Finally a moment to breathe. What a whirlwind life has been lately. There’s been a small positive change in my life in general. I can see a little ray of light penetrating through the mountain of deadlines and expectations crushing me. Maybe I am finally past the bottom of the valley and starting to ascend. The special lecture I attended yesterday, “Gender, Lies and Video Games: The Truth About Females and Computing” was not what I expected. It was given by a wrinkly old prune of a woman who I’m sure has never ever played a video game in her entire life. I was expecting a talk on the female image in video games and discussion on this. Maybe even a slideshow with a Dead or Alive girl or two. (I had way too much fun making this image below ).
2025 me here: What could this missing image have been?
There was none of this. It was all about how to encourage more women to enter into Computer Science and Engineering. So boring and all common sense. A discussion on how the portrayals of women in Video Games impacted society would have been so much more fun and interesting. Anyway it was a packed house and filled with old people (it was a memorial lecture, so I think a lot of them were family of the deceased.). So annoying that I wasted my time on it.
In other news, I just woke up and am starving. There is no food here. I guess I should finally go do groceries. I am training at work tonight again… I think I will just go sleep in the break room all night and make my peon do everything. So… not a whole lot different from last night…
The Ancient Undergrad 
I did groceries yesterday: peanut butter, bread, and cat food.
you should get waffles.
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I still don’t know your name and what program you’re in. So curious.
Sorry that presentation thing sucked.
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thanks for stopping by my site! maybe they should’ve retitled that seminar, Sex, Lies and Geriatrics? I enjoyed all your posts, especially the drunk one, aren’t those fun! I’ll be sure to keep dropping by your site in the future, great reads are hard to find!
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lol. big let down eh?
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awesome site:) thanks for the comment!
M
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Why is it that anytime they discuss videogames at a school or on the news, they get some tard who hasn’t played anything since Frogger. Even worse, Steven Spielburg recently gave a speech at the dedication of the EA gaming lab at USC. You would think he might know something, but no. He thinks that games aren’t enough like movies. He also said something to the effect of games should have plots, sort of like books (he had a quote where he said “level 7 of a game should be like chapter 7”).
To make a long story short – never hire Spielburg to speak about anything except why he replaced the guns with walkie talkies in ET. …and if you want to know about women in games, go read Playboy instead of going to class.
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