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Sage Advice

Hope you're ready for an exercise in futility today.
This is Dear Annie Tribute.
Dear Annie is a syndicated newspaper column where people write in with dumb fuck problems and Annie (who I believe died many moons ago and is now ghosted by other people) answers them with helpful and less than helpful solutions.
So basically this is a blog that reposts Dear Annie columns and I assume people can post directly to this if you want one-off advice from a copycat.
Well I'm going to repost the repost and offer more advice.
This is like that part in the movie The Departed where you stopped tracking who is spying on who and who is murdering who and then the movie ends and you say "welp" and leave the theater.

DEAR MISS MANNERS: Is it acceptable for a girl to decline an invitation to a dance, only to later accept another invitation to the same dance? This is for a high school dance or prom.

What are you, stupid?

GENTLE READER: If you are the parent of a young gentleman to whom this has been done, Miss Manners can confirm that the young lady is indeed rude, and that however crushed your son is, he is better off. She would be capable of committing another rudeness, such as breaking the date later.

Excuse me?
No, she's allowed to say no.
I mean she's probably an insufferable twat and she'll be blowing the entire football team at the school dance but she is allowed to make a twat of herself and turn down any invitation she wants and accept any invitation she wants.
There's this thing called freewill and I won't spend a lot of time defining but it's something you have.

There is another lesson you might give, even though she will not believe it. That is that some law of nature makes the least popular boy in high school into the most desirable man later in life, yet, no matter how successful and glamorous he has become, makes him remember and continue to smart from having been slighted.

That's because that guy becomes a miserable, twisted adult and they always turn out to be the biggest winners in life.
Take a look at me, writing this on a Friday night.
Not the product of a healthy mind.

My friend "Jodi" is 27 and very sheltered. Her parents still pay her rent and bills. I'm worried because Jodi has been acting out of character. She cheated on her husband with a 59-year-old man. He's now her new boyfriend and "soul mate." He's creepy. He talks down to her and gropes her in public. She gives him her paycheck and the use of her parents' credit cards.

Jodi has a daughter from her marriage, and the little girl lives with her father. I work for Child Protective Services and know this "dream boyfriend" is a sex offender. When we go out as friends, she brings him along, and he says crude, disgusting things to us about our clothes and our bodies. He even tried to take money out of my purse. Jodi thinks this is funny and says I should lighten up.

Time to get new friends.

I told her about his history and that she should be cautious with him around her daughter. She became angry and said she never wanted to speak to me again. I'm OK with that. She's not the person I once knew.

So problem solved--
so why are you bothering me with this?

My job obligates me to report that this man is spending time with a young child, and I have informed his parole officer. But I also think I should advise the little girl's father, who has primary custody, and Jodi's parents, who have secondary custody.

My boss says I've done my duty by alerting the parole board, and that speaking to the family is a personal choice. My husband says I don't need to crusade to protect every child. Finding out that the creep stays overnight when her daughter is in the house made my skin crawl. Should I tell the family?

Are you seriously paralyzed with indecision over this?
A pedophile
has been left
alone with a child
and your question is whether or not you should tell anybody?
"Well gee, Annie, I saw this three year old drowning-- think I should pluck her out of the drink?"
YES YOU FUCKING CRETIN.

-- Not a Crusader

There's your fucking problem. Maybe if you had a little fire in your belly you wouldn't be writing letters to syndicated columns.

Dear Crusader: Yes.

Even Annie agrees with me. You should be a crusader. She called you a crusader.
Why I don't know but fuck it that's what you should be doing.

DEAR ABBY: I am 19 and having an affair with a married man twice my age, but I am an unwilling participant. You see, I grew up with "Jasmine," and over the years her family has become mine. I was going through a rough time, and when her family offered me a place to stay, I accepted.

Don't care.
TO THE POINT, TO THE POINT QUICKLY.

They treat me like one of their own, buy me presents -- even introduce me as a daughter.

However, after my birthday party, Jasmine's father came into my bedroom and took advantage of me. I was scared and didn't say anything. Over the past few months, he has sneaked into my room several times to "talk" or rub my back. He always crosses the line, and I'm too afraid to tell him to stop.

I feel sick and guilty when I see Jasmine or her mother, and I'm hurt and ashamed when I see him. I feel betrayed and confused. I tell myself I do it "for a place to stay." Is there forgiveness for me? Please help. -- DISTRAUGHT IN THE NORTHWEST

No man is free until he is dead.
Only in death do we earn our salvation.
This probably isn't very helpful.
Well let's see. You're in a shitty situation-- remove yourself from the situation?

DEAR DISTRAUGHT: It appears you ARE "doing it for a place to stay," and for your own well-being you need to make other living arrangements and get out of there. You have been betrayed, and your feelings are valid. You are not being treated like a daughter; you are being coerced by a man with no conscience or compassion. Of course there is forgiveness for you -- but first you have to forgive yourself. Leaving is the first step.

Yeah thanks Annie. I said the same fucking thing and I somehow managed it in less than a goddamn paragraph.
What is up with everyone and the yackity-yack?
I guess my response looks more cold and unfeeling than hers but at the end of the fucking day it contains the exact same information outside of "you're not a bad person" but who in their right goddamn mind needs validation from a newspaper?

Dear Carolyn:

I’m 26, with an expensive law degree, and I just flunked the bar exam.

Another scum sucking lawyer.
Don't care about you or your problems. Next issue.

Of course that’s not the end of the world (only missed it by a few points, and will retake in a few months), but you know all those articles about ’80s babies whose identities were built on all the praise they received for being brilliant? Yeah, that’s me — to fail at something for which I couldn’t rely entirely on my wits is an utter embarrassment.

Good. Hold that feeling deep in your being and maybe you won't fail next time.

In the meantime, I’m working at a job that is well beneath my qualifications, and living at home. I have supportive parents, a great boyfriend, and friends who don’t judge me (mainly because they don’t know where I’m “supposed” to be), but I still feel like the universe is judging me.

Well thank Christ for that, huh? Nurse your hatred and come out swinging next time.

It’s gotten to the point where I dread meeting people because of the “What do you do?” line of questioning. How do I walk around with my head held high?

Post Bar-Exam Insecurities

I work at a fucking grocery store putting salad on a shelf. I graduated with honors and I'm a qualified English teacher. Can I show you where the basil is you fucking idiot?
They say experience is the best teacher but that's bullshit because experience is the only teacher I know of that gives you the test first and then teaches you the lesson.
The only rational response to this level of fuckery is to steel your nerves and get fucking angry.

This fits the one-decade-out plan in a different way: Ten years from now, these three months will be a blip.

That is, unless you use them memorably and well. You say the universe is judging you. I say the universe doesn’t give a poo; it’s your life to care about, to learn from, to harness into something worthwhile.

Zeal and fury.
The only emotional state the universe can fully comprehend.
The universe is alight with the cold twitter of uncaring stars and sounds with the mirthful laughter of thirsting gods. The only adequate response to this is to fill the universe with the guttering flames of hatred.

Whenever circumstances dump you somewhere unpleasant, it’s okay to have a poor-me moment — as long as you have the heck out of it, and then stop having it, and move on to the moment where you say: “Okay, what can I learn from this, or turn to my advantage?”

Make friends.
Use them to your benefit.

Gah. Been there, my esteemed colleague. Quite literally - I too failed the Bar on my first try by just a few points. However, Carolyn's wrong - these three months will not be a blip... they suck, and there's no getting around that.

