The Bane of Being 'One of the Guys'

[taysteewonderbunny]

Well, fortunately for you the world is in no short supply of men into weapons and video games. If it is complicated with one then you have a line out the door of this kind of twentieth century dullard. Many of them, I'm willing to bet, are single.

I think the appeal for her there (singlehood) would be the lack of drama--she's stated several times (though no one seems to believe her) that she's not looking to hook up with anyone (who isn't a dream demon with incredible animal magnetism).

[Msterbeau]

I was a demon with animal magnetism once... I got exorcised.

[st_masey]

I think the appeal for her there (singlehood) would be the lack of drama--she's stated several times (though no one seems to believe her) that she's not looking to hook up with anyone (who isn't a dream demon with incredible animal magnetism).

Oh yeah, I didn't misunderstand. I only reminded her that they would be single for the sake of lack of drama. She has made it quite clear, and I believe her too, that she is one of those free-spirited-I-don't-want-to-be-tied-down types.

[jynxxxedangel]

If she's that worried about it, then it's her own problem.

P.S. Wipe off your shoe, after walking into that shit.

[e-jewell]

Yeah... it's not too big of an issue usually, I tend to hang out with people who are surrounded by other people both male and female that have similar interests.

I'm glad I don't work with him till Monday.... how awkward. A few days should put it out of mind. I'm mainly just pissed that right in front of me he had to console her. The fact she felt threatened at all made me uncomfortable. I mean I know I'm fucking sexy and amazing, practically a goddess among men, but I didn't know I was that great lol. She has self esteem issues, major ones.

[e-jewell]

I think the appeal for her there (singlehood) would be the lack of drama--she's stated several times (though no one seems to believe her) that she's not looking to hook up with anyone (who isn't a dream demon with incredible animal magnetism).

Also Tastee's quite right. I'm pretty much demonsexual. Completely unattracted to humans. However, it's fun to whip them at games that they think they rock at.

[the eternal]

My advice? Just be honest with her. Tell her up front she doesn't have to worry cause you wouldn't want to date her stoner loser boyfriend anyway, and you're just one of the guys.

Very good advice. Women, and sometimes men, can be terribly insecure beings.

What you're intentions, or even your actions are, are completely irrelevant to what's going on inside her head.

All your thinking is = cool guy to hang with, smoke with and play some games.

All she's seeing is = person of opposite sex who shares interest in the same thing as my man. Maybe he'll be attracted to her, and wishes I was more like this cool friend who was into these guy things like she is.

It may not be about your intentions at all. She may be more concerned about how this guy feels about you, even if her fears are baseless.

For the record, although this would likely never occur, if you or Cher came over to my place,

bean would not be threatened by your presence

Totally understand.. It happened all the time with Me male friends...

Even when I brought Me Rev with Me to hang out with them, she still acted weird about me being around... It's not my fault her husband got along with Me better than her on a friendly level.. I'm just a cool chick like that

That's why you need friends like bean and I where all four of us get along well.

Of course, I get along well with anyone that makes lasagna

[Msterbeau]

Very good advice. Women, and sometimes men, can be terribly insecure beings.

What you're intentions, or even your actions are, are completely irrelevant to what's going on inside her head.

All your thinking is = cool guy to hang with, smoke with and play some games.

All she's seeing is = person of opposite sex who shares interest in the same thing as my man. Maybe he'll be attracted to her, and wishes I was more like this cool friend who was into these guy things like she is.

It may not be about your intentions at all. She may be more concerned about how this guy feels about you, even if her fears are baseless.

For the record, although this would likely never occur, if you or Cher came over to my place,

bean would not be threatened by your presence

That's why you need friends like bean and I where all four of us get along well.

Of course, I get along well with anyone that makes lasagna

I make lasagna. That explains a lot.

[Constantin]

i dont make lasagna i just eat it

[taysteewonderbunny]

Now I want lasagna!

[Msterbeau]

Now I want lasagna!

I'll make some tomorrow if you want to eat with the girls and I.

[taysteewonderbunny]

I'll make some tomorrow if you want to eat with the girls and I.

I would, but I'm horribly, horribly sick! Hopefully I get meds today and will not have to cancel all of my weekend plans, but for now, it's looking like fun is off the table.

[Reaper]

Also Tastee's quite right. I'm pretty much demonsexual. Completely unattracted to humans. However, it's fun to whip them at games that they think they rock at.

