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  1. Persinette
    If your computer can handle it, the simplest way would be to buy it on Steam. No stock limit on digital content! But if you're not a PC gamer, yeah, you're kinda boned. Good luck, dude.
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    It's because there's a strong difference between gender identification and gender-assigned behaviours. Somewhat like how the only difference between a straight dude and a gay dude is who they want to bone. It's actually a pretty huge difference, but it still has no bearing on their personalities - and no number of social or cultural pressures will turn one of them into the other.
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    Seems so, yes. It's a little baffling.
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    The term transgender is a blanket term that often includes people who identify as transexual. 'Transexual' is also not used to exclusively refer to post-op or pre-op individuals. Non-op trans folk are not omitted from it. Neither the article nor the video within it makes any reference to reassignment surgery, so no-one here can say what her plans are.
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    Generally, when I have writers block I stop trying to write any one thing in particular. Instead I just write completely random scenes, whether or not they're connected to anything else I've been writing. A fight scene here, a purely dialogue piece there... It takes the pressure off and makes it easier to keep writing. There's no panicky feeling of 'oh god, I haven't written anything in a month, I have failed at life '.
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    Wait, trans issues belong in the soapbox? Who are we, Michigan Womyn's Music Festival?
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    42% vs. 58% is not a large divide by any means. Not to mention, 42% of players are female players despite the industry (and gaming culture) often being downright hostile to women. If anything, that should indicate that there is massive untapped market - after all, those players are just the ones who are willing to wade through poor treatment.
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    I admit, I'm not really seeing the difficulty in answering. As I don't have any useful information and, for one reason of another, distrust the originator of the rumour, I would keep a careful eye on my friend while they were around children. I would also keep in mind that being likable doesn't mean they can't have committed atrocities, and that my fondness for them doesn't actually make them a good person. I would not alert the authorities on this shaky a level of knowledge, though.
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    That's funny, because doing so has confirmed that not only does Vito Russo use it to refer to a specific archetype, but so does Richard Barrios in Screened Out. In fact, I do believe that it's a term widely used in queer analysis of early cinema. Who'd have thought it? I don't know if it's your area of interest enough for this to be any use to you, but Richard Barrios' Screened Out is a fantastic book on the subject. I remember Andrea Weiss' Vampires and Violets as being very good as well (and specifically focused on lesbians).
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    It's been a while since I picked up the book (or watched the documentary), but that really doesn't sound like what I remember. The sissy was a fairly specific stock character, not a term used for any portrayal of a gay man.
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    I think this is a little bit of a romanticised way of looking at it. In my experience - occasionally personal experience - it pretty much just consists of one person make an exception for another, and is based more on personalities and circumstances than anything else.
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    To be honest, I've always got the vibe that GA isn't really welcoming to concrit, which is awkward as that feeling puts me off reviewing full stop - even if I enjoy something.
  13. Persinette
    Oh, fine. Rub it in.
  14. Persinette
    And this is where well-negotiated, consensual polyamory comes into play.
  15. Persinette
    You're right. For one thing, they have a very strange idea of what constitutes practical vehicle design. Look at that thing - one sharp left and the situation'll go tits up for everybody.
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    Dude, I totally know this guy you would get on with beautifully. You could spend hours reminiscing about Ye Good Olde Days. Only if we're not counting Soulstorm as canon. Out of curiousity, what is it about their playing style that works for you? For me, n of the reasons was how mobile they are. Hey, don't underestimate the sexy androgynous elves! They are guerilla warfare BAMFS.
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    What armies do you play? What armies do you wish you played? Are there any armies you wish didn't exist? What is it you like the universe and setting? Got any godawful gaming experiences you want to rant about? Tell 'em here! All other GW players - be it Fantasy, Bloodbowl, Necromunda, Lord of the Rings or anything else - feel free to chime in too! EDIT - I hate my keyboard, as it failed to notice me pressing 0 FIVE times. Rest assured, clumber has mocked me soundly for this error.
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    That is a ridiculously cute anecdote and you should feel ridiculously cute. The real challenge would be making a decent story out of this mess.
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    "Welcome to your prostate." If you've been lucky enough to avoid this one you have my burning envy, if you haven't then you know the scene. The characters have got the foreplay out of the way, the nervous bottom has just explained that he's never had sex with a man before, and the top very gently slides a finger in. 'It feels strange, but not painful' the bottom always sodding thinks, but then oh! what is that feeling! Wide eyed, he asks his lover who explains with the aforementioned (bizarrely common) bit of dialogue. Both clunky and deeply unfortunate as, well... Welcome to your prostate, we got fun and games!
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    If you've been as torn up as it sounds, it'll have been showing for a long time and that, combined with her finding the Craigslist ad, may have meant she started emotionally moving on long before you formally agreed to split up. Not that that makes her new relationship any less painful for you, but it doesn't mean that you didn't matter to her, just that she may have already done her mourning. Good luck on getting back into the dating scene! I hope you find yourself a good bloke.
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    Something bouncy always works for me. Sleater-Kinney's One Beat album has a really good steady beat to it. A lot of Ramones stuff is really good, too. (So's peppy europop, if you can handle the complete lack of hip cred.) Really what it comes down to is your own taste. If you've got a problem with getting bored, audiobooks might be a good option.
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    I don't know, V's are a pretty common poly structure and work fine when they're properly maintained, while three-way relationships can be notoriously hard. The sheer amount of emotional work that goes into them, y'know? (And that's not even getting into the gazillion other ways to do poly...) Damn, you must know different men from me. All the ones I know proclaim their lack of emotional interest while picking out the sodding caketoppers! And that's halfway through the second date. Of course, there are open relationships where you date other people, not just have sex with them, so there's something for every kind of person.
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    It looks to me like you're falsely conflating knowledge and/or a very narrow thought process with depth of understanding. In my experience 'you are hurting and I will hurt with you because you are hurt' is a very common human response to distress in a fellow human. Or possibly I'm just a freak?
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    Out of curiosity: does the no-love rule only count for dog-human interactions or is it also apply to intra-canine relationships? Because in my experience dogs certainly grieve the loss of a longtime fellow companion, which would indicate at least strong affection. (Also, isn't there serious scientific contention over what makes a creature 'self-aware'?)
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    To my knowledge, hunting and guard dogs are not bred for aggression; the last character trait you want in a large, powerful dog is uncontrollability. It would be akin to breeding the tendency to chase into a sheepdog. Chihuahua's get an unfairly bad rap, in my opinion. When they're well trained they're perfectly lovely creatures, but prone to the same problems as most small dogs. Many owners encourage or ignore a small dogs bad behaviour because it's 'cute' or 'harmless', but barking or hostility from a small breed is often because their size makes them feel vulnerable. Ignoring this in a dog results in both a dangerous animal and an unhappy, frightened one.
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