This is the poster's advice. You can't tell but Annie's advice is in bold and this shit is in italics.
The only conclusion I can draw from the three people advising this dumb cunt is:
1. I'm the only person speaking sense
and
2. I'm the only man giving her advice

This massive exam is a brutal experience, and for me (and I suspect for you) anxiety and panic played a big role in choking performance.

Do what you need this time around to prepare yourself psychologically as well as academically. Yes, I know, everybody says it - get counseling. No joke.

Are you fucking kidding me?

This too shall pass... as will you. I did quite well on my second try, passed and then some. And despite vowing I would NEVER take that accursed exam again ... after five years of practicing law in Florida, I've decided to relocate back to Virginia. And that meant another Bar - just took it in February 2012, now begins the grueling eight-week wait for results. I wish I could say I'm certain I passed, but I'm not (a part of me wonders if I'm just not capable of passing the damn thing on the first attempt.) But, worst case scenario, if I didn't... then I'll take it again. That's all we can do. We'll survive.

Great advice.
"We'll survive"
Sounds like you're trying to pick yourself up, anyway.
It is not enough that I should survive-- I must triumph.

Today, Cathy asks some interesting questions. Is virtue always rewarded? Is vice always punished? Or to put it more bluntly, do the good girls get the best guys? Or are the not-so-good girls walking away with them?

You know I've asked out plenty of nice girls only to get shot the fuck down. Frankly I'm not so interested in their moaning anymore. You had a chance and you fucking blew it.

Do promiscuous girls wind up with rich, successful guys? Is Cathy wrong to resent them? Just because a girl had a lot of sex partners before she married, should be punished with a less-than-ideal spouse? Let's hear from the slutty girls and the guys who married them!

I kind of hope they do, honestly.
And I hope they learned something from being dumb sluts in high school.
Let everyone be miserable.

Dear Amy: After 30 years of a wonderful marriage I was widowed at the age of 51.

At 54 I now feel I am ready to swim in the dating pool again and have dipped my toes in several dating sites to try and find someone to date.

My issue is that I used to be quite obese and since my wife's death I have shed 135 pounds and gotten my life back.

Most of the responses that I have gotten are from ladies 10 years either way of my age and from ladies the size I used to be.

What a shame.

My profile is very specific about my eating and exercise habits.

I always answer any response I get, and I am always polite and try and let these women know that I am not interested in dating a large woman.

I have lived that lifestyle and do not want to go back to it.

I get back a lot of hateful and abusive responses!

Jealousy.
Let them have their hate.
It is all they have.

I know that we should each look to the person inside, but if there is no initial attraction there is no initial attraction.

I suppose I should just not answer the responses, but that seems to be wrong to me.

Is it kinder to leave the ladies wondering or to let them know that there is no way a relationship could develop?

Yes you dumb clod.

Dear New: For an expert's opinion on this, I shared your letter with Bela Gandhi, a date "coach" and founder of Smart Dating Academy in Chicago (smartdatingacademy.com).

She says, "The rules are totally different in online dating. 'No response' is the right thing to do when you're not interested — it's the polite way of saying, 'No thanks!'

"It's much more humane; who wants to wake up to an in-box full of detailed rejection notes?

Me.
Better to be disappointed than to wonder.

Dear New,

You're shallow. Yes, it's true that if there is no initial attraction, there's no initial attraction. I imagine that you were able to look a little deeper before you "shed 135 pounds and gotten your life back." You sound like you think you're too good for anybody who isn't as "fit" and trim as you say you are.

Yeah that's exactly right.
Why is it okay to say "I don't want anyone dumber than me" but somehow not okay to say "I want someone as slim as I am"?

By all means, put in your profile that you'll only date thin women. I'm a fat chick and I wish that anybody who feels that strongly about it, would put it in their profile up front. saves me the trouble of even considering writing to somebody like that.

Pretty sure they let you specify what kind of person you want to date.
I've only been on one dating site in my entire life (mostly out of a "WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS") and I seem to recall you could specify everything about a potential romance interest including weight, height, body type and tattoos.
I gotta say if you were willing to go out with a girl who treats her body like a dry erase board that doesn't erase anymore you could score some nice looking girls.
If you could ignore the interesting choice in tattoos, anyway.
Hahahah wow. One commenter has this to say:

What if he put in his profile that he only wants to date larger women? Is he still an asshat?

And this one sentence got at least fifteen responses.
Friend, you're working smart. I like it.
Let's see what they had to say in response.

Honestly, yes. Reducing a woman to just her body type is something an asshat does.

And I'm sure all of you ladies are completely impartial to body type.
Oh just kidding all the comments are women whining about their weight.
God this guy had a perfect trolling line and it was fucking wasted on idiots.

Even though it's impressive that this guy lost 135 pounds, he doesn't mention what he weighs now. He also doesn't mention what he considers overweight for a woman.

I once knew a guy who felt that the "ideal woman" was 5'9 and 105 pounds.

That would be freakishly anorexic.
That said: 5'2" 97 pounds.
Anyway this is boring.
Also the fellow who commented linked the post that caused him to not ask some chick out and it was this one.
He sure has been reading this crap for a while.
Also smart move not dating her. She's a real twat.

You fucking people

Can't commit to anything, can you?
Check out this motherfucking question:

How has technology benefited the world? Or has it worsened it?

The answer is too complex for you retards to properly grasp it but suffice it to say the world has benefited immensely from technology.
When you say "the world" I assume you mean "humanity" because overall other species don't give a fuck one way or another.
I know HUMANS KILL ANIMALS HURR DURRR but really less than 1% of all the species that have ever lived are still around so humanity is ultimately a flash in the pan in comparison to some disasters.
How has technology benefited man?
A more appropriate question would be how hasn't technology benefited man?
Longer lives, healthier lives--
bullshit electronics you can stand around and gawk at in the middle of the produce department while I'm trying to put organic oranges on a shelf and you're standing in my fucking way.
In fact, speaking of technology benefiting people: the produce department.
Trucks to ship shit from halfway around the country, the Haber process which likely helped grow the fucking food in the first place (can't naturally plant that much shit to feed this world's bloated population) refrigeration to keep it from spoiling, pesticides to make sure it's maggot free-- literally there should not be a solitary moment in your life where you are not in awe of what people who aren't peasants have done for you, lowborn.
And yet the answer overwhelmingly is "both".
WHAT A SIDE STEP FUCKING ANSWER. SHOW SOME CONVICTION.
Oh right, blogs.
Here we go.

Define "technology," and I'll be able to give that question a far more concise and direct answer.

Are you fucking kidding me?
Define technology.
What, are we all working off a different definition?
Techne, meaning skill or craft, and -ology, meaning the study of.
THE STUDY OF SHIT YOU CRAFT I MEAN GODDAMN ARE YOU PEOPLE THICK OR WHAT?

Suffice to say that I believe that humans—like other primates, corvid birds, and sea otters—are tool-users by nature.

You believe humans are tool users.
As in you're not sure?
I'm pretty sure humans use tools. I'm pretty sure you used one to type this bullshit, in fact.
Come to think of it: where is your reading comprehension? The question wasn't "do people use technology?" it's "has it improved the world?"
F- see me after class.
Apparently she got banned from a WoW board (who gives a shit?) and this drama extends over two posts. Maybe you should go play the fucking game instead of whining about a suspension on a forum.

Damn female pandaren discussion jumped from fat-shaming to thin-shaming.