I shall whoop that ass with Scorpion or SubZero. You'll get all hawt, and then I will cool you down :D

[e-jewell]

Lol.... please.

I can't even grace that with a threat. The idea of anyone ever using my beloved Scorpion successfully against me is just... too laughable.

[Reaper]

Lol.... please.

I can't even grace that with a threat. The idea of anyone ever using my beloved Scorpion successfully against me is just... too laughable.

Oh but I have been practicing. I even beat the game with him. It was just too easy. Its the simple hits that will annihilate you.

[e-jewell]

Then I fight with no mask, so as to better SEE my victory!!!

[Reaper]

Then I fight with no mask, so as to better SEE my victory!!!

LOL, might wanna keep that mask on. The hostile breath is a killer, literally.

[Destroit]

Guys can be just as whiny and jealous and petty. That's all I have to say.

Oh, right, forgot that there's emo boys running around now, my bad.

[tanuki1985]

e-jewell, I know how you feel. I have six brothers and always considered myself a "tomboy," and I guess some women find that a threat. One time, a good friend of mine was in a terrible relationship with a "woman" who was literally a piece of shit. She never had a job in her life, she can't add 1 and 1, she enjoys being mistreated, she can't take care of herself, and... oh hell, I could say more, but I won't. I'm sure you guys get the picture that she is scum in society. Well, I started hanging out more and more with my friend, and suddenly I was a huge threat because he and I shared similar interests, such as video games. She picked all kinds of fights with him in my honor. Eventually, the cunt moved back to the ghetto and is no longer of any concern to anyone. Hooray.

Bitches like that have some serious low self-esteem issues. They're usually the same ones who need to advertise their relationships, like "Johnny and I r so happy 2getha, oh everyone look at our happy relationship!!!1!!1" Ughh, go get hit by a car or something. If I wanted to be surrounded by awful sappy romance, then I'd go rent a romantic chick flick.

[e-jewell]

Yeah... I'm glad girls are becoming more and more open to perceived 'masculine' activities lately. Or perhaps I'm just finding better friends. Whatever the case.... I must say my peice, members of DGN.

I say to you today, my friends, so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.

I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all creatures can enjoy gaming equally."

I have a dream that one day on the Silent Hills of Playstation 2 and Xbox, the sons of former gamers and the daughters of former sissy women will be able to sit down together at the table of MMORPGs.

I have a dream that one day even the town of Racoon City, a town swarming with zombies, swarming with the heat of more masculine testosterone than feminine estrogen, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.

I have a dream that my as yet unborn children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the shape of their private parts but by the strength of their D&D characters.

I have a dream today.

I have a dream that one day, down in Vice City, with its vicious 'masculinity', with the girlfriends of its players having their lips dripping with the words of "cheater" and "jealousy"; one day right there in Vice City, and in America, little boys and little girls will be able to join hands with men and women as sisters and brothers of the virtual world.

I have a dream today.

I have a dream that one day every new dungeon shall be exalted, every crypt and warzone shall be made low, the rough places will be made bloodier, and the crooked places will be made more difficult, and the glory of the Sith shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together.

This is our hope. This is the faith that I go back to Gamestop with. With this faith we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. With this faith we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our passion for gaming into a beautiful symphony of kinship. With this faith we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to the village healer together, to stand up to the boss together, knowing that we will be victorious one day.

This will be the day when all of Shao Kahn's children will be able to sing with a new meaning, "My Sega Genesis, 'tis of thee, sweet games of liberty, of thee I sing. Game where my brothers died, Game of the sister's pride, from every mountainside, We're all winning."

And if America is to be a great nation this must become true. So let us all win, from the prodigious hilltops of Sonic's zone. Let us all win, from the mighty mountains of Devil May Cry. Let us all win from the Plasma Mountains of Starship Troopers!

Let us all win at the Cursed Mountain of Wii!

Let us all win from the curvaceous slopes of Snocross!

But not only that; let us all win from Spiral Mountain of Banjo Kazooie!

Let us all win from Diablo's Lair!

Let us all win from every hill and molehill of ESPN Winter X-Games. From every mountainside, let us win.

And when this happens, when we allow both men and women, boys and girls to win, when we let both of them win from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of Lord Vader's children, men and women, boys and girls, friends and romantic partners, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Mercenaries 2 spiritual, "Oh no you didn't! Better watch your back boy, keep runnin.

