I find showers to be very relaxing, idea-inducing places. There's not much to distract your brain, unless you have to put careful thought into lathering your hair (in which case your brain probably doesn't have the best capacity for ideas in the first place).
2. ...are you serious? What if you've never played a video game before? How would you be able to tell anything about the televisual techniques if you didn't know how to play, and thus couldn't get anywhere in the game?
Exactly! And when I'm not showering I usually have things I'm *supposed* to be doing, so I can't relax and think freely the way I can when I have nothing to do for 15-20 minutes besides make myself clean. :)
2. "Video Game" in this context counts as anything from a console/PC game to something like Bejeweled or Pac-Man or Facebook games like Farmtown, so even non-gamers should be able to find something. There were actually a fair amount of people in our class who hadn't played a video game before (which I found boggling - how do you avoid playing any games ever, even casually?) so the teacher reassured them that they didn't have to learn how to play Halo if they didn't want to.
2. Ahhh, that makes more sense. Computer games would be much easier to tackle than the console ones.
Also, it is really super easy to never play a video game! The key ingredients are to have very few friends whom you see outside of class, and have none of them be boys. I'd never even touched a game console until I was, like, 15 and my brother got one. It still seemed uninteresting.
The key ingredients are to have very few friends whom you see outside of class, and have none of them be boys.
But having few friends outside of class was why I played games! It was how I passed the time! And I was playing games long before I started talking to boys, like, at all. Some girls like games all on their own without trying to be "one of the boys", I promise. ;)
I feel like I should leave Pac-Man and the like for people who don't actually play video games, though. If everyone takes up the easy stuff, then the non-gamers have to learn how a controller works and everything.
Oh, dude, don't drop Yuletide! Optional details are truly optional, so if there aren't enough/there's no letter, your recipient is likely happy with everything. DYA letters aren't really all that useful, anyway, honest - Yuletide's one of the only exchanges that has 'em, and I think people overestimate them.
I mostly want to read the letter to make sure I don't accidentally hit my reader's squicks, since I'd prefer my writer to be respectful of mine, but I suppose if it was something they absolutely did not want to see they'd have said so in the request, right? And I'd like to know if they prefer lighter or darker stories on teh whole, or any themes they'd like, or...something. I don't know. Maybe I'll ask on the IRC chat.
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2. ...are you serious? What if you've never played a video game before? How would you be able to tell anything about the televisual techniques if you didn't know how to play, and thus couldn't get anywhere in the game?
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2. "Video Game" in this context counts as anything from a console/PC game to something like Bejeweled or Pac-Man or Facebook games like Farmtown, so even non-gamers should be able to find something. There were actually a fair amount of people in our class who hadn't played a video game before (which I found boggling - how do you avoid playing any games ever, even casually?) so the teacher reassured them that they didn't have to learn how to play Halo if they didn't want to.
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Also, it is really super easy to never play a video game! The key ingredients are to have very few friends whom you see outside of class, and have none of them be boys. I'd never even touched a game console until I was, like, 15 and my brother got one. It still seemed uninteresting.
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But having few friends outside of class was why I played games! It was how I passed the time! And I was playing games long before I started talking to boys, like, at all. Some girls like games all on their own without trying to be "one of the boys", I promise. ;)
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Thanks for the encouragement. *hugs*
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