Gaming sans parental whining (original) (raw)
Below are the 20 most recent journal entries recorded inChildfree Gamers' LiveJournal:
Saturday, July 16th, 2011
1:03 am
[limbodog]
Minecraft So I'm addicted. I think it's one of the best new video games in a decade. And while you can play solo, which is nice, it gets kind of old.
I had a private server with a few friends, but they all went back to FPS's and things with more asplosions. So i found myself a large hosted server full of strangers. And it's an excellent server with lots of nice additions and mods; the admins are good people; it's always hopping.
But the problem is that it's swarming with young'uns.
le sigh. It's not toddlers, but it's still an assault on the senses.
Friday, June 10th, 2011
6:28 pm
[stahlelf]
Reason #134 why I love being childfree... ....is because I can buy my own games for myself with the money I worked for, and not have to buy any for some snot-nosed brat like the one I saw at Fred Meyer yesterday who wanted a Wii game that his mother eventually bought for him. While I got myself both Spore and LoZ: Twilight Princess just for the hell of it . :)
Current Mood: 
high
Sunday, September 12th, 2010
2:37 pm
[internetcouple]
THIS IS A MUST SEE FOR ANY VIDEO GAMERS
Sunday, August 22nd, 2010
9:25 pm
[mythdefied]
Steam? Any fellow/sister CFers here using Steam? If you'd like another friend there who's CF, please do add me. Same user name as my LJ account.
Sunday, August 8th, 2010
9:35 pm
[shadowwolf75]
Another day, another irrational and blogging moo . . . http://www.theladiesmonthly.com/2010/08/beware-of-the-video-game-menace/
Just a warning, that link is rather painful to read . . . I'd almost think it was a troll post if I didn't know there actually are people out there that believe every last word of this shit. This article contains such gems as:
Video games won’t teach your kids how to study, find a spouse, or raise their children. They will also undoubtedly make your children depressed, lazy, and suicidal.
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The repetitive grind with no true reward will make them bored with normal life, but with such stunted imagination from playing other people’s imagined games, they will not have any recourse to kick the gaming habit.
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A fair number of children who played videogames have become killers, murdering their friends, family, and helpless animals. Video games lead to murderous ideation and a lack of empathy for other things that feel. Your kids will be used to killing without physical reprocussions.
Even with that amount of sheerly epic fail, you should be amused that most of the comments (by anyone other than the original author) so far seem to be ripping the article to shreds.
Current Mood: 
bitchy
Sunday, January 3rd, 2010
6:03 am
[lots42]
Grand Theft Auto Remember the 'Hot Coffee' Grand Theft Auto controversy? Well, the sex in it was -consensual-. It disturbs me to no end the parents were bitching about consensual sex and not the yanno, cop murders. For example.
Tuesday, August 25th, 2009
8:59 am
[felflowne]
8:24 am
[thaily]
Mini MMORPG survey I know there's people here who play various MMORPGS and I have to ask..
Do you ever get people who ask you "Do you want to help me?" rather than "Could you help me?"
Because I do, quite a bit actually. Just these last two days I got it twice, first someone needed me so they could mentor down and try to get a certain robe. All I had to do was be in the same zone and I had some quests there so I agreed. Except at some point I'd bitten off more than I could chew, broke off the encounter by yelling for help and ran away so I wouldn't die.
But rather than ask "Are you okay?" or "Do you need a hand?" he just told me "Don't call for help" because it broke off his encounter as well.
It's not like I go around calling for help and breaking encounters for the fun of it :/
So I degrouped and he sent me a tell saying "I guess you don't want to help anymore :("
I never "wanted" to help, when he asked if I wanted to help I already told him "Want? Not especially, but if you need a hand with something I might be able to." It's not like I log in with the thought of "Let's go find some socially inept lvl 80 character with his epic weapon to help him farm for an expensive robe."
Yesterday a guildie needed help with something, he asked normally so I relogged to a more useful character and went off into the ass-end of nowhere to help him with his thingie. Just as we were finishing said thingie, another (new) guildie goes "Hey, after this, do you guys wanna go to X to help me get a quest update?" and lateron "Whatta ya guys think of my offer?"
To run off to the other ass-end of nowhere to do a huge, time consuming instance when it's already late at night like it's some boy-howdy-golly-gee-freakin'-awesomesauce offer? No thanks.
Yeah I know I'm rambling, I'm just not sure where this "You wanna help me?"-thing came from, I've always asked "Could you help me?" and usually in association with the word "please", especially if I'm imposing on people to get an update no-one else needs.
In short; Do I want to help you? No. Could I? Probably.
Current Mood: 
contemplative
Monday, August 24th, 2009
3:29 pm
[stahlelf]
During a fit of insomnia, I decided to do some Wintergrasp fights as my Ally to rack up some honor and stone shards last night. I was sorta late in coming in, so as I ran towards one of the siege workshops, I noticed a stealthed human rogue sitting with a Fish Feast out, and no Hordies in sight, so I sit down to the feast to get myself a buff. Troll rogue comes out of nowhere and starts attacking me, so I attack back while looking to see if the human rogue was going to help. He didn't. He just sat there. And he kept sitting there until I manage to kill the troll on my own with less than 10% health left, and it was only then did he stand up and tell me this:
"sry I had to wake my kid up."
