The dream girl of every boy still living in the basement with mum and dad!

Honestly, you sound like you are trying and thinking too hard to be be different. Just live it, don't act it. But hey, I don't know you, so what would I know?

Nice write up.

@TaliciaDragonsong said:

What makes me even more of a weird type is the time I spend in game's universes. Played one mission of Starcraft 2, spend the rest of the night reading the wiki/watching Starcraft videos. I know stuff about universes and games I never even touched but I have been wondered by their respective worlds. Their own little beings. I can appreciate franchises for just existing, without having even seen or played them.

I'm like this as well. There has been plenty of times where I have lost an entire night reading about a game's story or universe.

Sick earrings.

@TaliciaDragonsong said:

@AsperGamer: Oh I'm living it, but I think too much about what others are thinking about me. That needs to go and this blog/poem/whatever kind of thing is a step in that direction!

Mine is the opposite. I have no idea what people are thinking - saying about me, until someone tells me. I am oblivious to it. Then I am shocked and surprised that anyone even cares (are their lives that boring?). I regularly get those looks of derision when I mention my hobby. I reply with my face of boredom when they talk about sport. I had a couple of senior management refer to me as "quirky". I don't think that was a compliment and I don't really care.

As Groove Armada said in their song, "if everybody looked the same, we'd get tired of looking at each other". The same applies to who we are and what we do for fun/

The only people I classify as weird are the ones that buy tails and attach them to their pants.

Thanks for sharing?

@TaliciaDragonsong said:

@AsperGamer: I wish I could do that really, but somehow that ain't me. I worry too much and been dependent too much as well. People seem to care, even if its just out of spite or boredom, and I seem to care as well. Which I'm working on changing right now and in due time I'll become better at it. It's just not at all like how I imagined it you know? Like how its all spelled out to be when you're younger...but this ain't that. Quite the shock, the slowly realized kind.

Good luck working on it. I have to be honest though, generally I don't care, but I can be hurt if what is said seems mean spirited. I just don't let them know, and I get over it. I work on the basis that I enjoy my life, so I try to avoid those people that would attempt to bring me down. It all starts from me accepting me as I am, knowing that I am a good and interesting person - I like me. Sure, it is a tad egotistical, but it gets me through the tough times. Again, positive thoughts to your on your life journey. May the karma universe be good to you.

I keep thinking of Gals as Galaxies in Planetside 2, and you're the weird one, yeah.

There's nothing weird or unique in having an opinion and thinking you're right. Everyone does it. There are plenty of other people who like songs, read fluff, and do arts & crafts. Self-expression is the natural process of being, not a conscious effort. Even those you label as 'the flock' are doing what they want, regardless of how boring it appears to you. Maybe dial down that rhetoric, or it gets into Kanye West world-revolves-around-me territory.

As for "its not about you, its about everyone but you"... maybe you're aren't in North America, but everything here is about You, You, You. Absolutely no one is asked or demanded to consider the opinions or well being of others. If you're living elsewhere, perhaps, but in America the entire culture is based around the aggrandizement of the self. The biggest website in the world is entirely about that, about self-realization and expression.

You remind me of my little sister who's ten years younger than me who wears mismatched clothes and has a Harry Potter tattoo all in the hope that someone, somewhere will notice her.

Oh! You're that weird type of gal! GET HER, BOYS!!

@Brodehouse: I half disagree with you. I certainly think people in general seem to be moving toward a mentality of being totally open, finding like minded people, and not caring about anyone else. But at the same time I don't think society as a whole is pushing in that direction. I agree it's about 'You', but more about you impressing other people. People's actions, and to some degree opinions, are absolutely influenced by what other people think/might think, if you don't believe that then it's honestly pretty naive.

@TaliciaDragonsong: Part of the problem might be that (based on your descriptions) YOU think you're so quirky weird. Which, while you may do some less than common things, you're not. Based on what I know(admittedly not a lot) you're pretty normal. It's just when people try to push all the "weird" things that they come off that way. If anyone spent any time with me I bet they would come away thinking I'm perfectly normal, but I could think of some things to talk about that would give the impression to people that I'm pretty weird. I kind of believe that everyone is like this. Some people embrace it more than others, and some people embrace it too much. If you focus too much on what you're concerned about people judging you for, they're gonna focus on it too.

@TopSteer said:

Nice write up.

@TaliciaDragonsong said:

What makes me even more of a weird type is the time I spend in game's universes. Played one mission of Starcraft 2, spend the rest of the night reading the wiki/watching Starcraft videos. I know stuff about universes and games I never even touched but I have been wondered by their respective worlds. Their own little beings. I can appreciate franchises for just existing, without having even seen or played them.

I'm like this as well. There has been plenty of times where I have lost an entire night reading about a game's story or universe.