This ain't just a game, I'll never stop coming!"

[Oh_My_Goth]

That's why you need friends like bean and I where all four of us get along well.

Of course, I get along well with anyone that makes lasagna

Oh.. We prepped the lasagna last night

& I think you will be impressed... It is teh sexy lasagna

[Homicidalheathen]

I like being one of the guys.

I get the low down on the ho down. Heh. Get it? HO DOWN!!

[the eternal]

Yeah... I'm glad girls are becoming more and more open to perceived 'masculine' activities lately. Or perhaps I'm just finding better friends. Whatever the case.... I must say my piece, members of DGN.

I say to you today, my friends, so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream...

And when this happens, when we allow both men and women, boys and girls to win, when we let both of them win from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of Lord Vader's children, men and women, boys and girls, friends and romantic partners, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Mercenaries 2 spiritual, "Oh no you didn't! Better watch your back boy, keep runnin.

This ain't just a game, I'll never stop coming!"

Wow!

Although I can't claim to share the same nerdy masculinity as you, I am impressed.

Full sentences. Punctuation. Creativity. None of these belong on the board.

And yet there they are.

Good luck.

One day maybe your name will be listed alongside the greats

Rosa Parks

Martin Luther King

Gloria Steinem

Zelda

e-jewell, the next person could be you

[Destroit]

Yeah... I'm glad girls are becoming more and more open to perceived 'masculine' activities lately. Or perhaps I'm just finding better friends. Whatever the case.... I must say my peice, members of DGN.

I say to you today, my friends, so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.

I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all creatures can enjoy gaming equally."

I have a dream that one day on the Silent Hills of Playstation 2 and Xbox, the sons of former gamers and the daughters of former sissy women will be able to sit down together at the table of MMORPGs.

I have a dream that one day even the town of Racoon City, a town swarming with zombies, swarming with the heat of more masculine testosterone than feminine estrogen, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.

I have a dream that my as yet unborn children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the shape of their private parts but by the strength of their D&D characters.

I have a dream today.

I have a dream that one day, down in Vice City, with its vicious 'masculinity', with the girlfriends of its players having their lips dripping with the words of "cheater" and "jealousy"; one day right there in Vice City, and in America, little boys and little girls will be able to join hands with men and women as sisters and brothers of the virtual world.

I have a dream today.

I have a dream that one day every new dungeon shall be exalted, every crypt and warzone shall be made low, the rough places will be made bloodier, and the crooked places will be made more difficult, and the glory of the Sith shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together.

This is our hope. This is the faith that I go back to Gamestop with. With this faith we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. With this faith we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our passion for gaming into a beautiful symphony of kinship. With this faith we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to the village healer together, to stand up to the boss together, knowing that we will be victorious one day.

This will be the day when all of Shao Kahn's children will be able to sing with a new meaning, "My Sega Genesis, 'tis of thee, sweet games of liberty, of thee I sing. Game where my brothers died, Game of the sister's pride, from every mountainside, We're all winning."

And if America is to be a great nation this must become true. So let us all win, from the prodigious hilltops of Sonic's zone. Let us all win, from the mighty mountains of Devil May Cry. Let us all win from the Plasma Mountains of Starship Troopers!

Let us all win at the Cursed Mountain of Wii!

Let us all win from the curvaceous slopes of Snocross!

But not only that; let us all win from Spiral Mountain of Banjo Kazooie!

Let us all win from Diablo's Lair!

Let us all win from every hill and molehill of ESPN Winter X-Games. From every mountainside, let us win.

And when this happens, when we allow both men and women, boys and girls to win, when we let both of them win from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of Lord Vader's children, men and women, boys and girls, friends and romantic partners, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Mercenaries 2 spiritual, "Oh no you didn't! Better watch your back boy, keep runnin.

This ain't just a game, I'll never stop coming!"

I'd say that this moved me to the point of tears, but manly girls do not cry .

[e-jewell]

Lol the best part about that? Look up the Martin Luther King speech. It synchs up pretty much exactly, I simply copypasted and edited for superior content.

I could probably have written my own speech... but poking fun at something so exalted is so much funnier. RIP, Monsieur King. I respect what you've done for my African American brothers and sisters, but now is the time for ALL sisters, of EVERY race and creed, to take their place at the table of video game equality!

I'd like us now to join hands and sing together, for another old gaming spiritual, "Go Down, Goro."