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=ChrisB=
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Posted: 24th Aug 2005 06:01
Quote: "Except for John Romero... haha"


John Romero's a designer not a programmer, you damn crazo!


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Posted: 24th Aug 2005 06:02 Edited at: 24th Aug 2005 06:34
wow

102 posts..
Hyenas? Since this thread was dead,
you are hyenas.. don't? (not talking about the good guys those
talked about girls/programming )

I think that the worst user is an infant hijacker

I'm serious..
I think that there is almost a century I don't read this thread..
It concluded its subject..

So if you want to be talking about your subjects, then open
your own infant useless threads

The only difference between some guys around here and kids
is the fact that the kids couldn't hijack my house =P

The worst foe lies within the self..
Ian T
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Posted: 24th Aug 2005 06:05
Well then this has reached its conclusion

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Raven
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Posted: 24th Aug 2005 06:42
Quote: "John Romero's a designer not a programmer, you damn crazo! "


Yeah, the nerve of id software to code his name into the credits as a programmer on Wolfenstien 3D, Doom and Quake!

Someone should complain :p
Well anyways, Romero only seems to have that 'charm' about him when he has long hair. I reckons it's probably the whole indian (native american :p) look that's the appeal or something. He looks truely fightening atm with short hair. That said his kid has hit those difficult years... ya know when they're still living there dependantly. So he looks like hell a lot of the time.

Bet Carmack hasn't been getting much sleep as of late, though being a strange little coder I doubt it makes much of a difference to his usual schedual. heh

As far as the original posters 'feminist' thing goes.. I hope you realise that a Feminist is actually someone who is Pro-Female; as in 'men are scum' type card carrying dykes girls. I think what your probably meaning is Metrosexual.

I'm comfortable to a degree with stuff like that. I mean as far as pink clothes go.. doesn't bother me much, now if it was a frilly pink thing then yeah I'd probably start having some serious reservations about it.

Same goes for like the greeting/goodbye hugs with blokes. A short pat on the back type hug is alright; if you can't get the guy to let go, that's when things start getting creepy.

There's nothing particularly feminine about kissing a guy, sorry but I've had girls try and claim 'I'm not gay but I kiss other girls'.. yeah unless you doing it as the french sign of greeting then sorry your gay even if just a little bit. Generally counteries that have it as a greeting you will only get it because they are trying to show that you are being welcomed, or because you are close. They don't go around the streets to strangers doing it.

Even then there is a huge differents between a kiss-off, a peck and a kiss. I mean maybe I'm a tad on the old fashion and reserved side with all of this; but I see there being destinctions.

I mean if you have a kid, kissing them on the forhead is a sign of comfort. On the lips is a case for child services. That just how I see it though. As I said maybe I'm not as enlightened as some other of the more female guys; but just gives me the creeps.

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Posted: 24th Aug 2005 07:01
Quote: "Well anyways, Romero only seems to have that 'charm' about him"


Charm? He's butt ugly. You're officialy swinging for the other team

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adr
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Posted: 24th Aug 2005 10:57 Edited at: 24th Aug 2005 11:04
Quote: " If you go to uni then get out of the geek club immediatly. I only knew about 5 people out of about 80 by my 3rd year in Uni. It didn't help I went to like 1 in 10 lectures"


Dude, you're like, the mirror of me. I specifically went out of my way to disassociate myself from all the "CompSoc" nerds. There was about 100 on our course and I barely knew any of them. I didn't turn up throughout my second year (because I thought I had a job, but it turned out I didn't ). It was kinda cool, because me and my housemate were known in the department as "the guys who never show up". What a totally cool thing to be known as.

I shall partially retract my original statement about chicks/programming. If I remember correctly, there was a totally very nice girl who did do some of our CompSci lectures, but she was an Electrial Engineering undergraduate or something, so it doesn't count.

After having said all of this, it could well be my judgement was clouded due to my uhh... extended absense.

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Fallout
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Posted: 24th Aug 2005 13:37 Edited at: 24th Aug 2005 13:37
Dude, we need to hook up on another project at some point. I've still got your email kicking about. What you working on at the moment?

oh .. yeah off topic ... girls, db, never gonna happen.

Eric T
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Posted: 24th Aug 2005 14:38 Edited at: 24th Aug 2005 14:39
Quote: "Charm? He's butt ugly. You're officialy swinging for the other team "


Oh come on mousey... how can you deny a face like this:



HAHA

Quote: "John Romero's a designer not a programmer, you damn crazo!"