... So I'll explain.
Pandaren are a race of panda men in the Warcraft universe. They are the focus of the up and coming World of Warcraft expansion, errr, something Pandaren.
Furries, as we call them in the real world. And the nerds are upset their furry waifus aren't thin. Or women are upset they don't realistically portray women (read: they aren't fatter than they are in real life) or something. I can't figure this shit out and frankly I don't give a shit.

She's not at all appropriate for the race's theme. But the thin-shaming B.S. is a whole 'nother ballgame, and it needs to stop.

Everyone's talking about body shaming and gay marriage and the depiction of fucking people of color (their term) in a video game. When did video games become so political?
Oh right, when people who have no business playing them started playing them.
Thanks.
Also people of color aren't properly represented in MMOs? The center of my game play experience in FFXIV is a woman of color so go suck 53 dicks. I have two minority cards to play in that shit.

Keep in mind, first off, that even in games where I can customize my characters, I never attempt to create "myself" in the game: For one, I almost never play humans.

K.
Don't care.

That said: on principle alone I agree, wholeheartedly, with this article. I find it fundamentally weird that you're more likely to be able to play a blue alien (with the standard-issue Heroic Build, of course) than to be able to play a fat character.

I omitted the link because blogs linking blogs linking blogs and she summarized it for you.
If you care you can find it.
Also: video games are sold to men. That's how it is.
Nerds are way more attracted to hot blue bitches than fat chicks.
I know most weak willed faggots would apologize here (sorry but that's how it is, IE) but it seems obvious enough to me I'm surprised I even have to state it.
In fact you should apologize to me for wasting my time like this.

(Totally not grumbling here about how my draenei priest is supposed to be pudgy, or that my mage is skinny and flat-chested,*

So?
I mean seriously? You're pissing because your character isn't flat enough?
I'll admit I'm fond of a smaller chest myself (stating as often as I do that brown girls and Asian girls are the choice for cultured gentleman such as myself limits me in regards to tits) but you don't hear me complaining that Edie has a larger chest than what I would have picked out, do you?
Of course not. It's silly.
In fact, an open minded, reasonable, liberal, superior man like myself would say I like her anyway.

or that the retvindicatrix is rawboned, even if their damn models don't reflect it because that wasn't an option, no siree...)

No idea what that even means--

Now, I've still got some degree of hope that Blizzard won't screw up female pandaren (all noise from self-entitled nerds aside).

>Self-entitled nerds
>entire video game culture made by nerds for nerds
man we sure are assholes.
Seriously change the term "nerd" to something else to see how stupid that sounds.
Self-entitled Chinese making Chinese culture for the Chinese.
Have you ever considered perhaps video games aren't for you?
You don't see me marching into a fucking scrap booking store and demanding to be accommodated, do you?
Oh here's her idea for an MMO.
Let's do this shit.

First off: the genre. Let's stick to fantasy, for now (although space-opera could be fun).

First sentence and already I have a big fucking problem with this. Let's stick to fantasy for now?
Like what, if you change your mind mid development they just have to dump all those art assets and music to shift it over to scifi?
Also yet another fantasy (or scifi) MMO. Good, there definitely aren't enough of those.

Along with being non-standard, the world would be big—as close to "sandbox" as I could get it. The environment would ideally be as interactive as that of DDO, with traps, climbing, secret passageways, and destructible items.

Yes, because that's what makes a world sandbox. Tons of dumb busy work.
God this is already bringing my piss to a fucking boil.

Now, character creation: Dichotomous, race-defined factions are getting old. Now, the idea has been challenged a few times in the past; WoW has different sorts of elf on each faction, and Rift has different elves and different humans.

An MMO without factions?
Never heard of one of those before.
Your first MMO was WoW, wasn't it?
You do realize that's fairly unusual and pretty much bound to WoW and its clones, right?
Most MMOs don't have two factions that battle-- never mind.

My solution would be to do away with race-defined factions altogether. You'd start neutral with all of the rep factions in the game (possibly one step higher or lower, depending on various factors) and gain (or sometimes lose, if you fell in with a faction that had a rival) reputation as you played. These pairs of rival factions, by the way, would also determine PvP; you'd sign on as a "mercenary" for one or the other and fight mercenaries from the other side.

Or how about you go with your original sandbox idea and let players define the factions?
Guild versus guild fights?
You know, sort of like TERA or Lineage 2 or Star Wars Galaxies or Ultima Online or any number of MMOs that have already done this exact idea?

The game would have at least as many playable races as WoW.

Wow at least as many race choices as World of Warcraft.
Over 10 entire races in this video game!
How is it I bullshitted a design document for an MMO and the term "World of Warcraft" didn't appear once?
Why is it every MMO now has to be "World of Warcraft PLUS THIS"?

I'm up in the air as to whether or not to include the standard fantasy races, but there would certainly be a lot of nonstandard ones. (Among others, I had in mind a race with some limited capacity for flight, and a semi-aquatic race.)

Oh hey what's this?
I mean goddamn are you even trying?

Each race would have at least two starting areas (some of which would overlap with starting areas for other races), which would influence customization options and, potentially, starting reputation with certain factions.

It's called Everquest. It came out in 1999.

Customization? Here's where I'd really want to start going above and beyond. The creation screen would be as intuitive as those of Rift or DDO, with a similar number of alterable categories (specific facial features, eye color, et cetera). You'd also get the same plethora of options within each category—for each race and sex—as WoW has for...let's say female humans.

World of Warcraft is not well known for its character creation options and probably isn't a good standard of comparison because it is pretty much the lowest.
Off the top of my head I can think of at least five games with more character creation options than WoW that came out before WoW so really when you say "more character creation options than WoW' you could just say "some character creation options."

I'd also implement different body types, but not in the form of a body slider. I've seen some ridiculous bugs result from glitches with those. (A limited height slider like Rift's, however, shouldn't have the same issues.) Instead, your character's race and sex would not rigidly determine your model; you'd get a choice of three or four different models with distinct but not extreme physiques (slim, muscular, average, pudgy, and so on) within that race and sex.

So TOR.
TOR did this.
Or as I called them: "normal, manjaw, fat and fat".
Who gives a shit about physiques in video games?
Waifus are petite and waifish
If you're a fag you pick the big beefcake with rippling biceps and cocks-- SIMPLE SHIT LET'S DO THIS FUCKING VIDEO GAME I CAN'T WAIT TO CLICK BUTTONS FOR HOURS ON END LIKE A LAZY PIECE OF SHIT.

Art style would be high-quality, consistent, and less cartoonish than WoW's, but not so realistic as to edge into the uncanny valley.

FFXIV, Age of Conan, EVE, Phantasy Star Universe, FFXI, TERA (arguably), Warhammer Online--
Also you don't want bleeding edge graphics that excludes 90% of all possible consumers when your idea is to get money from them every month.

Now, to actual character building and advancement:

Yes, I'm over halfway through your "design document" (as I'm generously going to call it) and finally we're approaching gameplay.
It's really telling when gameplay appears after character customization (trying outfits on) and graphics.
I'll give you setting should come first since that is the most immediate thing you'll see in the game but come the fuck on.

While I'd stick with levels, I'd do away with classes altogether. Instead, you'd pick and choose from a set number of physical-combat and magic skills (of which you'd have a wide array of choices), and rout your advancement points into them.

So you'd keep levels but you'd do away with levels--
I'm confused now.
Levels generally define character strength in a level based game and what you describe is the so called (and often neglected) "skill based" model where skills are leveled independently with no level.

