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  1. Re: Interesting article about Sexism in Geek Communities Thats very disturbing. Of course, 50 Shades is apparently building on the foundations of Twilight; a series with its own relationship-abuse and esteem issues.
  2. Re: Interesting article about Sexism in Geek Communities Ill admit it. I havent been on a date in a while. A WHILE. But that doesnt entitle me to treat anyone else as anything other than a Human Being. With all that that implies. (Thoughts, opinions, moods of their own, things to do, and all that). If some people cant see that, then....yeah, theyre sad.
  3. Re: Interesting article about Sexism in Geek Communities Noah Hughes seems like a reasonable and generally cool person. That interview has me wanting to play the game. (Im a lapsed fan too)
  4. Re: What Have You Watched Recently? I just recently started watching the reimagined Battlestar Galactica on Netflicks, for the first time. Id seen half the pilot and jumped to some pretty WRONG conclusions. Im glad I was wrong. Its much better than I thought it was going to be. Just started Season 2
  5. Re: Interesting article about Sexism in Geek Communities When Im playing a tabletop RPG I dont want another player to be in awe of me, I want someone who will be able to HELP ME LIVE!
  6. Re: Interesting article about Sexism in Geek Communities I still get baffled by things like this. Why wouldnt gamer guys WANT more gamer girls? You know? People they can TALK TO about their favorite hobby? Also I hear, even today, the "all MMO players are guys" meme, and it just stuns me. Ive known many, many female gamers, people I know in real life, who play MMO's. Its frakking 2013, people! Get your heads out of the 20th century and into the 21st! Oy!
  7. Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group... Steel Jackal: I dont know how youre here! Youre supposed to be DEAD! But -I- should have been the one to kill you! SO NOW I WILL! *Fires energy bolts at Gold Guardian, who barely dodges them* Gold Guardian: Your targetting system seems to be a bit off...I could recalibrate that for you if you- Steel Jackal: I CAN CALIBRATE MY OWN SENSORS! Im a good scientist! Gold Guardian: ...Youre a..."good"..scientist Steel Jackal: GWAAAAAHH! *pew pew pew pew pew* (This ends up with Gold Guardian hacking Steel Jackals suit and sending it home, then following it to find out where the villian is hiding)
  8. Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group... Steel Jackal: I dont know how youre here! Youre supposed to be DEAD! But -I- should have been the one to kill you! SO NOW I WILL! *Fires energy bolts at Gold Guardian, who barely dodges them* Gold Guardian: Your targetting system seems to be a bit off...I could recalibrate that for you if you- Steel Jackal: I CAN CALIBRATE MY OWN SENSORS! Im a good scientist! Gold Guardian: ...Youre a..."good"..scientist Steel Jackal: GWAAAAAHH! *pew pew pew pew pew* (This ends up with Gold Guardian hacking Steel Jackals suit and sending it home, then following it to find out where the villian is hiding)
  9. Re: What Makes An Iconic Superhero Costume? Elegant simplicity of design. Overy busy costumes are not "iconic" even if they are in some way memorable. As far as "undies on the outside" there were (and are) a vouple of very good reasons for them. First: They allow a more dynamic color break for the costume, rather than the "unitard" look youre starting to see in modern superhero movies where costume designers think of the trunks as "dumb", because they dont know any better. Second: When youre a guy wearing skin-tight spandex, wearing trunks over your tights allows you to not be flashing your package all over the place, and letting everyone know whether your parents believed in circumcision or not. If you dont think this is important, please re-watch Star Trek: the Motion Picture.
  10. Re: What Fantasy/Sci-Fi book have you just finished? Please rate it... "Cold Days", latest in the Dresden Files series by Jim Butcher. If youre on this forum and you havent read Dresden, you have a treat in store for you...
  11. Re: Interesting article about Sexism in Geek Communities Well....thats the opposite of a good idea. :/
  12. Re: Interesting article about Sexism in Geek Communities When I was in high school, I met a girl at a convention who was there in a rabbit-fur bikini and boots (not cosplaying a particular character, just running arund in a costume cause it was OK to do at a con in the 80s), and she was GORGEOUS. I mean really, really beautiful, and in phenominal shape. I was stunned. And yet somehow I got her to go out with me, and I dated her for several years (until my own stupidity caught up with me when I went away to college). When I met her, she was a gamer. And a painter. And liked to bop people with training weapons in melee combat. And played Killer. And watched the same shows I did. And it was AWESOME. I dont remember anyone giving Melissa any guff about not being "a real gamer girl". But man, Id sure feel sorry for anyone who did, because Im a damn good gamer, and she taught me a thing or two about the subject. So no, beauty is not a reverse metric for who is or is not a "real" gamer, or a "real" geek/nerd/whatever. And this one guy does not get to decide for the rest of us who is and is not "in the club". And sometimes really, truly, exceptionally smart, funny, silly, awesome, and attractive women think gamers are COOL. Otherwise they wouldnt be friends with so many of them. Some of these people even post here.
  13. Re: Interesting article about Sexism in Geek Communities Game books dont come cheap.
  14. Re: Interesting article about Sexism in Geek Communities Sidetrack: WTF happened to the art in PVP Online? I could barely recognize the characters.
  15. Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? Followed by their version of Neverending Story @_@
  16. Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? The Birthday Massacre - Red Stars I think Im in love with the lead singer's voice....
  17. Re: Interesting article about Sexism in Geek Communities I LIKE Carl's Jr......
  18. Re: Interesting article about Sexism in Geek Communities That must have been VERY hard to write. I wanted to leave a supportive comment, but apparently you have to have a website to do so (unless I misunderstood how their comment section works). WTF is wrong with the guy that she was playing the MMO with, that he would react that way after being told what had happened to her?!?