Yeah, i've always seen him down as programmer...

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Megaton Cat
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Posted: 24th Aug 2005 15:32
I have a confessiont to make.

I'm a girl.

PRAISE ME. LAVISH ME WITH YOUR ATTENTION.






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Posted: 24th Aug 2005 15:52
figures...

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Posted: 24th Aug 2005 16:40
haha, that's an awesome picture. you know he looks like he should be on the Bounty advert with Vera :p

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Posted: 24th Aug 2005 18:16
If I was an American on holiday and I saw those two in a bar, I'd spend the rest of my holiday appologising to the locals for my country.

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Posted: 24th Aug 2005 19:47
Quote: "Dude, you're like, the mirror of me."
Er, dude, how am I the mirror of you? You went to pretty much no lectures. Neither did I. Apart from to catch up on some extra sleep of course. Unless you mean mirror as in exactly the same. Not the Trek version then? See I keep some geekiness. Plus I sometimes hum Jarre music to myself (probably not so computery these days). Which I think is all you need to keep IEEE membership...

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Posted: 24th Aug 2005 21:18
I liked peter's better. I'll have to try that sometime...

=ChrisB=
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Posted: 24th Aug 2005 21:38
Annnnny ways, back on topic, ladies.

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Kangaroo2 BETA2
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Posted: 26th Aug 2005 12:33 Edited at: 26th Aug 2005 12:46
"I've found the best way to tell girls of your madz coding abalities is AFTER you've known them for a couple weeks and know that:

a) she's not looking for an excuse to toss you off
b) she's nice enough that you don't want to toss her off"

ROFLMAO

I remember many posts like this back in the day, and yes there are some girls here, although most of them changed their usernames due to harrassment (Eg Bunny) lol

I was gonna just read and chuckle to myself at the random musings of teenage boys and the blatant sexism and dissillusionment of older guys, but I feel compelled to add a point due to this post:

"I'm also doing a Game Dev/Programming course and of the 50 of us, we still have 6 girls (although a couple transferred out last semester) ranging from very high to mid-low so I wouldn't give up just yet. Of course, this is Australia. "

Heh I have a theory about girls in Australia. My theory is all girls in Australia are beautiful, and there is a reason for my thinking on this.

Every Australian TV program I have watched has beautiful females. Even the old women look like they used to be beautiful when they were younger. Infact I held this belief for many years, until I recently got sky. THEN I finally saw some Australian women who were un-attractive, on re-runs of a show called "Prisoner Cell Block H".

From this the only sensible conclusion to draw is that in Australia it is ILLEGAL to be an ugly female. And I'll drink a tinny of four X to that

[edit] Yee Gods look at them! No wonder they were locked up...
http://www.prisoner-cellblockh.co.uk/images/rare/c_cast_barnhurst_era.jpg
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Lost in Thought
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Posted: 26th Aug 2005 12:41
You people are all crazy

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Posted: 26th Aug 2005 13:15
Quote: "From this the only sensible conclusion to draw is that in Australia it is ILLEGAL to be an ugly female. And I'll drink a tinny of four X to that "


You must be right dude, although why they didn't just escape by tearing through the paper walls, I have no idea.

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Posted: 26th Aug 2005 13:23 Edited at: 26th Aug 2005 13:28
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You must be right dude, although why they didn't just escape by tearing through the paper walls, I have no idea."


Pfft... don't you know australians don't have a sense of common logic? You've seen that documentary "Crocodile Dundee".......

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Posted: 26th Aug 2005 15:01
Heh.. I prefer the Documentary on Police Handling Terrorism attacks, you know Die Hard, The Negotiator, etc. The realism involved makes them awesomely believable.

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Posted: 31st Aug 2005 21:37
Back on topic, ladies and gentleman.

What ever it was, I DID NOT do it!
Flindiana Jones
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Posted: 31st Aug 2005 23:46
I think we have a new girl...Jessica!

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Posted: 1st Sep 2005 00:36
I hear she's well fit









i.e. muscles

"A book. If u know something why cant u make a kool game or prog.
come on now. A book. I hate books. book is stupid. I know that I need codes but I dont know the codes"
Flindiana Jones
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Posted: 1st Sep 2005 00:38
Yeah, and is really hot...

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Posted: 1st Sep 2005 02:55
You do realise Jessica is also a mans name, dont you?

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Ewww...Now my mind is polluted...

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Posted: 1st Sep 2005 05:18 Edited at: 1st Sep 2005 05:19
Quote: " You do realise Jessica is also a mans name, dont you?"