There would be no race restrictions to any skillset, although certain races might have edges in certain areas.

So there are race restrictions. MMO players especially will only accept the highest possible numbers. Saying one race is better at swords than another is telling your average MMO player "if you want to use swords be this race."
Perhaps what she was describing with that skill thing was a FFXI/XIV model where you have classes but can freely change between all of them?
I don't know.

Crafting would be separate from combat skills, and I'm still mulling over how I'd want to handle it. But the idea that some armor and weapons could be improved/upgraded by way of the appropriate crafting skills (and expenditure of materials) appeals to me.

So you've basically described WoW with a simple upgrade system that games in the 1980s had--
Man can't wait to plunk down 60 bucks plus 15 a month for this winner.

Armor would have volume to it. I like that detail in Rift, and to some degree in WoW (although that latter keeps occasionally Doing It Wrong). While I'd be tempted to include massive, over-the-top pauldrons just to preemptively placate the people who like the damn things, there would certainly be an option to hide them.

But what does it look like?
Segmented? Layered?
Padded?
Eastern? Western?
Baroque?
Classical?
Gothic?

And just to make the TERA kids squirm...any skimpy outfit (yes, there'd be a few, although they'd generally be either low-level items or difficult to acquire) would be just as skimpy (if not more so) on a male character.

OH YOU GO GIRL YOU'RE SO LIBERAL AND ENLIGHTENED AND--

Oh fuck games already do this.
Can you fucking believe this post ended with not a single solitary mention of what you actually do in the game? I have a vague idea of how a waifu might look and be dressed in the game. Well, I say "vague idea" but I think that might be a bit generous. So she'll be a race that might wear armor of some kind. Great, thanks for describing video games.

Apparently, a lesbian player¹ asked why there were no gay characters in WoW² at Blizzcon.

Because all of the characters in WoW are quest vendors specifically there to tell me to go kill 10 of X to get Y amount of EXP and Z item?

And, of course, there were the typical whines about "entitlement." As I asked several people: how is it any skin off your nose if the game doesn't cater exclusively to you?

Because there's 0 romance in World of Warcraft of any kind and to kowtow to every girl that wants it to be a wedding simulator basically ensures the slow demise of a game people otherwise loved?
She then bitches that "not appropriate given the setting" isn't an appropriate response but it is.
That is absolutely the response I'd expect to hear and I'd further add that any romance in World of Warcraft is inappropriate and not the focus of the game.
There was a poll in FFXIV recently voting for gay marriage in game.
I voted against it because I'm against marriage in game period.

Now, admittedly? Calling someone stupid is often the mark of a limited vocabulary. But questioning someone's intelligence (or at least reasoning capacity and/or educability) is not automatically an insult to mentally disabled people.* Even if one doesn't acknowledge the legitimacy of language drift?

Cool argument.
"Calling you retarded is okay because the definitions of words change."
Well then you're a stupid cunt who should die of AIDS but it's okay because definitions change and that doesn't mean nearly what you think it does. It's not sexist, it's language drift!
The part that really puts my nuts in a meat grinder here is someone called her a cunt (in an unlinked forum post that she mentioned in a post I didn't quote from) and she called him sexist.
I use cunt to describe both men and women who act a certain way so isn't that language drift and not sexism?
Somehow I bet it's not okay when I do it, though.
Also what really throws my rectum through a salad shooter here is she also linked the Wikipedia article to language drift.
Like I get it, you read an article once. Stop it.

Overzealous WoW fans who trash on Rift remind me of overzealous 4th-edition Dungeons & Dragons fans who trash on Pathfinder.

Shit got 'em.
Done.
What the fuck does that even mean? I know what all four of these things are and yet I'm completely clueless.

Next WoW player who whines about all of the grey and gray morality in Rift?

The morality in Rift was pretty straightforward from what I recall. I forget the factions but the one with the weird sun logo was the morally superior one.
The Defiant, that's it.
If you want some gray morality play some FFXIV.
Where even the good guys are bad guys.
That's how real shit gets.
Jesus Christ this entry sure is long. I guess when you get girls talking shit about a subject they don't understand that's important to me you've stumbled upon the PERFECT RAGE STORM.

The Fuck

I hope you people are prepared for "Weird Sex, Psychiatric Medications, and Obscure Music".
That's the title she has decided on.
This is real.

I will note here that I do have strong opinions. I am not going to sugar coat anything. I never have. Not that my journal is all grim stuff - at least I try not to make it all bloody grim, which isn't easy a lot of the time for your average girl who could be her own chapter in the DSM-IV.

This is from her profile.
She wants you to know she has mental conditions and Christ help you she will remind you of this constantly.

I freely admit to being stubborn, strong willed, hot-tempered, irritable, emotional, self-loathing, hypersensitive, shy, and socially awkward. But the medication and therapy are helping.

Helping to turn you into a passive pooft, maybe.
Pooft. There's a term no American should ever use, I apologize.
I guess I thought she was British for a while but then I noticed she's from New York so I decided to throw out that I, also, know British slang.

Are you more of an optimist or a pessimist?

Today's writer's block.

Please. I think you all know the answer to this.

The reason I chose this blog was because of the level of presumption in this sentence.
WHY YES, RAFAELA. I KNOW VERY WELL YOUR STANCE ON THIS.

What is your computer wallpaper right now?

THE HARD HITTING WRITER'S BLOCKS
No currently it is this image:

At the moment, it's the image in my icon: Benedict Cumberbatch, as Sherlock Holmes, holding his violin. Mmmm...violinists.

I think we have a clear winner in "who has the cooler wallpaper" contest.

What's the last thing you bought?

Uh--
Err--
Paint?
That was so long ago.

Cigarettes. What? Y'all already know I smoke.

Oh yes, we all know you smoke.
All of us. Everyone in the fucking world knows that "Anna" (I know I called her Rafaela earlier but that's her user name for reasons I cannot even attempt to guess) is a smoker.

Though I have cut down considerably of late (I can't smoke in my flat, and it's fucking freezing outside).

Your apartment.
You are a Jew living in New York. Knock the British shit off.

Non-smokers, please no preaching about my filthy habit.

Number of comments: 0.
Either she headed that off successfully or, as I suspect, no one gives a fuck.
Of course a man such as myself who is interested almost exclusively in DBGs and DYGs can't be too picky about smoking or no because when it comes to them yellow girls especially the odds she's a smoker increase.

My mom has asked me to post this. Feel free to link, share, etc. This is a message Mom has been trying to get to Occupy Wall Street. She is homebound and vision impaired, and cannot get to rallies nor can she get on the computer. So please, pass it on!

I will do my part to pass this on.
I'm sure whatever it is will be great~

Here are TEARS.

... With my psychology hat on, I question the wisdom of reducing the message of your entire movement to the acronym TEARS.
We are here to bring TEARS.
Not quite the image you want to be putting into peoples' heads, I don't think.
THERE WILL BE MUCH SORROW AND GNASHING OF THE TEETH.

Tax the wealthy.

The wealthy are taxed.
Whether or not they're taxed enough is another issue, but they do, in fact, pay taxes.
This is why this movement is doomed to fail. SPECIFICS, PEOPLE. If you just say shit like this then any smug asshole like me can say "well actually they do pay taxes" and you just look like a massive twat. It doesn't matter if what you meant is they should be taxed more because you didn't say that.

End corporate welfare and loopholes.

