[quote who="Rhelamos" reply="20" id="2313345"] Quoting Scoutdog, reply 19 How about this. When I am no longer expected to be one of the people that die so that women and children can escape from a sinking ship or burning building, then I'll go ahead and say that things are starting to equalize. They don't save people depending on gender/age anymore. I'm waiting..... I'm not talking about people being s
[quote who="Kitkun" reply="11" id="2312937"] Quoting Wintersong, reply 5 The world needs exactly 0 feminists. Exactly the same amount than needed chauvinistics (I think thats the proper word, sorry if it isn't, just think the opposite of feminism). Where is equalitarism when you need it?Yesh. [/quote] I don't know what sort of definition you are using for feminism, but you might want to find another on
[quote who="SoFFacet" reply="2" id="2312368"] I hope this clears things up. [/quote] Yep, I got a better picture though I must say, when I was younger, and some 40 old pervert tried to get dirty with me on Neverwinter Nights, this is not the Bioware game but the one that was free for AOL members back when you paid by the hour for internet, I guess I could have decided then that all guys who play games are perverts and therefore demand no one ever tell me their age or
In regards to how I address people online in games, I simply use their handle/sn/toon name until asked to do otherwise. I don't think there is a right or wrong way to address someone. If they call me he, I simply correct them. It's not a big deal, but it is a concern if men are still working with this illusion that everyone they play with SHOULD be a guy. Now, this idea that there are more men/boys are playing games then women... completely false. In the 25-34 age group, there are mor
Sexism and gaming isn't funny to me. Even if you overlooked that fact that terms like catfight, pics of people's definition of hot chicks showing up on the internet, degrading remarks about teenage girls, an attempt by one member to find my age so he could dismiss me based on that alone, treating the degradation of women in general as just one giant joke all showed up in this thread alone, it doesnt' change the fact that after gaming for 20+ years, this shit gets tiresome. It really does.
I just think its really easy to tell someone not to let a part of themselves be known when as a guy, a lot of people, not all, already make the correct assumption about you. And since no one really defined what it means to go "out of their way" to tell someone they are a woman, when they are in fact a woman, then it seems any mention of it would not be okay. If someone refers to me as a "he" and i simply say something like actually I am a she, I just I went out of my way to co
[quote who="Kitkun" reply="11" id="2301443"] Honestly I can't stand girls/women who go out of their way to make it known they are female when playing games online. They are almost as bad as the guys who go crazy over them as if the game is for picking up a date. [/quote] <span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-se
[quote who="Scoutdog" reply="4" id="2310750"]Well, one of the best ways to counteract sexism (or any -ism, for that matter) is to stop making a big deal out of whatever trait you are atttempting to equalize. You want to make gaming an equal-opportunity passtime? Then stop treating female gamers like some sort of anomaly. [/quote] I never said they should be treated that way. I just this its absurd that women shouldn't be allowed to tell other people they are a women. Hell, most t
[quote who="Rhelamos" reply="21" id="2310062"] *sigh* angsty, aren't we? Girl, boy.... who cares. Most of us are human and that's all that matters. You have to expect some odd reactions to a "hobby", if you will, with a male majority that perceives a female among them. It's not even a case of "boys strutting their stuff" so much as it is curiosity that a rather out-of-the-ordin
I don't know why you think French law would apply in the USA, or Canada or whever else you "purchase" your software. Ubisoft distributes in the USA. and it has to comply with USA laws while doing so. It doesn't matter that their based in France, they have some sort of legal entity in the USA. You think Microsoft doesn't have to comply with the EU because they are not based in the EU. If that is the case, why are they even bothering with EU anti-trust rulings. It
[quote who="dmantione" reply="9" id="2308076"] Still, the game has been sold and Ubisoft has no right whatsoever to deny the customer access to his own property. [/quote] This whole digital license thing is still being worked out. I am sure in a few decades it will get figured out properly, but in the mean time what happened to Kindle users is just the beginning of what can happen when your software has to phone home and get permission to do something. I mean for the Kindle,
Yeah really, who was this ISP. I am guessing its not one of the bigger monopoly type companies, maybe a local ISP?
