new girl on the block

This is why I date plumbers and engineers, not professionals.
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Don't forget analysts. We may not be any use when it comes to fixing problems, but we're damn handy for finding (and sometimes creating) them!
 
GeoModder said:
Given enough posts, you can choose your own picture. ;)
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crap. that means I have to make a bunch of posts to get my pic up? Not worth it, I'll keep bugging people one post at a time asking them to fix my code and having pity on me.

or I could just start a blog and link it in my sig. but that sounds like effort too.
 
Lady Wandbender said:
crap. that means I have to make a bunch of posts to get my pic up? Not worth it, I'll keep bugging people one post at a time asking them to fix my code and having pity on me.

or I could just start a blog and link it in my sig. but that sounds like effort too.
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You need to be on CivFantatics for 30 days and have 30 posts before you can have a custom avatar. Welcome, by the way. :)
 
I didn't think there was a post number requirement. I swear I had mine quite early, possibly before I hit 100 posts even.

EDIT: Warning - Don't post when you have had the window open for an hour.. refresh first...
 
but the only avatars you can use are from the civ games.
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It's like you can't see the avatars of everyone else who posted in here or something.
 
Lady Wandbender said:
oh don't be stupid, of course there are women on the internet, old fat chicks playing WoW mostly, as allaince. And in chat rooms telling everybody how to behave. I was going to put up a <semi> hot pic but the only avatars you can use are from the civ games.

and the code didn't work, oh well, Farmer's work around is just as good and I really thank everybody who gave tips and advice and took the time to rehash the code over and over.
*this is not me complaining or begging for more help, this is me warning others so they don't use the code and spending the game time to learn it was blizzardcraft and 'working as intended' (which is not at all) :) :) :)
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Well, it's not just "being stupid", sure, that aphorism was truer ten years ago, but still, generally speaking, there are fewer women on the internet in places of gaming than many might think.

However, philosophically, it is a sound strategy. I have, more than once, seen (especially in gaming communities) male users and players attempt to pretend to be female to gain advantage. Such as coming into a forum and saying "I have boobies, do this for me", when in fact, there are no boobies. A self respecting woman will rarely ever say "I am looking to have a favor done, and you should so totally do it since I'm a chick". At best this is a sense of entitlement that should not be stoked, and at worst it is someone lazy pretend to be a chick for a free ride.

When I say "there are no women on the internet" I mean that very seriously, in that there SHOULDN'T be any women on the internet. Not that they should get back to the kitchen, but that gender shouldn't matter, since it doesn't matter. No amount of coding work, or free stuff in an mmo, or what have you will get that guy anything he wants, but he's hardwired by nature to make the attempt.

At best such behavior, asking favors based on gender, is self demeaning to women, and at worst painfully abusive.

Mind you, I'm not specifically saying anything about you, just elaborating the philosophy behind that saying, and illustrating why I still use it into the modern day on a much more gender diverse internet.
 
*sigh*
Duh, mr. doggiehead, I could clearly see the other avatars from people over the years. Just when I finnaly decided to stop lurking and start talking and I signed up *I* couldn't set an avatar otherwise, I figured there was a reaons probably relating to contributions, but as it turns out it is just related to blatheirng and showing up for class. btw, despite the tease, I really like your avatar.
 
Lady Wandbender said:
oh don't be stupid, of course there are women on the internet, old fat chicks playing WoW mostly, as allaince.
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tbh I know a fairly hot chick who plays WoW (sorry guys she has a bf though!)
 
Bad Player said:
Guys we're forgetting the golden rule of internet foruming!

If someone introduces themselves as a chick then... IT'S A TRAP!*
*Unless hawt pix provided.
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xkcd for the win! :D
(posted for humour purposes only, and yes - black-hat-man is harsh. That's his "thing")
 
Bah, you shoulda written the tooltip in spoilers or something :p The mouseovers are half the joy of each cartoon!
 
@Vehem :lol:

EMP cannon hehe

Al
 
xienwolf said:
Bah, you shoulda written the tooltip in spoilers or something :p The mouseovers are half the joy of each cartoon!
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Not wrong. IT annoys me that despite the wideness of my screen I have to view the source half the time to read the longer ones - for some reason FF limits them to a certaing length.
 
Capn Charlie is exactly right. All people I meet on internet = male. Period. If you want to pretend to be female, I don't care, but don't expect me to treat you any differently at all. And I will call you dude and refer to you as male.

You want equality? You got it.

(note: nothing personal to OP, just saying)
 
...as far as I know, I wasn't looking for special treatment so calling me dude is fine, I was just looking for help on a problem I don't have the training, and am too dumb to fix myself, then commented on how refreshing it is to run into 'dudes' who actually know what they are doing.

I'm always confused by things, I was, by my upbringing raised to be a nerd, but whenever I go to a new place this huge deal is made like nobody had ever seen a girl before. I mean guys there hookers and strippers nearly everywhere, go spend some money so you can calm down :lol:
 
Welcome :) More women on this forum is always good, even if they believe were really swedish truckdrivers pretending :)

I think estimates are that 25% of wow players are women. More women play PC games than men now, according to latest polls, just that most of us seem to play sims and sims 2, and hardly any of us lurk in strategy games forums like this one.

Nonetheless, were now playing games by the tens of millions worldwide, and on the internet in equal numbers to men, now that it is no longer reserved for engineers and students like it was 15 years ago :)

We just tend to not lurk in the same corners of it :)

Aurore
 
Hi Aurore!

I think I saw the same data, though I thought it was closer to 50% of Wow's user base was female over 35. It is great to see other women playing Civ, and Heaven in partciular. , which I think is just great.

I know of some teenage female Halo players who are the most cutthroat <as*****les> I've ever met. Computer games are proof positive there is good and bad in both genders and you still got to be choosy about your friends.
 
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