LadyCrimson

Intel is the only thing we buy. Money is no object. Harhar. More seriously...hubby prefers Intel for more practical reasons than 'this one beats that one' thing. I don't remember his reasons tho...I never do. In one ear out the other...

Hehe, I've never been a PK'r type either. Co-op all the way for me. Oh hell I don't even duel. I'm such a wimp.

Given your general position on hack n slash etc. I'm wondering why you played the 2nd one at all, let alone bought it (assuming you did buy it).

CoF as a mod would be like having Freddy in your dreams. :D Fare thee well Shadowstrider, didn't know ya well but you seemed cool.

You made ninja kitty cry.

Now those I do like quite a bit. I also like the Vietnamese clear dipping fish sauce, too. I should clarify, that some shellfish is ok as long as it's minced up and mixed in so I can't really tell it's there or other flavors are dominant...hahah My mom makes a great crab souffle casserole type dish, for example.

No majesty ? I was doing non-pc games, you big galoot.

Shellfish = slimy, smelly, rubbery & just plain funky

Reistance to spam is futile on this board. :D

Foods I like: kimchee, Korean BBQ Mongolian beef, Chinese dry sauteed string beans beef jerky good pizza (this doesn't include $7 Pizza Smut or Barfomino's) BB pork chow mein, clear-broth won-ton soup w/no floating vegies The Outback (steakhouse type of restraunt) a big hearty casear chicken salad I make myself strawberries teriyaki soft tacos (the ones that are all meat, onion, and hot sauce...) jalepeno's, garlic, and chocolate -they should be their own seperate food groups Foods I can't stand: Almost all shellfish, incl. shrimp, crab, oysters, lobster coconut in anything at all peanuts in anything but candybars (or raw peanuts out of the hand are ok) curry/lentils

What is your computer now? If you can get it cheap enough for your liking, I think a 3ghz will still last a little while, unless you're a equipment freak. And I think what Gorth means is that your video card, system RAM, etc. are a little more important to gaming performance than a bit of CPU ghz.

RISK Scrabble crossword puzzles

I'm not sure what age has to do with it, I just had old-fashioned, rather prim parents (they were both born in the early/mid 30's if that's interesting to you at all), even for the period of time I grew up in (70's/early 80's). They didn't think TV in general was good for a child's mind/development, and how many hours of TV I could watch a day + content type was strictly regulated even into my teens. They objected to Popeye for the violence but also more for the demeaning stereotypes it often presented (in their eyes). And I'm 37.

I also put it on Atton, since he's a scrawny guy who could use all the CON help he could get. There weren't too many items that went into that slot so I figured I may as well use it. I didn't need 2 Echani shields worn at a time.

That was almost profound. Plus I pretty much agree with it.

I must have missed the first one. What's the debate supposed to be here? I doubt a law like that is going to affect the average person very much - only those that would try to sue for stubbing their toe on the entry-way of a store. If you're interested in ethics....well I don't see anything that raises any personal alarm flags from that website.

They deemed it too gratuitously violent for my tender self, up to about the age of 13.

I just had to interrupt to mention that struggling to give 10 cats a bath all in one day burns a whole lot of calories...not to mention endows one with lots of beautiful scratch-scars. With my dwindling cat population has come a decline in physical activity. Maybe I should get a dog.

I remember Pong...I just never actually played it. My parents restricted my access to a lot of things. I wasn't even allowed to watch Popeye and all my friends had the cool toys when I didn't. <_< Even the Atari was bought because it was originally thought it might help my father maintain his hand co-ordination for longer.

For some people, that's actually true. My husband likes games, but won't play them very often because they're too time-consuming/distracting, and he has an addictive/obsessive personality. If he really got into games, he'd probably live in a battered trailer and have to join Gaming Annoymous, so he doesn't play much. Only to please me once in a while, mostly. :D

Heh...my parents never actually owned any of those old computers, so I missed out on those early text-based PC ones, tho I know the references from friends. But the parents did buy an Atari 2600 - Combat, Break-out etc. - for me electronic gaming was always a graphical thing. Unlike many of the regulars on this forum, while I like a good story/characters, that's not my main focus - I'm really more into the...um...mechanical tinkering - item vs situation number crunching, how many different paths I can use to achieve the same end result, can I beat a scenario using only beetles and no dragons, can you mix blue potions with red potions. :D If a story/characters comes with the tinkering, all the better...but without the tinkering aspect it's boring to me. Probably one reason I don't like FPS that much - almost no tinkering at all. You'd think I'd like RTS strategy games more, but I don't...they're generally not open-ended enough to satisfy me, with their levels and structured "Defeat the guy across the water using your peasants" objectives. All the cRPG's I've liked were largely because of the tinker value...hours spent seeing if I could beat M&M7 while never leveling up my characters (just the skill points from shrines and stuff) or figuring out the alchemy potion formulas without looking them up, that sort of thing. This might be because I remember when there wasn't a walkthrough on the internet/shelves practically before the game hit the stores...you were stuck trying to figure things out on your own for a few months, and if you couldn't, you couldn't progress. lol What I'd really like to see is a combination of crpg/environment and sim-like strategy flexibility, but I've reached the conclusion that the computer gaming industry has hit an environment/flexibility plateau that it cannot yet cross over, maybe because the tech isn't quite there yet, or something.

Your dad was probably a bit older when he played with those, but I remember those kind of computers. My parents didn't have any themselves, but friends and schools did. My husband took a lot of those ones from the late 70's/early 80's apart when he was a young teen - it's what got him interested in electronics/computers. Computers - you've come a long way, baby.

I'm idly curious how long you've been playing computer games, since I've been feeling much the same way. I think for me it's the fact that all the games seem the same...not just now, but for a long time. All FPS are like still basically like Doom, only fancier, cRPG's haven't really changed at all for years, they just get prettier, and for action-RPG's, they're all like Diablo. Been there, done that. There's only so many times I can play essentially the same game, even if it's disguised in a shiny new wrapping of creatures, land design, 3D, weird skill names and story. Sadly, for me, I think games and repetitive environments/scenarios etc. aren't as durable at keeping your interest over many years, unlike, say, books, where your own imagination for the visuals helps overcome the fact that there's only so many plots in the world. Edit: To be not so totally off-topic...I think that the above contributes to my not minding shorter games...since it always feels like I've been there before, I don't mind the journey being a bit shorter. Perhaps 10 years ago I would have felt a bit more "cheated" by a short game. I dunno.

Women definitely get mixed messages in this regard - if you think about it, it hasn't been all that long since women came out of the kitchen en masse, to use a crude cliche. One of our male friends had a firm belief that his wife should go out and make money...and yet he also wanted her to keep the perfect house, do all the cleaning, have a meal cooked for him when he got home from work, etc. If she did not, and he was 'forced' to have to nuke something or eat out, then she was 'lazy', even tho she was out working as many hours as he did. I used to take him to task on that one a lot. Really PO'd me off...him thinking that his sitting on the couch drinking beer all night after work wasn't lazy cause it was "his due/reward for working hard all day" but it was lazy for his working wife. Double-standard crap. As to the original topic - I'm against mandatory percentage laws in this case, largely because I think it likely breed resentment which could in the long run harm the "cause." As the older generations die and the newer ones take over the power reins, I think things will slowly evolve...just takes time for attitudes and social mores to adjust. Nothing changes over-night. Yeah, there's more that could be done to further the education/attitude changes, but I just dont' think mandatory is the right path. The equal salary thing - it's absurd when/if a woman (or anyone) is paid less for the same job. And don't give paid maternity leave as an excuse...that's just lame.

Jogging in general is bad for the knees. Gogo power-walking.