APRILSCHILD'S PROFILE

RO is good and free.

YDS what have you done?

Now I can't stop reading Head Trip :'(.

Not Video Games: Being a veteran Harry Potter Fangirl, I'd have to say we were among the worst. Luckily for everyone, the series ended, leaving most of us all-grown-up and completely over it (mostly in thanks to that godawful epilogue).

Twilight has the worst novel fanbase other than Scientologists. Man, some people take sci-fi way too far...

Video Games: WoW fans can really grate on my nerves, especially since many of them never have/will play another game ever in their lives. Also, I was a MMO junkie (Evercrack, RO, and FFXI) and so it irks me when others fall into the trap.

I also have a difficult time around a friend of mine who wants to put it in Samus from Metroid, but... that could just be him :P.

The BEST fans of any video game franchise ever are MARIO fans. I haven't met a single Super Mario Bros. fan who I didn't like.

author=Akane link=topic=2473.msg54434#msg54434 date=1231351757
I've been in several relationships, which I did not take seriously...the mentality of the men that dated me were along the lines of : "Hey, you're a chick that likes video games. I like video games. Let's date."

Those don't last long. Some incredibly attractive woman will cross our path and I am left alone with my video games and internet.

The one relationship I took seriously lasted almost four years. We were supposed to get married last year--However, he fell for a coworker and left me. Must be for the best. He worked at GameStop, so he hooked up with a humorous, well liked, pretty FPS fan girl.

I was bitter about it, but I moved on because he was happy.

Man that sucks >< Kudos to you, though, for taking the high road! I've left someone for someone else before, and I always felt really dick about it... I don't know if I'm a good enough person to get over it if it happened to me.

There's a lie they always tell you (us). It's that geek boys will make better boyfriends because they will appreciate you for your scarcity as a geek girl and never ever leave you. This is false because a) it implies that geek boys are ugly chodes who can't get girlfriends and b) it implies that hot girls are rarely geeks.

You are definitely pretty enough (from your pics) to be hot in any circle. I'd like to say I am as well. In fact, the great majority of geek girls I know are pretty foxy. Also, just because a boy is a geek doesn't mean he won't be as physically good-looking, fickle or shallow (or not!) as any other boy. You can't say someone is superior or inferior based on what they do in their spare time (unless that thing is killing kittens). That is something defined by their personality, not their hobbies.

But there is such a stereotype placed on and within geek culture - and that is that geek boys are nicer/smarter/more charming/more loyal boyfriends and hot geek girls are rare and elusive and COMPLETELY AND UTTERLY ALWAYS COMPATIBLE with geek boys. I think we try really hard to live up to that, but sometimes, like you said, just because two people both like video games doesn't mean they're mfeo.

I hope you find a boy who truly deserves you. You're clearly a stand-up person, just by your ability to forgive. Don't give your beauty (outer and inner) away to just anyone - make them earn it. : D

Stephen Colbert = Actual Geek. Actual Hottie.

However, in this day and age, I find it very difficult to buy someone being "a geek" just because they play WoW. That game is so mainstream it attracts the kind of girls who shoved my head in toilets when I was a young one. Geeky? I think not. That game breaks the bounds of geek vs. nongeek.

Now, find me another girl who plays M:TG, an RPG that ISN'T Final Fantasy, or any tabletop game, and I will high five her because she is actually a geek. We're out there.

Like that producer of the Sims. Daymn.

author=Feldschlacht IV link=topic=389.msg53693#msg53693 date=1230949306
While in no way the parents deserved to get shot, and of course the kid deserves the full extent of the law, the parents probably should have gave the kid a lot more liberties?

My assumption here is that he wasn't allowed to play violent video games because he was already A CRAZY PERSON.

I don't know... I'd think that this kid probably already was a problem child/displayed violent tendencies. I hope that shooting one's parents over a video game doesn't just come out of a perfectly sane and healthy child.

And yeah, to be honest, I wouldn't want to give a crazy person who would shoot his parents a violent video game. Video games are awesome for most people, especially violent ones... but if this kid was already delusional, I don't think Halo 3 would have helped.