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Old 12-06-2009, 03:19 PM   #2981
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1. You want a game that's out for two platforms, both of which you own. One version has better graphics and loading times, the other has better controls. Which do you choose?
2. What styles of hats look best on your head?
3. Do you snore?
1. Better controls. I like shiny graphics, but I figure the better controls will make it easier for me to enjoy, and frankly, I don't need my graphics to be cutting edge to have fun. As for load times, I play World of Warcraft, where load times are very rare, so it is a factor, but I can live with load times as long as they're not every fifteen seconds.
2. Personally, I've long felt that most hats look wrong on me. that said, I'm most comfortable in the classic English flatcap.
3. Sadly, yes, I have it on very good authority that I snore these days. This was not always the case, but apparently my septum is messed up again.
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1. A few. The Blues Brothers and The Princess Bride are two great ones that people here probably are familiar with (and if you are not, you should be). Local Hero is another one by Mark Knopfler that would be great as a game soundtrack.
Local Hero is one of my all time favourite 'no one remembers this film' films. Fabulous soundtrack.
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1. Do you spend a lot of time doing things you consider important?
2. Are you happy?
3. Do you, do you, do you, do you wanna dance?
1. I'm doing a lot of writing these days, which is very important to me.
2. Generally, yes, for certain values of happy. I can think of a couple of things that would make me happier. But I could be worse off than I am.
3. At the moment, no, but if there was a really hot Latin band playing nearby, I might change my mind. I can't do any Latin dance steps to save my life, but that's never stopped me before.
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1. What film would you go to see 19 times in a row at a movie theatre, if given the opportunity?
2. What do you think of all the hype around Twilight?
3. Would you have been a fan of the Beatles back when they were the targets of screaming teenage girls?
1. None. But I'd sit through Blade Runner, Brazil, Clue, Real Genius or You've Got Mail a few times.
2. Twi-what?
3. Perhaps, but I tend to think I wouldn't have really appreciated them until their Help-to-Abbey Road periods. Their early albums are fun, but they don't grab me as much.
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1. What is the worst illness or injury you have ever had?
2. Which is the superior form of affection; the hug or the kiss?
3. If you could change one aspect of your physical appearance, what change would that be?
1. When I was a young boy, I had a terrible cold that grew to pneumonia, and caused doctors to fear that I would be brain damaged.
2. I'm big on both, but nothing says loving like a friendly kiss.
3. I'd like to look like John Barrowman.
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1. WTF?
2. What would you be willing to share about yourself that we can't figure out by looking at your public profile?
3. What's your biggest regret?
1. Yes, I'd love those fries.
2. I'm a romantic at heart, but I try to appear fairly intellectual.
3. Too many and too sensitive to list here.
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1. Do you eat ice cream in the winter?
2. What is your biggest regret?
3. What is your favorite time of year? Why?
1. When my wife isn't looking, yes.
2. Ummm.. I have no regrets.
3. Winter, for the solitude.
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1. Is there anything you have done or not done a long time ago, that you've just come to realize was a mistake or something that really helped you in later life?
2. What is, in your opinion, the most beautiful car ever built?
3. When are you going to grow up?
1. I would have liked to take m music further than I did back in the 90s.
2. Aston Martin DBS V8.
3. About five minutes before I die. Those last five minutes will be spent apologizing profusely.
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1. What is your favorite musical instrument to listen to?
2. You are forced to take on one of the aspects of a different creature. Which of the following do you choose?
A. To have to shed your skin all at once, like a snake.
B. To have to constantly spit on your food to pre-digest it, like a fly.
C. To have to constantly keep moving in order to breathe, like a shark.
D. To be compulsively drawn to bright lights, like a moth.
