bleys2487 said:
VeneratedWulfen93 said:
bleys2487 said:
VeneratedWulfen93 said:
GunsmithKitten said:
VeneratedWulfen93 said:
I could give zero fucks. I was crazy into girls when I was 14 but then I just realised "Whats the point? Why am I chasing after these shallow creatures?"
So I'll probably stay a virgin for at least another year (I have a bet with friends that I can turn 20 and still have it. The pots up to £30 now) but even then I'll be not chasing after it. Call me sad but I prefer my games, my 40k miniatures and a good laugh with mates to female company. Sure I can talk to them but if I'm not drunk then I just give them cold indifferance most of the time.
People can point how how sad or how I'm missing out all they want but my life is mine. I don't want to share it with anyone.
I can understand not feeling the need to pursue a relationship, but for cripes sake, does that require you being a jerk to the opposite gender all around?
Its the best thing to keep them away from me. I can be nice to them when I can be bothered with thier bullshit.
Let's just hate on an entire gender because god forbid one of them was mean to you at some point in time. Clearly they all must be shallow creatures. There's absolutely nothing wrong with your generalizing point of view of them. It's clearly all their fault and every single one of them for the way you feel.
/sarcasm off
As a woman, I wouldn't understand why any woman would want to be around you in the first place. Let alone deal with your 'bullshit', especially if you're just going to generalize us all as 'shallow creatures' and not human being simply because we were born with a vagina.
Grow up.
I'm not generalising because one was mean to me. Be it man or woman I can't stand idiots, people who don't think about anything past the next weeks booze or what clothes they are wearing. I can handle people being mean to me, believe me, especially women. I spent two years chasing drunkingly after them and then stopped because it became boring and felt like a grind. Tell you what, I'll talk to a girl if she can tell me the full title of Ulthwe, knows what Brisingr means, knows how many shots a DMR takes to drop a Spartan then I'll consider talking to her. Because she will have somehow defied stereotype and even thenit would be genuine interest but then she'd be just me and I don't want to go out with me.
As I said to someone else I don't walk around like some patriarchal tyrant and verbally beat on women. One word answers if I can't be bothered and feign interest with a smile if I can. Except its gonna be all cold, one word answers this year and general feedback from the thread shows me that people get riled up even when I describe my attitude. I am not paying out £30 because I got lax.
On a side note, notice how my avatar is a woman? Just pointing that out. Idranel is cool as shit. She's mystical and can see the future and is nowhere near boring.
1. Ulthanash Shelwé?
2. Fire? (4th book sucked, loved the other three)
3. 5 shots? Assuming one is a head shot? I haven't played Halo while I've been away at the University for the past year. That's what I remember it being though. Depends on the spartan's shield too.
Anyway I tried. Didn't look the answers up either. Won't lose any sleep if you don't believe that or not. Some of the answers might be wrong. Chances are that they are. But, hey. I gave it a shot just off of memory.
Have fun with your thirty euro.
p.s. maybe you shouldn't have drunkenly chased after them. Like attracts like, sir. Give it another go.
And yes. I'm a girl. I speak three languages. I like sci-fi fantasy. Warhammer is awesome. I led an alliance in AoR with 200+ in it. I drive a stick 2011 camaro (actually drive, not like the idiots on the road today). I am trained in krav maga. I'd rather sit in vent with my friends around the world than go out any day of the week and play games on steam or mmos.
Not trying to show off. But, not every woman out there is a babbling, talkative, self centered *****. Yes, I know they are aplenty. I'll apologize on behalf of my gender for them. We're not all like that. People just notice the loudest ones.
There are other women like me too, on this forum. There are probably women here (no doubt in my mind) that know all these answers for sure and don't have to go on memory. There are women here who could easily trump me.
Ah, see? You sound like a lot of the ladies I know.
@VeneratedWulfen
As an indicator for how useless that particular metric of "breaking the mold" is, my responses, as a guy with a head over-packed full of extensive geeky knowledge of a million different sorts, would be:
*I'm a living encyclopedia of Warhammer 40,000 info, but I'll be honest, I'm only half convinced I'd've gotten the full name of Ulthwe right. I can tell you what year the Battle Of Macragge was, or how old Torias Telion would actually be if GW understood things like "math" and "addition", how Eldrad Ulthran died, how Ork biology works, why the Tyranids have entered the Milky Way, which Eldar Gods are still living, who the 5th major Chaos God is, etc etc etc etc etc etc etc. Hell, I could teach a college-level course on the lore of 40k, starting from before the first "War In Heaven".....but you happened to choose a bit of formality minutiae from a sub-set of trivia that is only relevant to the rare Eldar enthusiast.