[quote who="rpstitz" reply="13" id="2305360"]I think that Microsoft should offer a special license for home network users. The price should be around $200 and that should include a license to install on all of the computers in the user's personal household, up to 3. The computers should have to be networked together on a home network (for Microsoft to be assured that the computers are in the same household, and also to enable extra home network perks that Microsoft should include
[quote who="Zyxpsilon" reply="4" id="2303377"]Almost pornpics, lipsticks, tattooes... getting outa of hands, are we? To think that all it took was the word "Girls" to open the usual pandora box of subtle junkies, it's not so far fetched some would even try calling anybody pedophiles or perverts. Lemme give you a trick; 2008 years old membership is a copout. [/quote] It's the default nice to know you "care.". I could care less about profiles. I
[quote who="JagerJack" reply="13" id="2301919"] Quoting Nesrie, reply 12 OMG. No. Someone actually shared some perosnal information with you. Say it isn't so. What is the world coming to when someone shares information that shatters this ego of men who think they own everything on the planet, including the internet and all games. I can't stand men who can't handle the fact that they share the planet with the opposite sex. It's not that we can't han
[quote who="Miyamiya" reply="12" id="2301454"]Honestly I can't stand girls/women who go out of their way to make it known they are female when playing games online. They are almost as bad as the guys who go crazy over them as if the game is for picking up a date. [/quote] OMG. No. Someone actually shared some perosnal information with you. Say it isn't so. What is the world coming to when someone shares information that shatters this ego of men who think
[quote who="darksaber1" reply="7" id="2294415"]I say reasonable because I never liked his music, but I know people do, and when the Media is focused much more on the Michel Jackson's death (despite the media ignoring him for sometime, and one of his latest concerts tours being cancelled due to low ticket sales. I also noted how many people that had nearly been calling for every thing short of his head on a stake were suddenly saying he was one of the greatest people on earth.)
If guys get nipples, it's past time you give us women something in return, and nipples aren't even close.
[quote who="darksaber1" reply="4" id="2293375"]When the death of a resonable talented musician and dancer who has been ignored by most of the world for several years is considered more important that political uprisings in two countries, and another country testing the bounds of Global tolerance, it is time to panic. Oh, wait...time to start building the Escape Pod to Mars, I guess. [/quote] Recheck your history lessons. Music and art of all forms have been important during many
Yes but the online activation... that's the part that gets me. Here is an examppe from the consumerist. After an iBook-death forced her to migrate to another computer, Lisa found that she couldn't activate her legally-purchased copy of Macromedia StudioMX 2004. Adobe insisted that the software
Get the Complete Edition, it's DRM Free and a great value. Or go with Steams 2k Huge Pack which also looks great http://store.steampowered.com/sub/1764/ (I already have most those games so not a deal for me). But seriously, if you hate steam, just pick it up the complete at amazon or something. I purchased Civ IV the week it came out and did the same with all the expansion packs. I am still playing the game with friends o
[quote who="Primal Zed" reply="25" id="2289449"]If you don't like it, don't buy it. You don't get cool points for bashing on them on the internet. You don't get a check in the mail from Apple. I've only ever had XP trouble before the first Service Pack, never had Vista trouble, though I admit Vista was very poor at launch because of lack of third party support and got plenty of things wrong. I'm not trying to defend Microsoft, I just get tired of all the "hate mic
[quote who="MetaNerd3ooo" reply="22" id="2288715"]Yeah, but that's EA. They're dicks. [/quote] Yeah, but they didn't start that way.
[quote who="DrJBHL" reply="8" id="2287326"] I'm not sure if a clean install will be possible from the upgrade disks It won't. [/quote] Yes it is. It's required for XP users to upgrade with a clean install. Where are you getting your information?
It would be nice if we had a sale on the retail versions. All I hear about is about how great the prices are... on upgrades. 100 dollars for retail seems fine to me for a full version, upgrades should say at around 50 and then go up for various versions. I still think the different versions can be a little difficult to understand which is "best". I game. I don't need half the extra features that come with Pro, certainly not interested in ultimate but the ram limit... I mean I don't know
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