who's playing this game?
bluecatvon:
Quote from: Larita on 2005 July 31, 19:02:38
I spent years and years in business, then flip-flopped and went back to school for a technical degree in medicine. Now I'm back to running the family business. The past 25 years I've maintained a hobby-like devotion to learning computers...as the field keeps one...no, several...steps ahead of me. *Sigh* I'm an artist, an introvert who has learned to be an extravert when a need arises, dabble in computer graphics, write poetry, paint watercolours, make jewelry, and try whatever else strikes my fancy.
I'm addicted to Sims, and I thank God my hubby is addicted to surfing the internet, because we can sit quite happily at our desks for hours. We live on an island and the TV is crappy, so this fills an entertainment need. I'm a control freak, so therefore I LOVE macrotastics. Without it, I couldn't possibly control everyone, all of the time. I have ALL of JM's hacks and couldn't do without them. I'm an achiever, so it's a challenge for me to allow my Sims to be different - read: stupid, sloppy, underachiever, etc. - but I'm learning.
haha! you sound very much like me!
bluecatvon:
ok, i admit i was wrong.we can't classify people into categories. being 19, i guess i have a lot to learn :) thanks guys! good to know that the human race is not as boring as i thought :p
Oddysey:
Quote from: Renatus on 2005 August 03, 16:17:51
I may also be the only person on Earth who liked I Will Fear No Evil - it wasn't his best and some of it was pretty silly, but I liked that he dealt with gender fluidity. I haven't read many books that do that.
I'm not sure what my favourite book of his is; it's been ages since I've read any of his work because all of the books of his I own are still on another continent. I'm really fond of Starship Troopers though, which baffles me a bit considering I'm a rabble-rousing little punk. ;D
Gender fluidity? What in blazes is that? It's either something really weird, or you need to read a bit more modern SF.
I always liked The Cat Who Walked Through Walls. I think it's sort of a sequel to The Moon is a Harsh Mistress. (Which I need to read . . .) And I like ST, even though I don't agree with a lot of it, it's very interesting.
I've been an SF fan since . . . oh, boy. Probably around third grade, when I discovered Animorphs, although it could have been before then. They aren't really SF, but they started moving me away from fantasy and towards SF. I read a lot of Golden Age in middle school, and it was basically the first non-kids SF that I read. Asimov, Bradbury, Heinlein. A little later I read Dune, and all the sequels. Won't touch the new prequels, though. Read halfway through one of them, got bored and annoyed by the ineptitude. Now I read Asimov's Science Fiction, the magazine that used to be Astounding or Amazing or something. Not the one that Campbell edited; that's Analog, now. Books are mostly classic SF and whatever I pick up off the library shelf, particularly new releases. I'm a particular fan of robot stories, but I'll read just about anything that is well-written and thought provoking.
I write SF, too. Sort of. I have two "finished" stories, one of which that has no dialog and isn't really SF but is set in a non-Earth world, and one that is almost all dialog and is has the deus ex machina cranking along on the last page. I also have a truly craptastic 70+ page novel that I wrote when I was in seventh grade and has about three or four dozen characters, most of home will wander off for 20 pages or more until I remember about them and give them whatever the next line that needs to be said is. Then I have the scattered wreckage of at least twenty stories on my hard drive, which will likely never be finished.
I'm a junky . . . heh.
Liss:
I read anything that has words. But I'm more of a fantasy-genre person I guess...although I love horror/suspense (Stephen King/Anne Rice, et. al).
I guess I would say I'm an artsy person, at least in my mind if not in practice. I'm also a knowlege seeker, I love to learn about stuff but I don't have a degree in anything. (I'm currently in school for medical transcription. Love learning new words)!
One of the things I love the most about the sims is the *community*. I've had times when I didn't even play the game, but would keep up with message boards and stuff just because I liked the people.
veilchen:
I also read anything that has words. If I don't have anything availble to read, I read bulletin boards, bill boards, people's t-shirts etc.
However, I am a science fiction fan, but I also like weird stories ala The Twilight Zone. Also on my list are historical novels and mysteries. I read psychological thrillers and mysteries as well (now here's a shocker :D). The one thing I will never even touch are Romance Novels, I find them utterly revolting, as well as blood and gore stories. I do like a well written gothic novel/story, but it has to be far above the regular trash that passes as gothic.
That is one of the greatest benefits of being bi-lingual. I can enjoy books in more than one language.
Oddysey, that sounds great, I wish I could read your stories. I am a great fan of home-made stories, but the only one's I ever wrote are the bed-time stories for my kids. They did however, contain a great deal of kiddie science fiction and historical backgrounds.
G.
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