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[Askier]

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[Berrod Armstrong]

We've all been there. Where something happens to us IC that affects us out of character. Normally we associate the bleed with negative. But does anyone else have bleed into the real world that is amusing? I know I have a few!  Thought would be fun to share and swap stories.  I'll go first.

 

I've noticed that, ever since I made Jin'li, my use of the word 'kind,' his IC trademark word, has exploded. In fact, at work, if one of my employees asks me why they need to do something or they thank me when  I do something for them, I always reply with: "Because I am kind." Drives them nuts. Lol.

 

Another one: I have a few times called a certain cleaning chemical 'cerelium' instead of its real world name. Always get a weird look on that one. :blush:

I'm not sure if it's OOC bleed, since I do it intentionally, but my thuggy/difficult characters call people 'Yahoos' when they do anything that can be considered as odd. I do the same IRL.

 

Most of my characters also have a comical hatred of sweets -- which I also do IRL.

[Warren Castille]

I was playing a tabletop game wherein one of my characters could detect people by sense of smell. When it would come up in roleplay, I'd always just look up and sniff to indicate to the storyteller that I was going to roll to try and get someone's trail. This happened routinely enough that I'd usually be rolling the die as I was making the noise/motion.

 

Some time later, I'm standing outside of a store with most of the group I played with waiting for someone. One of the guys asks if anyone's seen the missing player and muscle memory kicks in. I look up, sniff, and then realize what I've done.

 

Relating to XIV stuff, I often find myself trying to check the chatlog at work or in crowded places when a lot of people are talking. Never seems to work.

 

Wish I could fish for my job with a Join In Progress tag, too. I'd love to just complete the final 30 minutes and get paid for the day.

[Melkire]

No funny IC-to-OoC bleeding on my part yet, but there was this once IG-to-IRL incident with SW:TOR (technically off-topic, I know ; ; )...

 

My friend and I bumrushed our way, from June 2013 to December 2014, into end-game PvE raiding on the Pot5 server. We decided to help out a guildmate one night with the Macrobinoculars quest line. Unlike XIV's piss-poor Sightseeing, Macrobinoculars involved gaining access to a lot of neat, hidden areas designed and put aside specifically for this quest line. It was a lot of fun.

 

UNFORTUNATELY, one particular quest in the chain (Dark Design) involved traveling to Nar Shaddaa and then jumping from moving speeder (read: flying car) to moving speeder in order to reach a rather large spaceship. Platforming in a MMORPG.

 

We died so many times. We laughed. We tried cheating our way across via various movement skills. We died some more. Our sides, etc. My friend just about lost it, though. It was the most aggravating and traumatizing experience he's ever had to deal with in a video game.

 

I affectionately refer to it as, "doing the Mario". It serves as a euphemism for, "you keep f#&%ing up." It occasionally slips into conversations with folks that weren't even there. They give me weird looks.

 

My friend just gives me tirades.

[Mae]

Me: "Aw, damn, they don't carry half the mats for what I planned for dinner..."

Husband: "... You mean ingredients, right?"

Me: *blinks*

Me: "... Uhhh. Right."

[Unnamed Mercenary]

One we probably all see everywhere: "Hold on I have [insert relationship of another person here] aggro"

[Dat Oni]

I find myself using "anyroad" and "by the by" all the time, now.

[Verad]

I find that I've been getting much more diplomatic in dealing with other people. This isn't the first time it's happened, either, as I had a similarly gregarious character on WoW.

 

On the other hand, I get a little unreasonably vexed when other people, even those who would have no way of knowing, say "dubious." That's my word now. You can't have it.

[Brynhilde]

I have caught myself on numerous occasions mid-way through saying the following:

 

"Anyroad."

"By the by."

"Aye."

"Och."

 

[Tiergan]

On more than one occasion, I have caught myself thinking "Oh my god, that would cost SO MUCH GIL. ;_;

 

 

...Waitasecond."

[W'seckhi Asah]

Well, I did say "Don't get eaten" when I was hanging out with a friend recently. That being one of Fio's farewell sayings. That got me a strange look and a confused response. 

 

"By what?!" He replied.

 

Me, being the smooth person that I am, instantly came up with this eloquent answer: "bears."

[Roen]

I... copied a few emotes while talking to a friend and then cracked myself up.

 

My friend, who did not play the game, thought I was nuts.

 

>_>

[DreamedReality]

For some reason the time/measurement works keep replacing the real world counterparts. :dodgy:

 

"The cord needs to be seven ilms."

 

"Oh yeah, last moon..."

 

"In two suns..."

[Kahnopy]

"Oh yeah, last moon..."

Last night I embarassed myself speaking this one, and Osric called me out on it. Like the vigilant mind he is.

For Twelve's sake.

[Val]

"Cupcake" is a term of endearment that a friend of mine used to call absolutely ever girl he ever came across, thus why I have Val do it. I always found it humorous and I haven't spoken to the guy in three or four years  I miss him.

[T'shina]

Seven Hells tends to be a curse here and there and then afterwards I just get confused myself.

And from my WoW days I still replace hell with fel on occasion which I'm not sure if anyone has caught yet.

[Coatleque]

I find myself standing with my hands on my hips, or arms crossed in front of me now. Or I change between the two after a few minutes.

 

Not that I stand around very often with a desk job.

[Berrod Armstrong]

I...I just notice I squint at questionable things now, just as I emote Berrod doing. 

 

I'm really not sure if that's bled from him or been bled into him.

 

THE LINE IS A LIIEEEE

[Zyrusticae]

I'm too socially anxious to do this kind of thing. Every single action, every individual word, is carefully considered to the point of absurdity.

 

It makes for a boring lifestyle, I'll admit. Sorry about that.

[Maril]

A bi-weekly social occurrence is going to be a thing on Wednesdays for me, and I had to begrudgingly explain that it's when I lead our IC guildmeetings and I would try and move it. It was so awkward and I would have just white lied but my brain couldn't find an excuse.

Now I have to figure out how to move days for 40~ people online. It's so weird to be torn that way.

 

 

And if it's possible to bleed the other way, my character is a bit of an alcoholic and she LOVES wine. I've never been drunk IRL nor do I like wine. I don't have a living clue how to rp it but I.. am.

[Verad]

Some bleed I have permission to post:

 

My wife is taking her diet seriously and getting used to using calorie calculator programs

 

She was plugging in the values of some food just now, and I happened to notice that she had place the value of one food at "5 onz." It was not a spelling mistake.

[OttoVann]

Jesus christ my wife and I are big crafters in all the MMOs we played and we routinely says "mats" in regards to ingredients or materials needed for whatever all the time now and its just sort of..became normal.

 

Im not alone!

[Coatleque]

I work in IT doing trouble tickets remotely. Since I've started having Coatleque's accent show through more lately, I've had to make a conscience effort not to enter ticket notes with Scottish dialect.

[Unnamed Mercenary]

I work in IT doing trouble tickets remotely.  Since I've started having Coatleque's accent show through more lately, I've had to make a conscience effort not to enter ticket notes with Scottish dialect.

 

"Said their printer can'nae print!"

[Berrod Armstrong]

Yesterday after I worked out I paraded around the house without a shirt and boasted to my roommate about 'this Ala Mhigan goodness'. His response was, "...what?"

 

I retreated to my shame cube for the rest of the morning.