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Posted October 22, 2014
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ddickinson: I agree, I think that's why I liked it so much. Not in an evil way, I was not watching it and enjoying the suffering, but I do appreciate a good story that can bring out such emotions. It was a emotional and hard story, but it is worth the watch, even if only once.
If I ever see it again, I won't do it alone next time.

This movie is one of the few examples of "too good".

If someone feels too numb and isn't able to cry anymore, he should watch this.
Post edited October 22, 2014 by Klumpen0815
Posted October 22, 2014
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ddickinson: [...]

The guys are also more than welcome to take part in the discussion if they wish. Except for that one guy in the big trench coat and sunglasses, I have seen him hovering around the girls only thread with his camera and I think he may be a <span class="bold">flasher</span> :-).
Nah, just let him, I'm sure the ladies can handle him. ;-DD
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Posted October 22, 2014
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ddickinson: [...]

The guys are also more than welcome to take part in the discussion if they wish. Except for that one guy in the big trench coat and sunglasses, I have seen him hovering around the girls only thread with his camera and I think he may be a <span class="bold">flasher</span> :-).
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HypersomniacLive: Nah, just let him, I'm sure the ladies can handle him. ;-DD
It would be mean to exclude him just for being a flasher. Okay, you can join in the discussion as well ;-).
Posted October 22, 2014
Hi, female gamer here. Not participating because I bought most of the store during sales... ^_^;

It's hard to choose, because I would play any good off-line game : 2D shoot 'em up, 2D/3D fighting games, simulations, platformers, Metroidvania, puzzle games, early pseudo-3d FPS (Doom/Wolfenstein/Duke Nuke 'em), racing games, etc. but my most beloved genres are :

1) Point-and-click and text adventures
I played a lot of adventure games younger, mostly from LucasArts/Lucasfilm Games (including the NES version, in German, of Maniac Mansion), Sierra-on-line, Delphine, Lankhor, and Infocom, and it's still one of my favorite genres. Started before the web, so sometimes I had to rely on magazines to progress, and could be stuck for months in some games. With the decline of the genre, I had to fall back on ScummVM and amateur games made with AGS, but now with franchises getting a reboot and new titles I can't complain.

2) RPG
I'm a tabletop-RPG player, and I find the games who aren't trying to strictly implement an existing rule system more fun - most RPG mechanisms will make a game too random if used on a computer. But give me freedom or a fantastic story, and I will be happy. I fondly remember experimenting with spells in Dungeon Master, mapping entire dungeons in Ultima, trying different character styles in Fallout 2 (...and having a shotgun lesbian wedding). Not counting the hours I spend playing 2D JRPG like Final Fantasy 4 and 6, the Seiken densetsu series, and the SaGa series on gameboy (Final Fantasy Legend), or the time I passed to customize my Morrowind installation...

3) Adventure-action
The Zelda series of course. No invisible walls, equipment driven exploration, and a sense of accomplishment as you progress. I played Zelda 3 in Japanese on an overpriced imported console, and it's still the best one for me. Ittle Dew is a small fun title, and some fan-games made for the Zelda Classic engine are really good.

I wasn't the only one at home - I remember playing Double Dragon with my mother and having to wait for my turn with games we both liked like Final Fantasy 4, Street Fighter 2, or Carmageddon...
Posted October 22, 2014
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awalterj: These clandestine gaming sessions were usually hampered by my little sister feeling left out and blackmailing us so that one of us had to play little ponies etc with her or else she'd tell our parents: "Mama, Papa, they played on the computer again!"
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ddickinson: So, you finally came out of the closet and are admitting you're a Brony! I knew it :-)! But it was nice that you took the time to play with your sister, even if she did have to blackmail you first.
Not sure if I can qualify as a bronie considering the insidious things I've done - as I confessed in this post a couple days ago:
http://www.gog.com/forum/general/the_who_is_best_pony_thread/post22

That happened before the blackmailing which was in later years and my sister was quite tough when cutting deals with us, we had to play with her for a precisely defined minimum time and we also had to put some effort into it, or else she'd tell our parents that my brother and I were playing computer games.
Eventually, this strategy backfired on my sister because she ratted us out so many times that, in the end, my brother and I took it for granted that she would betray us anyway and my parents pretty much knew we were "misappropriating" my dad's PC all the time the very moment they left the house and all their creative attempts to stop us proved to be futile. You can't stop addicts from using!


