As a matter of a pure survival skill, I’ve learned over time to equate my roomate hitting me with victory. Any time she hauls off and slugs me, that means I won. And sometimes my victories come at the most unexpected times.
Recently I was running some heroics with Hrist when Roomate walked into the computer room to talk about something – I don’t remember what, she does this periodically even though she knows better to talk to me when I’m playing. But then she has learned to ask if it’s a raid or not, so maybe she figured since it wasn’t a raid I didn’t need to pay attention (which, you know, fair enough).
At any rate, she had successfully managed to distract me (possibly she came in with homemade cookies, which she does sometimes) and we were talking about something when the conversation took an unexpected turn:
Roomate: “Aren’t you supposed to move out of that?”
Frost: “Huh?
Roomate “The void thing?”
Frost: “Void thing? Shit! Void zone! Yes!!”
Roomate: (hits frost as hard as she can) “Goddamn it, I don’t want to know this stuff. It’s your fault I know this!”
Oh yeah, those bruises look a lot like victory.
So I’ figure this is about as much as she’s going to accidentally learn about WoW from her occasional trips into the computer room. I think next I should try to pick something really geeky and ridiculous to try to subtley imprint into her brain. Any thoughts?
Hmmm… did you let her try to play the actual game? So she knows whats fun about it? I explained the game to my girlfriend and she was actually playing it for 2 hours straight after that. So maybe give her a trial or let her play on your account if she wants to try it. Btw another question: why is she so upset with: Roomate: (hits frost as hard as she can) “Goddamn it, I don’t want to know this stuff. It’s your fault I know this!”
She thinks WoW has a bad reputation?
Greetz,
Mormodre
My other computer passion is a WW2 combat fight sim. Friday is “squadron night”. My wife will often say to friends who try to invite us out…..”we can’t come tonight ….there’s a war on”
Victory is sweet
LOL! Mrs. Quad (who’s obsession with WoW is much greater than mine, and I’m TOTALLY obsessed) said the exact same thing to me about Formula 1.
Roomate has zero interest in WoW. In fact, she refers to computers as the “demon box.” Seriously.
Teach her about Big-O notation. Geek to the max!
she already knows more about wow than most puggers (and some guildies) ive run with
/cry
Women…..even when they don’t know……….somehow…..they know!!
@Prelious:
You are sooooo right!
ROFL…. when i got to 80 and started doing heroics, had a roommate that knew more about the instances than me, and he never ever played Wow. He just had friends that he had been watching while they were playing =) was kinda funny gettin advices from him xD
WOMEN, can’t live with them and can’t live with them, or something like that.
Frost you gotta show her all your companions(women love big furry things, lol) and show
her ‘Eyes of the Beast’ maybe that might work, other then that, good luck, my wife is the
same way.
Peace, Creep
Women, you can’t live with ‘em… they will not go out with me.
my wife is my favourite tank (pally) in game. she just started tanking a few weeks ago and is now the goto offtank in our 10 and 25 man naxx/ulduar runs. crazy part is it isnt our guild that is calling us and she is doing exceptionaly well. she solo tanked razorscale in 25 man from 54% to 1% when she died. creative hunter pingpong finished that fight off. it is nice talking strat for fights with someone you lived with is the point i guess. plus raiding in the same room cant be topped
My ex girlfriend was quite hot and I managed to get her in to Wow from day one somehow. That was a glorious day. I was the envy of all my mates, a hot chick who plays video games. She even started telling her girlfriends abotu wow at parties (who of course, couldnt care less) She became addicted and would be up to 3am in the morning playing. We ended up just taking it in turns after a while. She’d do a dungeon run in Wailing Caverns, then I’d do a run in her wailing cavern. Yep, those were the days.Oh yes… :0)
I miss her. :’0(
Well Frost its good to see she has been paying attention to pick up the void zones it just proves the human mind can learn so much even if your not interested in the subject and proves the fact that people are always learning. Looks like she is considerate too if she is willing to ask if your in a raid or not before she tries to talk to you, maybe you could brainwash her into wow yet !.