3. If you were permanently transported into a video game with only your current real world abilities to survive with, which video game would you like it to be?
1. I think guitar narrowly edges out keyboard/piano, but just barely. I'm also terribly fond of really good drum playing.
2. I think I already do suffer a little bit from D, but only in the metaphorical sense. I suppose the least problematic or revolting to me is A.
3. The Longest Journey.
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1. You are creative director for the next great Role Playing Game. Would you want it be set in a traditional dungeons & dragons fantasy world, a historical period in history, contemporary times, or in a futuristic era?
2. The holiday season is upon us. You are very wealthy and want to throw a 2 week celebration anywhere in the world for all your friends and family. Choose your location.
3. You adventitiously stumble upon a spell tome which, when studied, affords access to a single spell. What spell would you want?
1. I'm thinking that what the world needs now are some contemporaneous RPGs. That said, if I made a living at it, I would devise RPGs for all manner of time period at one point or another. I'm a total genre fiction whore.
2. London, England, simply because I've never been there, and have always wanted to stay there for a time. Otherwise, NYC.
3. To enter and exit fictional worlds.
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1. What's your biggest fear?
2. Do you find the typical physical appearance of any particular nationality more attractive than most others', or are you a variety kind of person?
3. Make up a word. What's it mean?
1. Drowning, followed shortly by going insane.
2. Variety is the spice of life, though I'm picky about which features are most prominent in any given racial physical type.
3. Symprehensionalist - One who thinks a great deal about the points of view of those whom sHe does not necessarily agree with.
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  1. What dreams for your life do you have that you have yet to achieve?
  2. Have you ever found yourself attracted to a person only after you've spoken with them after not being not physically attracted to them initially?
  3. Have you ever paid more than $19.95 for an adventure game?
1. I have yet to write, render or record anything that has been published/distributed/sold and received justly-deserved critical acclaim.
2. Yes. I find that most people I've ever been attracted to on a more than purely sexual level have won me over by sheer dint of their fascinating personalities. I've also met people who were physically very attractive to me but absolutely ruined it for me by opening their mouths.
3. Yes. I spent a good $80 or thereabouts for the limited edition boxed set of Dreamfall. That's merely the most expensive.
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  1. How many languages do you speak?
  2. What do think about imigrants in your country?
  3. Would you like to visit Brazil someday?
1. English and a little bit of French, but not much.
2. I have absolutely no problems with immigrants in Canada. We were all immigrants at one time, and I don't think any one race has any more claim on this land than any other. That said, I wish I had a better ear for thick Asian accents. I always feel like a hopeless clod trying to understand the average call center employee.
3. Actually, yes I would.
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  1. Could you move to and spend the rest of your life in a country you were not born and raised in?
  2. If so, are we talking about being in an ex-pat community, or total emersion in the new culture?
  3. If not, why?
1. I believe so, but I've never actually done it, so I could be fooling myself.
2. I have to confess that I would probably seek out at least some fellow Canadians, at least to start, unless it were an English speaking country. My command of foreign languages is all but non-existent, and I'd need help getting acclimated.
3. I would not want to live in a country that had a high percentage of domestic military enforcement in place. I have absolutely no desire to wake up in a police state or be subject to the whims of a military coup.
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Old 12-06-2009, 10:03 PM   #2982
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1. Research options. I'm mostly an autodidact, which means I have learned most of what I know by finding out myself.
2. I would buy extra stuff for it.
3. I don't care what other people think about my household so no Christmas tree for me!

