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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I uploaded the pix I took at Pride btw! 😀 And the pix I took of Spear and Kristin.. xD We couldn’t find somebody to take our pic so we were forced to do that HS thing of holding the cam up xD I HATE how I look -_-;; But for the sake of the other 2, I’ve included it XD
For Ami: a My Little Pony generator! (I’m still trying to figure out what color mine should be.)
I don’t think the problem is that gaming has become more mainstream, but more like the problem is that it has become insuluar and bland due to developers using a scorched earth tactics with their products (I.E.: Making yearly sequel installments and making people pay for content that SHOULD ALREADY BE ON THE DISK). Plus, gaming was VERY mainstream during the days of Pac Man, Street Fighter II, the NES etc..
Yeah that’s actually I complaint I’ve had a lot xD That it’s become more insular and the audience has become more and more narrow and we have these ideas of what “gamer” means and who “gamers” are xD
Also the whole “same game w/ an update” thing is SO true of sports games esp xD I always joke that in the future they’ll find out civilization buried under piles and piles of EA Sports and 2K games xD They haven’t changed the NBA 2K engine in 10 years! xD It’s the SAME ENGINE that I used in 2K1 just w/ better graphics xD
Skies is an amazingly fun game xD And after all the many many many FF games I’m SO GLAD to have a non emo male char (who is positive and actually *gasp* heroic!) xD Plus all 3 main chars like each other, there’s the amazingly cute Aika and Fina in bed together scene and that at the end… *gasp* no love triangle dramuh! XD
Also you get to take all your friends w/ you in the game and that makes somebody like me v happy :3
Ion: Ah yes, pointing out what the other person did in an attempt to make yourself look superior. Keep trying, maybe someday someone will pay attention to you.
Are you trying to tell us you weren’t attempting to make a comparative statement which was meant to make yourself look superior?
@Simone: I was careful with how I bleached my hair (I did it myself) and I conditioned it a ton, and I maintained my nice, soft texture. (Seriously, I have the softest hair EVAR.) I think that you would probably be ok bleaching out the whole thing, especially with your hair so short. But I think everyone’s hair is different. For instance, I *hate* Manic Panic. The colors always look awful on me, and never stay in my hair for very long. But some people love the stuff!
I always just use Clariol dyes and mix them together to get the colors I want. So the precise shade is always kind of a crap shoot. I’m not sure it’s something that’ll work very well for most people, though.
I am going to second purple, for you. What color should I dye my hair, next? It is naturally a sandy-blond, and I’m really pale, with warm undertones in my skin, and I work in retail now, so I can’t get too crazy. I am leaning toward a really bright orange/red, that’s almost unnatural, but not quite. Or I could go black. Black hair looks very striking on me, because I’m so pale.
@Kirby: Muwhahaha! That was my plan all along! Also, Minecraft is hard!
We should exchange screen-names are something so we can talk about Ponies and Minecraft.
@Spear: I think Pinkie Pie is my favorite, too! She hops everywhere! It’s adorable. But I also really like Rainbow dash! It’s so hard to chose.
When I was a little kid all I watched was Sesame Street, Bill Nye the Science Guy and Wishbone, because my partners were really particular about what they let me watch. And then we I got a little older I absolutely fell in love with Pokemon! And affair which I have continued to this day. =3
I also loved the Land Before Time.
In terms of videogames, I mostly just like rpgs, like Zelda and Pokemon and Harvest Moon, and WoW. And Pokemon.
I love how we can figure out everyone’s age by the cartoons they watched as a kid. XD
I am very young.
NWO: What she said is pretty bad. There are aspects of it which are vile.
Question to you (and to Ion): How is this an issue of feminism? What about her behavior requires feminists to make a specific point of denouncing it?
“I’m not super into Minecraft. It’s a cool idea, but call me when they move past beta.”
Oh–My–God, MRAL used the term “beta” in a way that actually made sense. The therapy must be working!
Well sports games are sports games, the sky is blue, and EA is a soulless corporation that worships the almighty dollar. You’ve got to do some more research these days, that’s definitely true, but there are just as many gems as before. They’re just buried under more shit.
Hello, long time reader….poster, but like games talk, especially since so many here seem to have the same taste in games as myself.
On FF or RPGs: I always felt something got lost when you couldn’t rename your characters. Once you were stuck with whatever name they gave you, my imaginary world and backstory for the characters went kaput…as did my interest in RPGs. There was something about being able to craft an off the screen backstory that I loved, especially in the old “gold box TSR D&D games” or the Heroquest games. I played the crap out of Dragon Age: Origins for that reason too.
Also, I got sucked into the Bioshock series, which are the only FPS games I really played for my own enjoyment (as opposed to multiplayer stuff).
If I had a nickel for every time I heard the phrase “Hey, No Odd-Job!” from Goldenye…well, 100 bucks, easy.
@MizDarwin XD <3
@havebookswilltravel yeah Oddjob was banned when we played xD We had a lot of rules for games we used to keep things balanced xD
ohmygawd, Molly! I *love* the Pony Generator! It’s amazing! =D
And you three look really cute at Pride! I love the suit, Spear. It’s very dashing!
And there is the mainstream aspect that comes with the emerging industry. I remember I used to be insecure about playing video games because, hell only 6 or 7 years ago it was something betas and omegas did. But these days everyone below. Hell being awesome at Halo or CoD multiplayer is can even ADD social status!
Damn it. I wrote partners and meant parents. *sigh*
@Sarah: orange hair sounds amazing. Orange is on the short list of colors I simply cannot pull off except in very small amounts, so I am rather jealous. XD
Black is also a lovely color, but I’m not quite feeling it…maybe because it’s sweltering where I am, and my dark hair is just soooo hot on my neck. >.<
In light of everyone's suggestions, my current plan is something like this…
(1) Bleach my bangs and a strip of hair on each side of my face, leave the rest natural.
(2) Dye everything with Special Effects deep purple, creating a two-toned effect.
(3) Profit! (Or should I say, $MONEY$??)
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Thanks to Molly Ren:
Ami Pony! 😀
@Simone Lovelace omg xD That sounds awesome! 😀 Gotta take pix when you do it 😀
I like FPS as a LAN based game with friends. As RPGs they piss me off. Some of them are ok on servers, but a lot of that is hinged on the way the systems communicate.
I also suspect my time in the Army has somewhat colored my outlook on them.
@Sarah I assumed you meant your parents but wondered if “partners” was some new way of referring to your parents 😀 that would be pretty forward-thinking! :3 Partner-Guardians!
MRAL, you rly should start a blog :3 you have a lot of opinions on things and I think it would be interesting to read those fleshed out as posts :]
Yeah, have you guys noticed so many FPS games picking up RPG elements? It gets annoying most of the time (though I haven’t tried Borderlands).
Thanks, Ami. Pics will be forthcoming. 🙂
And I meant to include this link…it’s the color I plan to use.
http://www.amphigory.com/se_deep_purple.html
This accomplishes everything I really want in a game: to eat everything and blow shit up.
@Sarah yeah, Spear is awesome :3 You can’t see it there but I was in a yellow tube top and short short jeans xD And me and Spear were prolly a pair that stood out when we were walking thru the Village xD But his suit is rly awesome and I thought he looked very awesome 😀
Video games were always kinda mainstream in my exp… xD The cool kids played them too, and being good at them (at least fighting games, nething competitive, FPSes, etc) can be impressive :3 Maybe it’s just cuz I live in awesome Ami land xD
Okay, THAT purple is AMAZING *_*
now I want to do my hair in purple too! *_*