Happy Fourth of July! At least for my readers who live in the US. The rest of you can have a happy day as well, but yours will probably involve fewer fireworks. Anyway, no misogyny today. Instead, here’s a kitten making its own fireworks with the help of an iPad. Consider this an open thread.
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@CB:
Here’s a link if you wanna try the free version. It’s basically a creative mode, without a lot of the adventuring elements, enemies, health, tools, infinitely generated world… But, its free, so no harm in trying.
http://www.minecraft.net/play.jsp
@Sarah:
Oh dear Pony Lord in heaven.. What horrors have you unleashed upon my psyche?
OK, I just think that it’s difficult when there’s provocation like that right in front of me.
As for video games, I bought Dragon Age: Origins a few days ago. I like it a lot, but I think it’s a solid step down from ME2, which was literally one of the best games ever made. Also, BioWare’s gameplay is starting to feel. The alien sex simulator series was great because it worked well and it had been so long since KOTOR that it still felt fresh. But sometimes Dragon Age just feels like a massive reskin of the ME games. And the character classes? Dwarf, human, or elf that can be a warrior, mage or rogue? Are you fucking kidding me? God forbid we have a single original thought.
I almost feel like they’re is trying to crap too out too many IPs at once, like overcompensation after working in Lucas’ universe for so long. Stick with Mass Erect for a few years, then come out with something completely different. Although I guess they sort of tried that with Dragon Age II and we all saw how that worked out. I don’t know. It’s still a very good game, but I didn’t ejaculate all over it like I did with KOTOR and ME2.
Although, Felicia Day is doing a network TV-level Dragon Age webseries at some point this summer. I’m looking forward to it, The Guild is awesome.
My Little Pony is awesome! And yus there are quite a lot of “bro-nies” out there (men who like MLP xD They call themselves that) 😀
It’s a lot like Transformers Animated, in that they took something that was classic and awesome in a retro way and made something even better than also nods to the original and is for both kids and adults :3
And I had an English teacher named Ms. Read xD
*even better AND also nods
i cannot type right now xD
As long as we’re still talking about sexual orientation, I now present another data point.
I identify as straight because my lizard brain is in charge of determining who is and isn’t sexually attractive, and the lizard brain thinks that women are sexually attractive and men aren’t. It’s pretty much an automatic reaction. Mind you, my lizard brain operates on a purely visual level, and doesn’t distinguish between cis and trans, so if an individual meets my lizard brain’s visual cues for female, I’m attracted. (David Bowie’s Ziggy Stardust persona is right on the borderline.)
Needless to say, my big complicated primate brain gets to decide who to ask out on a date (or did when I was single) based on the much more complex “do I like this person” algorithm, but my lizard brain still controls the reflexive “does this person turn me on” process.
OMG My Little Ponies were my very favorite toy evar. I never actually watched the cartoon tho. My favorite cartoon evar was The Real Ghostbusters. I just just like last week bought the DVD boxed set of it! I am so excited! Totally suffers from the Smurfette Principle but I don’t care – I had the biggest crush on cartoon Peter Venkman in junior high. I still kinda want him.
The new MLP is a lot like me! 😀 Super cute! Seems v childish and silly, but also appeals to adults and is smarter than you’d think! XD (i know some ppl would disagree w/ that xD )
I Loved loved loved My Little Ponies when I was a kid! Between the two of us my sister and I must have had 75 of them.
There were no boy ponies for the longest time, so my sister and I decided that the ugliest pony was a boy. Then we would have pony beauty pageants, and the ugly boy pony was the judge.
Sometimes I want to go back in time and give myself a copy of “Revolution from within”.
I don’t ever remember watching the show, though it seems to have been on in my pony-loving prime (mid 80’s). At the time, IIRC, my favourite shows were She-ra, Jem, and the Gummi Bears show. In retrospect I can’t believe I was totally entranced by a show about a kind of candy, but that’s what did it for me when I was 6.
Whyy… Why did I watch MLP? I saw the ending as soon as I the characters were introduced! Why did I watch it? Why was it interesting? Oh god why??!?!?
Sarah… You monster…
I’m very very old. When I was 6 my favorite cartoon was Wacky Races. I can still remember doing a drawing of the race cars from the show back in 1st grade.
By 2nd grade I had graduated to Speed Racer. I was doing finger paintings of the Mach 5 in art class.
Haha, I should have said “BioWare’s gamplay is starting to feel old”.
You know what is the most fun ever, if you get good? Super Smash Bros. In high school I won some money off Brawl tournaments at the local mall. Thing is, I didn’t even play the game that much, I just focused on getting really good with Meta Knight. If you understand how to use him, he’s basically broken. Probably should be banned, but I’m not complaining.