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1. Why is polygamy frowned upon in most civilizations?
2. Would you like to have more than one partner?
3. Why is nudity such a big issue nowadays? In the middle ages people did everything together, including bathing and making love.
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Old 12-07-2009, 04:32 AM   #2983
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1. Religion, I suppose, and social conditioning and all that stuff.
2. Nope. I'd prefer monogamy, to be honest.
3. People will feel good about themselves and not buy products to ease their paranoia! Clothes are also pretty convenient for cold weather, too, and its just the done thing to wear them most of the time.
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Old 12-07-2009, 02:52 PM   #2984
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I'd like to look like John Barrowman.
Why? Admittedly, I haven't seen many things with him in them, but he looks like a boring generic Hollywood celebrity to me. I prefer you just the way you are. You've got character.

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I think guitar narrowly edges out keyboard/piano, but just barely. I'm also terribly fond of really good drum playing.
Really? Don't you also play bass? I like the sound of bass guitars much more than the sound of regular guitars. But then again, guitar in general is such a vanilla instrument, perhaps second only to piano. Doesn't mean such instruments can't sound fantastic in capable hands, but still... they're too ubiquitous for me to want to take the time to master. Plus, I'm a lot more impressed by beautiful sounds coming from more unusual instruments.

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The Longest Journey.
But how would you manage the inflatable duck puzzles?

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1. Why is polygamy frowned upon in most civilizations?
2. Would you like to have more than one partner?
3. Why is nudity such a big issue nowadays? In the middle ages people did everything together, including bathing and making love.
1. Because while love theoretically has no boundaries, time and resources spent towards other people are finite and limited in quantity.
2. I don't believe I can handle one partner at all right now, let alone more than one.
3. Don't know about the rest of society, but I stand to reason that my personal problems with nudity would completely vanish if women's bodies weren't universally considered as public property.

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1. Do you like loud music?
2. What's the most unusual instrument you can think of whose sound you enjoy?
3. What's the most unusual genre of music that you enjoy?
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Old 12-07-2009, 03:19 PM   #2985
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1. Because while love theoretically has no boundaries, time and resources spent towards other people are finite and limited in quantity.
This is a very nice observation

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3. Don't know about the rest of society, but I stand to reason that my personal problems with nudity would completely vanish if women's bodies weren't universally considered as public property.
Public property!? Where on Earth do you live that makes you think that? That sounds awfully strong for such a personal problem! I'm not sure what you're trying to say there. Is it something to do with the glamourisation and with it the homogenisation of the female form?

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1. Do you like loud music?
2. What's the most unusual instrument you can think of whose sound you enjoy?
3. What's the most unusual genre of music that you enjoy?
1. It depends on the music. The good stuff deserves to be turned up to 11.
2. The Clavioline as demonstrated in the wonderful " Baby You're a Rich Man".
3. I think it's probably ambient / 'minimalistic ambient drone'. Like this and this. It really gets under my skin like no other genre. Failing that chip music like this woo!

I've got to go right now! So I'll pass those fine questions right on
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Is it something to do with the glamourisation and with it the homogenisation of the female form?
That's exactly it in a nutshell. I take it you've never had to actually live the experience of being judged as a body first and foremost and a person second, huh?
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1. Why is polygamy frowned upon in most civilizations?
2. Would you like to have more than one partner?
3. Why is nudity such a big issue nowadays? In the middle ages people did everything together, including bathing and making love.
1. Polygamy is not frowned on by all cultures. Mostly just the western ones. Christianity and modern Judaism espouse binary marriage because it fits their more Apollonian ideals better, and keeps bloodlines simple for political purposes, as well as simplifying inheritance to some extent. Children by multiple wives (or through multiple husbands, assuming matriarchy, which we haven't seen in the western world for so long, there is virtually no record of it ever having been) creates a great deal of potential in-fighting.
Personally, I believe this was more of a problem back when married couples were encouraged to have many children (infant fatality isn't as prevalent in modern society). In modern families, where there are rarely more than two or three, and most children are expected to grow up and go on to do their own thing, rather than go into the family business, it seems much less problematic to me. But I still don't expect to see polygamy legalized in my lifetime.
2. Personally, yes, but it's not practical for my current relationship.
3. Because prudish post-Hellenic societies invented what we now call slut-shaming, which is one of the greatest hypocrisies we've been saddled with. This notion that mature women are forbidden to enjoy their sexuality in any way they choose creates far more evil than it does good (not to mention the male double standard, and the very stilted limitations placed on male sexual expression as well).
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Why? Admittedly, I haven't seen many things with him in them, but he looks like a boring generic Hollywood celebrity to me. I prefer you just the way you are. You've got character.
'Cuz he's actually Scottish, and he's hawt. (but thank you, sweetie).
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Really? Don't you also play bass? I like the sound of bass guitars much more than the sound of regular guitars. But then again, guitar in general is such a vanilla instrument, perhaps second only to piano. Doesn't mean such instruments can't sound fantastic in capable hands, but still... they're too ubiquitous for me to want to take the time to master. Plus, I'm a lot more impressed by beautiful sounds coming from more unusual instruments.
Yes, I play bass, and I enjoy great bass playing as well. There are just far fewer examples of truly exceptional bass playing. I can name quite a few more guitar players whose music impresses me than I can bass players.
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But how would you manage the inflatable duck puzzles?
Well, I certainly wouldn't start devising Rube Goldberg devices to do what I can do much more efficiently by jumping in and doing it by hand or with a perfectly reasonable and effective tool. The key I would simply jump down and grab when no one was looking and no train was approaching. That train track wasn't that far down. Even a magnet on a string makes more sense. If there's fear of a third rail, just get something non-conductive like a wooden tong or chopsticks to pick it up. No need to be fishing flotation devices out of the canal.
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3. Don't know about the rest of society, but I stand to reason that my personal problems with nudity would completely vanish if women's bodies weren't universally considered as public property.
This saddens me. It makes me wish for a world that is still a long way off from becoming a reality. I hope I see it in my lifetime.
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1. Do you like loud music?
2. What's the most unusual instrument you can think of whose sound you enjoy?
3. What's the most unusual genre of music that you enjoy?
1. Not as loud as I used to, but there are still some songs that get turned up to an acceptably boisterous level, when the mood takes me.
2. The Theremin.
3. I enjoy some 20th Century compositions.
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That's exactly it in a nutshell. I take it you've never had to actually live the experience of being judged as a body first and foremost and a person second, huh?
What the bloody hell makes you assume that I haven't? Being a particularly rake like figure seemingly made entirely of knees got me nothing but bullshit, afterall, we all know what men "should" look like. It's not just women who've had their form "homogenised" you know.

