at the same time and since I was looking at the ground... Yeah. I got -200 DKP for it and the eternal hate of certain people for being a "stupid bitch who shouldn't be allowed to play WoW". Some people did comment they were laughing so hard they were crying, but I guess the raid leader didn't have enough sense of humour to spare me the DKP minus. I ended up leaving the guild for 2 weeks and spending the time in the world of real life. I was that embarassed. It's the same with all mistakes I've done in WoW. I still remember getting the core out of nowhere at Vashj and not knowing what to do with it since I had ignored the tactics watching House or something on the TV; it was something that the rogues were supposed to handle, so no problem! Right? Yeah right. I got raid leader aggro and an hour of lecture and reviewal of my raid section spot for that, and a massive punch on my gamer ego. Ouch. Remidns me of the time I wiped the raid in C’Thun. Twice. I was hopping around on the other side of the doorway, being bored, waiting for people to buff and get ready. Then I jumped right in frnot of the doorway. I meant to jump to the right, but somehow I pressed Q. Needless to say, C’Thun chain beamed the whole fully buffed raid and Vent exploded in e-rage. I apologised like a million times and people res again, but this wasn’t all of it. By now I’m so embarrassed and shocked by my stupidity and carelessness that I just want to run to a corner and stay still till everybody’s buffed and ready. I’m half way looking at the ground and see somebody on the right side res me. Ok, good. I will run there and wait in safety. I get ressed, and I start running towards the spot… And C’Thun beams the raid again. Apparently somebody had ressed me on the other side of the doorway at the same time and since I was looking at the ground… Yeah. I got -200 DKP for it and the eternal hate of certain people for being a “stupid bitch who shouldn’t be allowed to play WoW”. Some people did comment they were laughing so hard they were crying, but I guess the raid leader didn’t have enough sense of humour to spare me the DKP minus.

I ended up leaving the guild for 2 weeks and spending the time in the world of real life. I was that embarassed. It’s the same with all mistakes I’ve done in WoW. I still remember getting the core out of nowhere at Vashj and not knowing what to do with it since I had ignored the tactics watching House or something on the TV; it was something that the rogues were supposed to handle, so no problem! Right? Yeah right. I got raid leader aggro and an hour of lecture and reviewal of my raid section spot for that, and a massive punch on my gamer ego. Ouch.

]]> By: Adrenis http://girlsdontgame.com/2008/01/26/to-err-is-human/#comment-1098 Adrenis Mon, 28 Jan 2008 15:49:23 +0000 http://girlsdontgame.com/2008/01/26/to-err-is-human/#comment-1098 @ Monique - I actually haven't played CS for a couple years now. I seem to remember having to uninstall Half-Life/Steam to make room for something else on my computer a while back (may have been WoW?), and I never got around to putting it back on later. If I ever get back into it, I'll let you know. @ Monique - I actually haven’t played CS for a couple years now. I seem to remember having to uninstall Half-Life/Steam to make room for something else on my computer a while back (may have been WoW?), and I never got around to putting it back on later. If I ever get back into it, I’ll let you know.

]]> By: Anon http://girlsdontgame.com/2008/01/26/to-err-is-human/#comment-1099 Anon Mon, 28 Jan 2008 20:48:36 +0000 http://girlsdontgame.com/2008/01/26/to-err-is-human/#comment-1099 Aside from the obvious Vael or Gheddon wipes, my personal fuck up du jour was when I was mting Grobbulus... and I messed up pretty fucking badly! I got everyone killed because I moved him around like a dumbass and then pulled too early the next time, ruining our wipe recovery lol. Aside from the obvious Vael or Gheddon wipes, my personal fuck up du jour was when I was mting Grobbulus… and I messed up pretty fucking badly! I got everyone killed because I moved him around like a dumbass and then pulled too early the next time, ruining our wipe recovery lol.

]]> By: Monique http://girlsdontgame.com/2008/01/26/to-err-is-human/#comment-1110 Monique Tue, 29 Jan 2008 02:57:38 +0000 http://girlsdontgame.com/2008/01/26/to-err-is-human/#comment-1110 Selphie, I think I love your stories. I never pulled the C'Thun wipe, but I do remember a great officer (sarcasm) purposely pulling C'Thun to wipe us when he was bugged. Not a fun memory. Selphie, I think I love your stories. I never pulled the C’Thun wipe, but I do remember a great officer (sarcasm) purposely pulling C’Thun to wipe us when he was bugged. Not a fun memory.

]]> By: Alyssa http://girlsdontgame.com/2008/01/26/to-err-is-human/#comment-1120 Alyssa Tue, 29 Jan 2008 20:02:06 +0000 http://girlsdontgame.com/2008/01/26/to-err-is-human/#comment-1120 LOL at all the WoW stories. My "embarrassing WoW moment" would have to be the time I accidentally needed on an item I didn't need...and won it. Honest to god, my finger slipped. Of course, someone else in the group needed it and I got flamed by everyone. I apologized like crazy and fortunately they let me complete the instance with them, but I didn't say another word until it was over, I was so embarrassed. I've always payed very close attention when I need or greed loot ever since. And wow, I remember the first time I played RE4 and I was NOT expecting Dr. Salvador to come running at me with a chainsaw. My head was his. LOL at all the WoW stories. My “embarrassing WoW moment” would have to be the time I accidentally needed on an item I didn’t need…and won it. Honest to god, my finger slipped. Of course, someone else in the group needed it and I got flamed by everyone. I apologized like crazy and fortunately they let me complete the instance with them, but I didn’t say another word until it was over, I was so embarrassed. I’ve always payed very close attention when I need or greed loot ever since.

