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Yeah, see, again, you keep discussing "qualities" that you think are male and qualities you think are female... which isn't really what I am describing -- which is more of an inherent experience versus looking at yourself as a collection of qualities and then trying to derive what gender you are...

*gasp*

For me, it was always seeing all of my deficiencies and feeling like I should know more / be better at everything I do. It can create problems because it seems naturally confident people might be below par but get attention because they just believe they're right; people who struggle with...

I'm not even sure what a "female personality" is -- and that is where some of the social confusion is coming from, because the "cues" for genders can be muddled and mixed with actual identification with a certain gender -- it is not the same as intrinsically just having an ingrained sense of...

Hob, from Vertigo's "The Sandman".... we all love to bitch, but does anyone ever want to pull the trigger?

I have an account there but haven't posted in months/years.

Well, here is what I actually said: probably best not to paraphrase me with emotionally laden language. I find it interesting too how some people use language to "flag" their gender from the surface level. For example, I almost never use words like "icky" or "tummy" or "yummy" .... they just...

naw. The bear vortex.... that's a delightful idea, that's gonna stick with me a long time. ;)

Well, I am having fun in both of my campaigns. Pathfinder: The pally with oracle dip I mentioned before is level 6 now. She worships Day, Ray, and Shay (three voices that speak directly into her mind, although she will sometimes see golden light shining down) -- they're actually three gods...

Another factor is that men traditionally have used more certain methods of self-extermination... guns, cars, whatever else. Females are more liable to go for "soft deaths" (pills and so forth) that offer more potential for failure. I do think there is a problem in the feminist arena with...

my thoughts:

Well, eternity was more frightening to me when young -- if you live forever in some form, there is no boundary and no ending, and that's pretty terrifying because it's too big to comprehend. Anyway, as I got older and death became more a possibility (and I might only have anywhere from 20-40...

yeah, it's one of my favorite Tarantino movies and movies in general.. it's odd, its not that it's particularly deep (or at least not deep in a cogitative sense.... although on a PRIMAL level it's deep.... woman tries to assert independence, woman is punished, woman loses her baby, woman seeks...

Well, I was a mod and admin over at TypC probably for a total of 6-7 years, and I've been on staff at Pers Cafe for three years, including running the place for the last fifteen months. It has its good points and bad points. I like working on the exec stuff... policy issues, helping people...

That's the spirit! and to fill people with anticipation and Hope again... is that not worth the forum's weight in gold?

saw mother! today (Darren Aronofsky, starring Bardem and Lawrence). oh dear god lol! I think I liked it. But I understand why some might despise it. It's less a thinking movie than an experiential movie... although now some hours after I saw it, i find myself still thinking about it and trying...

Li'l innocent me? But I B innocent! ... and there is nothing that PMJ can do to stop us/me!

hey now maybe i've ALWAYS been baron's bitch but simply never told anyone :p mua ha ha ha. Yes, curiosity killed the gopher. Cuz after that ten minutes of vanity searching in the modbox, you are then trapped doing mod duty indefinitely.... this is the only site I am a regular member of that...

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Yay! PMJ finally embraced his ENTJness. .... okay, excuse me for a moment while I go watch Cassini burn.

I finally watched "Hush" on Netflix -- Mike Flanagan (Oculus) directed. it was ehhhhh. It really tried to do something new -- the stalked victim is deaf and this creates certain complications for her, since we take a lot of things about our ability to hear for granted. If you don't have...

Yeah, I find that my role in a relationship with female friends will have to be focused on the things I am good at -- (1) I'm a good listener and quick to understand what my friends are telling me and (2) I provide really good sensible advice. I've figured out how to deliver truth in ways that...

It's hard to draw a bead on someone when I can't get a clear shot. :smoker:

Long periods of pain would suck. Something quicker, even if it hurts for a split second, would be better. Maybe I could have my intrinsic field removed and become the next Doctor Manhattan. I mean, pain is pain. All you have to do is endure it, if you know how much, and avoid suffering too much...

Well, then.... gratz a week early! At least you didn't lurk for eight years like some.

It's hard to pick a "favorite" superhero when I've been tracking comics for what, almost 40 years? I mean, there's lots of different runs on different series that I've really liked. Sometimes I am into more positive heroes (like Spiderman), other times I could really get into stuff like "The...

Anyway: 1) how good at spotting lies are you? How do you know this? "Thinking" helps to process stuff but I've seen smart people pay more attention to their own thought process than observing how a person is behaving and putting themselves in the person's shoes. So I got better, the more I...

well I'm supposed to watch my salt intake, baby, but it's just Too. Damn. Good. Naw. You'll always be TheManBeyond to me. Yeah, I get it. Sometimes the discussions can feel a bit obsessive. Look at how many people are fervently in disagreement on what someone's type is, for example... and...