So you MIGHT have eliminated the likelihood of a given girl being an Eldar fanatic. Could she still be a Warhammer 40,000 player? Easily. Could she be a 40k fanatic? Yep. Could she even me an Eldar player? Yep.
*No idea how many shots any gun in Halo takes to kill anything. Hell, even in the games that are my specialty (TF2, L4D2, etc) I have no idea how many shots it takes any gun to kill something. I just inherently "know" the exact amount of time I have to pull the trigger before a given enemy dies and I don't have to bother waiting around to be sure he's dead. It has frankly never occurred to me to actually count.
I know one guy who is really into Halo, one guy who likes it okay and his girlfriend who seems to like it a lot more than him, and 1 girl who is kind of a Halo fanatic and trumps the other three combined. That last one is the only one I'd expect MIGHT possibly know how many shots a given gun takes to kill something.
As far as I know, the rest of my friends (guys and girls) and myself, either think Halo is kinda bland and dumb, or we just basically don't care.
Not a clue in the world what "Brisingr" was even from 'til I looked it up, but then what is that supposed to prove? I could name hundreds of miscellaneous sci-fi and fantasy words you'd be unlikely to be aware of, and a great many of them being from one fairly major series or another.
So you've set a bar to test a "basic" knowledge that is:
* one part obscure enough that only a specific subset(Eldar players) of 40k fanatics would know it
* one that revolves around a fact so trivial that people aren't likely to notice the analogous information in a context relative to them when they're actively doing it
* and one part relies someone having read at least one of three specific fairly decent young-adult fantasy novels, which were only briefly shoved into the spotlight in an effort to capitalize on the popularity of Harry Potter, and it discounts the notion that they might have read any of the COUNTLESS other fairly decent-fantastic fantasy novels that are out there.
Even if those three things aren't specifically what you're looking for, has it ever occurred to you that YOU might not be aware of things that some random girl is well versed in, and they're things you'd love to know about...if you knew to look into them?
Relationships, of ANY type, tend to be a LOT more interesting when the people involved have similar tastes and aren't all completely familiar with the same things and retreading old ground.
Dude who loves Warhammer Fantasy and chick who loves DragonLance have plenty of stuff to share with each other.
Guy and gal who both love Lord Of The Rings can talk about stuff they already know for a while, but eventually they'll both be hunting for something new to entertain them.
The whole shared experience and "he/she showed me that!" tends to be a stronger bonding agent than two people who independently know the same thing.
People who all independently know the same thing is fun short term. That's what conventions are for.
But maybe you DO realize that, since you said that that only proves she's you, and you don't want to date you. But then, again, what exactly ARE those trivia questions supposed to theoretically prove to you?
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Funniest thing of all about all this, to me - I personally couldn't care less if a girl I liked cares about sci-fi/fantasy/video games/etc.
For the most part, I've assumed for YEARS now that the female friend I'm most interested in has only the most minor, average, interest in any of that stuff. I'm just attracted to her for entirely separate reasons.
Recently finding out that she's fairly proud of her Marvel & DC coffee mug collection, has put some passing thought into how she'd fight in the Zombie Apocalypse, and encountering her surprise enthusiasm upon seeing a poster for The Hobbit when I took her to the movies a few weeks ago - in which she said something to the effect of "Oh man, too bad that's not out yet! Then I'd've been like 'forget the movie we're going to see right now! We're going to see The Hobbit together!'" - .....those things all make me a little extra proud of her, and are just surprise bonuses to me.
She could basically have no interests in any of my hobbies (and honestly doesn't really seem to), and I'd not like her any less.
Just seems funny to me how narrowly people focus when trying to meet people.
Female friend, that I lived with for half a year and wouldn't at all mind actually dating, is only very slightly into video games, and is mostly just interested in fantasy of all types.
I saw her almost literally 24/7 for 6 months, and we never got bored of each other.
Our shared interest in fantasy stuff had very little to do with that.
Now she's dating a guy I can only describe as a "car guy" who's SUPER into stuff like Halo and not that interesting in general. They seem to get along fine, despite her not giving a damn about cars, and not really caring about games (especially not Halo).
Another female friend of mine...she's basically interested in 90% of the same things I am, and we can hang out and ramble about any random nonsense all we want....but I have NO urge to date her. At all.
In my experience, there's more things significant to two humans getting along at ANY level, than just hobbies and interests.
*Say you meet a guy who has all the EXACT same hobbies and interests as you....but he's a complete asshole. Do you want to hang out with this guy and be his friend JUST because he likes the same crap
Flip side, say you meet a traveling Bhuddist monk, and you and him have no interests or hobbies in common whatsoever, but he's obviously a real friendly, easy-going, reliable dude, who looks out for the people around him just because he feels he should. Do you avoid being friends with him just because he's never even heard of Halo or any other random thing you're into?
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I'll just stop here. I could probably go on forever.