I'd love to continue this but it's dream time for Mr Bubbles.
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Because prudish post-Hellenic societies invented what we now call slut-shaming, which is one of the greatest hypocrisies we've been saddled with. This notion that mature women are forbidden to enjoy their sexuality in any way they choose creates far more evil than it does good (not to mention the male double standard, and the very stilted limitations placed on male sexual expression as well).
While I'm not one for slut-shaming, I'm also wary of overly idyllic views of ancient Greek society. Things weren't necessarily all perfect and wonderful "until those stupid prudish Christians came along and ruined everything". Particularly not for women...

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Yes, I play bass, and I enjoy great bass playing as well. There are just far fewer examples of truly exceptional bass playing. I can name quite a few more guitar players whose music impresses me than I can bass players.
But doesn't that make the bass players more impressive, rather than less? Scarcity equals value and all that? I don't know, maybe it's just me and my obsession with uniqueness.

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Actually, I like Squinky's questions. Passing them along.
*sigh* Fine, I'll just answer them myself.

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1. Do you like loud music?
2. What's the most unusual instrument you can think of whose sound you enjoy?
3. What's the most unusual genre of music that you enjoy?
1. No. I like music to be loud enough for me to hear clearly, but once it turns earsplitting, I get cranky. Yes, even if it's music I like.
2. The tubax. (i.e. a contrabass saxophone) I particularly like the rendition of "Stardust" featured on that page. So delightfully deep and croaky.
3. Balkan brass band music is pretty unusual where I come from.

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1. How do you calm yourself down when you're under a lot of stress?
2. How do you cheer yourself up when you're sad?
3. How do you entertain yourself when you're bored?
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What the bloody hell makes you assume that I haven't? Being a particularly rake like figure seemingly made entirely of knees got me nothing but bullshit, afterall, we all know what men "should" look like. It's not just women who've had their form "homogenised" you know.
Indeed. And if you think it's bad for you, just try to imagine how much worse it would be if you were a woman.
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Indeed. And if you think it's bad for you, just try to imagine how much worse it would be if you were a woman.
It's the same thing though; only women have been dragged through the mud for a lot longer! Of course that matters but when all's said and done it's just the way capitalism works and will always work; glamourise everything, make people endlessly want said glamour until they buy into it all. Celebrity culture, Sex in the City, music videos, lifestyle magazines, the fashion world, fragrance adverts, did I mention Sex in the City? The sooner people, not just women, realise this the sooner we can all just put away this broken record and get on with being real and not harbouring such anxiety about ourselves. I don't think this sort of cultural oppression will falter nearly as much as we hope because there are too many people chasing the dream with their pockets.