I'm also like this. Dunno how many universes I've read about and know quite a bit of, but have never played any of the games. Although, I do know a lot about certain universes that I really shouldn't know much on; usually, if I really get into a game or even a book, I end up finding out as much about their universe that I can.

Dem earrings, nice!

@TaliciaDragonsong: Yeah, I started writing my post before you wrote that post.(Though earlier on you did pretty much say that you're worried about other people's opinions and trying to get away from that). If I came off discouraging I didn't mean to. People should absolutely just be happy with themselves regardless of what anyone else thinks(I'm one of those people). I just don't like when people seem to think they're nothing more than the sum of their quirks, which is the impression I got from the initial post. But hey, I was wrong so more power to ya! (I really don't like that phrase..I need something that means roughly the same thing but is less...bleh.)

She's normal then, great! Back to gaming! :D

Are you drunk?

@Grilledcheez: Lovers of dinosaurs?

You are weird on one account. I barely remember any music in Borderlands.

What's the difference, though, between passion and curiosity? You spend twice as much time reading about how a Hydralisk was made than actually playing Starcraft. That's curiosity, right? Or are the two paragraphs mutually exclusive?

Not caring is pretty much the status quo nowadays, so you're more normal than you think.

i can relate. i get obsessed with random stuff at the drop of a hat, learn everytthing i can about it via the internet and then i never quite move on with life even as I find new things to obsess over.

learning about stuff is fun

It's only the Witcher 2 reference stopping me from rolling my eyes at you.

I want one of those earrings.

Dem earrings is dope.

Not that weird at all :)

This is Tali. I'd be weirded out if she wasn't posting this type of stuff (not meant to be a slight).

@TaliciaDragonsong said:

I'm the crazy type of gal that spends her morning in nothing more than socks, panties and a blouse as she browses through the newspaper cutting out words and headlines to make custom quotes on my wall.

...*slowly backs out of blog*

Fun read. Neat earrings. Although I'm upset that this means I might actually have to start taking notice of girls earrings from now on, just to see if one has neat earrings at some point.

@TaliciaDragonsong said:

@Cyrus_Saren: Its great to do! But very confusing with some universes like comics where there's a dozen different versions of earths, heroes or bad guys. What the fuck!

This is why I just can't get in to comics. Well, not the big crazy super hero mythology ones. I'll just read the ones Joss Whedon wrote, and call it a day. That reminds me, he wrote an X-Men series at some point, didn't he? Amazon here I come!

@TaliciaDragonsong said:

@Morrow: You guys are making me confused! I'm not sure if I'm insane or sane now! Argh!

Hey hey, most of the time things aren't that black and white :)

I sometimes doubt my sanity too, but most of the time it's just emotion.

And I can relate to your obsessiveness (if I may call it that) about game's universes. If I'm really captivated by it, I tend to spend a lot of time "there" ^^ Especially if you're someone with a lot of imagination, those worlds can at times be more interesting than reality.

So don't worry too much about yourself and just enjoy what games can give you :)

There are approximately 7,000,000,000 humans on this planet.

A fact worth remembering every now and again, for better and for worse.

Go ahead and try.

In that case, it's a win-win for me.

@TaliciaDragonsong: If all girls had earrings with that much personality then it'd be worth looking at them, but they usually are just jewel-y things of some sort, which just aren't all that noticeable. I think I speak for most guys in this regard. Although, having 8 different jewel-y things in your ears would be noticeable, I suppose. Do you mean 8 piercings on a single ear? Where do they all go?

And just for the record, you're not insane.

Now if you'll excuse me, Valkyria Chronicles just arrived in the mail, and with it my life finally has purpose. These prior 26 years of aimless wandering have all just been a prelude to this moment.

OMG A GAMER GRRL!!!

seriously though,you brought up alot of interesting things but you coated it with alot of "im a girl and yes i play games,deal with it" attitude. why cant you just talk about things without constantly mentioning your a girl or trying so hard to be diffrent?

"hey guys,i just wanted to let you know what i think about the mass effect 3 ending and by the way i have a penis so i think that makes me more unique becuase i have a penis so while im talking please try to remember that i have a penis ok? PENIS."

@DoctorDanger99 said:

"hey guys,i just wanted to let you know what i think about the mass effect 3 ending and by the way i have a penis so i think that makes me more unique becuase i have a penis so while im talking please try to remember that i have a penis ok? PENIS."

I should probably write a blog like that, one of these days.

@TaliciaDragonsong said:

@Video_Game_King: Do moonmen have genitals? Wait, didn't we discuss this before? Oh god.

I feel like everyone, at some point, talks to him about his swinging cod. Although, perhaps on the moon, cod have less of a swing?

Also, the entire Borderlands soundtrack is like that for me. I must have played 400 hours of that game between the various platforms I've played it on.

You remember that which an Earthly woman would rather forget. *laughs it up*