Though the writing is still slow, I’m spending a lot of time doing nothing much in particular, especially since I bought a laptop from work (they upgraded everyone’s computer to a Windows 7 box, I got a very good deal.  I still need to fix my other laptop, but it’s no longer as urgent).  I [...]

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Or maybe that’s zen.  I always forget how the word is spelled for a silly reason.  A friend of mine used to use the name Xen when playing morts on the MUD. Work is getting more interesting, but it may be a year before we know anything definite about what’s going to happen.  That means a [...]

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Because there has been too much focusing lately on the economic problems.  Funny Videos

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I was asked to explain more for my post on Game Snobbery.  So, I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about what I meant.  I mean what is a game snob?  When I think about a game snob, I think about how someone who plays a time intensive game like World of Warcraft might think [...]

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Women in Games I struggled a bit with what to write about after my last few posts.  After all, I had said everything I could about women gamers.  Or had I?  The article above talks about theoretical reasons for women gamers to be mostly social gamers.  In a way, I agree with what was said, [...]

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Confessions of a Gamestop Girl I was looking for more about Women in Gaming because for some reason this topic has caught my imagination.  When I did a search on Google, I came up with several articles, one from Escapist Magazine.  In the article above, the girl that the author interviewed talked about how working [...]

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wotmud was nice enough to leave this link in answer to my last post.  http://womeninleadershipandtechnology.blogspot.com/2007/09/female-gamers-on-increase.html It sounds like the person who wrote that post is in the gaming industry, so she has a different perspective on it than I do.  However, she does state this: Female players tend to be casual, interested in easy-to-pick-up social [...]

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Players Who Suit MUDs  I’ve been reading a lot about gaming recently, and why there are few female gamers.  Quite honestly, I got used to being one of the few females in many situations, so I wasn’t that uncomfortable as a girl on the MUD I played on.  It probably helped that 2 of my [...]

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