My apologies if I'm coming across harshly but this sort of stuff really gets me going Having said all this, the whole Jade Raymond fiasco really pissed me off and revealed just how pathetic many male gamers really are. I do agree with what you're saying but I just think 'public property' sounds a bit mawkish and not a phrase I'd expect from someone introducing a site like the Border House! Anyway, for fear of derailing this thread feel free to pm me, I'd love to hear your thoughts on all this patent nonsense
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Euhm, what is the Jade Raymond fiasco?
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I was going to summarise the incident but it's been covered far more clearly than I can articulate here in various places on the interwebs. A good place to start is here. There's also this one that features many articles on the matter (in the 'here' links at the top).

It's probably the most appropriate incident to illustrate Squinky's comment about "the experience of being judged as a body first and foremost and a person second".
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Thank you! O how pathetic and stupid men can be. It's scientifically proven, BTW, that men become even more stupid when they see a beautiful woman.
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I have a far better impression of the men in my life than that. Now, can we get back to the questions, already?
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1. How do you calm yourself down when you're under a lot of stress?
2. How do you cheer yourself up when you're sad?
3. How do you entertain yourself when you're bored?
1. Cigarette
2. Music
3. TV
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Thank you! O how pathetic and stupid men can be. It's scientifically proven, BTW, that men become even more stupid when they see a beautiful woman.
You know, I don't think I like you.
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1. How do you calm yourself down when you're under a lot of stress?
2. How do you cheer yourself up when you're sad?
3. How do you entertain yourself when you're bored?
1. A week ago I was at this vile party masquerading as a bar mitzvah celebration, which is apparently par for the course in America now. The constant techno music was so loud I was concerned for my ears' well-being, and so bad that I was concerned for my brain's well-being. It was in a hotel. So I went out to the mostly-quiet hotel lobby, sat down at their grand piano, and started playing whatever popped into my head continuously. That's what I do to calm down.

2. I can't, really. All I can do is pace around to try to understand the sadness, and then try to move on. I can't really find entertainment when I'm sad, just regret that the rest of life can't be more like the entertainment.

3. Music, thinking, playing games, reading comics, watching TV shows, or browsing the web. The trouble, with all those options, is that I rarely reach a state of boredom in the first place.


1. If you were living in a different country, which one would it be?

2. If you were living on a different planet, which one would it be?

3. If you were living in a different kind of existence, which one would it be?
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I have a far better impression of the men in my life than that. Now, can we get back to the questions, already?
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1. How do you calm yourself down when you're under a lot of stress?
2. How do you cheer yourself up when you're sad?
3. How do you entertain yourself when you're bored?
1. I'm not sure I do calm myself down. I think I languish in it until it naturally goes away. I suppose in the past I have been known to go to sleep which sort of resets my senses.
2. I don't really try to cheer myself up either. I think I just let it all out, try to understand and accept it then try to move along. Failing that, again, I go to sleep.
3. I never get bored, there's too much to do. Honestly, a quiet moment of nothingness is wonderful to me.

EDIT: Beaten by Mori! A couple of my answers to Squinky's questions resemble yours too

To answer Mori's questions:

1. I'm not so sure, but I've always been interested in Canada.
2. Assuming whatever fatal environmental hazards won't affect me I'd probably say Mercury just to really see the sun up close. That would be unbelievable.
3. I think I'm lost on this one. Existence? I don't know how to answer that.

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1. Do you like horror films/games/books?
2. What is the scariest you've witnessed? As in scary-creepy, not scary-jumpy.
3. Why do you think that was?
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