Sim Secret Wank

[orikes]

So what's up with the wank jealousy someone is posting over at Sim Secret? It's getting rather silly, but someone seems determined to keep posting proof of our masturbatory tendencies.

WTF. I mean, really. I don't suffer idiots very graciously, but I think I'm a pretty friendly, open and helpful person on Boolprop. Did I do something to offend someone, or is someone just jealous at the perception of popularity?

Anyway.. It's getting silly. :)

Comments

[docnerd.livejournal.com]

I think that was a jab at me more than you. There was that "famous authors jerk each other off" secret a few weeks ago, and I made a comment about the difference between developing a rapport with other authors and "jerking them off." That may have been the week you were out of town, and I don't remember you making any comment on that particular secret at all, which makes me think this one's directed at me, or at the very least, at the both of us. Either way, totally idiotic cheap shot.

I'm guessing some 12's jealous of the attention and decided to whine at the grown-ups' table. Whatever. I left that high school BS back in high school.

So far, it's more amusing than anything else. When it ceases to amuse... Well, cross that bridge when I come to it, I suppose.

[orikes13.livejournal.com]

It is such high school-ish behavior. It's just funny because I'm within six months of a birthday that will mean I am securely and undeniably middle-aged and there's no other way to get around it. I'm so far removed from high schools, the theoretical children I should have had would be attending by now.

[wtsims.livejournal.com]

Heh. We must be the same age.

[orikes13.livejournal.com]

As of February 13th, I will have a 4 in my age. And it's not the second number. :}

[wtsims.livejournal.com]

Which makes me just under 3 months older than you.

We can celebrate middle age together. :D

[profbutters.livejournal.com]

Sigh. I will have a 4 in BOTH slots come October 31st. I'm pretty blunt about my real age in real life, but I underplay it online because I don't want people to feel uncomfortable. And also the simsecret poster might very well say, "you're WHAT age and you're playing a COMPUTER GAME? Pathetic."

[wtsims.livejournal.com]

I have friends older than you, Prof, and some of them play computer games, too. And an ex-bf almost exactly your age (his birthday is October 18th) who has actually worked on them professionally.

My usual response to that sort of nonsense is "I don't remember signing an agreement to stop having fun when I turned 18." I started playing computer games pretty much when there first was such a thing, I'm part of the reason why they're so common today, so to hell with anyone who doesn't understand.

[orikes13.livejournal.com]

I'm a little apprhensive about turning 40 since it's definitely, undeniably middle-aged. I certainly don't feel like I should be middle-aged. But I can't deny the number any more.

Beyond that, though, I have no intentions of giving up anything that I currently enjoy, no matter what age limit people want to put on it. Video Games? Damn straight I'm going to keep playing them, and at least I'll be able to afford the screaming machine I want. Roleplaying games? Oh hell yes. And don't give me any flack for going to a gaming convention either. There's more of us middle-agers there all the time.

:)

[profbutters.livejournal.com]

One nice thing about being a professor is that in my department, they hadn't hired anyone new for about a decade. So I went from feeling "old" as a graduate student to being "the baby."

Every time I feel down about getting older, I think "consider the alternative!"