tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5922857679980740630.post6381747269208689341..comments2024-03-27T10:35:46.596+01:00Comments on Ravalation: Geeky expressions only my friends understand (and now you will, too)Ravanelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03447777640056476366noreply@blogger.comBlogger18125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5922857679980740630.post-69525547015432152342017-03-16T13:29:32.424+01:002017-03-16T13:29:32.424+01:00The Senate Guard has some private expressions as w...The Senate Guard has some private expressions as well, like "doing a Murder" when one gets online just after the raid group is full and has pulled the first thrash, "doing a Weels" when beeing completly lost and not knowing where to go, "do a Chim" when we are planning something and someone jumps ahead without waiting, but not to confuse with "do a Rarr", that's when someone wants to push to talk and presses a key that starts an attack. "Doing a Dorrys" is starting a boss fight and get stuck outside the room. I wonder how we come up with all of those names....<br />-MurderBaalrechhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09463049159935244101noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5922857679980740630.post-1496671771322301142017-03-03T15:56:21.640+01:002017-03-03T15:56:21.640+01:00Ahahaha. Awww, poor rantongas. They had to suffer ...Ahahaha. Awww, poor rantongas. They had to suffer through a lot in that game. ;)Ravanelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03447777640056476366noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5922857679980740630.post-3782475657644852142017-03-03T14:30:44.960+01:002017-03-03T14:30:44.960+01:00We had some "Ratonga pride" guildies bac...We had some "Ratonga pride" guildies back in EQ2. I was playing a Kerra, the cat race, and my Kerra's tradeskill was cooking. As you might imagine, I would chime in with "I love ratonga's! Especially lightly sauteed and fried in a pan!"The Nicksternoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5922857679980740630.post-16070847241009320932017-03-02T17:14:04.554+01:002017-03-02T17:14:04.554+01:00We had a lot of fun running some dungeons and joki...We had a lot of fun running some dungeons and joking around, yes.<br /><br />Yeah, it was Rebecca who invented "Hug a Ratonga Day". She also goes by Sabine or Sabinerak in the interwebs. She just have an urge to hug anything that is cute and furry. Or even not so cute and/or furry, like the Charr in Guild Wars 2 or the Sarnak (a hybrid race created from dragons and the Iksar (the lizardman race in the game). It may sound weird but it makes some kind of sense in the lore).<br /><br />The friendly annoyance response to "Hug a Ratonga Day" is just my thing though. Every other ratonga is usually pretty happy to be hugged.Rakunohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00253609981961681014noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5922857679980740630.post-65200605534854369812017-03-02T14:09:54.822+01:002017-03-02T14:09:54.822+01:00"We wipe on trash so you don't have to!&q..."We wipe on trash so you don't have to!" That's brilliant!<br /><br />It also feels good that we're not the only one with some measure of 'teenage humour' (even if only just one word in our case). You guys totally beat us at that! Sam Ragnaros, Lord of the Toilet is a true inside joke. ^^<br /><br />This all reminds me of a particular hat in LOTRO. The leader of a befriended kinship (LOTRO's version of a guild) always wore it and was teased with it being a 'condom hat'. Once you'd heard that you couldn't un-see it: it really looked like just that. :)Ravanelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03447777640056476366noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5922857679980740630.post-66993393248577413512017-03-02T13:57:28.193+01:002017-03-02T13:57:28.193+01:00I'm happy to hear it's not just fun for me...I'm happy to hear it's not just fun for me to write! I'm enjoying everyone's stories in the comment section as well. I guess the social side of MMOs is something that always intrigued me. <br /><br />I hope your new guild will develop to have the same camaraderie - it might just! Mine has been around for so long, with the same people at the core... I think that really helps to get that kind of atmosphere. Ravanelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03447777640056476366noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5922857679980740630.post-73246009020002177962017-03-02T13:52:55.321+01:002017-03-02T13:52:55.321+01:00Haha, "Blah, blah. You are going to die anywa...Haha, "Blah, blah. You are going to die anyway!" sounds like such a typical Rakuno thing to say. I love it! It sounds like you had a lot of fun with your friends. :)<br /><br />Was the "Hug a Ratonga Day" invented by Rebecca by any chance? I vaguely remember reading about something like that in the comment section of your blog ages ago. Your friendly annoyance in response to being assigned the role of character to hug is hilarious. I'm not surprised *every day* is "Hug a Ratonga Day". xDRavanelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03447777640056476366noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5922857679980740630.post-62742905021436177732017-03-02T04:49:03.586+01:002017-03-02T04:49:03.586+01:00This was so much fun to read! Definitely makes me ...This was so much fun to read! Definitely makes me miss the days I used to raid with my friends in WoW. I'm with a new guild now, but they don't have any fun, special offers or anything. 