And wow, I remember the first time I played RE4 and I was NOT expecting Dr. Salvador to come running at me with a chainsaw. My head was his.

]]> By: Monique http://girlsdontgame.com/2008/01/26/to-err-is-human/#comment-1135 Monique Wed, 30 Jan 2008 20:30:29 +0000 http://girlsdontgame.com/2008/01/26/to-err-is-human/#comment-1135 Alyssa, did you know that you can somehow avoid the chainsaw guy? When I first played, I died a lot. And I was upset. Then a few years later I learned you can avoid the chainsaw guy in the beginning by never entering a room and just killing villagers. So random of Capcom :( Alyssa, did you know that you can somehow avoid the chainsaw guy? When I first played, I died a lot. And I was upset. Then a few years later I learned you can avoid the chainsaw guy in the beginning by never entering a room and just killing villagers. So random of Capcom :(

]]> By: Kitsune http://girlsdontgame.com/2008/01/26/to-err-is-human/#comment-1196 Kitsune Tue, 05 Feb 2008 15:12:58 +0000 http://girlsdontgame.com/2008/01/26/to-err-is-human/#comment-1196 I still kick myself for wasting honor on that damned heavy cloak. *shake fist* Damned bugged out ratingbuster. :( I'm a bit embarassed about how spazz I must've looked right after I re-did my ability layout now that you can just click your heal and auto-shift out to cast it rather than shifting first, and trying to maximize efficiency. Sometimes when in frantic pvp I'd accidentally hit faerie fire, when I meant to hit the feral version. Obviously randomly going humanoid and then straight back to animal. I still kick myself for wasting honor on that damned heavy cloak. *shake fist* Damned bugged out ratingbuster. :(
I’m a bit embarassed about how spazz I must’ve looked right after I re-did my ability layout now that you can just click your heal and auto-shift out to cast it rather than shifting first, and trying to maximize efficiency. Sometimes when in frantic pvp I’d accidentally hit faerie fire, when I meant to hit the feral version. Obviously randomly going humanoid and then straight back to animal.

]]> By: Ede http://girlsdontgame.com/2008/01/26/to-err-is-human/#comment-1301 Ede Tue, 12 Feb 2008 15:42:44 +0000 http://girlsdontgame.com/2008/01/26/to-err-is-human/#comment-1301 Ever accidentaly stepped on a switch during a LAN? Not appreciated :( Ever accidentaly stepped on a switch during a LAN? Not appreciated :(

]]> By: Duerma http://girlsdontgame.com/2008/01/26/to-err-is-human/#comment-1341 Duerma Thu, 14 Feb 2008 15:01:08 +0000 http://girlsdontgame.com/2008/01/26/to-err-is-human/#comment-1341 My most embarrassing was when we were fighting maybe Gruul? Maybe Tidewalker? I can't even remember the boss. Doesn't matter. Anyway, I died early like a noob, and decided that well, since they're not gonna BR a lock, I'm going to go get some food. I grab a frozen dinner and pop it in the microwave. Unfortunately, I forgot that sometimes when I start the microwave, it blows the circuit breaker the computers are on. No big deal, since I'm dead, right? Wrong. I game with my husband. He's the main tank. Fortunately, through MDs and his already substantial lead on threat, he still had aggro after I managed to sprint to the fuse box and restart the computers. When I die now, the officers remind me not to get food, and if I ever vanish suddenly, people are always like, "Lol toast?" I had a paladin friend who was healing on Vael, and the first tank runs in and suddenly finds himself in a bubble while Vael runs amok and eats everyone. Turns out her DI button and Holy Light buttons were right next to each other. Ooops. The legend among our raid, though, is the hunter who meant to left click to target Hakkar in ZG, but instead right clicked. This of course started his autoshot, pulling Hakkar and wiping the raid. Glee. My most embarrassing was when we were fighting maybe Gruul? Maybe Tidewalker? I can’t even remember the boss. Doesn’t matter. Anyway, I died early like a noob, and decided that well, since they’re not gonna BR a lock, I’m going to go get some food. I grab a frozen dinner and pop it in the microwave. Unfortunately, I forgot that sometimes when I start the microwave, it blows the circuit breaker the computers are on.

No big deal, since I’m dead, right? Wrong. I game with my husband. He’s the main tank.

Fortunately, through MDs and his already substantial lead on threat, he still had aggro after I managed to sprint to the fuse box and restart the computers. When I die now, the officers remind me not to get food, and if I ever vanish suddenly, people are always like, “Lol toast?”

I had a paladin friend who was healing on Vael, and the first tank runs in and suddenly finds himself in a bubble while Vael runs amok and eats everyone. Turns out her DI button and Holy Light buttons were right next to each other. Ooops.

The legend among our raid, though, is the hunter who meant to left click to target Hakkar in ZG, but instead right clicked. This of course started his autoshot, pulling Hakkar and wiping the raid. Glee.

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