The site will suffer

2005-10-15 03:29:00 am

Yoshi's eggs are at my mercy!

I won't bore Radix with another repetitive comment concerning your break, enjoy it.

However, the promotion with StrangenessDSS has me interested. Strangeness, are you actually a female? I don't want to sound sexist, but a female interested in speedrunning is unheard of; plus I've seen too many people purposely put the female option just to mess with people's heads. If you're female, awesome, the 2% of gamers whom are girls is growing! Wink

FIERCELINKMASTER

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FIERCELINKMASTER: 2005-10-15 03:34:20 am

2005-10-15 03:29:15 am

No the Quail is not riding the Q

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I just got an idea of what you might do to be a little less stressed (maybe...)

Why not choose one day per month or something where you don't need to worry about the site and do some other stuff. That way, you're sure the site won't blow up our moniters but you can still rest enough.

I'm gonna draw you a really crappy GET WELL card now :P.

One random day of the week sounds more reasonable..
pain and suffering...deserves atleast 3 more days.. Wink

and a nice card which is not a stupid idea.

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I won't bore Radix with another repetitive comment concerning your break, enjoy it.

However, the promotion with StrangenessDSS has me interested. Strangeness, are you actually a female? I don't want to sound sexist, but a female interested in speedrunning is unheard of; plus I've seen too many people purposely put the female option just to mess with people's heads. If you're female, awesome, the 2% of gamers whom are girls is growing! Wink

Strange...

Hitaro

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Hitaro: 2005-10-15 05:46:46 pm

2005-10-15 04:06:09 am

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If you're female, awesome, the 2% of gamers whom are girls is growing! Wink

Actually, I read that around 30-40% are gamers are female. Edit: That almanach I read it in is 4 years old. Shut up about this please. Besides, I'm sure there's (much) more girl gamers than 2%. *mumbles*sexist bastards ><

I read in a video game almanach that the author's daughter played quake. She kicked ass. Nobody beleived she was female. They checked her clan, wich showed painfully obviously that she was indeed female. The boys got jealous and gagned up on her. They lost.

Feirce: One random day of the week sounds more reasonable..
pain and suffering...deserves atleast 3 more days..

That's why I said "something like that". I knew that once a year was obviously too little, but I thought once a week would be too damaging to the site. Guess I'm wrong.

and a nice card which is not a stupid idea.

Just plain a card is good enough, but it won't be nice, that's for sure ^^;;

soteos

2005-10-15 04:54:06 am

Her name is Astra Piper and I don't know many boys named Astra.
Another runner, Red Scarlet, is a girl, right? The one who did Super Metroid 100% ridiculously fast?
And 30-40% of gamers are girls- that's totally bogus.

marshmallow

2005-10-15 04:55:16 am

Jack of all Trades

I've met girl gamers -- problem is, they don't play good games. Wink

-Suzaku-

2005-10-15 04:57:02 am

Eternal Understudy

THe whole 30%-40% of gamers are girls isn't really true. It's 30%-40% of "people who play games sometimes" are girls. They're not nesecarily gamers.

trihex

2005-10-15 05:19:49 am

Yoshi's eggs are at my mercy!

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THe whole 30%-40% of gamers are girls isn't really true. It's 30%-40% of "people who play games sometimes" are girls. They're not nesecarily gamers.

Correct. I knew what I was referring to when I said 2% of gamers are girls. Casual "what's a eggsbocks" players don't count. Wink

slYnki

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slYnki: 2005-10-15 05:39:05 am

2005-10-15 05:37:51 am

XXY

I've played games with girls a lot actually. I've stomped a few of my friends that are girls at Halo. I got backstabbed by a girl in Starcraft once. Which really didn't prove to do anything, I completely ruined her. Another one I played Counter-Strike with named "oOo." God DAMNIT she was good. That reminds me of how much I miss my old Counter-Strike friends ( oh the memories Cry

)

Another Starcraft gamer became my friend somehow and one day admitted she was in love with me. I never played on that realm again..... Well, that and the fact she mysteriously disappeared forever the week after.

StrangenessDSS

2005-10-15 06:43:00 am

Sleeping Terror

Heh. Yes, I'm a girl. And I'm not even the only one here. ^_^

slYnki

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slYnki: 2005-10-15 06:47:25 am

2005-10-15 06:46:44 am

XXY

I knew there was something fishy with that Sandbag guy..... Despite the fact his personality emulates that of a bag filled with sand. Holy crap @_@;

ballofsnow

2005-10-15 07:01:37 am

I used to play Quake 2: Weapons Factory a couple years back. We had about 2 or 3 women-gamers who stuck with the mod until it completely died. One of them was a grandma... and she was pretty good! Smiley

InsipidMuckyWater

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InsipidMuckyWater: 2005-10-15 10:41:22 am

2005-10-15 08:05:03 am

Visit my profile to see my runs!

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And 30-40% of gamers are girls- that's totally bogus.

Yeah, that's comparative to saying that 30-40% of the people that download porn must be women, derived entirely from the percentage of porn consisting of naked males. I see the logic, but it's just not happening.

