My son (now 18) was a bright and happy student. Until a first year teacher attempted to teach cursive writing in 2nd grade. It made him feel like a "bad" student and he never recovered. We still hope he'll graduate, either 2010 or 11, but years of thinking of himself as a bad student has really taken a toll. His standardized tests scores show he's more than competent. But his handwriting is so bad, he just stopped turning in homework.
and its biologically incorrect. A mother's milk lets down when her baby cries because evolution has designed the human parenting system to work that way. Baby cries, mother feeds and comforts.
However, it is often convenient to the parent to let a baby cry. I'm sure we all know how much Americans dislike being interrupted from their pursuit of the American Dream (and watching American Idol, of course!)
But, what the hell would I know. I'm only the mother of 5 kids, 4 months to 15 years.
I have no mod points, so I'll just say: yep yep My former husband was in law enforcement. I've socialized with cops, deputies, and probation officers. I can't say that I miss a single one since my divorce. One that I knew used to get high with a certain friend. After he became a police officer, he set that friend up for a drug sting. Nice folks eh? I actually could go on and on with the stories. But I won't.
Yes, the love ms blaster hotfix provided by MS broke my network laser printing system. That was fun. First patch 200 systems, then have to fix network printing on them all..
My case is just the boring beige box. I liked his mod and apparently am one of the few people who have no trouble with green, in fact, I even like green. Green to me means living plants. Guess some of you are a bit to used to concrete to feel comfortable with green.
Have fun! I planned the entire trip and spent over a year beforehand expecting to hate it. "I'm doing this for the kids, I just want them to have fun," and ended up loving it. I'm no fan of megacorporate Disney, but Disneyworld sure provides something people want.. entertainment and escape from the real world.
I just spent a week at Disneyworld and we saw a few Disney employees utilizing these in the parks. I remember thinking at the time, "What a great idea!" Of course, my feet hurt the whole week I was there, so employees using wheelchairs with souped up motors might've seemed like a great idea.
I think there are many places these things could be very useful. I commute 50 minutes on 4 lane highway to work, so they wouldn't work for me, but at Disney I thought it was brilliant.
Agreed, this game is horrible. I've been happily playing the Sims, on and off, ever since it came out. Since then, I played first EQ, then Dark Age of Camelot. So when I got the beta invite to Sims Online i thought, "Cool!"
How wrong I was. Its a moronic game. Other pay online games give you something to DO, that's say.. challenging, while you talk and get to know people. Killing monsters:). In Sims you... uh... make pizzas. Whatever.
This may draw some NEW people to the pay online games, but I really can't see it drawing any of current crop of pay for online gamers.
I hate spam, yes I do. But you know what I hate more than spammers? The complete and total idiotic morons that BUY something from spam that turns up in your mail box.
If no one EVER bought as a result of this "marketing technique" they'd stop using it!
And if anyone is reading that has bought a penis enlarger, damn you are a loser.
I always wonder when I get those emails.. should I forward them to my husband? It be pretty hard for me to grow a larger penis when I don't have one.
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Omg! You have 9 eq and/or daoc accounts? And you buy three to six new games a month? Man how do you have the time!
Wow, I bow to your greatness..
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let's see.. Pharoah, Zeus, EQ, Dark Age of Camelot, Neverwinter Nights, The Sims, SimGolf, Tropico, Rollercoaster Tycoon. Those are just the ones that come to mind. My household has purchased three games and accounts of EQ (including three expansion packs for all three accounts) and three games and accounts for Dark Age of Camelot. I'd imagine that adds up to a nice sum of cash when you take into account the monthly fees. And I've got my eye on 4 games coming out this fall, and I'm sure I'll buy and try Sims Online as well. My point being not that I have money, but that WOMEN have money, and video games would be wise to court some new customers.
By FAR though, in the last 18 months, most of my gaming time has been spent in EQ, and then in DAoC. The Sims is mostly my daughters' game. I just play every once in a while. I was so excited to actually find a game that THEY liked to play that wasn't that damned pink box with Barbie in the title.. Barbie does Dallas? Barbie becomes friends... really good friends with her horse? Sorry, I digress. I really hate Barbie.