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ddickinson: It's never easy for a girl growing up with brothers, especially multiple older brothers. Not that they are inherently mean or anything like that, but boys tend to stick together and share similar tastes, which are often not shared by a sister.
Yes, I think growing up was hardest for my little sister. Growing up isn't easy for anyone, for the first born there is the most pressure and expectations from parents, for sandwich middle children like myself it's not easy because I wasn't allowed the same freedoms and privileges as my older brother and at the same time no longer enjoyed the privileges that my younger sister had.

What made it difficult for my sister wasn't so much the fact that she was a girl - that was not held against her by either my brother or myself - but that she was 5 respectively 7 years younger. That's a big age gap, I mean how are you going to explain Civilization to a preschooler, male or female they won't get it nor enjoy it. If she had shared our interests more and hadn't used her ratting-out tactics so much, we would probably have been a lot more inclusive. On the other hand, what other methods could she have used, this was ultimately and understandably the only leverage she could use in her frustration. Instead of joining our club she wanted us to join her club but getting guys to play my little pony is asking for a bit much and under normal circumstances this can (and did) only happen via blackmail. And even if I agreed on her choice of toys, my sister did not like the kind of stories I came up with. I grew up with toys that were mostly aimed towards antagonistic gameplay: Transformers, Masters of the Universe and so on. You don't normally have the same types of stories unfolding when you play with Skeletor & Co as you have with classical girl toys like the little ponies or Barbie etc.
But ultimately, it's not the toy itself but the play style that sets apart one person from another.

We also played Lego Duplo and a variety of building blocks and other "gender neutral" toys so it wasn't always a chore for us brothers, but the older we got the less common ground there was.
If my sister would have had more friends of her own to play with, maybe she would have cut us more slack but you can't have friends over all the time and even then younger siblings will always seek the approval of their older siblings or at least not want to be left out, that's perfectly normal and understandable.


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Luned: Umm, no, I enjoy strategy also, and said so. So your count is off. :)
My apologies, I only counted the people directly answering to the poll so this poll is more of a spontaneous sampling rather than an accurate statistic anyway.

Since there are way too many posts to go through the whole thread, I used the search function to look for the word "strategy" and the current results are now like this:

8 out of 11 female members appear to have a mostly positive leaning towards the strategy genre, that's 73%.
(added you, Elendiel, dudetterinazor, Treasure, FoxySage and gandalfnho to the strategy genre approving group)

My amateur attempt at statistic survey is now completely out of whack as most people posted about the genres they liked and didn't mention the genres they didn't like so the current result might not be all too representative. But one thing is for sure: Way more than 10% of the female members here like strategy games, so the prejudice suspicion that girls in general don't seem to like strategy games appears to need some major overhaul!
Posted October 22, 2014
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Jonesy89: As for his length, this is something that I'm beginning to hate fantasy for. Don't get me wrong, I like fantasy as a genre (Niel Gaiman is easily one of my favorite writers), but it seems that there's more of a tolerance of obscene length (both in each volume and the number of volumes in a series) without regard as to whether that length is warranted because Lord of the Rings apparently set precedent.
Yeah you are right, there are quite some series which are not finding any end. But I have to say if someone tries to justify 10+ books with Lords of the Rings I have to laugh. That were three books, quite the difference, even if some passages could have been written more compact. In general I have no problem if a fantasy series is 3-4 books long, but most of the time that is more than enough to write a good story without dragging the end out.
Posted October 22, 2014
Speaking of fantasy book trilogies, two Dragonlance trilogies remain unbeatable for me, they're just... too good!

The Chronicles Trilogy (Dragons of Autumn Twilight, Dragons of Winter Night, Dragons of Spring Dawning)

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The Legends Trilogy (Time of the Twins, War of the Twins, Test of the Twins)
Posted October 22, 2014
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Scureuil: Hi, female gamer here. Not participating because I bought most of the store during sales... ^_^;
Thank you for taking the time to take part in the discussion. It's nice to see what a wide selection of genres we female gamers like. Hopefully it will show the guys that we are no all just casual candy crush gamers, that we are more then capable of kicking their arses on more serious games :-).


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awalterj: Not sure if I can qualify as a bronie considering the insidious things I've done - as I confessed in this post a couple days ago:
http://www.gog.com/forum/general/the_who_is_best_pony_thread/post22
I'm not quite sure. I think you were just in denial and wanted some alone time with the pony :-). This line is a dead giveaway: "I didn't see where the problem was, my room was a lot cooler and I didn't torture the hostages or anything". Seems to me you wanted to let the pony have fun with you in your "cooler" room.