'Kill stuff, don't ' is so dang perfect:PAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5922857679980740630.post-84357939379805785242017-03-02T00:46:57.846+01:002017-03-02T00:46:57.846+01:00I noticed your "Good hunting!" earlier o...I noticed your "Good hunting!" earlier on and always thought it was quite charming, not boring at all. :)Ravanelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03447777640056476366noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5922857679980740630.post-15722224079038080092017-03-01T13:42:24.105+01:002017-03-01T13:42:24.105+01:00Hm. Not many regular phrases with me and my friend...Hm. Not many regular phrases with me and my friends either. The closest to it was something that started during this one time when we decided to go to an old dungeon as most of us never saw it. Since it was old content we were able to make our way through it without much challenge and got to the last named (that is EQ2 lingo for boss-like enemies). Once we got there the named started to make a really long villain speech. You know, the usual, "I am so great", "any attempt to kill me will be futile", "you will all die", etc. I started to get annoyed waiting for him to stop talking just so we could fight him so I said in chat "Blah, blah. You are going to die anyway!". That made one of my friends laugh so hard that when a similar situation occurs in a MMO she asks someone to say that phrase.<br /><br />Another one, but that is more a thing from another friend, is the "Hug a Ratonga Day". Ratonga are the rat people in EQ2 and they are more towards the cute/pet hamster side than the usual scary rat-people in other games. Anyway, she says that "Hug a Ratonga Day" is a holiday that the ratongas made where it is all about hugging ratongas. It also happens that *every day* is "Hug a Ratonga Day". So if she sees a ratonga she will inevitable hug them while reminding people of the "holiday".Rakunohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00253609981961681014noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5922857679980740630.post-12690866634157072272017-03-01T01:57:00.755+01:002017-03-01T01:57:00.755+01:00I'm one of the boring players that sticks to f...I'm one of the boring players that sticks to fairly normal comments like LOL and I always say Good Hunting when I log off. But have to admit that "Kill stuff, don't die" in so many games - most recently in Trion's Defiance a 3rd person shooter that came out at same time as TV series; some of achievements linked to the series when it was still on.Roland Clarkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03302133565980901397noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5922857679980740630.post-64095071254778761872017-02-28T23:27:00.482+01:002017-02-28T23:27:00.482+01:00Love that! That's exactly the kind of thing I ...Love that! That's exactly the kind of thing I was going for with this prompt. :)Ravanelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03447777640056476366noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5922857679980740630.post-20211054058914349472017-02-28T22:36:48.745+01:002017-02-28T22:36:48.745+01:00It's been years since I've played with a r...It's been years since I've played with a regular group of people (which was back when I played WoW) but this post made me remember a few phrases:<br /><br />Our version of "wipe on trash" was "We wipe on trash so you don't have to!"<br /><br />Our version of "green dildo" was an orange shield marker that a number of people said looked like a condom. Which is how we ended up having lighthearted arguments over who would get to be the condom.<br /><br />We also came up with some weird names for raid bosses, such as the Vagina Dragon, a pink dragon whose horns were shaped in such a way that it looked like a...well, you get the idea. There was also the Pop-up Boss, a giant in Ulduar that sprang up in a gap in the walkway as if he was in some sort of newbie-scaring pop-up book. My personal favourite was probably Ragnaros from the Firelands. Due to me accidentally calling some adds he spawned Sons of Sam (rather than Sons of Flame) and someone pointing out that it looked like Ragnaros was appearing from a toilet (complete with lifted seat), he became Sam Ragnaros, Lord of the Toilet.Faeldrayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11144815682821758206noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5922857679980740630.post-79898664987663191982017-02-28T19:21:05.659+01:002017-02-28T19:21:05.659+01:00Us and a couple of our friends have taken up the s...Us and a couple of our friends have taken up the saying of, "Don't go squish!" This actually got coined back when we all played PSO and there were things that would stomp you dead if you didn’t time your run-through properly.cfcallierhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15521080251095181782noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5922857679980740630.post-42733695358930243022017-02-28T14:26:45.490+01:002017-02-28T14:26:45.490+01:00Ha, I don't even remember why I received that ...Ha, I don't even remember why I received that nickname. Probably because of ordering everyone around, making them collect lore-master data for me and fixing the templates I was too stupid to understand!<br /><br />PS It's good to see you're still alive and well. :)Ravanelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03447777640056476366noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5922857679980740630.post-74433304063638578952017-02-28T14:24:10.374+01:002017-02-28T14:24:10.374+01:00Interesting. I guess they are kind of obvious phra...Interesting. I guess they are kind of obvious phrases for the kind of guild we both are in: long standing raiding guilds that don't take themselves too seriously (no elitist attitude).Ravanelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03447777640056476366noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5922857679980740630.post-5145953398761645022017-02-28T07:19:52.091+01:002017-02-28T07:19:52.091+01:00Both "Wipe on trash, one-shot the boss" ...Both "Wipe on trash, one-shot the boss" and "Kill stuff, don't die" are sayings that have been uttered in my guild many times... now I feel like we might not be as special as we thought we were, lol.Shintarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16758343475446510635noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5922857679980740630.post-3819381478593711942017-02-27T23:33:03.950+01:002017-02-27T23:33:03.950+01:00Yes, my queen. Slurp slurp.Yes, my queen. Slurp slurp.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08619001003584710896noreply@blogger.com