At any rate, yes, a large part of my games are building type games, but I also like I nice fantasy game as well, and it just gets overwhelming to most females to encounter scantily clad breasts all the time. I like breasts. I have some myself. But I just don't like constantly being reminded that so many men into computers apparently only see women as a pair of breasts. Oddly, my "real life" conversations with other gamers do not bear this out. I'd much rather talk to a computer geek gamer, than say.. a librarian. I think the game industry is doing both themselves and their current and potential customers a disservice. Cause, how much sex is there really when playing EQ? But they sure market it that way.
I'll grant you that I play a lot more games than most females, being that I'm a computer geek and gamer. And I'm not saying that Lara Croft should have a breast reduction. I'm just saying that the video game industry could sell a LOT more games if they stopped marketing exclusively to teenage boys. And I used the example of The Sims as my "proof."
I agree, not all guys are assholes. My hubby is surely not. I just got pissed reading all the responses about how "it's alright that magazines and game use woman's bodies to sell games" because.. uh.. women don't play games? Duh, no that's not it.. Uh.. women don't post here so it doesn't matter? duh, no that isn't it either.
I'd just like it for once, that people didn't justify the objectification of women, by saying its' always been that way, or women don't play games (very untrue, a fact that has made Will Wright a very happy man), or women don't read/. Justifying a wrong action, doesn't make the action less wrong, it just makes the person doing it more wrong.
It's kinda hard to even explain at this point why I get so annoyed by this. Many (yes, not all) of the male gender that post on/., on any topic relating to women, obviously have issues with them. And they all seem to blame women in some fashion for.. whate
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Cheer! Here's one woman gamer cheering your comments.
I quit EQ when they redesigned the boobs to be lethal weapons. I'm 33 years old, married, the mother of three kids, and buy WAY more games a year than your average 14 year old gamer. Why? Cause I have a job, and cash to buy them. I buy pretty much whatever catches my fancy. I don't have to save my paper route money, nor do I have to beg my parents for the money.
Attracting new customers should be the goal of every new game. Instead of all those companies catering to the same, tired, cliched gamer, perhaps they should start looking at the gamers everyone forgets.. women. Oh, damn, you know, I forgot, someone already did that... The Sims. And wouldn't you know, its the best selling PC game... EVER.
Catch a clue guys. We're here. We just don't talk to you all cause you are so damn RUDE. You treat us as if we aren't anything more than a pair of breasts and a pussy and that we're on this planet only to provide you with masturabatory material.
Disclaimer: I do not mean all of you. I mean some of you who also replied to this thread. Shouldn't take much brainpower to figure out to whom I am referring.
It kills me everytime I hear people equate software piracy with actual theft.
When Joe Blow downloads Photoshop, he doesn't deprive the company of the money of someone else buying it.
When Joe Blow steals a car, he completely deprives the company, not only of his money, but of ANYONE ELSE that might have bought the car.
See the difference? No? The world is not black and white. It's shades of gray. Is Joe Blow wrong? Yes. Is Joe BLow "as wrong" as a car thief... no way.
Were the horrible pirates mentioned in the times article wrong? Yep. Do you think they caused more pain than Mr. Enron? Hahahah!
If people don't understand why its wrong that our government is criminally prosecuting people at the behest of corporate america, over CIVIL crimes, then I truly don't know that you ever had an understanding of what our country was supposed to be about.
yep, absolutely!! let's put them all in jail!! Instead of say, hiring them to do some computer security work for the fbi. After all, we all know what a crack job the FBI is doing.
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My son (now 18) was a bright and happy student. Until a first year teacher attempted to teach cursive writing in 2nd grade. It made him feel like a "bad" student and he never recovered. We still hope he'll graduate, either 2010 or 11, but years of thinking of himself as a bad student has really taken a toll. His standardized tests scores show he's more than competent. But his handwriting is so bad, he just stopped turning in homework.
You obviously don't do much reading on parenting techniques.
