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Unread 14 Jun 2007, 08:38   #1
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Strange RL things you've done for PA

Topic says it all, what are some the stupid/silly things you've done in RL in order to do something in PA? I'll kick it off.

Twas the first week of R13 and I was determined not to miss any construction/research ticks during the first week. Only problem was that there was a drive from Cananda BC back to Seattle in which I had no i-net acces, so convinced my parents not to have a nice relaxed dinner out after hours of driving but instead picking something up along the way to make it back in time. So indeed we quickly picked up some food and drove on, intime for me to start next construction/research, do some dc'ing, only for there to a rollback a few hrs later making the entire endouver pointless (which I didn't tell my folks ofc )

Hardly getting any sleep for like a month during round 12 (we were fighting for #1 so, well, still stupid, but...... ok it was silly )
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Re: Strange RL things you've done for PA

Stay awake for over 3 days because of a stupid beta test round. My (ex)girlfriend decided after that weekend to get the hell out of my house. Can't blame her
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Unread 14 Jun 2007, 09:16   #3
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Re: Strange RL things you've done for PA

It must have been round 19 when I was landing on FeNiX. I was happily rolling on ETA4 and checked that it's through, and figured he'll I'll get wasted. So I left off (with the slight acknowledgement in my mind that I'll probably get fleetcaught) to a friend's for some starting up. So it was me, another bloke, two girls from our dept, and a third one from psych dept sitting the evening and drinking. Having sat, talked, and drunk (oh) a few hours, we decided to head off to a soul/reggae party downtown. At some stage really close to this MortalP phones me that I'm getting fleetcaught. I open IRC on mobile, and try sort things a bit in my drunkness.

So. The psych dept girl asks if the sociology girl (whom with I was going out with) likes sending SMS as I'm constantly typing on my phone.

Uh, yeah, erm, yeah.

It definately matched my "Send Satyr some defences while on a Tiesto live".



edit. Oh, it was the round during which I finally broke up with my 3-year-relationship, and it's now 8-9 months from it and I still feel the chills occasionally.
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Unread 14 Jun 2007, 10:20   #4
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r21 costing me extra since usually on fridays I had to log in at an internet cafe.

Round prolly costed me £15 >.>

Hopefully never again.
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Re: Strange RL things you've done for PA

It was round 2 and I had just started a job in a hardware store. I had a computer at my salesdesk to write up agreements on etc, and I also used it to check Planetarion from time to time, the company had its usual summer party and we were all gathered getting drunk and eating good food on the company, sadly I decided to run down into the shop to check PA while being drunk. I forgot to turn of the computer after checking up on PA, and the day after when I got on work, all my co-workers were standing around my computer wondering where I had found that cool page in our sales program. Luckly nobody told my boss.
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Re: Strange RL things you've done for PA

round 4 (could be 5).
skipped (high) school for a week to dc. I already had a high amount of absent hours so this lead to being given a final warning (in march) that if I missed one more class in anything I'd fail my year (school ended mid-june, second to last year in norwegian high school).
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Re: Strange RL things you've done for PA

It was one round i slept on the floor next to my computer for 4 days, cus it was easier to wake up, check galaxy status, and go to bed again.
And as my bed was at the other part of the room, i found out it was smarter to sleep on the floor, so i didnt have to use so much time checking my planet.
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Re: Strange RL things you've done for PA

back in r14'ish I fake-nicked in an alliance and invented a new story of my history so they didn't think it was me (tux).

i changed my sleeping patterns, work shifts, uni schedule and social life to pretend i was in a different timezone (said I was in Australia instead of England/USA).

Did this in order to play actively with an alliance/galaxy that i knew i'd have a lot of fun and a good chance to win in.

i even bought a second phone and had a sim card shipped from Australia to UK so that I had an australian SMS number for incommings.

was pretty ridiculous as I'd get a maximum of 3hrs sleep at a time - took me 3 weeks to get back into a normal pattern again. i so wish i hadn't done that
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Re: Strange RL things you've done for PA

woken up in the middle of the night
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or... forgotten about eating on far too many ocassions due to PA stuff
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Re: Strange RL things you've done for PA

Gone to Germany and The Netherlands to visit fellow pa players..
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How about having to explain to my parents and g/f why I was going to a local pool hall to hang out with a 45 year old women (zip for those who remember her) I met on the internet to talk about a game we both played on the internet. My g/f (now wife) still gives me flak over that one from time to time.
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Re: Strange RL things you've done for PA

I had a laptop on my spare bed. I'd wake up in the middle of the night, sitting on my bed with my laptop plugged into the phone socket on the other side of the room, launching ships and doing defence calls.
I figured it was easier than sneaking upstairs, as there was less chance of me being caught.

The one time I was caught ("were you up at 3am last night?") I managed to pass it off as needing to go to the toilet and "deciding to check my e-mail... for half an hour"
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Re: Strange RL things you've done for PA

When I used to live with Nef at university, one night I asked for defence by passing notes under his door. Needless to say he replied by putting a note under my door saying he had none

The other absurdity was at 7am at university when jesterina texted me in r12 that MiX was attacking me, I ran across Leicester in the freezing cold because i had no credit for my phone line. End result was me covering myself
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meeting about 300 players irl.
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Dropped out of a year at college because of Round 4.

I don't regret it either, great days and met many good ppl during that time... and had one guy called "LX" constantly trying to steal my fleet when WaC went downhill. It was awesome.
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Re: Strange RL things you've done for PA

I overslept 3 exams in a row because I was up at 4 am frantically organising defence for an hour or so.
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If I told my RL mates I get up at 4/5 am to launch some numbers at another person I would never hear the end of it.
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