I'd like to take a timeout to say every time I copy something from her blog it changes my font so I have to copy and paste everything she says into Notepad first before recopying it and pasting it here.
This extra step is really starting to bring my piss to a boil.

Accountability for banks.

What kind of accountability?
I'll agree should a bank pull the shit they've been pulling this past 800 years their leadership should be executed but I don't think you'd agree with me.
Or maybe you would, I don't know.
All I know is "accountability" can mean anything from fines to jail time to my suggestion, death.

Repeal for revenue marijuana prohibition.

That statement doesn't even make grammatical sense and has nothing at all to do with the current economic situation.
Was this just added because you needed something that started with an R?
Also tacking on shit like that really makes it seem like you don't have a firm grasp on reality.
What does pot have to do with the bankers being crooks?
Are they secretly laundering drug money (which I'm sure pot isn't the biggest narcotics market in the US)?

Save our country!

That doesn't even say anything. That'd be like saying LAND ON MARS! with no real suggestion at how to achieve that. You're protesting but you don't seem to have an actual plan or better suggestion for how to conduct business.
So of your acronym, they're already doing T, E is actually a good idea, A is too vague to mean anything, and R and S are complete bullshit.
Good mission plan, guys.
Seriously, what's the implication with S? The bankers are like Sinestro and Lex Luthor plotting the downfall of the human race? I wish that were the case because then you could just march in like the goddamn Batman and beat the fuck out of them but no, it's human rights this and ethics that.

Day treatment is day treatment, forever and ever unto infinity. There is a young man there who insists on proselytizing - but only the men. Which explains why he's left me alone. I would expect that a self-described socialist, feminist Jewish bitch on wheels would be a tempting target, but no, he hasn't said a word to me on the subject.

Later in another post I doubt seriously we'll be reaching she questions why she can't find a boyfriend.
Gee, I don't know, maybe it has something to do with the self-described "bitch on wheels" bit?
Also not that I'm against feminism but I imagine your particular brand of feminism isn't really feminism and it's just subtly rebranded pussy sensitivity that would grate almost immediately.

That talk with Dick probably deserves an entry of its own, but I haven't the time. Basically, he says I do not communicate well with people. He cited the concerns of Dr. Morris about how I use verbal fencing and a hurricane of witticisms and jokes to conceal my real feelings, and his own observation that I use my casual knowledge of literature, languages, history, and most other liberal arts as a barrier to people.

I love verbal fencing with smug assholes like you.
But I have to win almost immediately because I get bored pretty quick.
"Hurricane of witticisms" is pretty much the easiest technique to outdo, too, because literally all you have to do is one up them and they're stuck.
ALL SOUND AND NO FURY.

He then cited the most recent group, wherein I quoted Shakespeare twice, Yeats once, and Jean-Paul Sartre in the original. I said rather snidely that he didn't seem to have a problem understanding what I meant. He then asked just how lonely I wanted to be, as that would be the inevitable consequence of my witticisms and allusions - distancing people.

Just distances you from the assholes, maybe.
I do hate people that feel like they have something to prove by litfagging it up constantly. I remember in a debate I actually told someone to calm down and reminded him we're in a 500 level English class and we've all read The Tempest.
Sure shut him up, anyway.
ADULTS ARE TALKING STOP TRYING TO IMPRESS US.

Also, he invoked Freud, saying that I'd learned to do this as a child as a way to feel good about myself.

That's a pretty legit point to make, too. Who does this that doesn't just want to feel good about themselves?

I then accused him of invoking Freud just to piss me off, as he damn well knows that I think Freud was full of shit. He smiled and said, "Got your attention, though."

Damn him. And his little Freud action figure - they deserve each other.

Thanks a lot, Dick.
I think you and Anna are right for each other.

So someone asked me about my novel. What was it. I told him, and he reacted with disbelief. Why would someone like me write something like that?

Money, I told him. He was shocked. Never Mind Literary Greatness, Here's The Filthy Lucre.

Only a shitty writer would have to choose between greatness and money.

I think this novel will sell. I enjoy writing, sure. I also enjoy eating. And vacations. And nice clothes, Doctor Who DVDs, cigarettes, music, nifty gadgets...well, you know. All things money can buy.

But! I intend to make money at it. So I'm writing something I think people will like to read. Is that a fucking crime or something?

No but it sure seems like an easy way to deflect blame when you write a bunch of fucking crap for the Twilight crowd.
"Well it sold well but I was only looking to write a bestseller."

How important is physical attraction in selecting a romantic partner?

Very and anyone who says otherwise is lying.

Well, now, what causes physical attraction? For me, it's so much more than looks. It's big things - intellect, charm, sense of humor.

Physical, as in, relating to the body and not the mind.
You're full of shit.
Oh boy, here's a teaser of her novel.
I AM PREPARED TO BE WOWED.
One way or another. Invariably the other.

Livia checked her watch - a chunky man's watch, expensive, a birthday gift from her twin. Fifteen minutes until the end of office hours. She felt the distinctive beginnings of a nic fit, but held her peace. There was one more research proposal with annotated bibliography that she had to hand back for her Renaissance Italy class.

Oh, a sassy liberal arts girl who smokes.
Not the author at all, this is LEEEEEEvia.
This is such a beginner's trap for authors. "Well they say write what you know and who do I know better than me?"
Yeah except you're a boring slob with a Livejournal who thinks fanfiction is a good idea. This isn't top selling material.

Arthur Mendes, said the neatly typed name on the cover sheet. He was not unknown to her - he had taken her High Middle Ages class the previous semester. A senior, set to graduate in May. Odd that he was taking yet another class from her - he wasn't even a history major, but an English major with, apparently, some electives to burn. For all that he was a pretty good student - he had gotten an A minus in the High Middle Ages class, the minus due only because he had missed two weeks worth of class due to illness - mono, she recalled.

The fuck?
What's happening?
I guess she's a professor--
Also you can't take off points for missing class for an illness if he has a note from a doctor.
Fuckin' laws and shit.

She turned to her computer and checked her email. Faculty meeting tomorrow, a request for her review of a textbook, a brief note from Ella - God, how old was she now, eighteen years old, a student majoring in music - asking to meet her at services Friday night. She decided that the textbook could damn well wait until tomorrow, and replied to Ella, equally briefly, saying she'd meet her at the synagogue, and why didn't they have a drink afterward. Ella, like Livia, was not a heavy drinker, but did have a fondness for good beer. She wasn't 21, but hell, Livia's parents had allowed her as well as her twin brother to drink in moderation from the age of thirteen. Livia saw no harm in it.

OH MY FUCKING CHRIST.
There's a very real difference between exposition and storytelling and I don't think you've learned that in your "accumulated 33 years of wisdom" (her quote, not mine).

Ten minutes left. God, I could really use a cigarette now. She patted the pack in her skirt pocket. Not long now. She picked up Arthur's proposal and bibliography. She had already marked it - it was good, focused, terse.

Good, focused and terse?
So, the exact opposite of this?
Holy fuck what follows is more dialogue than I think I've ever written in my entire fucking life.

"What language is that?"

"Hungarian. Useful for cursing. You can curse the air blue for twenty minutes and not even repeat yourself."

"Where did you learn that?"

"I grew up speaking it. My father's parents are from Hungary."

"Oh. I thought -"

"Yes?"

He blushed. "You - your accent. It's hard to pin down. Kind of European, but you use some British idioms. I thought you might be from Europe."

