I was glad to see this time around that the Diebold machines did a great job of allowing me to quadruple-check my vote, AND created a paper trail right before my eyes.

Looks like they finally got it right, at least in my precinct.

You might be a redneck if you've ever had sex in a satellite dish.

There once was a man from Angola
Who contracted a case of Ebola.
He puked out his guts,
Not excluding his nuts,
Then died as he cried out, "Ricola!"

Mod parent down. The point he made doesn't apply to the assertion that males evolve at a faster pace than females due to the Y chromosome.

If what you are saying were the reason, then both males and females would be evolving at the same pace, because sperm cells can contain either an X or a Y chromosome.

You completely missed my point. I don't need or want to know if/that other gamers are girls. I would rather not know. I fail to see how it is important for me to know. No, I don't need to celebrate any gamer's femininity. No, I am not looking for female attention as I play. To the contrary, I think the attention whoring of girl gamers and those who would give them that attention detracts from the gaming experience as a whole.

You make the argument that just "being a girl in a game gets you a LOT of attention". But why, then, must girl gamers make sure that everybody knows they are girls? If they didn't want all the attention, they'd just play, just being gamers. Not "girl gamers".

That said, it sounds like I am playing different games than you. My online gaming is primarily in the realm of FPS games and parlor/card games. I don't play MMORPGs, and I think voice chat in games is silly.

I just can't take "girl gamers" seriously because unfortunately, rule #1 of being a girl gamer is to make 100% sure that EVERYBODY knows you are a girl. I'm sorry, but WHY does it matter? It doesn't! Oh wait, except if you beat the guys, they MUST know they were beaten by a girl! And if you get beaten by the guys, hey, it's OK! You're just a girl!

And of COURSE the girl gamers WANT all the added attention from the male misfits whose only hope of interaction with the opposite sex is only going to happen behind the veil of online gaming. You girl gamers say/pretend you don't, but you really do want it, or else you wouldn't follow the aforementioned rule #1 of being a girl gamer. And 100% of girl gamers follow rule #1.

The only girl gamers I can take seriously aren't girl gamers. They're just gamers. They don't need for everyone to know they are girls. They don't need for ME to know they are girls. They just game in a gender neutral fashion. While I sincerely applaud any females who may be gaming in said manner, I doubt that any more than .00001% of female game players are really "just gamers" and not "girl gamers".

I completely agree with the instrumental thing. I prefer instrumental metal. Try:

Buckethead
Paul Gilbert
Jeff Loomis
Jason Becker
John 5
Marty Friedman
Virt (chiptune metal)
et al.

When it comes to ObamaFireCare, remember, we are: Taxed Enough Already For American Red Truck Socialism.

aka TEAFARTS