Inspired by @geekgirldiva for this post. I wanted to write my own thoughts.

I’m a casual gamer. Do you want to know why I’m a casual gamer? Because I would drive myself insane otherwise. I’m a perfectionist. I don’t like to fail. So, every time some kills me in a game, I fail to kill something, or, in the case of my priest, I fail to keep someone alive… it irks me. A LOT.

I’m no innocent on vent either. I grumble, I curse, but when it’s all over I’m ready to try again unless I’m exhausted and I try to be optimistic. As someone who has been playing computer games since they were too young to remember it on a Commodore 64, I think I may have a bit of pride just because I’ve been playing games that long.

After all, I’m a girl gamer. I want to be taken seriously and not like a bit of fluff. So, I don’t like to be told I’m doing something wrong. I like to learn things myself and figure out my own style. It was part of the reason I’d avoided healing mods and blogs for the longest time. However, I realized that I don’t need to do all of that. I can be proud of how I play no matter what. It’s gotten me this far. It doesn’t matter how I do it.

I have a Nostromo page for my left hand. I have it set up differently that anyone else I know. I use all the buttons on my keypad for abilities. I scroll to select different sets of abilities (the different color sets for the device). By now, I bet you’re wondering how I move. I use the thumb-stick… (waits for explosion).

I use my mouse to turn, but I use my scroll wheel forward to auto-run, scroll back to jump. And I still mouse click some things. I also use Heal-Bot so I have a lot of spell bound onto all of my mouse buttons… and I don’t have Alt, Ctrl, or Shift bound even though I have keys bound to them.

Speaking of which… does anyone regularly re-evaluate how they’re playing to see if they need to redo things? I tend to have a spring cleaning where I evaluate how my current setup has been working and what I’d like to do to make it quicker and better.

I’m half-way tempted to just grab clique and get rid of Heal-Bot, but I’m not sure yet.

Just playing with ideas. I’ve gotten side-tracked, but really what I want to say is that we can all be proud of our gaming accomplishments no matter how we play. That goes for @geekgirldiva and many others out there.

Rock on and play hard!

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