Jessica, I a guy's name? Maybe Jessie, but Jessica!?!? Never heard that one.

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Posted: 1st Sep 2005 05:42
wtf mother would call their son Jessica?

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EDIT: Dear freakin' crap I'm an idiot.

*Goes to shoot self in vital organs*

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@ionstream: I just changed my name. Guess who I am ^_^

Our class, girls in the front. Low-res, but it's all I've got.


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Posted: 1st Sep 2005 07:00 Edited at: 1st Sep 2005 07:01
That one.






I'm going to eat you!

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I'm guessing the girl in the green shirt.
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Posted: 1st Sep 2005 10:08 Edited at: 1st Sep 2005 10:08
anyway a young thiny girl.

sometime ago i've already started a topic like this, but i think my rude english give me a lot nicks like "dork" etc etc.

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Posted: 1st Sep 2005 10:22
Girls most properly don't come on here because everytime they do, you guys start hitting on them, or want to cyber or something else that is plain imature.

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Posted: 1st Sep 2005 13:31 Edited at: 1st Sep 2005 13:42
Jessica is a blokes name! Clearly none of you have ever watched Blackadder the 2nd. Nursey is called Bernard and there's a girl called Kate who's actually called Bob.

Stick that in ya pipe and smoke it! My real name is Alice.

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Happy Joinday Alice

Cheers

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Fallout
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*raises a glass of baby cham* cheers!

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Posted: 1st Sep 2005 17:07 Edited at: 1st Sep 2005 17:07
Thats a Baby cham full of dark rum right? Hic. I'm still on my week long celebration of my Joinday. Well, the one on this *new* forum. Old one was june or july 2000 I think. My memory is failing.

Cheers

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Posted: 1st Sep 2005 17:34
Ahhhh, now it makes sense! I just typed some utter crap in an attempt to disguise the fact I had no idea what you were talking about. Happy join day to me!

Either way, I felt it was appropriate to claim I was drinking a girls drink considering I am now called Alice.

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Quote: "I just typed some utter crap in an attempt to disguise the fact I had no idea what you were talking about"
This seems to be the general opinion.

Cheers

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Posted: 1st Sep 2005 22:15
Quote: "Girls most properly don't come on here because everytime they do, you guys start hitting on them, or want to cyber or something else that is plain imature.
"


I remember about a year ago when I wa here under a differant name and trying to learn DBP, there were a few girls and some of the guys were
doing just that.

BOOM! Awww shucks! There goes the world. again.
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Posted: 1st Sep 2005 22:18 Edited at: 1st Sep 2005 22:18
Half of the worlds population is female.

I like those odds.

Katie Holmes is back!
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...i cant believe i even opened this thread...

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Posted: 1st Sep 2005 22:28
You guys wanna know why the girls left? Because of threads like this:

http://forum.thegamecreators.com/?m=forum_view&t=3966&b=2

http://forum.thegamecreators.com/?m=forum_view&t=9656&b=2


And rememeber that thread where she posted a small picci of her in a bra, and all the nubz0rs started screaming for a larger pic and she got all hissy and left? Yeah, that was funny.


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Pathetic.

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Quote: "And rememeber that thread where she posted a small picci of her in a bra, and all the nubz0rs started screaming for a larger pic and she got all hissy and left? Yeah, that was funny.
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Zomg, Pic plz?

j/k

Kinda sucks... Not like shes coming here just to find a b/f all of a sudden! She was probably just like us, wanted to make games!... Ah well... My sister made a christmas game in Game Maker once ROFLMAO.. I had to help her with the drag and drop coding...


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Posted: 2nd Sep 2005 03:36
Ya know I think it's pathetic if someone leaves just because of the comments from a few immature guys. I mean, get a backbone and just ignore it, or have a go back.

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Why should she have to? Harassment is never right - guys (or indeed, anyone) who harasses a forum member, no matter their gender, should be newb slapped at the very least, and banned in extreme cases. Not everyone is as thick skinned as everyone else - some can take it, some can't - but honestly - why should they have to?

I know I said I wouldn't post in this thread, but hey - I'm weak.

As for girls and games - I work in the industry. I've worked alongside female character artists, level artists, level designers, scripters and I once met one female programmer from Japan. But she was only over here for a little while.

There's whole societies and web forums devoted to females in the games industry. I don't frequent them, because I'm more into games than 'girl power', but that doesn't mean they're not useful to young women who want to get in to games, but are put off by sneering, immature boys telling them that girls don't make games.

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