ElldrenIs a woman dammitceterum censeoRegistered Userregular
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streaming the sandlot
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sittin in a hotel room, just played mini golf with my dad
what a world eh
also, I'm a man child and not really proud of it. it seems like a weird thing to defend. argue the definition sure but I can't think of a way that's a term I'd want applied to me.
Interestingly enough Will, I was raised the exact same way, except that when I was taught adult things, there was usually a reward system- I.E. we taught you to cook, now we will pay you X dollars if you make dinner, we taught you how to mow the lawn, we will pay you Y dollars to mow the yard, and the money was mine to spend.
I spent it on books, LEGO bricks, action figures and video games, as well as specific snacks for myself that my parents wouldn't buy.
Interesting how our childhood shapes our adult life and views, no?
yeah i got paid (a little) for doing things like mowing the lawn
i mowed neighbor's lawns and shoveled walks for money, mostly
and i spent it on comics and candy and toys, like most kids
i guess i just hit some points in my life where i kind of left my interest in gi joes and transformers and d&d behind. some of it just sloughed off and some of it felt unworthy of myself as an adult.
(i still play video games some though)
What makes an action look more or less worthy for an adult?
I don't know, I think Echo and Sipex nailed this on the head, but you still seem to disagree with that, or at least want to stick other quantifiers on it that put us right back at the beginning of 'certain hobbies are for kids, certain hobbies are for big people", which I don't think is really helpful, accurate, or fair.
First PC game that I bought with my own money was Castle of the Winds.
Dating myself here.
Castle of the Winds (CotW) is a tile-based roguelike computer game for Windows 3.x. It was developed by SaadaSoft and published by Epic MegaGames in 1989
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Firewaterword, I am fascinated by your "in the game closet" post.
Yeah, I'd never really thought about it until recently, but I think between talk of PAX and the shambling groans of the gamer culture thread sort of made me think about how I approach gaming.
I buy a shitload of games every year, but if you saw my living room, the only evidence of being a gamer would be the 360, and I went out of my way to get the elite, since it was black and blends into to everything else. To most people it just looks like another fancy bit of tech I guess. But if you were to open the little tablestand thing, you'd be blinded by the glare of green 360 game cases.
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First PC game that I bought with my own money was Castle of the Winds.
Dating myself here.
Castle of the Winds (CotW) is a tile-based roguelike computer game for Windows 3.x. It was developed by SaadaSoft and published by Epic MegaGames in 1989
my brain just tried to write the cyborg manifesto for bdsm
What does this even mean?
Donna Haraway's Cyborg Manifesto is a famously dense to the point of almost unreadability (but very good) slab of feminist theory that deals with technology, identity, and the various intersections thereof. It posits a cyborg existence both currently and in a futurist manner.
My brain just ran out and started running up much the same sort of ideas, but for the power dynamics involved in D/s stuff.
Firewaterword, I am fascinated by your "in the game closet" post.
Yeah, I'd never really thought about it until recently, but I think between talk of PAX and the shambling groans of the gamer culture thread sort of made me think about how I approach gaming.
I buy a shitload of games every year, but if you saw my living room, the only evidence of being a gamer would be the 360, and I went out of my way to get the elite, since it was black and blends into to everything else. To most people it just looks like another fancy bit of tech I guess. But if you were to open the little tablestand thing, you'd be blinded by the glare of green 360 game cases.
that's just common sense.
I mean, normally I have a controller out, but if I'm expecting company it goes away in its drawer. Otherwise there is no visible evidence of games without poking about (or opening the closet... opening the closet is a dead giveaway what with the old systems and the guitar controller and the warhammer minis)
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First PC game that I bought with my own money was Castle of the Winds.
Dating myself here.
Castle of the Winds (CotW) is a tile-based roguelike computer game for Windows 3.x. It was developed by SaadaSoft and published by Epic MegaGames in 1989
I remember one that was just "Castle.exe", it was more or less a roguelike. I have no idea of its origins or real name though and I've never heard of it since.
You were a club symbol though IIRC rather than an @.
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Firewaterword, I am fascinated by your "in the game closet" post.
Yeah, I'd never really thought about it until recently, but I think between talk of PAX and the shambling groans of the gamer culture thread sort of made me think about how I approach gaming.
I buy a shitload of games every year, but if you saw my living room, the only evidence of being a gamer would be the 360, and I went out of my way to get the elite, since it was black and blends into to everything else. To most people it just looks like another fancy bit of tech I guess. But if you were to open the little tablestand thing, you'd be blinded by the glare of green 360 game cases.
that's just common sense.
I mean, normally I have a controller out, but if I'm expecting company it goes away in its drawer. Otherwise there is no visible evidence of games without poking about (or opening the closet... opening the closet is a dead giveaway what with the old systems and the guitar controller and the warhammer minis)
we have all the systems (technically every current-gen system) out next to the television along with the vcr and surround sound
but all the movies and stuff are put away...in clear plastic organizers. those ones from target that were like five dollars and have three drawers each.
Also the board game+lego bricks shelf is in the living room
Firewaterword, I am fascinated by your "in the game closet" post.
Yeah, I'd never really thought about it until recently, but I think between talk of PAX and the shambling groans of the gamer culture thread sort of made me think about how I approach gaming.
