APRILSCHILD'S PROFILE

author=Feldschlacht IV link=topic=2473.msg56168#msg56168 date=1231965524

author=aprilschild link=topic=2473.msg56152#msg56152 date=1231962313

author=VerifyedRasta link=topic=2473.msg56113#msg56113 date=1231945886

author=G-Flex link=topic=2473.msg56097#msg56097 date=1231924623
... I'm kind of trying to figure out what being bisexual has to do with any of that.

Just wanted to throw that in there since It's kind of weird, meaning weird, slutty girls are attracted to me.

Is bisexuality supposed to be weird or slutty? >:(

Depends on where he lives, cultural norms aren't the same everywhere, and we can't expect them to be. Doesn't he live in the Cayman Islands?

I guess thats true. *Grumble grumble.* :)

author=Feldschlacht IV link=topic=2884.msg56075#msg56075 date=1231912331
Note to self; never use the word 'pride' again because that word alone has made almost half the people in this topic completely misinterpret me.

I understand what you mean, I think (correct me if I am wrong):

Pride, in this instance, means having respect for oneself and others around you in the same community. Often used by teachers about schoolchildren on field trips, this sort of entails acting like civilized human beings and treating others as such. To have this kind of pride in oneself means more along the lines of being helpful to others in a community, and behaving with (the key word here) decorum.

Having decorum is different than saying OMG I AM TEH BEST AND SO R U GUYZ. It means helping others when someone needs a boost, playing and reviewing others' games because it would be helpful to them, and so on. To take this kind of pride in ones' community is often what leads to neighborhoods and clubs doing charity/volunteer work, etc.

To be proud of a community in this way is to have something to be proud of - a group of people who will go beyond whatever ties them together to treat others inside and outside their community in a way that one would be proud of.

I think RMN has the makings of this, though every internet community has something of a handicap in this area, being that the internet is often the most disrespectful place ever. Also, people might think (and have said) "we're just some guys (gender nonspecific) who make and play amateur games... why should we take it so damn seriously?"

To this I say, the LARP I run takes care to give to charity every winter, to treat non-LARPers with respect and make sure to act like normal people, to be sociable and interesting people outside of our hobby. Our hobby does not define us, we know it is only a game, and definitely not the be-all-end-all of everything. But I am proud of our group because we have decorum when others don't, and because we ARE more than what ties us together.

Being game-makers (and reviewers) is just a part of who you are, and being a part of an internet community is just another part of a larger whole. To take pride in these things is to be glad to know others like you, and to move beyond any negative stereotypes/behaviors as a community dedicated to growth and friendship through a specific hobby. There are a lot of ways that RMN does this.

If I'm reading too much into the topic though, please forgive me : )

author=Akane link=topic=2873.msg55487#msg55487 date=1231745125
The first Final Fantasy I played...was Mystic Quest. Haha.

ME TOO <3. Which makes sense because we're both girls of around the same age.

I grew up on lame-o games that I still love - Intellevision. Yeah. Now I have both Intellevision Lives! and an Intellevision emulator controller.

Also I played (or failed to play) Loony Tunes for Gameboy on several occasions.

And then I played a lot of Sonic.

author=Feldschlacht IV link=topic=2864.msg55602#msg55602 date=1231792949

author=Mitsuhide_The_Vagrant link=topic=2864.msg55557#msg55557 date=1231779071
I like almost any kind of music except for rap or country

This is like, almost every white persons opinion on music I've ever heard.

Not me! I LIKE country. :P

author=kentona link=topic=2840.msg55634#msg55634 date=1231796503
Those of you dissing Twilight wished you could have pulled something like that off. I know I do.

No way... mostly I'm just sore because so many better novelists get overlooked and this trashy crap is what's selling. Just to name a few much better novels in the teen fantasy genre: Basically anything by Tamora Pierce, anything by Ursula K. LeGuin, the Abhorson Trilogy by Garth Nix. Especially in the case of the Pierce novels, these amazing works have an intelligent, independent, strong, badass female character that girls can look up to, as opposed to the wishy-washy, subservient joke that is Bella Swan.

Twilight teaches girls that it's awesome when creepy older men watch you as you slumber, and that the best girls are those who do exactly what their men say. While I have no problems with a consensual BDSM lifestyle, I don't think that's what Stephenie Meyer is propagating here...