Those little moments in not so little MMOs

Hey everyone, you should check out the awesome new blog the lady friend and I started. It is a graphic based  blog that focuses on all the little moments in MMOs, good or bad. You should go visit it if you need something light-hearted to make you laugh or to relate to one of your personal frustrations. You can find it here

Here is a little sample of what's on it. Enjoy (:

Also feel free to send in your own moments, or just leave a message here. (:

That on there I like to call the MMO Diet. Helped me lose an extra ten pounds back in Rift. You know its effective to cause some people have DIED not eating while playing MMOs.

Immediately after 'Seeing your capital city for the first time' should have come 'Spending all day jumping around your capital city.. wondering where the time went'

haha I'll had that one Nebelun

how about finally not being the under geared player in the group. Making your first 100 plat. Crafting your first blue/purple/ legendary item Your first pvp kill your first pvp death

Thanks Diella. Will add them to the list (:

Realizing in mid air that jumping was a bad idea.

Will add it to the list Zhanna. Thanks for the submit. (:

To add to number 17: accidentally traveling to a zone way beyond your level for the first time.

haha we've all been there Zyggy. Got it added.

Ya Zhanna, - Realizing in mid air that jumping was a bad idea. - for me add to that: This is not Aion. You don't have wings.... people in Rift thought I was pretty stupid.

The very first time that you have an epic item drop off of some random mob wandering around in the world (an even better feeling if it's an item that your class can use).

Got it added Dhonar and Salient. (:

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I have a weird one, but a true story. "the moment you notice that nice person that has been grouping with you is really of the opposite sex, and you ask her out to take a walk, and she says yes". Happened to me. We're together for 1 year now. =)

Some more: "you spend a the whole night killing the same mobs in hopes to get a special drop, and then discover you've been killing the wrong mob" "when finally the instance/pvp popped, your bladder decides to conspire against you" "you finally get that nice piece of gear you've been waiting for, and it looks really weird on your character" "the first time you log into a new MMO and is absolutely lost about the commands and hotkeys" "you call it a night and go to bed, just to spend the rest of the night half-dreaming about the game" "the healer complains about lag one second after the tank pulled the boss" "you notice you're using the wrong gear, one second too late" "you press the wrong key at the end of the combo"

you can not figure out why your attacking are not hitting only to realize that your chat box is filled with 12232311233wwwwwaaaasssssaaaddddddwwwaaasdd. real life story Forgetting to shut off Vent (it was not bound to a key) and then having a very intimate night with your sweetheart only to realize that every sound had been broadcast to everyone over Vent.

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Thanks guys. They've all been added. (:

It's the last major boss pull of the raid, your tank just pulled the boss, and you just accidentally hit your aoe fear bomb instead of group heal.

Thanks for all the submits everyone, they've all been added to the list and put on the queue. Keep um' coming guys (:

When you're tanking the boss and completely baffled why he's one-shotting you. You check everything - spec, stance, gear set, healer and still can't figure it out. Then realize you haven't repaired from the last few wipes and all your gear is broken.

Got it added to the queue Ravenwolf. Thanks (:

Fishing for Droughtlands fish in Shimmersand and not realizing why you are not getting any. Yeah I just did that.

> To add to number 17: accidentally traveling to a zone way beyond your level for the first time. Or not so accidentally. On my first day in EverQuest, I made a Half-Elf Ranger and entered the world. When I hit level 2 shortly after, I decided to try to meet up with the friend who had told me about the game. All I knew was that he was around level 10, and was in Freeport. I got out the cloth map that came in the box, looked up the city near where I was (Qeynos), found Freeport on the map, saw that Freeport was to the east, and headed out. . Rangers have a tracking skill, which lets them sense what creatures are nearby, so this isn't as dumb as it seems--I was pretty much constantly mashing my track button and when something scary popped up on the tracking list I had time to stop and figure out where it was before it found me. My friend logged on and made a Half-Elf Ranger to come join me on the trip. We spend the next couple of hours trying to get to Freeport. My friend had to leave after a couple of hours to go to sleep, but I stayed and kept trying. The farthest I got was to Highpass Hold, where I stumbled into a bandit camp and died, and gave up and went to bed. If I had not died there, I think I would have had about a 50/50 chance of making it to Freeport. I would have had to pass through Kithicor Forest. That's the Halfling newbie zone by day, and by night full high level undead, and even level 50 players would often wait until daybreak rather than try to pass through Kithicor alone at night. I, of course, did not know that, so whether I could have made it through Kithicor would have come down to whether I arrived in the day and didn't take too long to pass through. Ahhh...that was a fun night. There's something special when you start an MMORPG that you know virtually nothing about other than what is in the manual and on the cloth map.

Haha nice story Galrois. There really is nothing like the first time you play a new mmo and being completely lot for the most part.

You roll a 99 for that epic item, and the next guy rolls 100 :/

Get to the final boss and and your parent/significant other calls you to do something that will only take a moment and it takes an hour. Starting a new game and going "how do I do ?" "Where is ?" Etc.