Posted: June 5th, 2007 | Author: Hellchick | Filed under: Gaming | 1 Comment »
What do women want in a game? What they don’t want, Magnus Bergsson of EVE Online developer CCP says, is to be spaceships. They want to be people, he said in a recent interview.
If you’re an atypical gaming female like me, it’s easy to let a knee-jerk reaction get the best of you and make you want to call him a misogynist or sexist, but if you have that reaction then you need to remember one thing: Magnus Bergsson isn’t talking about you. He’s talking about your average woman, and you know what? He’s right.
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Posted: June 3rd, 2007 | Author: Hellchick | Filed under: Uncategorized | Comments Off
Despite the fact that my picture graces the bulletin boards of every post office across the United States, my friend Matt saw fit to take me to a shooting range in which high-powered explosive weapons would be placed into my hands and I would be allowed — nay, encouraged — to fire them with willful abandon.
This isn’t entirely new to me. Back in high school I was in Marine Corps. Junior ROTC where I was not only a good shot on the air rifle team (I had a sharpshooter medal), but I was able to spend a week in full immersion at Parris Island, Marine Corps. boot camp. Part of the boot camp experience was the M-16 rifle course, and I’m proud to say that I didn’t do too badly, but that experience is a distant memory…
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