Most likely, any study, if it's in any way legitimate, that would assert so is probably permitting answers from girls such as, "Yeah, I like to play with my boyfriend when he plays."

But hey, if you're of the feminine persuasion and enjoy sliding into the trunks of Master Chief, more power to you. I know plenty myself, but the corresponding male audience I know soundly overwhelms them.

EDIT: Sorry to contribute to belaboring this point.

ANYWAY, I agree that one day per week away from the site would be healthy for Radix and would be easily tolerable for the bulk of SDA fans.

slYnki

2005-10-15 08:16:08 am

XXY

Yes, one day a week off then the rest of it SDA! <_<;

I say Radix can take a break whenever he wants, and however long he wants it to be.

InsipidMuckyWater

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InsipidMuckyWater: 2005-10-15 08:31:16 am

2005-10-15 08:30:41 am

Visit my profile to see my runs!

Yes, I agree. I did not mean to imply that he was limited to only one day per week; I was just concurring that it was a preferrable alternative for him, since he is so dedicated that he works on it practically every single day, right now.

transience

2005-10-15 09:43:45 am

trust the fungus

my ex-girlfriend could play a mean game of Mario 2. she wasn't SDA-quality, but she could surely put me in my place.

and that Sandbag kid is worse than a bag of sand. at least a bag of sand sits there and shuts up.

Gorash

2005-10-15 11:01:33 am

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*sigh* Always making the important announcements in the middle of the night Radix. Anyway don't let them get you down.

Congratz Strangeness to the new power. Wink

On the whole female gamers topic: They may be few but when they come out they sure know how to place themselves. At the LAN there was this girl with a Quake 3 logo tatoo over the whole of her back. Can you possibly imagine what that does to your concentration?

FIERCELINKMASTER

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FIERCELINKMASTER: 2005-10-15 02:20:56 pm

2005-10-15 02:15:21 pm

No the Quail is not riding the Q

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and that Sandbag kid is worse than a bag of sand. at least a bag of sand sits there and shuts up.

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I knew there was something fishy with that Sandbag guy..... Despite the fact his personality emulates that of a bag filled with sand. Holy crap @_@;

heheh :hit: (saves for future reference)

Yoshi348

2005-10-15 05:11:14 pm

dinosaur from the past

Geez, people trying to desperately reaffirm male dominance here?

Anyway, I'd probably guess the actual percentage of females who play games regularly is somewhere between the ludicirously low 2% and the probably generous 30%. But of course, 62.3% of statistics are made up on the spot and all...

Also, shouldn't you know, like, tell people who DON'T come to the forum that updates will tail off drastically?

andrewg

2005-10-15 05:41:59 pm

Hi! I'm andrewg!

so should i send in my run to nate yet?

Hitaro

2005-10-15 05:51:39 pm

I just got on. People were angry at me ):

I edited my post, explaining that the almanach I read was 4 years old. Please shut up about it; it'll eventually annoy me if it continues.

What I'm wondering about; why aren't people complaining about the 2% of female gamers (although I know it's a joke) that Tri-Hex said. *shrugs* I don't like sexist jokes like that...

Sandy is very annoying indeed...I'm suprised (at myself, mostly) that I'm the only person that said straight-up that he pisses me off, thus wasting a couple of minutes talking to an idiot...

trihex

2005-10-15 07:49:04 pm

Yoshi's eggs are at my mercy!

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I just got on. People were angry at me ):

I edited my post, explaining that the almanach I read was 4 years old. Please shut up about it; it'll eventually annoy me if it continues.

What I'm wondering about; why aren't people complaining about the 2% of female gamers (although I know it's a joke) that Tri-Hex said. *shrugs* I don't like sexist jokes like that...

Sandy is very annoying indeed...I'm suprised (at myself, mostly) that I'm the only person that said straight-up that he pisses me off, thus wasting a couple of minutes talking to an idiot...

My 2% claim wasn't a sexist joke. I read that statistic from a certain column in an EGM (Electronic Gaming Monthly) article concerning Girl Gamers, or some celeberty girl gamer, or something like that ...

Hitaro

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Hitaro: 2005-10-15 08:42:26 pm

2005-10-15 08:42:06 pm

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My 2% claim wasn't a sexist joke. I read that statistic from a certain column in an EGM (Electronic Gaming Monthly) article concerning Girl Gamers, or some celeberty girl gamer, or something like that ...

*shrugs* Sorry then. It's just so... wrong, in my opinion, that only 2% or something of gamers would be girls. That's like saying only 2% of americans are sane, while I'm aware is not true.

-Suzaku-

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-Suzaku-: 2005-10-16 05:21:20 am

2005-10-15 08:45:34 pm

Eternal Understudy

I agree that 2% is a tad low. I'd say maybe more like 10% or so. No more than that, though.
In the VG Design course that I'm taking their are less than 20 girls in the entire program of over 500 students.

slYnki

2005-10-15 09:16:32 pm

XXY

I'll deathmatch Paris Hilton on Halo and Doom <_<;

tmont

2005-10-15 11:22:07 pm

Not going to school today

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my ex-girlfriend could play a mean game of Mario 2.

She sounds hot. Got her number? Smiley