I buy a shitload of games every year, but if you saw my living room, the only evidence of being a gamer would be the 360, and I went out of my way to get the elite, since it was black and blends into to everything else. To most people it just looks like another fancy bit of tech I guess. But if you were to open the little tablestand thing, you'd be blinded by the glare of green 360 game cases.
that's just common sense.
I mean, normally I have a controller out, but if I'm expecting company it goes away in its drawer. Otherwise there is no visible evidence of games without poking about (or opening the closet... opening the closet is a dead giveaway what with the old systems and the guitar controller and the warhammer minis)
I would really like to be able to do that, but generally I'm not in spaces where I can do that. Mind you, I'm in university where everyone's rooms are just random piles of stuff in general.
I mean, normally I have a controller out, but if I'm expecting company it goes away in its drawer. Otherwise there is no visible evidence of games without poking about (or opening the closet... opening the closet is a dead giveaway what with the old systems and the guitar controller and the warhammer minis)
Mm, yeah I guess I'd agree with that being part of good housekeeping.
My earliest video game memory is some Pac-Man clone in first person. Them fucking ghosts were scary. When they caught you, their teeth chomped down on the screen.
And this was on a green monochrome VIC.
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I just have a room in a house but both my room and our TV room are instant giveaways that there is a nerd in the house. my room is... I sometimes get embarrassed standing in it. my only hope is the movie nerd shit outweighs the video game nerd shit.
tv room has a very obvious ps3, wii, and 360, and a desktop hooked to its own monitor. I don't think anyone gets very far into our house without knowing for fucking sure I'm a nerd.
then again no one really comes into our house that doesn't know this already.
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first game zelda 2, played before walking or talking. I apparently stole my brother's controller and immediately walked into a pit.
I'm trying to find the name of my first pc game but it was children's software for a tandy computer. The games were actually pretty fucking good for what they were, but I can't remember the name of the software.
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My earliest video game memory is some Pac-Man clone in first person. Them fucking ghosts were scary. When they caught you, their teeth chomped down on the screen.
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sittin in a hotel room, just played mini golf with my dad
what a world eh
also, I'm a man child and not really proud of it. it seems like a weird thing to defend. argue the definition sure but I can't think of a way that's a term I'd want applied to me.
I find it kinda hard to believe this is actually something that is seen on anything like a basis where you can't remember each incident.
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Yes?
What makes an action look more or less worthy for an adult?
I don't know, I think Echo and Sipex nailed this on the head, but you still seem to disagree with that, or at least want to stick other quantifiers on it that put us right back at the beginning of 'certain hobbies are for kids, certain hobbies are for big people", which I don't think is really helpful, accurate, or fair.
Dating myself here.
I buy a shitload of games every year, but if you saw my living room, the only evidence of being a gamer would be the 360, and I went out of my way to get the elite, since it was black and blends into to everything else. To most people it just looks like another fancy bit of tech I guess. But if you were to open the little tablestand thing, you'd be blinded by the glare of green 360 game cases.
Huge gadget freak. The dude was a serious early adopter. Made a boardgame too.
gotta pay the troll toll
also holy fuck you went through it fast if you watched in order. this is good and shows a strong moral fiber.
there's a dialog exchange in the play between him and dennis that is one of my favorite moments in the series (though I have many of these)
You do love your boy's holes don't you?
Mine was Transport Tycoon
Sorry about that guys.
That would be what most people get, yes.
@Elldren: you are awesome.
First computer game? Red Alert
I see fat girls in anime hoodies wearing cat ears in a specific park quite often. Like, I'm sure if I went there now I could find one.
Woo 1989.
that's just common sense.
I mean, normally I have a controller out, but if I'm expecting company it goes away in its drawer. Otherwise there is no visible evidence of games without poking about (or opening the closet... opening the closet is a dead giveaway what with the old systems and the guitar controller and the warhammer minis)
I remember one that was just "Castle.exe", it was more or less a roguelike. I have no idea of its origins or real name though and I've never heard of it since.
You were a club symbol though IIRC rather than an @.
Fix for what?
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watching charlie melt down throughout the play is absolutely amazing
we have all the systems (technically every current-gen system) out next to the television along with the vcr and surround sound
but all the movies and stuff are put away...in clear plastic organizers. those ones from target that were like five dollars and have three drawers each.
Also the board game+lego bricks shelf is in the living room
I would really like to be able to do that, but generally I'm not in spaces where I can do that. Mind you, I'm in university where everyone's rooms are just random piles of stuff in general.
Man, all that kite-flying.
I fucking loved that game.
great example of a game I did well at as a kid but can't play for shit now. and I've tried, believe me. one of my absolute favorites growing up.
Mm, yeah I guess I'd agree with that being part of good housekeeping.
I can barely even play games from the N64, or the playstation that weren't like, sprite games
I understand that the appeal of the roguelike is the simplistic graphics which allow more focus on the choices made but
I just can't get it
And this was on a green monochrome VIC.
It's the movie adaptation of a book. Wherein people are too busy building legos, so no one has sex anymore and there are no babbys.
Just another day at the korean frat boy forum.
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tv room has a very obvious ps3, wii, and 360, and a desktop hooked to its own monitor. I don't think anyone gets very far into our house without knowing for fucking sure I'm a nerd.
then again no one really comes into our house that doesn't know this already.
I'm trying to find the name of my first pc game but it was children's software for a tandy computer. The games were actually pretty fucking good for what they were, but I can't remember the name of the software.
Faceball?