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I got picked on by blacks and Irish people for being Jewish but I must love these people
Yowie wrote:
Your Aspie sco 132 of 200 Your neurotypical (non-autistic) sco 85 of 200 How come the numbers don't add up to 200? 132 + 85 = 217 - where did the extra 17 answers come from?? Dunno... could be from the earlier survey type questions that weren't in the quiz proper. Or perhaps some questions were given more than one point such that if you answered with a '1' it gave 1 point, but a '2' gave you two. I couldn't be bothered trying to figure it out. I did that with the MBTI test I had (it was DOS it was that old) and figured out the weighting of each of the 50 questions, but it took *ages* going through each variable of each 50 questions and just changing 1 variable at a time. I'm not going to do it again without far more motivation..... Oh, I was just asking it rhetorically. I just found it a bit amusing. Oddly, I've found wearing makeup a social help. Dunno why. But it seems to say "Hi, I am normal" to people. I scrape it off as soon as I get home, but it does seem to give a better impression than a makeupless face. It really annoys me that this is the case because I really object to my skills being judged by how well I apply paint to my face, but thats how it is. Its a game and through fairly concious trial and error I feel Ive worked out enough to get by. I still hate makeup though and find it vaguely insulting that its a necessary thing for a women to wear to get respect when its seems the very *opposite* of what female makeup is supposed to do gives a man respect (wrinkles and and obviosly serious, aged face gives a man more status, the same cannot be said for a woman) I wear the tiniest bit of makeup - some eyebrow pencil, because my brows are disappearing, going grey and getting smaller. I do this because I like my face better with darker, fuller brows. I don't do it to get more respect from others, although I suppose I would, if I wore more makeup. I am surprised that this would be an issue in your line of work. If you worked in sales or if you were an executive, I could see it being more expected. Maybe those norms are a bit different in Australia? I agree that it's very annoying that we have these gender categories of behavior that have absolutely nothing to do with what our bodies are actually capable of or designed for. Why does the fact that I have uterus mean I should put paint on my face? I'm always havign an a little internal dialogue that goes something like "Well, I'm putting a one down, because I think its the closest to what you think I should put, given the options available, but...." I do that, too, but at the same time, I'm thinking that it's going to skew my results toward their limited expectations, which apparently don't take all variations into account. There are these quiz sites where you can find out "How jealous am I?" or "Which animal am I?" etc. I admit it: I sometimes will go to a site like that and take 5 or 6 of them in a row. Maybe I'm starved for attention. Anyway, after the first or second question, it becomes clear that their target audience is people under age 20. They assume that parents play a big role in people's decisions, they ask questions about wanting to have children in the future tense. They assume everyone is heterosexual, that everyone wants to make a lot of money, etc. Many times there is no choice among the options that even comes close to what I would answer. OK, this is an extreme example, but even tests that are designed to be more sophisticated and realistic fail in some of the very same ways, just less so. -- Joyce ^..^ (To email me, remove the X's from my user name.) |
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Geeks & RPGs
wrote in message ... I've tried a couple of RPGs (D&D), but I got a little bored because it seemed to be mostly about battles. I know there are different types of characters, mages and bards and so forth, but most of the action and dice-rolling has to do with fighting, and I guess I don't have a lot of patience for that. That said, I enjoyed the first group I played with. It was a group of co-workers, and the guy who ran the dungeon was a lot of fun. Plus, people didn't take it too seriously and mostly we just did a lot of laughing. The second group was extremely boring, but I think it was because the DM was inexperienced and she just spent WAY TOO LONG setting up characters with each individual person. For most of the time, I was just sitting there waiting for her to come over to help me set up my characater. I quit before the game even got started, after 3 or 4 meetings of waiting. Humm, a good DM balances hack and bash (fighting) and role play opportunities. When I was a DM, we'd have whole sessions without fighting, but with lots of role play. One event took place in an inn with one of my favorite gamers playing a goblin thief. He spoke with a mock Irish accent and his fence/contact was reached through the outhouse. I gave basic guidelines (starting level, max stats, and any character restrictions) asked the more experienced players to help those who needed it, and turned them loose. I'd ask them to bring the character to me for final approval, at which time I'd work out any character motivations and refinements with the player and then bring them to the table. All of this was done before the first session. details should always be worked out in advance. That being said, I love games of most kinds. Like cards, board games, RPGs and some computer games. Someday I'll find someone who plays canasta. Pam S |