  19. Re: Interesting article about Sexism in Geek Communities Yeah....I have a soft spot for that show too, but there are like three space combat shots....blaster fire climbing diagonally across the screen to the left, across the screen to the right, and then the "kabom" and the Viper flies thru the explosion. I think they got all of their scape combat SPFX footage from the pilot movie, and couldnt afford to do more. If only someone would do a modern remake of that series. That would be nice...* *(I didnt like the modern remake. They totally missed the mark, to me, in how the characters interacted. Especially Tighe. And Cylons. And everything else)
  20. Re: Interesting article about Sexism in Geek Communities Go Joss!
  21. Re: Interesting article about Sexism in Geek Communities I dont know of a single game shop where someone who acts like a troll / B-Net Baby in real life would be tolerated for more than a few days. And Ive been to game shops on both coasts of the US, on both hemispheres of the planet, and worked in several different game shops in both the Southwest USA, and in California. A game shop is NOT the same as a private book club, or a political rally. If youve found a game shop that permits or (God forbid) encourages this kind of asshettery among its patrons, I pity the gamers in that area, and stronly recommend you try to find a better game shop!
  22. Re: Interesting article about Sexism in Geek Communities Minor tangent #1: YAY ZAXXON! Im glad to know I wasnt the only one addicted to that game! (Id rep you for it, Tash, but it wont let me). Minor tangent #2: In Star Wars TOR, body type 4 is seriously... rotund... for males, I agree. (Hello, Babriel Iglesias). But it is also curvy/well padded for female characters, though, and I honestly thought it was a step in the right direction for providing diversity. (Body type 1 for both males and females is slender, body type 2 is athletic/heroic, and body type 3 makes you an Asgardian, for those who dont play the game). Ive got characters on all 4 body types, and of both genders. The place I fall down is that all my characters are Human....because I dont really like the looks of most of the available PC races they have so far. (Im looking forward to Cathar becoming available as PCs tho) Relevent comment: I think Casualplayer has hit a social nail on its social head. The way we tend to categorize things in top-to-bottom, best-to-worst lists is quite probably part of the problem with our perception that those like us are "better" and those unlike us are "yabboes", when we are young. However, I dont see a way around it from where Im standing. Maybe someone else can come up with something.... Id like for Massey to please explain to me how providing male and female players with a variety of body types and appearances is somehow a bad thing. Ill admit; I tend to be pretty appearance-elitist when it comes to my own characters, whether they be male or female. I stopped playing Secret World (I think that was the MMOs name) in beta because their avatars were all very...plain looking. I want my heroic characters to be heroic-looking. (I grew up reading Doc Savage and Tarzan and John Carter...) But I know that Im not the only one playing. I gamed back in the late 80's and early 90's with a guy who made ALL of his PC's "average Joes"; 8-10 STR, 8-10 COM, and so on. His Star Trek character was a Science department enlisted man whose chief job was keeping the equipment clean, and was good at taking sensor readings. That was it. Is it important to have someone keep the gear clean and in working order? You bet! Would I play that as a PC? Never. Did he have a great time playing the character? Actually he did! Takes all kinds.
  23. Re: Interesting article about Sexism in Geek Communities *LMFAO*! Tangent story: So its about 1979. Im in 9th grade, playing D&D with my friends at a sleepover at the DM's house. There are 4 Players, plus the GM. We've been gaming together for a couple of years now (we started in 7th grade), and all of us have been getting the AD&D books as they come out, but we are still playing mostly a "3 tan booklets" edition campaign. (City State of the Invincible Overlord was the core of the campaign setting). Our characters are prowling around in some old ruins, and we end up uncovering a gigantic cavern temple to the evil God of Demons and Undeath, Orcus. Somehow, one of the PC's (the Thief, naturally), managed to knock something over or pick something up, or somehow activate the Evil Alter of Badness after we TOLD him not to touch anything! The DM says," ....So theres this rumbling that starts to shake the cavern. Out the entrance you can see the sky darken as storm clouds form within minutes, and lightning starts to crash down. The alter begins to glow an unearthly silver light, and fog starts to form along the floor...." Several Players call the Thief's Player an idiot, and throw things at him (empty soda cans, wadded up paper...) "Then theres this HUGE flash of lightning, and youre all blinded for a second! When you can see again, theers a gigantic, winged figure standing over the alter! ITS ORCUS HIMSELF!" Janet T., playing the Cleric, without missing a beat, chants "DEMOGORGON! DEMOGORGON! DEMOGORGON! DEMOGORGON!" We all look stunned....and then the DM picks up his percentile dice, and rolls for every time the name of Orcus' hated enemy and rival Hellgod was said, because back then there was a 1% chance that if you invoked a God's name, it would appear (It was in the rules!) The rest of us have that "Light-bulb comes on" moment, and we all start chanting too! "DEMOGORGON! DEMOGORGON! DEMOGORGON! DEMOGORGON!" Sure enough, on about the sixth roll, the DM rolls that 1% chance, and ol' Demogorgon himself shows up in all his scaly, tentacley, two headed badness, and the whole party sneaks out of the cavern while the two ancient enemies go at it! Later the DM told us that since we had been scared off, Demogorgon and Orcus both got xp's for defeating us (We now return you to your regularly scheduled thread topic)
  24. Re: Interesting article about Sexism in Geek Communities Personally, I believe that once you get magic and fantasy elements into the mix, maintaining "historical" gender inequality becomes a LOT harder to justify for your setting (assuming you even want to do that). Its not easy to oppress someone if she can huck lightning at you from her fingertips. I believe that in fantasy settings it just makes more sense for there to be a lot more gender equality.
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