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[Dio]

I love you all for being smart and cool, not for being gamers...

Cheers to a great administrator!

[Buster's Uncle]

Thank you for noticing my greatness!  

[Dio]

Thank you for noticing my greatness!  

Your welcome from the staff of CEO Morgan and Associates.

[Valka]

I know it's doable on W8, but that's all I know - Petek will help you if you decide to try.

If she is just talking SMAX, yeah. Even these Walmart Windows 8 'netbooks with hard drives" for 250 they have been coming out with lately will run it.

I suggest plopping down a few hundred more. Netbooks seem to be only useful for VERY old games, browser games, basic web surfing, and word processing. A step up to mid range or upper low range allows you to dabble in more things.

However, serious gaming may not be her thing. I have known girls who gamed merely for the chat/ social aspect. Nothing wrong with that. I do not blame them. With the exception of the LoL/DotA crowd, the chat and forums for games beat other chat rooms hands down. Most pure chat rooms, you do not get much actual chat nowadays that is not laced with penile pics and obscenities.

I think Everquest Next is going to be the next big "chat room in a video game" game.

I'm not planning on any new computer purchases this year, since I haven't even had my current one for a year yet. I bought this one because my older computers were unable to handle some of the larger, more video-intensive Hidden Object Games on Big Fish, nor were they able to handle Netflix.

My laptop would probably be considered "lower mid-range" price-wise, in Canadian terms. I bought it at London Drugs, from their computer department, and the salespeople and techs there are top-notch. Mind you, it was on sale, so that does make a difference as to where in the mid-range you might say it really belongs.

I'm not much into chat rooms; I can't type fast enough to keep up with everything, or even follow that kind of communication. I also prefer more normal, more intelligent conversations, which is partly why I'm here.

I'm not sure how you mean "girls", Green1 - my birthday is next month, and I will have been around the Sun 51 times. But since I've admitted to having a Zwinky account that is aimed mostly at teens and 'tween girls, I forgive you for any possible confusion you may have had. 

[Buster's Uncle]

Oh, he totally respects you and is using "girls" in an ironic post-modern 'internet' way - he and I've discussed women in gaming communities and related issues many times, and I'm not blowing smoke about that - he keeps telling me to chill out about our wimminz.

Also, he's never to be taken too seriously when he's posting late at night - especially on the weekend, if you get me...

[Dio]

I know it's doable on W8, but that's all I know - Petek will help you if you decide to try.

If she is just talking SMAX, yeah. Even these Walmart Windows 8 'netbooks with hard drives" for 250 they have been coming out with lately will run it.

I suggest plopping down a few hundred more. Netbooks seem to be only useful for VERY old games, browser games, basic web surfing, and word processing. A step up to mid range or upper low range allows you to dabble in more things.

However, serious gaming may not be her thing. I have known girls who gamed merely for the chat/ social aspect. Nothing wrong with that. I do not blame them. With the exception of the LoL/DotA crowd, the chat and forums for games beat other chat rooms hands down. Most pure chat rooms, you do not get much actual chat nowadays that is not laced with penile pics and obscenities.

I think Everquest Next is going to be the next big "chat room in a video game" game.

I'm not planning on any new computer purchases this year, since I haven't even had my current one for a year yet. I bought this one because my older computers were unable to handle some of the larger, more video-intensive Hidden Object Games on Big Fish, nor were they able to handle Netflix.

My laptop would probably be considered "lower mid-range" price-wise, in Canadian terms. I bought it at London Drugs, from their computer department, and the salespeople and techs there are top-notch. Mind you, it was on sale, so that does make a difference as to where in the mid-range you might say it really belongs.

I'm not much into chat rooms; I can't type fast enough to keep up with everything, or even follow that kind of communication. I also prefer more normal, more intelligent conversations, which is partly why I'm here.

I'm not sure how you mean "girls", Green1 - my birthday is next month, and I will have been around the Sun 51 times. But since I've admitted to having a Zwinky account that is aimed mostly at teens and 'tween girls, I forgive you for any possible confusion you may have had. 

I know the feeling that occurs when you try to run a video on your computer that requires too much graphic memory.

[Buster's Uncle]

Yep.

[Green1]

Not stereotyping. I just, like you, find gaming forums to be much more intelligent. I should have used better wording.

MMO chatrooms like in a good guild is something to check out, too. I have had some of the best conversations in MMO chats. Make sure it is a subscription game, though, to keep out the rift raff. Even better is if they have voice set up.  Man, the epic discussions with nerds and nerdettes in those channels.

Do not take BU too seriously either. While I do like the occasional cocktail, tonight I am just chilling on forums and drinking coffee. My sleep schedule is screwed because I switch to night shift next week. I may hit up UU in the morning if I still feel up to a 5 mile bike ride. There are some folks I have not seen in a while.

[Valka]

I'm not upset, just reminded of some of the guys on CFC who took years to believe that I'm female, because supposedly "girls don't game."

[Buster's Uncle]

Oh, but they do.

My sleep schedule is to' up partly because my much-beloved nurdz keep coming on late at night...

[Geo]

Yeah.

[Buster's Uncle]

Hey, slow day on the boards today -and so I got some work done- but not so slow at 1:30 in the morning in my time zone...

7:30 there.  You're up early on a Sunday.

[Green1]

I'm not upset, just reminded of some of the guys on CFC who took years to believe that I'm female, because supposedly "girls don't game."

Of course they do. Maybe they have never been to a convention. There are even girls that do historical minis.

One of my friend's wife always plays male characters on MUSHes. Reason being is that she just wants to game and does not want special treatment and wants to be respected for her game play. Not for other deals or be bothered by white knighting or unwanted advances by a select few.

[Geo]

Hey, slow day on the boards today -and so I got some work done- but not so slow at 1:30 in the morning in my time zone...

7:30 there.  You're up early on a Sunday.

Often this time of year. Sun's up before six, and I came out of the 6-14 shift past week.

[Valka]

Special treatment... gah. Many years ago, some guy said something to the gist of "It's amazing how somebody with such a cute avatar (I was using Duchess from the Aristocats movie) could make such an intelligent post (it was about the history of the Viking voyages to North America).

And just yesterday, I got a PM from someone on CFC, saying, "I'm not flirting with you, but I liked your post."

GHAH!!!!!!! 

So... if anyone here likes my posts enough to say so, I don't need 'flirty' window-dressing. I'm just pleased and honored to know that I've said something someone else liked.