online gaming experience
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On Friday night, when I was chatting with Charles, we came across a topic about online gaming. Charles’ friend asked me (yep, there’s another dude with us that night) - what game am I playing right now ? I told him I just finished WC3-The Frozen Throne.
The dude, then told me that he fancies online gaming. The word “online gaming” reminded me a very bizarre experience that I had many years ago. [which I told him on the spot]. It goes like this :
Remember Diablo ? That was the first (and only) games that I’ve ever played online. Diablo was a very influential game - it revolutionized the entire gaming world. We saw the introduction of direct x … which rendered lots of graphic cards useless, and also made a very significant increment in demand for mouse.
It was very popular. It’s easy to play, and it’s graphics were awesome. And best of all, it’s online Battlenet was freeeeee. One can link up to it’s server and play Diablo with gamers all over the world. It’s something that’s very new to most gamers and it’s a kinda like a trend to play Diablo online (back then).
There’s once, I joined a game created by some German chick. The title of the game was BitchSlut .. or something like that. And once inside, I can see that there were already 2 other players inside. And I can tell that they are all close friends from the way they chat. *Note : If you have some experience with Diablo, you should also know that there’s a chat function inside the game. The chat console can be viewed by all, which means, I can see every detail of any person’s chat inside the game.
So, without hesitating, I went into the first level to start the action … but no signs of other players. I can only see them chat. Rather than joining them chatting, I was busy walloping monsters and undead.
Well, their chat topics were quite common - where had they been, who had they been chatting with, game experiences, … u know,… topics that were actually more boring than listening to PM’s national day speech.
Then suddenly, they began to chat about something more “personal”. Something about the measurement of their busts. Oooh… that distracted me for awhile … almost got my character killed by monsters. I was dumbfounded. Never expected to hear something like this in an online game like Diablo.
I then messaged out to the 2 German chicks “Hey hey … there’s a guy in here. You might want to do your discussion about bust measurement offline.” To which .. they replied “So what if you’re a guy ? Not matured enough to take it ?”. I felt intellectually challenged by that kind of respond cum taunt, and decided to forgo my game to get dirty a bit.
I parked my character in a safe area, and started by asking them, why they measured their busts in cm (as the standard metric used to measure busts are usually in inches and cup sizes). They told me it’s quite common in Germany (and I’m not sure if they are blowing me). Then, I decided to get funny a lil’ bit.
At first, I explained to them about the standard metrics - inches and cups sizes. I get responds like oooh and aahh … which sounded like neanderthal cave-hags that just discovered the use of fire. It was quite a wacky experience (but fun) having to explain that to a bunch of girls (who should have known better).
Having so much fun being a prophet to a couple of spastic German girls, I took the subject even further. I introduced them a new metric to measure busts (which I made up myself).
I told them that in my country (don’t worry, I didn’t tell them which country I’m from), we measure boobs with hands. How many hands does it take to hold up one boob. If it’s big, it might require more than 1 hands to hold it up. If it’s small, it will easily take less than 1 hand. So, the measurement goes like 1/2 hand, 1 hand, 2 hands (this is big) or even 3 hands (monstrous size). It’s much more easier to imagine “hands” comparing to cm or inches. And you don’t need a measuring tape or tool to measure.
Of course when we say “hand”, we don’t use Shaquille O’Neal’s hand as a standard. The size of his hands would be out of this world and ridiculous to measure. Other than basketball players’ hands, there shouldn’t be any significant hand-size differences among us humans (those few cm/inches difference won’t make a big impact on your boob size anyway).
As I was about to quip even more made-up facts to them, I was kicked out from the game. Without knowing why. I thought we were all having an enjoyable view-exchange session but, those girls can never maintain an open mind to complete it. Girls.
But that did not bother me a bit. I joined in another game and continued to have my own fun whacking monsters/undeads. Diablo was the only game I ever played online.
Lesson learnt: Never play online games with German girls.
