Recent content by thegingerone

I think I'm probably more likely to play a game that lets me choose my character's gender but I don't think it's BECAUSE I'm allowed to choose. I think that it is mostly due to the style of games which make you able to choose, they are mostly story-heavy RPGs which are what appeals to me most as...

The whole other half thing is silly. Sure human beings need love and affection, but nobody is your other half. Plato made up this metaphor to explain the feeling of love. I think that you need to feel whole by yourself in order to be in a fulfilling relationship with someone else. Every time...

I find intellectual snobbery extremely comical in the arena of public forums because its often vicious and unnecessary. I also think that what gets held up as intellectual snobbery is often quite off base. Being right is not intellectual snobbery. Having a large vocabulary is not intellectual...

I'm from the west coast and I went to college there, and yes, there is a lot of geek culture at most west coast schools, especially the smaller liberal arts colleges, where pretty much everybody's a geek about something. If you want it, its probably there. At my undergrad the biggest thing was...

Coolest toy? That's a tough question. I had a shit ton of legos, but this set was my favorite:

The only reason I've ever found to be uncomfortable around gay people is when they were being super inappropriately sexual for the situation. I would've had the same problem if it were straight people behaving that way, but I've never seen that under the same circumstances.

Oh man so many feels, mine are: In ME2 when Kaidan turned his back on Shepard on Horizon A Future for the Krogan from the ME3 Soundtrack In LOTR: Fellowship of the Ring when Sam nearly drowns chasing after Frodo Gladiator: "My name is Maximus Decimus Meridius..." and... every time...

Benedict Cumberbatch. I know he may not be considered conventionally attractive, but all my girl friends think he's super smexy. I don't get it. I think he's awkward looking, a great actor, but not a handsome dude. Also asian girls. Why are so many geek guys into asian girls?

I have two. I don't get why people hate Kaidan Alenko from the Mass Effect series. In the first game he helps out a lot with his insights and he makes a good partner for FemShep. In the third game, he's a super handy in combat and he's even more handsome :) The other is Desmond Miles. I like...

Cicero was the greatest Roman, as far as we know. Without Cicero, we would have little concept of Roman culture as we idealize and imitate it. Cicero created the notion of Rome that the men who created the modern western world cherished and wanted to recreate. Of course that is just one man's...

I'm so excited for this season to get going. No hockey was really starting to wear me down. I'm really sad that it came this far. The NHL had some momentum going in building a fan base and having a lockout last this long was really ridiculous. I think its safe to say that "casual" viewership is...

I dressed up like Link from Legend of Zelda and played DnD with my normal group while eating tacos and tons of candy. Nerdiest Halloween ever!

My thing is adult picky eaters. I have a friend who eats like 5 things and thats it. And they're all super unhealthy like white bread, chocolate and American cheese. I just want to smack all these people and tell them to grow up and eat some decent food.

I want to know why nobody cares about English at the grade school and high school levels. It doesn't matter how brilliant you are if you cannot communicate coherently. All you have to do is read these forums for examples of this. Most Americans don't actually speak English fluently any more. We...

I'm 25 and people still ask me what high school I go to.