The following is a true story.
I’ve got this friend, who was a hardcore Everquest addict back in the day. Had the Evercrack vicious, bad enough that his wife was on the verge of a divorce.. or homicide. She relates stories of how she used to dream of taking a club and smashing the computer.
In the end, he did the wise thing, and ‘just said no’ to Everquest. He quit cold turkey, and never looked back. He placed his family above the game, and his hoime life is among the happiest I have ever seen.
The memory of the bad times is not that far removed, however. As I play WoW, you can imagine that I am considered the evil friend, the temptor, the friend that might be trying to suck him back into games. Accordingly, she keeps an eagle eye on me when I’m around.
Mark can tell some pretty funny stories about the craziness of playing Everquest. His main character was a Priest, and it sounds like soloing one of those was about as big a pile of misery as you can get.
We were over visiting them recently, and I mentioned how much fun I was having writing this blog. As it is WoW related, I hadn’t thought about it, but Mark hadn’t mentioned it to his wife.
So, since this was her first time hearing about it, she asked what the name of the blog was.
“Big Bear Butt Blogger”, I replied.
She looked at me suspiciously, and then asked, “Is it because you write while naked?”
…. What kind of game does she think we play here, anyway?
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December 6th, 2007 at 2:49 pm
I’m betting what she heard was “Big Bare Butt”. Having a druid myself, I couldn’t see why she thought that, but a buddy of mine pointed out that not knowing the context, she would just be going on sound.
December 6th, 2007 at 3:09 pm
As most of my posts are written while at work, I can confidently say that while my coworkers would get to know me on a more personal level, they are very grateful that I’m not a Big Bare Butt blogger.
By the time I get my shirt off, I’m often having several people calling security, and those guys just don’t have a sense of humor….
December 6th, 2007 at 4:24 pm
as a new TriB reader, i’m glad to know that you are fully clothed when writing your blogs (at least thats how i want to envision it, don’t tell me otherwise)
December 6th, 2007 at 4:59 pm
My son-in-law who also plays WoW a lot has had some challenges at times with his WoW widow. She actually destroyed his computer. Oh that was a dark day and one that will not be forgotten. “What dark times are these when passing WoW widows throw perfectly good computers out in the street?” (sighs)
December 6th, 2007 at 5:44 pm
ROFLMAO
Dude, what’s the matter with your friend’s wife? Her mind must be int he gutter ALOT!
http://hoovedshaman.blogspot.com
December 6th, 2007 at 8:51 pm
There could be something to what you say luciel. I swear when i just glanced at your comment what I saw for a link was:
http://shavedhuman.blogspot.com
I gotta cut down on the mind-altering substances, like caffeine.
December 7th, 2007 at 9:56 am
HahaxD
Bear and Bare butt is pretty much alike as blackbeardfreelance says, think i would thought the same thing myself if i didint play the game.
Just made a blogg myself ppl, feel free to take alook and leave a comment:-)
http://cowcontroll.blogspot.com/
December 7th, 2007 at 10:03 am
You could add another B or 2
Big Bad Brown Bear Butt Blog.
December 10th, 2007 at 4:07 pm
To know me is to know how much I luv fantasy role play. It started when I was a teenager playing Dungeons & Dragons (which I still play). WoW is like a never ending D&D night - Hoot.
Now, before I said the infamous “I do” to my lovely wife, I made it clear that I will always - ALWAYS play D&D and if she ever interfered, I’d kick her azz out (please dont tell her I just wrote this). Now, there have been some ruff ponits, but for the most part, she let if go without fuss.
Then WoW came along, and she got pissed. This wasn’t once a week with the gang, oh no. This was an opportunity to do it every night, for hours on end.
I will say on the record, I love my wife. However, I really luv fantasy shit, and this game rocks. I did what I had to do in order to keep peace in the family. I invited my lovely wife to play, and helped her level and find stuff. AND since she loves Ebay, I showed her how to use the Auction House. Now, she has 2 70’s (I only have 1), and she has numerous other toons well on the way.
I think I created a monster…
November 3rd, 2008 at 9:43 am
Really like the site. Glad I finally found it. I have had other Druid players tell me about it yet they all seemed to get the name wrong, forgetting “the” in the url.
On the subjects of wives and play time: Mine can’t say a thing as she introduced me to the game and plays twice as much as me…which explains why she has three level 70’s and I have one.
When it came to picking names for characters the process was just as long as deciding on what type to play( not for me, Druid was first choice). My main character Namonam is actual a nickname misspelled backwards. However, it now turns out to be Man o man backwards. I have a gnome mage that is fire spec and ” What is a pain in your arse?” why a Threeftflame. Well have fun with your names and be creative.