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awalterj: Yes, I think growing up was hardest for my little sister. Growing up isn't easy for anyone, for the first born there is the most pressure and expectations from parents, for sandwich middle children like myself it's not easy because I wasn't allowed the same freedoms and privileges as my older brother and at the same time no longer enjoyed the privileges that my younger sister had.
I agree, about this and the next part about the age gap. It would not be much easy even if it was a younger brother, the age gap would mean that there was less common ground. It's much easier when siblings are around the same age.


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awalterj: Instead of joining our club she wanted us to join her club but getting guys to play my little pony is asking for a bit much and under normal circumstances this can (and did) only happen via blackmail.
That's my kind of girl. It would be silly to just join your club, it's much more fun making you join hers. There's no challenge in just following her brothers, it's a much better challenge to make them dance like puppets for her own amusement :-).

I don't regret growing up with older brothers, it might have been nice to have a sister to play with, but I would not change my brothers for anything in the world.
Posted October 22, 2014
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awalterj:
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ddickinson: I'm not quite sure. I think you were just in denial and wanted some alone time with the pony :-). This line is a dead giveaway: "I didn't see where the problem was, my room was a lot cooler and I didn't torture the hostages or anything". Seems to me you wanted to let the pony have fun with you in your "cooler" room.
I admit I haven't shared the entire story over in the pony thready. For reasons of personal safety and so as to not get flak from real pony fans, I omitted the fact that the only reason I wanted the pony in my room was so that my sister couldn't see that I was not torturing the pony. You see, I told her that my stuffed turtle Gregory was torturing the poor pony and I faked cries of agony to make the scenario more believable which worked a little too well - my sister freaked out.
So I didn't lie when I said I didn't torture the pony, but I implied it which counts as mental torture and is clearly prohibited by the Geneva Convention. And by my little sister.

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ddickinson: I don't regret growing up with older brothers, it might have been nice to have a sister to play with, but I would not change my brothers for anything in the world.
Sisters fight among each other much more than they fight with brothers, so I'm sure you had it much better this way than if you had 3 older sisters instead!
Posted October 22, 2014
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hedwards: This unbelievably sexist. And anybody that repped the post up ought to be ashamed of themselves. Women get enough freebies thrown at them for no particularly good reason to begin with. I'd like to think that GOG would be a bit less sexist.
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ddickinson: Calm down. As I said, there will be one for the guys as well. How is it sexist or unfair if I am hosting one for the women and one for them men?
"Separate but equal", eh? ;)
Posted October 22, 2014
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ddickinson: It would be mean to exclude him just for being a flasher. Okay, you can join in the discussion as well ;-).
I knew that comment about "no underwear" would be used against me at some point. I guess it suits me right for trying to be open and honest. Can I at least hope that you're not going to spread this false rumour on the rest of the board? ;-P

*still refuses to put on underwear*
Posted October 22, 2014
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ddickinson: It would be mean to exclude him just for being a flasher. Okay, you can join in the discussion as well ;-).
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HypersomniacLive: I knew that comment about "no underwear" would be used against me at some point. I guess it suits me right for trying to be open and honest. Can I at least hope that you're not going to spread this false rumour on the rest of the board? ;-P

*still refuses to put on underwear*
It was not the lack of underwear that gave you away, I recognised the big blue eye. It's the same one that was looking through the keyhole while we were getting into our pyjamas ready for the pillow fight :-). But I'm sure the board knows I'm only joking, you're too nice to be a flasher.
Posted October 22, 2014
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ddickinson: It was not the lack of underwear that gave you away, I recognised the big blue eye. It's the same one that was looking through the keyhole while we were getting into our pyjamas ready for the pillow fight :-). But I'm sure the board knows I'm only joking, you're too nice to be a flasher.
Oh that! That was perfectly innocent, I was only checking what PJs are in fashion. ;-P
Posted October 22, 2014
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HypersomniacLive: Oh that! That was perfectly innocent, I was only checking what PJs are in fashion. ;-P
That's understandable, I guess you don't want to be out of fashion for the boys sleepover :-).
Post edited October 22, 2014 by ddickinson
Posted October 22, 2014
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sunshinecorp: The Chronicles Trilogy (Dragons of Autumn Twilight, Dragons of Winter Night, Dragons of Spring Dawning)
I first read it when I was in my early 20s, I think, and I enjoyed it a lot. Some of my friends identified with Raistlin, but I was more a Tanis guy. Years later I tried to read it again, and all I could think was "come on, just *&^%ing talk to each other about what you're feeling, oh God I can't stand this."

Anyway, I thought (at the time, haven't tried to re-read) that the Death Gate Cycle was better.
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