I started playing this game 1 year ago. I go to ranked mode for the first time excited to play my first game against a live opponent. My opponent says "Hallo". I am like hay how cute, it can talk.
After a couple of games and my opponents being "sorry" that I lose and "well playing me" after beating me on rank 20 with their gold Warlock Handlock deck vs my basic cards; I decided to use my 15 years of game experience.
I casually reach with my left hand and press "esc". I go to options then and search for a "mute" option. You can only imagine my surprise and confusion that there is NO mute option in there?!
Of course I hop to google and search how to mute my opponent. Unfortunately I did not know English at that time and there where no results in my language.
But I did not quit. I was on a mission now. I enroll to a English Oxford language seminar that lasts 3 months. After that I am confident I would be able to use Google in a more efficient way. I Google " how do I mute my opponent in Hearthstone " ( I even used capital letter for "I", I did finish that course with highest scores ). But again to my confusion I get no results. I did find some posts where people mention some "squelch" thing.
Then I realize my mistake. I took a British English seminar. And this is an American game. A smaller man would quit there. But not me! Since there is no American language course in my country I decided to go the U.S.A. !
After 7 months I managed to get a Visa. I go the the land of Charlie Chaplin and Micky Mouse. On my arrival, at the Airport I see a cute Asian girl playing Hearthstone! I start talking to her. She is apparently a legend player and a member of a professional Hearthstone team. She asks me what rank was I last season.
I say how I only play Arena because I hate Ranked and all the net decking. I do sometimes play Ranked but only with basic cards because it would be too easy if I used other ones. I can see she is impressed by my skill and apparently she loves British accent.
I ask her about the mute option and she is confused also. She kept talking about some squelch option. I figured it was my awkward Oxford English.
We dated for 6 months. Finally my American language improved and it was clear to me that "squelch" is a mute option. I login to Hearthstone again ( after 1 year ), I start a game and i right click my opponent and "SQUELCH" him!
Finally, after 1 year I did it! I finally muted my opponents! The happiness, the joy! A lost that game but I am still happy; I search for my next game, it starts, I hear "Hello, Hello, Hello..." My confusion at that time was immeasurable. I just "squelched" 10 min ago. It made no sense I can still hear those voices.
I realized it is a bug so I decided to become a programmer and get a job at Blizzard and help them fix it. That cute girl is now my wife and we are expecting our first child ( a boy ) to be born this week.
When he becomes old enough to play competitively this game ( so it is like 1 year from now ) we do plan to spend his college found on card packs, craft him all gold card decks and send him to some tournaments. When it comes to permanent mute option, if I do not manage to get a job at Blizzard and our children are confused by the lack of that option we can tell them :
" Do not complain, if permanent squelch was there I would have never met your mother!"
I started playing this game 1 year ago. I go to ranked mode for the first time excited to play my first game against a live opponent.
My opponent says "Hallo". I am like hay how cute, it can talk.
After a couple of games and my opponents being "sorry" that I lose and "well playing me" after beating me on rank 20 with their gold Warlock Handlock deck vs my basic cards; I decided to use my 15 years of game experience.
I casually reach with my left hand and press "esc". I go to options then and search for a "mute" option. You can only imagine my surprise and confusion that there is NO mute option in there?!
Of course I hop to google and search how to mute my opponent. Unfortunately I did not know English at that time and there where no results in my language.
But I did not quit. I was on a mission now. I enroll to a English Oxford language seminar that lasts 3 months.
After that I am confident I would be able to use Google in a more efficient way. I Google " how do I mute my opponent in Hearthstone " ( I even used capital letter for "I", I did finish that course with highest scores ).
But again to my confusion I get no results. I did find some posts where people mention some "squelch" thing.
Then I realize my mistake. I took a British English seminar. And this is an American game.
A smaller man would quit there. But not me! Since there is no American language course in my country I decided to go the U.S.A. !
After 7 months I managed to get a Visa. I go the the land of Charlie Chaplin and Micky Mouse.
On my arrival, at the Airport I see a cute Asian girl playing Hearthstone! I start talking to her.
She is apparently a legend player and a member of a professional Hearthstone team. She asks me what rank was I last season.
I say how I only play Arena because I hate Ranked and all the net decking. I do sometimes play Ranked but only with basic cards because it would be too easy if I used other ones.
I can see she is impressed by my skill and apparently she loves British accent.
I ask her about the mute option and she is confused also. She kept talking about some squelch option. I figured it was my awkward Oxford English.
We dated for 6 months. Finally my American language improved and it was clear to me that "squelch" is a mute option. I login to Hearthstone again ( after 1 year ), I start a game and i right click my opponent and "SQUELCH" him!
Finally, after 1 year I did it! I finally muted my opponents! The happiness, the joy!
A lost that game but I am still happy; I search for my next game, it starts, I hear "Hello, Hello, Hello..."
My confusion at that time was immeasurable. I just "squelched" 10 min ago. It made no sense I can still hear those voices.
I realized it is a bug so I decided to become a programmer and get a job at Blizzard and help them fix it.
That cute girl is now my wife and we are expecting our first child ( a boy ) to be born this week.
When he becomes old enough to play competitively this game ( so it is like 1 year from now ) we do plan to spend his college found on card packs, craft him all gold card decks and send him to some tournaments.
When it comes to permanent mute option, if I do not manage to get a job at Blizzard and our children are confused by the lack of that option we can tell them :
" Do not complain, if permanent squelch was there I would have never met your mother!"
I hope Judd Apatow doesn't read this, or there will soon be another bad Seth Rogen film in the works.
Anyway, great story OP, congrats on your success. Good luck with your HS goals for 2015.
Other than none of the time stamps actually working, it was a briefly entertaining read. 6/10
3 months seminar + 7 months USA Visa + 6 months date + 9 months for the baby
What a long year!!!
Btw u have to re-silence ur opponent every game
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I hope you and MagicAmy are very happy together
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Funny story OP,send greetings to Amy and please take that job so we can have the mute button
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kewl story brah
his username is truestory, so this story must be true kappa
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