Comments | pointedview: Ask me meme

pointedview

Ask me meme

Jan 10, 2006 15:34

Pilfered from streamweaver:

We think that we know so much about one another through LiveJournal, but chances are good that we know less than we think. Ask me something you believe you should know about me, something that should be obvious, but that you have no idea about.

Then, post this in your LJ and find out what people don't know about you.

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Comments 8

streamweaver January 10 2006, 20:38:08 UTC

What is your goal in studying aspects of computer gaming?

pointedview January 10 2006, 21:49:30 UTC

Well, I'd say that my husband truly studies the mechanics and components of game design ... he's more of a student of that. My area of interest is perhaps a smaller subset of that: what aspects of gameplay specifically appeal to female gamers, and how to make a game that has genuine appeal for both genders, or at least manages not to alienate one while appealing to the other. I'm interested in gamer psychology and behaviors in online space.

I do so wish that someone would either do a big study or fund us to design a big, really comprehensive study to get some answers that were based on good scientific design and hard evidence. I have plenty of evidence from talking with people and other sources, but I'd like something really definitive to shove under the noses of people who still believe, to this day, that women don't play computer games!

Thanks for the meme, and for the question! :)

mumpish January 11 2006, 12:54:37 UTC

OK, here we go ....

I've known you longer than just about anyone, and over that time I've noticed your politics drift decidedly to the left. You've always been to the left of me, but I've noticed over the course of the years that we've agreed less and less about certain positions I'd characterize as far-left.

Do you even agree that you've shifted? Or would you suggest that I've drifted to the right? If you agree, do you think it's a reaction to D's decided conservatism, or is it something else?

pointedview January 11 2006, 15:28:10 UTC

Not to sound pretentious, but I think I'm in kind of a post-modern place in terms of politics. Demosthenian was such an accelerated course in that, that I feel like I've heard just about every basic position there is. I think it bugs D. a bit, because that experience makes me look at positions with a lot of detachment, where he gets all passionate and riled ( ... )

pointedview January 11 2006, 15:28:34 UTC

(more, cause LJ said my previous post exceeded comment length)

It's not even that discussion isn't constructive ... I just find that other discussions are a lot more constructive for me personally than politics, because I'm more likely to hear new things and, thus, learn. With politics, it's almost a given that I've heard it before somewhere at some time, and I don't learn or gain enlightenment from excessive repetition.

It's not disinterest, it's not a lack of caring, it's just more like having taken the same class four or five times from the same professor, with all the same classmates each time. We've pretty much exhausted the possibilities, we're in the diminishing returns area, and it's time to move on to something else for a little while until there's something new to achieve.

pointedview January 11 2006, 15:45:14 UTC

More evidence for my overall recent boredom with politics: I haven't made a post on something directly related to it since the very beginning of September. My focus seems to be on almost anything but that right now. Maybe I'll have more of an appetite for it after we find a house, but maybe not, too.

organfailure January 12 2006, 18:36:34 UTC

Do you have a southern accent?

And...

I know you're 35, and I've read that you might want children. What are your thoughts on this? And the timing?

pointedview January 12 2006, 21:37:34 UTC

That's two questions, you know. :) I'll count one for you, and one for D., given his, erm, earlier sacrifices. :)

Many people I meet are surprised when they learn that I'm from Georgia. "But you don't have a Southern accent!" they exclaim. It's true: my only verbal "tell" that I'm from this part of the country is my tendency to use the word y'all. Otherwise, my years spent in the theatre and in radio tend to override the tendency to drawl, although I suspect it may resurface as the years go by.

Speaking of years going by, I strongly suspect I'll go through this life without children. Time is running out. Were we already settled and in a house, my answer might -- might -- be different, however, being this age and feeling no real longing suggests that it's probably not going to happen. I feel like I ought to, but a sense of societal obligation is not exactly the foundation for a loving, nurturing environment, so it's not a good enough reason ( ... )