Oh sure, (I apologize profusely for the following cliche) rain on my parade, why don't you?
Hey, I wonder how those, uh, watchamacallits... The 10 layer Discs with a 1gig throughput are going... Constellation 3D? Something like that. Now, if they got those into harddrive production (if it's possible, I doubt it)... Which reminds me, I need to go buy some of their stock.
I can see it now. They're going to get our hopes up like this, we're all going to buy, buy, buy, while they sit, greedy eyes staring into nothingness... "Sure, it's 15k RPM, but we never said it was ultra-ata 66" (evil laughter) Them major corporations are tricky. -herd
This is a huge leap of faith here, but I would make an assumption that most men who play female characters in a role-playing environment aren't doing it for the sole reason that they can shave their legs, but for the experience.
Truthfully, it can give insights into how the gender roles work in real life. Not that any of us have social lives, but that's not the point... The point is, it can assist you in learning how to interact more effectively with people of opposite genders. Being hit on, though it does happen more commonly for female characters, doesn't affect things that much; if anything, it's true to life, and true to RP.
I've played a few female characters, and they are a fun alternative to the "battle-worn warrior orphan". You can do a 'who' on any MUD and see about five of those... Females have more variety, as -- I believe -- there is no stereotyped role for them on MUDs or other role-playing games.
The only problem is, I imagine MUDSex could get a bit strange...
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Oh sure, (I apologize profusely for the following cliche) rain on my parade, why don't you?
Hey, I wonder how those, uh, watchamacallits... The 10 layer Discs with a 1gig throughput are going... Constellation 3D? Something like that. Now, if they got those into harddrive production (if it's possible, I doubt it)... Which reminds me, I need to go buy some of their stock.
I can see it now. They're going to get our hopes up like this, we're all going to buy, buy, buy, while they sit, greedy eyes staring into nothingness... "Sure, it's 15k RPM, but we never said it was ultra-ata 66" (evil laughter) Them major corporations are tricky. -herd
This is a huge leap of faith here, but I would make an assumption that most men who play female characters in a role-playing environment aren't doing it for the sole reason that they can shave their legs, but for the experience.
Truthfully, it can give insights into how the gender roles work in real life. Not that any of us have social lives, but that's not the point... The point is, it can assist you in learning how to interact more effectively with people of opposite genders. Being hit on, though it does happen more commonly for female characters, doesn't affect things that much; if anything, it's true to life, and true to RP.
I've played a few female characters, and they are a fun alternative to the "battle-worn warrior orphan". You can do a 'who' on any MUD and see about five of those... Females have more variety, as -- I believe -- there is no stereotyped role for them on MUDs or other role-playing games.
The only problem is, I imagine MUDSex could get a bit strange...
-herd
On my browser, at least, the image of the test rig was not there. Not that this is truly important or anything, but the image appears to be at:
http://www.pcstats.com/articleima ges/test_rig.jpg
-herd
Thank you sir, may I have another?