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Letting a baby cry it out is so... 1980's American.
http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/1998/04.09/Ch
and its biologically incorrect. A mother's milk lets down when her baby cries because evolution has designed the human parenting system to work that way. Baby cries, mother feeds and comforts.
http://www.askdrsears.com/html/5/T051200.asp#T051
However, it is often convenient to the parent to let a baby cry. I'm sure we all know how much Americans dislike being interrupted from their pursuit of the American Dream (and watching American Idol, of course!)
But, what the hell would I know. I'm only the mother of 5 kids, 4 months to 15 years.
I have no mod points today, but if I did +1 Informative.
Shh.. hon, don't tell him about the network cables!
I have no mod points, so I'll just say: yep yep My former husband was in law enforcement. I've socialized with cops, deputies, and probation officers. I can't say that I miss a single one since my divorce. One that I knew used to get high with a certain friend. After he became a police officer, he set that friend up for a drug sting. Nice folks eh? I actually could go on and on with the stories. But I won't.
Why yes, those of us out here in Nebraska should really plan our working and residence closer to a subway stop! Silly us.
Ack! Facts! We don't want no stinking facts here! It's slashdot for chrissakes!
If my son decides to go bomb someone and take their house? After all, he's been seeing it on the news for months. Makes just about as much sense.
Yes, the love ms blaster hotfix provided by MS broke my network laser printing system. That was fun. First patch 200 systems, then have to fix network printing on them all..
Joy Joy.
"pay attention to me! I'll hurt someone! I will! really!"
My case is just the boring beige box. I liked his mod and apparently am one of the few people who have no trouble with green, in fact, I even like green. Green to me means living plants. Guess some of you are a bit to used to concrete to feel comfortable with green.
I really would've thought that NASA scientists would've had a better grasp on these fundamentals.
Have fun! I planned the entire trip and spent over a year beforehand expecting to hate it. "I'm doing this for the kids, I just want them to have fun," and ended up loving it. I'm no fan of megacorporate Disney, but Disneyworld sure provides something people want.. entertainment and escape from the real world.
They are. We saw a handful being used by employees at the Disneyworld parks at the end of January.
I just spent a week at Disneyworld and we saw a few Disney employees utilizing these in the parks. I remember thinking at the time, "What a great idea!" Of course, my feet hurt the whole week I was there, so employees using wheelchairs with souped up motors might've seemed like a great idea.
I think there are many places these things could be very useful. I commute 50 minutes on 4 lane highway to work, so they wouldn't work for me, but at Disney I thought it was brilliant.
Agreed, this game is horrible. I've been happily playing the Sims, on and off, ever since it came out. Since then, I played first EQ, then Dark Age of Camelot. So when I got the beta invite to Sims Online i thought, "Cool!"
:). In Sims you... uh... make pizzas. Whatever.
How wrong I was. Its a moronic game. Other pay online games give you something to DO, that's say.. challenging, while you talk and get to know people. Killing monsters
This may draw some NEW people to the pay online games, but I really can't see it drawing any of current crop of pay for online gamers.
I hate spam, yes I do. But you know what I hate more than spammers? The complete and total idiotic morons that BUY something from spam that turns up in your mail box.
If no one EVER bought as a result of this "marketing technique" they'd stop using it!
And if anyone is reading that has bought a penis enlarger, damn you are a loser.
I always wonder when I get those emails.. should I forward them to my husband? It be pretty hard for me to grow a larger penis when I don't have one.
Omg! You have 9 eq and/or daoc accounts? And you buy three to six new games a month? Man how do you have the time!
Wow, I bow to your greatness..
let's see.. Pharoah, Zeus, EQ, Dark Age of Camelot, Neverwinter Nights, The Sims, SimGolf, Tropico, Rollercoaster Tycoon. Those are just the ones that come to mind. My household has purchased three games and accounts of EQ (including three expansion packs for all three accounts) and three games and accounts for Dark Age of Camelot. I'd imagine that adds up to a nice sum of cash when you take into account the monthly fees. And I've got my eye on 4 games coming out this fall, and I'm sure I'll buy and try Sims Online as well. My point being not that I have money, but that WOMEN have money, and video games would be wise to court some new customers.