Yeah the Brit slang is because she's a pretentious twat.
Stick with me, Arthur. We're going places.

She laughed. "No, no. I was born and raised in this very city. My mother's parents are from Poland, my father's parents from Hungary, and I learned languages from a young age. I don't have one mother tongue - we spoke Polish, Yiddish, Hungarian, and English in my home. And my husband was a Brit, so I picked up idioms from him."

"Your husband? You -"

"I'm a widow," she said, her tone somber.

This is all very interesting.
I really care about this character and her plight.

"The book," he said hastily.

Yes. Please, let's move this mess forward.

"Ah, you're in luck. I don't have to arrange an interlibrary loan." She stood up and stretched, and looked at her watch. Time for office hours to be over. She shrugged on her own overcoat over her green turtleneck, long denim skirt, and cable-knit navy-blue cardigan.

You can tell whether the author is a man or a woman almost without fail based on the time spent describing articles of clothing.
You think I'm fucking joking but try it sometime.

She hefted her purse over one shoulder, stuffed a manila folder full of blue books to mark from her Western Civ class into her briefcase, and went to the small bookcase kitty-corner

Kitty-corner.
Such a northern expression.

"No, I've been legal to drink for awhile. I'm older than I look."

"Really, now." He had followed her into the elevator, and they were heading down.

"I'm 28," he said.

Livia was a little surprised. He was older than she was. Suddenly she felt like a little girl. Ridiculous, she scolded herself.

God I hate this.
It is really difficult to put into words exactly how shit this writing is. It just sits there. Nothing creates an image in my head. The language is just so matter-of-fact. It's like it's a chore she's getting through and that's exactly how it feels.

Dear Gentlemen,

I want you to understand something about me, and about my feminism.

No.
Man, fuck.
What the hell is wrong with people?
Welp, I'm off.

GRRRRRL GAMERS

YES I PLAY VIDEO GAMES
AND I'M A GIRL
DON'T HIT ON ME SILLY BOYS xP
Today is a spotlight community that is Women Gamers.
Many posts seem to be based more or less around the notion that GIRLS ARE TOO GAMERS AND WE CAN DO ANYTHING BOYS CAN DO IN VIDEO GAMES which I'd fucking hope so because it's not like it actually requires physical prowess to do something in a video game.
You're not actually decapitating people, women.
One thing guy gamers can do that women can't do, though, is shut up about their gender in relation to their hobbies.

I was wondering if anyone has any good resources for building your own gaming rig at home?

Newegg.

I'm at NewEgg right now watching their tutorial videos, and was thinking it might be good practice to watch a few different tutorials, if only to get a good idea of how everything goes together in general.

Seriously it's round peg goes into round hole level logic assembling a computer.
It's not that difficult I promise.
The only way you can possibly fuck up is if you buy the wrong type of processor but even that's made trivial when Newegg lists exactly the types of processors a socket will take.
Also before you ask the stupid question (that all newbies seem to consider for a moment): no, Intel processors don't fit in AMD motherboards.

I also wanted to gauge which parts I should be investing in and what the differences are, as flat-out reviews have a lot of technical speak that is just getting me all confused.

TEE-HEE ALL THIS TECHNOLOGY SURE IS CONFUSING.
What are you trying to play? Just copy someone's build that plays the game on max.

We've had a series of PC crashes around the house this week and so are in the market for some new PCs. I don't paticularly want to shell out another $1000 for a laptop with mediocre performance and would much rather use that money to invest in a rig that I could upgrade/wouldn't have a bunch of prepackaged software/might live longer than 3-4 years. But I've never built a computer myself, and the only person who I know who has is 3 hours away (sister's husband).

We can do anything boys can do in video games except, you know, when it gets really tricky we have to rely on men.
DO YOU SEE WHY THE GUYS ON YOUR FAVORITE TEAM FORTRESS 2 SERVER MAKE FUN OF YOU?
You're involved in a community that is dominated by white men who are almost fully anonymous and feel they have something to prove in fantasy land because many of them are not successful in real life.
This is the one realm in their life where they feel fully competent and to them, you're a threat.
Here's a review of Star Wars: The Old Republic.
That "new" "MMO" by Bioware. Its major claim to fame is it is the most expensive video game ever developed in the history of man and also it's fully voice acted.
The implication there being the voice acting cost lots (in which case they got ripped off, because I've heard the voice acting and me, a non-actor, could do about a million times better without trying) or it's the first fully voice acted video game in history.
I don't actually know what the first fully voice acted video game is but I know for a fact Assassin's Creed 1 was fully voice acted and it definitely came out before 2011.

Character: Jedi Knight named, you guess it, Jakia.

- Character creation: sadly lacking CC options. I have a feeling that, playing the main game, I'll probably run into more than one twin of my character.

MOST EXPENSIVE VIDEO GAME DEVELOPMENT CYCLE IN HIIIIIIIISTORY.
But those pre-generated face assets were over budget.
I've never run into a clone of Edie, incidentally.

You can't go in and fix the face exactly the way you want to like in Dragon Age or Mass Effect--you pick a preset and edit their hair/makeup/skin color and go from there. Which is fine, I guess, but I'm used to having more control over my appearance.

Your first MMO, clearly, because I can count on one hand the number of MMOs I've encountered that let you control facial details to that degree.
Phantasy Star Universe (first and last time you'll hear me say something positive about PSU)
aaaaaaand Age of Conan.
Both games were shit, but they did have fairly in-depth character creators.
There's your character--
she's definitely more masculine than I am.
Maybe you wanted the tough chick look with a clitoris she has to tape back, I don't know, but either way she's hideous.

You start out choosing between the Sith or the Jedi, which disappointed me at first because, well, what's the point of RPing then?

Errrr--
Who roleplays in these games outside of mutants, honestly?

Ten minutes into the game, though, proved that choosing the Jedi didn't mean I couldn't be the biggest asshole/dark side leaning Jedi ever, which is so lulzy. I love it.

I like to roleplay but my main goal is to violate the rules to the entire underpinning of the Star Wars franchise.
QUALI-T ROLEPLAYING HERE.

I'm just going to say it: I love voiced protagonists. This game has a voiced protagonist. This pleases me. ^_^

I'm at bullet point five and I have yet to hear mention of gameplay. I suppose I could cut some slack because it is a first impression so maybe she's tackling these subjects as they come up but really, come on.

The game does suffer from the same problem Dragon Age/Mass Effect suffered from, though, in that the dialogue you click on is only a summary of what your character will say.

Bullet point six. Maybe you spend the opening of the game talking a lot?
Far be it for Bioware to open their game with heart pounding action and intense combat.

For example, one mission I was on I needed to talk the villagers into helping me. One option (the bottom one, which previous knowledge of Bioware games tells me is the evil/"bad" choice) had me ask "what do I do if they say no?" which I thought was a legit concern.

I remember in Mass Effect when I was trying to get in that blue bitch's pants and I was playing it cool so I picked the "maybe we can talk about this later WINKINGEMOTICON" option and it translated into "I AM VERY BUSY RIGHT NOW PLEASE LEAVE ME ALONE."
Thanks a fuck ton, Bioware.
Turns out she hates the cool approach anyway and the clumsier and creepier my advances became the progressively more turned on she got.
Apparently I don't understand women or video games.
It's not that the dialogue tree just summarizes the actual dialogue (which wouldn't be a problem) it's that often what's written differs drastically in tone from what's actually spoken.
But I shouldn't be surprised considering the lead writer at Bioware was hired based of the strength of her fanfiction (no shitting).