Having a girl roomate would be so awesome! Would be even awesomer if girls went out with me
obviously you are missing the signs of love. a male dwarf what more could a broad love. lol
Guess my “the guild” comment went over some heads, hehehe.
Teach her how to play magic: the gathering online. Without her knowing or realizing that she’s learning of course.
Start to teach her wow lingo like pugs and dps etc
Would be great to see it slipping into her vocab if something like that situation arises again
Dear god all you people make me feel better about my life, though inadvertent it may be. Love the site though, when are we going to see a update to sv spec to include t9 as you so hinted?
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Frostheim
Roomate has zero interest in WoW. In fact, she refers to computers as the “demon box.” Seriously.
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Can I say perfekt. If she has zero interest in computer, then she has more time to coke, clean and the ofter stuff we dont have time for. How can I make my girlfriend dislike WoW.? hmm…?
Hey Frost,
Is it just me or is there actually a hidden romance developing there with your roommate? C’mon Frost whats really going on between you two?
haha good read.
My girlfriend does the says the samething. She actully leveled a Mage to 60 then she stopped because she started to hate the game.
Heh. This did kind of devolve into a ‘how to get Frost’s roomate addiction to wow’ thread. My wife.. 0 interest.. possibly negative as I’m constantly mitigating wife aggro to get time to play.
As far as something geeky to imprint, that’s a harder question. Having her able to hold a conversation on shot rotation might be fun. =D
So u say she is an engineer ?..Well why dont u have her “help” u out on some of the data intensive formulas involved in finding out the best combo for a hunter to own the dps scale. Generally anyone who is opposed to wow that i have met is merely intimidated by its seemingly complex playing matrix?..Build on common ground and play to her strengths..gets em every time
Aregont
Daggerspine
Well then…I’ve seen a few things to touch on in this topic…n’ yeh..I’ma gunna blab onandonand…..
1st….if women don’t like you…take a shower..that’s a good start…yeh I’m mean,so what?…it’s because I’m a woman…a cruel one…so I know these things and you can’t help but hear me roar…now get ye to yonder soap…peeeee-uuuuuu!
2nd…As a woman who games it’s because I like the whole ‘fantasy, I can be evol horde orc, ‘put a spear through your head’, kick butt online….when in RL…well let’s jus say I’m not all that…but if I wanted to get someone into wow who refers to the comp as a ‘demon box’ but liked to bake cookies…well I’d show them that they too can bake nummy goodness in game too…or just use that ‘gettin’ techy’ idea that Aregont seemed to key into…’what IS better…Gob engineering or Dwarven?’….a nice friendly ‘debate’ where she ‘wins’ will definately further you towards a FTW…here’s a key point…when women beat men at something and men admit to her winning…she WILL glow..thus making your true objective that much easier to obtain…srry ladies…yeh I’m lettin him in on the secret. boo me!
3rd…DO NOT try to hit on or ‘get’ with your roomie…it’s like the co-worker rule..you might get a fantastic ‘cake’ one night…but I can almost guarantee it’ll be the last cookie and cake you see from them. Period!!! …best to just leave it be and enjoy the homebaked cookies as they come…unless of course the ‘bend’ to the rule comes into action and she happens to offer you that previously witheld cake….*ahem* besides…this was s’posed to be how to attract the roomie to WOW not how to get WOOT outta her…silly boys ;P
4th…Play up the ‘oh GAWD I SO NEED YOUR HELP PLEEEEEAAASE!’….it’s totally irrisistable and has a mysteriously hypnotic effect on women…prolly somethig to do with that mummy instinct…and yeh girls are usually pretty flattered when a man begs for her help…jus don’t ruin it with the good ‘ol pathetic ‘get right down on your knees’ begging…that’s for marriage…and he ability to make you into a laughingstock will come out ten fold…after all she’s a woman too and prolly just as cruel as I am >=]