... really good friends with her horse? Sorry, I digress. I really hate Barbie.
By FAR though, in the last 18 months, most of my gaming time has been spent in EQ, and then in DAoC. The Sims is mostly my daughters' game. I just play every once in a while. I was so excited to actually find a game that THEY liked to play that wasn't that damned pink box with Barbie in the title.. Barbie does Dallas? Barbie becomes friends
At any rate, yes, a large part of my games are building type games, but I also like I nice fantasy game as well, and it just gets overwhelming to most females to encounter scantily clad breasts all the time. I like breasts. I have some myself. But I just don't like constantly being reminded that so many men into computers apparently only see women as a pair of breasts. Oddly, my "real life" conversations with other gamers do not bear this out. I'd much rather talk to a computer geek gamer, than say.. a librarian. I think the game industry is doing both themselves and their current and potential customers a disservice. Cause, how much sex is there really when playing EQ? But they sure market it that way.
I'll grant you that I play a lot more games than most females, being that I'm a computer geek and gamer. And I'm not saying that Lara Croft should have a breast reduction. I'm just saying that the video game industry could sell a LOT more games if they stopped marketing exclusively to teenage boys. And I used the example of The Sims as my "proof."
because it isn't your niche, its mine too. That's what some don't seem to understand.
I agree, not all guys are assholes. My hubby is surely not. I just got pissed reading all the responses about how "it's alright that magazines and game use woman's bodies to sell games" because.. uh.. women don't play games? Duh, no that's not it.. Uh.. women don't post here so it doesn't matter? duh, no that isn't it either.
/. Justifying a wrong action, doesn't make the action less wrong, it just makes the person doing it more wrong.
/., on any topic relating to women, obviously have issues with them. And they all seem to blame women in some fashion for .. whate
I'd just like it for once, that people didn't justify the objectification of women, by saying its' always been that way, or women don't play games (very untrue, a fact that has made Will Wright a very happy man), or women don't read
It's kinda hard to even explain at this point why I get so annoyed by this. Many (yes, not all) of the male gender that post on
Cheer! Here's one woman gamer cheering your comments.
I quit EQ when they redesigned the boobs to be lethal weapons. I'm 33 years old, married, the mother of three kids, and buy WAY more games a year than your average 14 year old gamer. Why? Cause I have a job, and cash to buy them. I buy pretty much whatever catches my fancy. I don't have to save my paper route money, nor do I have to beg my parents for the money.
Attracting new customers should be the goal of every new game. Instead of all those companies catering to the same, tired, cliched gamer, perhaps they should start looking at the gamers everyone forgets.. women. Oh, damn, you know, I forgot, someone already did that... The Sims. And wouldn't you know, its the best selling PC game... EVER.
Catch a clue guys. We're here. We just don't talk to you all cause you are so damn RUDE. You treat us as if we aren't anything more than a pair of breasts and a pussy and that we're on this planet only to provide you with masturabatory material.
Disclaimer: I do not mean all of you. I mean some of you who also replied to this thread. Shouldn't take much brainpower to figure out to whom I am referring.
It kills me everytime I hear people equate software piracy with actual theft.
When Joe Blow downloads Photoshop, he doesn't deprive the company of the money of someone else buying it.
When Joe Blow steals a car, he completely deprives the company, not only of his money, but of ANYONE ELSE that might have bought the car.
See the difference? No? The world is not black and white. It's shades of gray. Is Joe Blow wrong? Yes. Is Joe BLow "as wrong" as a car thief... no way.
Were the horrible pirates mentioned in the times article wrong? Yep. Do you think they caused more pain than Mr. Enron? Hahahah!
If people don't understand why its wrong that our government is criminally prosecuting people at the behest of corporate america, over CIVIL crimes, then I truly don't know that you ever had an understanding of what our country was supposed to be about.
yep, absolutely!! let's put them all in jail!! Instead of say, hiring them to do some computer security work for the fbi. After all, we all know what a crack job the FBI is doing.
Ahh, but there's the hitch.. You CARE that children are dying all over the world.. They.. don't.