Clicking on that, however, had my character pounded her fist into her palm and went "so how many skulls do I get to crush if they say no?" Which, no, THAT'S NOT WHAT I WANTED TO SAY! Misleading dialogue is misleading at times.

Sounds like what I meant anyway so okay.

I love conversing with NPCs and hearing them talk. It's so BIOWARE. If you don't love Bioware, chances are you aren't going to love this game, because so many Bioware tropes are in this game.

There you go. Review in one sentence.
Avoid this shit.

First piece of usable loot I picked up? Booty shorts. Apparently this only happened to me, because no one else is running around in booty shorts, but I am. "The Force is strong in this one!"

Does this game have gameplay or is it really just a gossip and dress up simulator?
I legitimately wouldn't be surprised either way with Bioware.

Graphics aren't the world's best, but they aren't bad, either.

BULLET POINT NINE. NO MENTION OF HOW IT PLAYS.
I'm sure one might argue that doesn't matter as much for an MMO because you know what to expect but I've heard some frankly shocking things about TOR in the gameplay department considering it's the most EXPENSIVE VIDEO GAME EVER MADE.

That said, there are some things that I have a problem with, and they are big enough that it may keep me from actually buying the game until said things are resolved:

- Combat. Combat is AWFUL.

I have problems with some things.
THE MEAT OF THE GAME IS BAD.
"You know, this restaurant was really good. The ambiance was nice and the wait staff was very kind if you can excuse the fact they served me a cat turd on a plate."

There is no auto-attack button, and clicking on someone does absolutely nothing. I click on them and then I have to MOVE and manually attack them. It feels like 10 steps back from KOTOR, and it's annoying because I get slaughtered before I can hit anyone. I've played for maybe two hours, and I keep getting killed because it won't let me auto-attack. VERY frustrating.

No auto-attack isn't instantly a bad thing, you know. There's such a thing as skill in video games and manual attack can facilitate that because it becomes a balance between dodging and striking, you know.
Except I've seen the combat in TOR and there is an auto-attack button so I'm afraid she's mistaken.

The camera! The camera is terrible! It's very difficult to manipulate, and it's almost too sensitive at times, causing it to zoom in/zoom out and zoom around the character while I'm trying to do something. It's terribly distracting.

How in the fuck do you have a bad camera in an MMO?
These games don't require precise camera control so when a bad camera in an MMO becomes noticeable it's something of a problem.
Especially considering it's the MOST EXPENSIVE VIDEO GAME EVER DEVELOPED.
I cannot overemphasize that enough.

the Bioware "female characters have sashaying hips" is in effect full-force. Which was never a problem for me in other games, but it is in this one.

Well you did make a tits and hips monster of a character, to be fair.
I imagine in real life she'd have a very sashaying walk.

The game is very, very laggy. I went into an almost empty server and the game was still laggy as all get out. And I know it's not my computer--based on the system requirements, With the game lagging, no auto-attack, and my character's swaying hips, basic movement from place to place is terrible. I run into walls, I run into other players, I run directly into enemies and then it takes me ten minutes to attack them and by then, they've killed me.

We spent hundreds of millions of dollars developing this game but we decided against buying good servers.
The shocking thing I heard was there's no combat log.
You know, the thing that tells you details of your fight?
The thing that has been a staple of every graphical MMO ever and was included in the very first MMOs, like Nexus, Meridian 59 and Ultima Online?
This game cost as much as some Hollywood movies and you don't have simple, simple basic shit like that?
What'd you spend all that cash on?

Overall, I think it has the makings of an EXCELLENT mmorpg one day, and it sucks you in in a way WoW or Galaxies never did for me. I just don't think it's ready to be released yet.

"Makings of an EXCELLENT (her emphasis) MMORPG"
"I spent a vast majority of the time crashing into walls and getting killed."
World of Warcraft really has ruined the MMORPG genre.

So I bought Skyrim today and have loved the experience so far. I only have one not so tiny problem: I am in the process of completing the golden claw quest (yes I am in the beginning). I have made it all the way to the snake, snake, whale puzzle. I have used every combination of them to try to get the metal gate to open. I even looked in the strategy guide that came with the game (it was a gift).

I CANNOT SOLVE A PUZZLE EVEN WHEN THE ANSWER IS GIVEN TO ME.
Dipshit: click on the claw. The solution is literally stamped on the claw.
You're using the wrong claw's code.
Or is it that other puzzle where you have to rotate the pillars?
Either way I have never had problems with this.

It tells me that when standing in the doorway facing the gate the pillars should read : snake, snake, whale. I thought maybe it was a game glitch and reloaded my last save only to have the same issue. This is one of the main plot quests and I have to get this gate open. Help!

Oh, that one.
It goes the other way, I'm pretty sure.
I don't remember, honestly. I just kind of fucked around with it for a minute and the door popped open.

Hello everyone. I'm currently looking into buying a Playstation 3, and I wanted to pick your brains about PS exclusives.

Generally what I'm into are non-turn based action/adventure games, but I'm fairly particular in what I like. I'm not into "realistic" war games that draw from historical events (such a WWII), and generally steer clear of shooters (third person included). However, I make exceptions for games with amazing stories and unique gameplay. I just prefer sword fighting and hand-to-hand combat, or magic, to killing with a gun.

Final Fantasy XIII sounds right up your alley since I'm guessing you hate fun.
I know that isn't exclusive but who gives a shit.

Series I enjoy:

Zelda -- I like the simplicity of the stories, the puzzles and the boss fights.

To keep this simple gameplay is mentioned exactly twice and "simplicity and starting a family" is mentioned more than twice, as well as colorful graphics and lots of different environments.
So--
What games does she think she'll like?

Demon's Souls/Dark Souls (I know Dark Souls isn't an exclusive, but I kind of want to play Demon's Souls before Dark Souls)

What does Wikipedia have to say about Demon's Souls?

Praised for its dark fantasy art design, variation in combat choice and integrated online multiplayer, the game is particularly notable for its high difficulty level with many critics noting it as a genuine challenge.

Dark fantasy art design (AKA dark and gritty) and high difficulty level.
Sounds like a good match for someone who enjoys simplicity and colorful graphics.
And starting an in-game family.

So I just found out something from my partner today and I thought I would share.

So my partner and I have been together almost 2 years now and we are engaged to be married next year. When we met he knew I was a gamer-girl ( I grew up playing video games on consoles like the sega megadrive, nintendo 64 and the original playstation) and he appreciated that as he too was a gamer.

Well if we're laying out our gaming credentials I'm exactly one generation older than you in terms of gaming so I'm not impressed.

So he went to work not long after this and told one of his fellow male workmates that I was a gamer and his reply?

"Chicks dont game."

They don't, generally. If they did they wouldn't need special communities.

When my partner told mr this I latterly threw a tantrum. I was told the guy (only 17 years to my 23) thought himself to be pretty cool with gaming since he started playing and could beat any girl, so he reckons.

I'd like to take a time out to remind everyone that she's offended by the comments of a 17 year old.
Also I'm older than both of you so shut up and listen to me.
I have more gaming experience.

But that was not what annoyed me. The fact that he said that girls don't game an ultimately suck or are lousy absolutely annoyed me!!!!

Comments?

Yeah, I got a few comments.
1. Who gives a shit?
2. What's up with your boyfriend? Surely he told you this knowing it would bother you.