All of this happened no less than 5 minutes into the WG battle starting. If you had a kid that needed to get up early, you should've just held off getting into a battleground when your help would've been needed for a few minutes!
I'm so glad there won't be any kids cutting in my WoW time...
Current Mood: 
blah
Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009
7:45 pm
[movehalfaninch]
what would you do if your WoW account was cancelled?
this kid is freaking out coz his mom cancelled his account. holy crap!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmwWQt31pqc
would any of you freak out like this? i would totally freak out, but not nearly as much as this kid
Saturday, July 18th, 2009
5:19 pm
[dreaminspirit]
Can anyone recommend a realm on World of Warcraft that is not over run with children? The realm my main character is on now, Demon Soul (Alliance Side) is swarming with kids. Some as young as 10. I wonder if the parents read the ratings on these games at all before buying and allowing their kids to play? I am seriously thinking of transferring. Yes, I would actually pay to transfer to a realm to be in the company of people my own age.
Also, does anyone else get tired of kids telling you that you are 'too old' to be playing video games? Where does a kid get off thinking that they have the right to tell an adult what to do? Especially when I am paying for my own membership when theirs is paid for by their mommy?
Current Mood: frustrated
Friday, July 10th, 2009
1:36 pm
[acidrica]
Ten year old in guild full of drunks? Bad.
Homophobic ten year old in guild full of bisexuals? Really bad.
Homophobic ten year old that won't stop asking 'can a penus brake' in guild chat? Horrifying.
When I'm the only person in the guild who seems to have a problem with this? Kill me now.
Monday, July 6th, 2009
2:22 pm
[thaily]
Monday, February 16th, 2009
2:02 pm
[thaily]
Saturday, February 14th, 2009
11:02 pm
[lunaticsocko]
WoW WTF I was just in a group with a 7-year old. Tell me there's a CF guild on Azgalor, horde?
Wednesday, January 21st, 2009
3:55 am
[cattyhunts]
Has anyone here ever played the Computer game Restaurant Empire??? I'm in the middle of Scenario 4 and I'm stuck!!! I can't ever make my goal and I always wind up in the whole. AND I don't know how to keep my cutomers from complaining about the slow service. I've done all I can, and the complaints keep coming.
Help? Anyone?
Friday, December 19th, 2008
7:25 pm
[stahlelf]
Am I weird for this? I love Harvest Moon. I've been playing ever since HM: Back to Nature was still being sold, and I've expanded the collection to include Friends of Mineral Town and DS. But I have found it odd that despite my decision to not have children in real life, one of my favorite parts about the series is being able to make a family. Is that so weird, or is it simply because I know that the family is self-sufficient and I could just simply turn the game off when I'm bored with my "wife" and "kids," something that can't easily be done in real life?
Wednesday, December 10th, 2008
3:00 am
[insane_spiral]
Last Friday...
I was just going to ignore it since it was an off-hand comment by one of my best friends whom I game with, but I just can't get it out of my head.
And once I think on something that bothers me, my mind tends to worry it to pieces to figure it out.
We were taking a short break on D&D night (you know, munchies prep and such) and the conversation got around to children, though I don't remember how. I commented on how I'm glad that I'll never have kids, and one of the guys utters one of the dreaded catch-lines: "You never know."
Me: Uh, no, I *know* I'm never having children. I don't want them, I don't need them, I have no desire to have them.
Him: Well you might change your mind.
Me: No, whenever I'm able to afford it I want to get fixed.
Him: You'll have to wait until you're 30 to find someone who'll do it.
Me: I know, but at least I don't have to worry about [BF] wanting kids. Even if he did, he's be shit out of luck with me.
At this point the other two are either ignoring the conversation, or giving me a look of understanding that he can't see from the kitchen. The subject was changed shortly thereafter, after some of "If I ever did want to have kids, I would adopt." talk.
Now, these are people I've gamed with for a good 3-4 years, so I'd say they would know me pretty well. I guess that's why the matter-of-fact "you are having kids" way he said things bothered me so much. I won't let it determine how I game with them; my child-free status never affected that anyways, but it still kinda hurts that he wouldn't trust my word. That I don't know myself well enough to have made an informed and careful decision on whether or not I want to have kids.
Bah. I feel a bit better now.
Cross-posted to 
cf_hardcore
Current Mood: 
hungry
Sunday, December 7th, 2008
6:26 pm
[jayphi77]
Saturday, December 6th, 2008
1:59 pm
[jayphi77]
intro hello :) just wanted to introduce myself. I'm a career gal, meaning that kids are not in my future. I'm ok with that. Any nurturing that i have to do goes to my 3 cats who love and leave me alone. is that selfish, probably but me and my hubby like it that way. And when we go to any store and see children acting up we thank our lucky stars that we are child free.
Anyway way--since we've not had children, we've been able to outfit ourselves with top of the line PCs and my husband does play D&D online. I am a Fable 2 player. We also have a Wii and are thinking of getting the PS3 when we figure out what's good on it.
I guess i tried to join cf_hardcore and got into a fight and got banned a few years ago (sorry) but make no mistake, i am child free and am not looking to join the cult of the all consuming baby.
I enjoy my freedom and the fact that we can be our open minded selves, living life without strings. I think that is the first time i ever felt comfortable to write that.
Cheery-Bye