Re: Can't think of a title Oh come on, admit it Cog -- you've never met a tentacle you didn't like. :kodama1:

Rewatched Solaris (2002) again, so that I can then watch the Tarvosky version (1972) that I just picked up this weekend. I understand the two movies are different in approach and content, and the author hadn't seen the 2002 version and was critical. But honestly, it's a solid if stream-lined...

I am looking forward to watching that. Every year I watch scary movies for 13 days leading up to Halloween (a wide variety of sub-genres), and I bought the Criterion version of "Don't Look Now" over the summer when I found it on sale, so it is on my list for this year and I've been saving it to...

Not really sure why you resurrected an eight year old thread responding to some guy who hasn't been here for forever.... ... but I actually really liked the first reboot movie. The second one was pretty awful in how it cribbed from Wrath of Khan and kind of cheapened it. Abrams totally...

I tend to be either super-casual (t-shirt sometimes with art or funny quips or imaginative stuff, plus jeans/shorts/cargo/sweatpants + sneakers or sandals, I also like zip-off sweatshirts) or I go for something kind of shabby chic/eclectic/bohemian in nature, including silver and unique jewelry...

HAHAHAHA! The trial of Arya went exactly how I hoped it would go down. That is all I will say right now. This actually was a pretty decent episode, aside from the "magically teleporting army" that opened things. There were some very strong dramatic moments. I'm glad they could at least...

Three months isn't much time, and there are things beyond personality issues that could cause miscommunication, incompatible expectations, and so on. Everyone has a different level of threshold for what amount of risk they are willing endure, how much emotional intensity they need in a...

Yeah. It pretty much boils down to that. What hasn't killed you can make you stronger... but sometimes it just kills you and/or just disables you so that it's difficult to get past -- that's the more realistic thing. There's the old adage that history is dictated by the "winner" and that's the...

That was my 2008 list. Here is my current list (with only one movie per director), but there's so many movies I might interchange here on a given day.... - Endless Sunshine of the Spotless Mind [Gondry] - The Prestige [Nolan] - Donnie Darko [Anderson] - Sunshine [Boyle] - Children of Men...

Well, I referred to it as shoddy tinfoil because there really is no real setup for it. Decent writing would be putting more solid allusions into it; the story is not being told in a way that it's really coherent, these things should not feel like they are coming out of left field because then...

I think you are taking this far more seriously than I am. or at least laboriously. Look around in life. Get an idea of what might look good, feel good, taste good, be worth your while, etc. We do this all day, all the time. It's what allows us to make basic choices. I am sure you do it too, if...

Did watch the pilot for Pushing Daisies last night. Fuller's stuff is always very stylized and subjectively surreal, although this show and Hannibal are on opposite things of the Light / Dark spectrum. PD is pretty light and airy, with a lot of witty banter but nothing outside the social...

I am still watching too because I want to see how it ties up, but basically for some of its early run, this was a show where I could rewatch episodes and still enjoy them. There's very little in the later seasons I want to rewatch, I've found. The writing w/ its inconsistencies has mostly become...

Don Davis' work on the Matrix trilogy was one of the highlights of the film series, considering how the quality of the story/script dipped by the last film. Mansell (The Fountain soundtrack rocks, but other stuff by him too) and Zimmer are pretty great at what they do (Zimmer is always...

Hannibal. Damn, really, NBC? But I guess it wasn't a cash cow for them. In good news, now that two years have passed, I guess the rights have freed up or something, and Bryan Fuller was pursuing possibly getting another season out. Heroes was a series I was hoping could get one more chance...

Like noted, once they went off-book, all the stuff Martin usually took care of is being ignored completely. I heard they are spending $10 million an episode this season? I don't know if that's true, but their dragon special effects are pretty great -- I mean, it looks good even in HD. But...

Looking forward to the first movie in the "IT" series in a few weeks. The director at least grasps the material, initial trailers and comments are decent, and it can't possibly be more disappointing than "The Dark Tower" so I guess that is something. Why not just be interested/excited about a...

Since the thread was resurrected, I guess I'll provide closure on my Les Mis experience (the Jackman version). While some people prefer more operatic voices, I actually like rawer voices... as long as they're "spot on". Also, cinematic musicals are different than stage musicals, where...

I know one thing that does not sit well with me is pervasive judgmentalism, and Paul's got that in spades. Inside he's always judging, and then waving his finger around outwardly, and arguing why something isn't his fault. In a way, sometimes he can come across as if he's creating a victim out...

That's my read on it. People who grow up in a non-religious world / not immersed in a socioreligious environment or who align with their environment probably don't grasp it without a parallel experience. (US society seems more post-Christian, although there's a lot of recent pushback from...

I've kind of dropped, then picked up, then dropped, then picked up... back and forth over the months. I just started trying to finish off the final week of Season 2. Acting is superb. But yeah, Paul can be really irritating -- seems like an e1 type (1w2?). The way he rages at Gina all...

Oh, hey there, Limey. Long time no see. :D chad will live long in our memories.