A large launch party and LAN for Battlefield 3 is being held in Texas, and women are disallowed from attending in order to protect them from misogynistic insults.

Ha, ha wow. Only in Texas.
That's like some I, Robot thinking.
TO PROTECT HUMANS FROM EACH OTHER WE MUST KILL ALL OF THEM.

Nothing ruins a good LAN party like uncomfortable guests or lots of tension, both of which can result from mixing immature, misogynistic male-gamers with female counterparts. Though we’ve done our best to avoid these situations in years past, we’ve certainly had our share of problems. As a result, we no longer allow women to attend this event.”

This is the high technology, adult version of a "no cooties" sign on your club house.

Could there be a more perfect example of privilege? I'm not exactly a social justice warrior but it is nothing short of disgusting that males who cannot prevent themselves from making sexist comments or behaving in a misogynistic manner are being catered to. This behaviour is akin to victim blaming, and I for one will not be purchasing this product.

No, they're saving you from the mean comments.
Because if they let you attend I'm sure I'd be reading MEN ARE SO MISOGYNISTIC comments.
Either way they can't win.
Ohhhh, man.
I so don't care about this Texas LAN event thing, incidentally. Normally I could dredge up enough interest to take a side but I really don't care.
So what have we learned from this blog?
I learned games with bright, colorful graphics, cheery atmosphere and good dialogue are winning combos with the woman demographic.
If you can slap a marriage and child-rearing segment on your game then you have it fucking made.
Also they don't understand why male gamers are threatened by female gamers-- ignoring for the moment most people who would self-identify as a "gamer" have little practical experience with women-- when the three colors in an average male-oriented video game are gray, brown and khaki, the story most likely revolves around war, death and depression and the first question when the phrase "children are in this game" is "can I kill them?"
My ultimate conclusion is gamers really are a juvenile bunch of twats, irrespective of age, gender or other affiliations.
This is the 21st century equivalent to playing house and playing war, respectively.
Only my understanding of gaming is superior.

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With fire and sword

This blog was difficult. At first I was going to review it, then it got really stupid with fanfiction but then it picked back up again so let's see where it takes me.
Also I'd like to take a brief respite before we begin to cover givegodtheglory (why can't I stop talking about her?) Remember that weather question last time?
Well:

Overcast, not too cool, and not hot. Maybe with a fine drizzle.

NOTHING ABOUT ASSUMING I HAVE AS FAVORITE WEATHER PATTERN.
For shame.

Besides LJ, what websites are you always surfing?

You'll be amazed to learn another website people spend a lot of time surfing is fanfiction.net.

I have a test tomorrow at 9. I know this. I also know I don't know the material. So why am I on the computer? I keep doing this. I keep not doing my work, or even half trying.

Let me acknowledge my problem because like so many idiots of the internet I seem to be under the mistaken impression that acknowledging my problems somehow solves them.
Now here are some haikus she's written.
I like haikus because they're short.

Salvation confounds
The reason of men to a
Degree so unknown

Confounds reason because it's irrational nonsense.

The Spirit is more
Imporant than the flesh for
It shall never die

Well I'm sold. The soul certainly is "imporant".

The glory of God
Refines and consumes all men
Give praise to the Lord

GIVE PRAISE TO THE ETERNAL EMPEROR.

I must still believe
Even when my heart would doubt.
This thing is called faith.

This thing is called mental illness.
Oh but that's not five syllables. "Faith" works too, then.

I swear, I am the stupidest moron on the face of the planet right now. I would slap me if I believed in self-punishment or thought it would help, but my gosh...I am dumb.

Well as has been often repeated on this blog: "girls are dumb".

...'I don't want to talk about it'...That's what I frikkin' said, the actual words that caused this little pity party. Imbecile.

The depths of my own stupidity stagger me at times...

If I hadn't realized just how badly I shoved my foot in my mouth, this wouldn't - well, no, of course I wouldn't. Ignorance of the fact and all that.

I didn't skip anything, incidentally. This is how this entry starts. So I guess someone asked her how she was or how something went or something and now we have this-- I guess.

...Lord, help me, this your idiot child. Because seriously, I don't even know what's wrong with me. You know. You made me, and before You did, You must have looked at the moment and just rolled Your eyes.

I don't believe that you were made.
Spawned, perhaps?
Somehow generated through a program that attempted to make the douchiest human possible?

But seeing that, You still decided to go ahead with the plan to see me born, moronic though I may be. And seeing as You are the One Who made all things glorious, made me, and re-made me, I must be glorious as well. Although I obviously am not anywhere near the level You would have me to be yet because...'I don't want to talk about it.'

Because "let me have long, whiny posts where I don't explain a goddamn thing."

To pull an Adam and Even type flavor, he really should have made it clear what exaxtly 'it' was. I shouldn't have listened though, and tried to understand rather than giving him the brush off.

You know what? Fine. If you're not going to make sense I'm not going to read it.

Who forgot her lab notebook, after she pulled a scantron out the thing and shoved it in her bag? Who forgot her freaking pencil box, leaving it to sit ever so lonely on the stupid desk at home? Who doesn't know how to make a frikkin' mole?
Any guesses?

How to make a mole? I assume you mean a mole in chemistry and not a creature.
It has been forever since I've had chemistry-- uhh, don't you just divide by the molecular weight and add Avogadro's Number?

I blame Dad. He was teasing me yesterday about my tea drinking - which used to be coffee drinking, but it makes for an erratic heartbeat - and saying maybe I should try drinking only every other day. Well, I had two yesterday, so I'm like 'Oh, this'll be easy', despite Daddy saying I'm addicted. I am not. I am just somewhat used to operating with an above average amount of caffiene in my system. Without it, my brain function seems to be a little less, considering the rather important items I left behind.

I forgot to do something
I BLAME MY FATHER.

In any event, I can in fact quit anytime, and I will not be telling Daddy Darling about this little mishap. And in the future, not getting the caffiene in on the day I have to wake up at six rather than seven, yeah, that should be reversed.

I CAN QUIT ANYTIME I'M NOT ADDICTED.
Denial~

Tomorrow, first thing bright and early, I have a chemistry test. I will flunk it. I'm just sayin'; it's a fact.

Chemistry is pretty hard. I wound up studying quite a bit for it.
Something you don't appear to be doing if your "wow I should be studying but I'm not lol" posts are to be taken seriously.

Also, tea is my new thing. I've had at least one cup every day for the past week or so. And we (mother and some other ladies) are going to Orlando for a week. I guess it will count as my 'senior trip' although I graduated last year. Then we get back, it's back to school (either on the 18th or 19th. I should really figure out which. But the first day really doesn't matter; they just read the syllabus)

First day is pretty important. It's where you learn how to pass the class, basically. I've had classes where everyone not in attendance the first day got automatically dropped from the course.
But hey, if you want to miss your first day of college ever because going to the website is too difficult to navigate then good luck with that shit--
but unfortunately, as we all know, she made her first day and has been whining about it ever since.

And the teachers! Oh, yeah, sis NOW tell me taht taking Micro and A&P at the same time is a BAD idea! Brilliant! You're so helpful and I totally love and appreciate your for the glorious advice...SARCASM!
I'M GONNA FAIL! I'm gonna have to do this ALL OVER AGAIN and miss the MLT program and I'll be stuck here until 2014! That is A YEAR more than I should be! I don't wanna be here that long. How am I supposed to get my Camaro if I'm here, not working, not drawing a check, and with my nose falling off?!

...
Anyway I think I'm going to go do something else now.