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Geeks & RPGs
tanadashoes wrote:
Humm, a good DM balances hack and bash (fighting) and role play opportunities. When I was a DM, we'd have whole sessions without fighting, but with lots of role play. One event took place in an inn with one of my favorite gamers playing a goblin thief. He spoke with a mock Irish accent and his fence/contact was reached through the outhouse. Here's a question I have about the role play. Where does the dialogue come from? I mean, I realize that the players make up the actual words, but how do people decide what they're going to be talking *about*? I think that would have my stymied. I would get major stage fright. I find it amazing that groups of people who are ordinarily shy can act out these elaborate scenes in a different character. My shyness affects me the opposite way: I'd get all self-conscious and embarrassed if I was expected to take on the traits of some stock "type" (eg, magician, poet, warrior, etc), because people would have expectations about how that type of character should behave, and what they would sound like, etc., and would be judging how well I pulled it off, how convincing I was, etc. I'm much more comfortable just being me - I know that terrain! I gave basic guidelines (starting level, max stats, and any character restrictions) asked the more experienced players to help those who needed it, and turned them loose. I'd ask them to bring the character to me for final approval, at which time I'd work out any character motivations and refinements with the player and then bring them to the table. All of this was done before the first session. details should always be worked out in advance. I agree, but the DM I had for the second group I joined worked those things out *in* our gatherings, rather by calling the players on the phone, or emailing, or whatever, individually. So I spent a few weeks just sitting there while the DM conferred with the other players about all those parameters, such as starting level and so forth. I'm not sure she ever got to me before I quit. That being said, I love games of most kinds. Like cards, board games, RPGs and some computer games. Someday I'll find someone who plays canasta. A couple of years ago I played mah jongg. I didn't grow up among people who played this game, so it was my first time. You get these cards that tell you different ways you can match the dominos, and what the point values are for each match. The cards looked just like menus in the old- style Cantonese restaurants I used to go to as a kid. It made me hungry. -- Joyce ^..^ (To email me, remove the X's from my user name.) |
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Geeks & RPGs
tanadashoes kirjoitti:
wrote in message ... I've tried a couple of RPGs (D&D), but I got a little bored because it seemed to be mostly about battles. I know there are different types of characters, mages and bards and so forth, but most of the action and dice-rolling has to do with fighting, and I guess I don't have a lot of patience for that. That said, I enjoyed the first group I played with. It was a group of co-workers, and the guy who ran the dungeon was a lot of fun. Plus, people didn't take it too seriously and mostly we just did a lot of laughing. The second group was extremely boring, but I think it was because the DM was inexperienced and she just spent WAY TOO LONG setting up characters with each individual person. For most of the time, I was just sitting there waiting for her to come over to help me set up my characater. I quit before the game even got started, after 3 or 4 meetings of waiting. snip That being said, I love games of most kinds. Like cards, board games, RPGs and some computer games. Someday I'll find someone who plays canasta. Pam S You may know it already, but there is Canasta on Yahoo Games... You need a Yahoo user name for it tho, it's a multiplayer thingy. http://games.yahoo.com/card-games - and from here choose Canasta. -- Christine in Finland christal63 (at) gmail (dot) com |
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WoW (was: Geeks & RPGs)
"Matthew" wrote in
g.com: I love WOW where else can you play a game talk to hundreds of people and have fun for $15 Where do you play? I have alliance toons on Eldre'Thalas and Horde on Aerie Peak. Here's my Alliance guild: http://thudandblunder.org/ There's a WoW newsgroup, alt.games.warcraft. Pretty good signal to noise. |
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WoW (was: Geeks & RPGs)
"ScratchMonkey" wrote in message . .. "Matthew" wrote in g.com: I love WOW where else can you play a game talk to hundreds of people and have fun for $15 Where do you play? I have alliance toons on Eldre'Thalas and Horde on Aerie Peak. Here's my Alliance guild: http://thudandblunder.org/ There's a WoW newsgroup, alt.games.warcraft. Pretty good signal to noise. I play on the Llane server I have a 74 dwarf BM Hunter a 55 DK I don't like to to post names since it can lead back to personal information |
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Geeks & RPGs
"Christine K" wrote in message ... You may know it already, but there is Canasta on Yahoo Games... You need a Yahoo user name for it tho, it's a multiplayer thingy. http://games.yahoo.com/card-games - and from here choose Canasta. -- Christine in Finland christal63 (at) gmail (dot) com Thanks!! I didn't know. I play via Hoyle's card games on HP game consol. Pam S Interested |
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