I just realized that David specifically asked for first-person shooters. The thing about that genre is that it’s basically turned into an oligopoly. There’s not much room for indie games because it’s so thoroughly dominated by the blockbusters that everyone knows about, like Call of Duty, Halo, maybe Gears of War. Bulletstorm is pretty good I guess, but you can tell it was made on a budget. If you want a “so-bad-it’s-good” game, rent Duke Nukem Forever. That’s right, it finally came out, and it sucks big giant donkey balls. However, you can see evidence of the fifteen-year development cycle throughout, and it’s kind of fascinating.
The only cartoon I really identify with my childhood is Hey Arnold. That was awesome.
Hey all. So, since this *is* an open thread, I’d like to ask you sexy, fashionable people for hair dye suggestions. XD
I have short, dark hair. Bleaching all of it is definitely off the table, but I am willing to bleach a few streaks. So my options are either a dark, all-over color, bright highlights, or both.
I really want something bright and funky, but I’m having a hard time working up much enthusiasm about any of the available options. Right now I have a magenta streak, but my partner says pink hair is super cliche, and I’m afraid she might be right. >.<
So, can anyone inspire me, and get me out of the boring-hair doldrums? Plymouth, of the blue-haired glory? Winged fashionista Ami??
For reference, I have light skin with olive undertones, dark brown hair, and green eyes. My wardrobe is mostly black, grey, red, teal, and shocking pink.
Why do you want to get your hair dyed at all? This one guy dyed his hair light blonde and we called him Super Saiyan Alex for weeks.
MRAL, hair dye can be a fun fashion accessory. Having an unconventional hair color adds a bit of vibrance and flair to my self-presentation every single day–sort of like your new glasses. ^_^
Plus, dyed hair can be a great conversation starter, which is nice, since I’m a little shy. I had a teal/blue streak for about a semester, then switched over to magenta, and got tons of compliments on both.
Perhaps your friend just didn’t chose a good shade for his coloring, or for his personal style? I know I would never go blonde, because it wouldn’t suit me, but Ami pulls it off beautifully.
btw, if anyone would like a little glimpse of what Minecraft really is all about, this video should explain a lot. Just thought I’d share. ^__^
Certain shades of purple could work. Here’s my fashion nerd tip–go get a cheap colorwheel at the art supply store. When you’re stumped on whether or not a color works with other colors, consult the wheel. You’d be surprised what tones and hues can work.
B/c zie wants to xD (I thought your therapist told you not to post here or read here? o_O not to tell YOU what to do, but you held out for like a week xD I AM glad you’re happier now 😀 just.. I worry you’re rushing things after just one session : )
@Simone why dun you want to bleach your whole hair? (asks the girl who bleached her whole hair and has naturally jet black hair xD )
Otherwise hmm…
what style is your hair in? short? long? medium?
one of the things I always wanted to do w/ my hair is make it like Freefall from Gen13 with black but long purple/pink strands at the front 😀 but I just can’t bring myself to cut my hair atm xD
@Kristin my mom bought Barbies and MLPs for my sister and she HATED them, but I sekritly played w/ all of them xD And I made up weird fantasy stories for the MLPs (I also did this for the baseball cards my parents gave me even tho I hated baseball xD I made up little dramuhs between the players… xD )
I LOVED Jem as a kid xD I used to always imagine I could put on her earrings and become her xD (or some version of her)
MRAL, if you’re ejaculating over your games, you may be playing them wrong…
And DA:O kicked ME’s butt, but that’s because I prefer my RPGs to be, well, RPGs. Can’t stand shooters.
@Simone Lovelace awwww 😀 ty! I am going to get it redone again soon now that I have money again xD it feels weird having it half dyed.. but so far everybody seems to think it’s on purpose (cuz the back is on purpose left black xD so the top looks like it fits rather than is terrible grown out) :3
He didn’t tell me not to post here, he just mentioned that I might want to give it a rest, because it would seem that having an outlet to complain about my disadvantages had ironically caused me to obsess over them more and more. I have to admit that my situation worsened considerably over the three or four months I was posting here. But I don’t think it’s this place itself, just what I was using it for.
@Johnny awww *hugs* :3 My favourite cartoons were TMNT.. Gargoyles, Batman: TAS, Pokemon… Jem (as I mentioned but I didn’t get to watch it v often : ), She-Ra (but I didn’t get to watch it that often either), Captain N, the various Mario Bros cartoons…
Oh and Sailor Moon xD EVERYBODY! Guess which scout was my favourite xD
I’m not super into Minecraft. It’s a cool idea, but call me when they move past beta.