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YOU MIGHT BE A GAMER IF... (24 comments)
Posted by 7d.killabee @ 04:46 CDT, 7 April 2007 - iMsg
...you have more entertaining "No-shit,-there-I-was-in-a-game" stories than you do anecdotes about your family.

...you talk about your characters as if they are real people.

...you alternate between referring to your characters in the first and the third person.

... and none of your friends gets confused.

...you've ever spent a significant fraction of your life modifying game rules that you didn't like... and, as soon as the system worked to your satisfaction, discarded it.

...you're still reading this list.

...you hang out with people you actively dislike because they give good role- play.

...you've ever gotten into a screaming match over something that happened in a game... (You are so dead! I am not dead!) ...you've ever neglected to buy the new edition of your favourite game because you already have three.

...you have more than one photocopied bootleg of a gaming text.

...you have a PhD in manipulating point systems to the best effect, even though you failed high school geometry.

..you can consume your body weight in junk food in one gaming session.

...you have been known to drive to far away places where you paid enormous amounts of money for the privelege of sleeping on floors, eating crap, buying little pewter statues of Gandalf, and meeting dozens of psychopathic members of the alternate (or similar) sex who will follow you around for months, merely for the pleasure of playing with gamers you don't know.

...and then signed up en masse with all of you friends to play in games with game masters who you've known since high school.

...you own your own weight in gaming books.

...you've ever tried to explain gaming to a school counselor, parent, or other PW/OC (Person With/Out Clue).

...you've suceeded.

...you're STILL reading this list.

...you've ever discovered, after gaming with your significant other, that you like their character better than you do them.

...you have friends or acquaintances who regularly refer to you as "Og." (Or something similar.)

...you've ceased responding to your birth name.

...you sometimes forget what century this is.

...your first response to any frustrating situation is, "I bash it with my axe."

...you know a lot of gaming jokes that used to be funny once.

...your friend(s) who does not game feels very left out of all of your conversations.

...you've been gaming for more than half of your life.

...you still laugh when someone says "Hey, Dave, I think the barbarian in the corner wants another beer."

...the phrase "Collect Call of Cthulhu" brings back fond memories.

...you knew a female gamer once.

...you were a female gamer once.

...you tend to play characters as different from you in race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, and what have you as possible, just to confuse your friends.

...you've thought of four or five additions to this list.
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Gaming Quotes (53 comments)
Posted by 7d.killabee @ 03:24 CDT, 6 April 2007 - iMsg
Found some quotes on gaming, thought it would be nice to share them with you! Additions are appreciated :-)

“Man is a gaming animal. He must always be trying to get the better in something or other.”

“Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before.”

“All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or backgammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right and wrong.”

“Take a look at your natural river. What are you? Stop playing games with yourself. Where's your river going? Are you riding with it? Or are you rowing against it? Don't you see that there is no effort if you're riding with your river?”

“I think it's wrong that only one company makes the game Monopoly.”

“To win you've got to stay in the game.”

“You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.”

“You play the hand you're dealt. I think the game's worthwhile.”

“Friends are helpful not only because they will listen to us, but because they will laugh at us; Through them we learn a little objectivity, a little modesty, a little courtesy; We learn the rules of life and become better players of the game”

“The man who has no problems is out of the game”

“Love is all fun and games until someone loses an eye or gets pregnant”

“Where neither love nor hatred is in the game, a woman's game is mediocre”

“Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.”

“Gaming corrupts our disposition and teaches us a habit of hostility against all mankind”

“Can you support the expense of a husband, hussy, in gaming, drinking and whoring? Have you money enough to carry on the daily quarrels of man and wife about who shall squander most?”

“Whenever you see a gaming table be sure to know fortune is not there. Rather she is always in the company of industry.”

“Keep flax from fire, youth from gaming”

“The books I've written for gaming companies are a like games of miniature golf where the object is to weave an interesting story through an obstacle course.”
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Games Quotes (No comments)
Posted by 7d.killabee @ 06:31 CDT, 2 April 2007 - iMsg
Ran into the following quotes about games on the internet. Thought you might like some:


The game of life is a lot like football. You have
to tackle your problems, block your fears, and
score your points when you get the opportunity.
- Unknown

We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi

If past history was all there was to the game, the
richest people would be librarians.
- Warren Buffett

Your opponent, in the end, is never really the
player on the other side of the net, or the
swimmer in the next lane, or the team on the other
side of the field, or even the bar you must
high-jump. Your opponent is yourself, your
negative internal voices, your level of
determination.
- Grace Lichtenstein, American Writer & Editor

When you know your own strengths and weaknesses,
you are better able to know those of others. Once
you do, managing people becomes an optimization
game, where everyone wins.
- Floyd Maxwell (1957-)

Democrats will play the old Washington game of
calling reductions in the rate of growth of
spending for any program a 'cut'.
- Bruce Bartlett

Love is a game that two can play and both win.
- Eva Gabor

I have missed more than 9,000 shots in my life. I
have lost almost 300 game 26 times I have been
trusted to take the game-winning shot and missed.
I have failed over and over and over again. That
is why I succeed...
- Michael Jordan

Once the game is over, the King and the pawn go
back in the same box.
- Italian proverb

Half the game is 90% mental.
- Yogi Berra

Chess is as elaborate a waste of human
intelligence as you can find outside of an
advertising agency.
- Raymond Chandler

They are playing a game they are playing at not
playing a game, if I show them that I see they
are, I shall break the rules and they will punish
me Therefore I must play the game of not seeing
that I see the game.
- RD Laing

Mathematics is a game played according to certain
simple rules with meaningless marks on paper.
- David Hilbert

No one man is superior to the game.
~
- A. Bartlett Giamatti

A strange game. The only winning move is not to
play.
- WOPR - In the movie "War Games" after learning the futility of "playing" Global Thermonuclear War by playing a seemingly endless series of games of Tic-Tac-Toe with itself.
Edited by 7d.killabee at 06:32 CDT, 2 April 2007 - 1251 Hits
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