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robsterman1 04-28-2009 10:54 AM

What's your main obsession?
 
So what are your main obsessions? describe them :)

My main obsession is staying healthy

DanaC 04-28-2009 11:43 AM

Doctor Who

Narrative structures (particularly in gaming and tv shows)

The nexus points of gender and class, particularly, but not exclusively in historical terms.

Beest 04-28-2009 12:02 PM

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Originally Posted by DanaC (Post 561026)
Doctor Who

Narrative structures (particularly in gaming and tv shows)

The nexus points of gender and class, particularly, but not exclusively in historical terms.

The Doctor and his relationship to the assistants, discuss.
I think they pushed the Doctor/assistant thing too far in the 'New series' :greenface.

For me:
Paintball, even if I hardly get the chance to actually play, I still read 3 or 4 forums and blogs about, each day.

Rome: Total war (computer game), cause theres just always just one more Barbarian Horde that needs crushing under the Roman Sandal

SteveDallas 04-28-2009 12:15 PM

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Originally Posted by DanaC (Post 561026)
Doctor Who

Narrative structures (particularly in gaming and tv shows)

The nexus points of gender and class, particularly, but not exclusively in historical terms.

What about the nexus points of gender and class in gaming & tv show narratives?


I see "slamming trolls" hasn't made anyone's list yet.

DanaC 04-28-2009 12:59 PM

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Originally Posted by SteveDallas (Post 561042)
What about the nexus points of gender and class in gaming & tv show narratives?

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uh huh..that too...didn't want to sound repetetive. They all mix and mingle. One of these days I'll pull out the article I wrote for a campus computing magazine about gamer chicks, like me:P I could very happily bore you with the cultural progressions in the Doctor's assistants from the 1960s original right through to the last special. I could likewise go on for some time about gender constructions in Battlestar Galactica *deadpan* But I really don't think anybody wants to see that :P

SteveDallas 04-28-2009 02:38 PM

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Originally Posted by DanaC (Post 561049)
I could very happily bore you with the cultural progressions in the Doctor's assistants from the 1960s original right through to the last special.

Well I just started watching my first Dr. Who after hearing about it for years... the Christopher Eccleston/Billie Piper pairing.
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Originally Posted by DanaC (Post 561049)
I could likewise go on for some time about gender constructions in Battlestar Galactica *deadpan* But I really don't think anybody wants to see that :P

No, go ahead, really...

jinx 04-28-2009 06:52 PM

tacos

Alluvial 04-28-2009 09:55 PM

I think I'm obsessed with my work.

I've got my own business, and it really is hard not to let it consume you 24/7.

Outside of that, I dunno, the Internet maybe.

monster 04-28-2009 11:04 PM

my husband.























































































:lol: :p

monster 04-28-2009 11:05 PM

(=paintball/rome obsessed beest for the newbs/less-online-obsessed) just laying a little guilt trip on there....

Apollo 04-29-2009 12:21 AM

programming.
cooking.
lorazepam.

ZenGum 04-29-2009 12:42 AM

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Originally Posted by Beest (Post 561035)
Rome: Total war (computer game), cause theres just always just one more Barbarian Horde that needs crushing under the Roman Sandal

Makes me wonder, would the Roman empire have survived if they wore Jackboots instead of sandals? I mean, can you really stomp heads and grind faces that well in birkenstocks?

My obsession appears to be making bizzare, nerdy, and occcasionally funny observations.

Stress Puppy 04-29-2009 06:07 AM

Magic and mentalism.

capnhowdy 04-29-2009 07:12 AM

Scotch

kerosene 04-29-2009 08:42 PM

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Originally Posted by Apollo (Post 561270)
lorazepam.

could you pass some this way, please?

Cicero 04-29-2009 10:50 PM

omg robsterman is back.

My obsession is you because I am creepy. Can you dig? :)

Apollo 04-30-2009 04:42 AM

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Originally Posted by case (Post 561499)
could you pass some this way, please?

Haha actually I'm running out. I need as much as I can get before the school year ends :thepain:.

Trilby 04-30-2009 07:24 AM

*don't say a man with blonde hair and a tan / don't say a man with blonde hair and a tan*


The subject of my current bullllllshit paper for this gorgeous man who does NOT have blonde hair or a tan, for that matter. But he IS Scottish.

and, as always, necromancy. I think that's a fairly common one.

also, precision lawn-mowing.

SteveDallas 04-30-2009 09:37 AM

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Originally Posted by Brianna (Post 561572)
The subject of my current bullllllshit paper for this gorgeous man who does NOT have blonde hair or a tan, for that matter. But he IS Scottish.

and, as always, necromancy. I think that's a fairly common one.

also, precision lawn-mowing.

I have dark hair. I'm paler than pale. I'm not Scottish. (Some English/Irish ancestry.) And I consider lawn-mowing evil. (I can't think of anything pithy to say about necromancy, though I have no particular interest in it.)

The bubble has well and truly burst.

Beest 04-30-2009 11:30 AM

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Originally Posted by SteveDallas (Post 561592)
I can't think of anything pithy to say about necromancy.

It's a dead art :yeldead:

Beest 04-30-2009 11:34 AM

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Originally Posted by DanaC http://www.cellar.org/images/buttons2007/viewpost.gif
I could likewise go on for some time about gender constructions in Battlestar Galactica *deadpan* But I really don't think anybody wants to see that :P
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Originally Posted by SteveDallas (Post 561094)
No, go ahead, really...

Seconded.

Start a new thread on it, I;m not sure if it goes on Philosphy or entertainment though..

DanaC 04-30-2009 11:47 AM

If you're serious, I'd be happy to once my dissertation and exams are done with...I assumed it would bore the pants off everyone else. I am aware I have a hobby horse...not always sure when it's welcome and when not lol.

Trilby 04-30-2009 11:52 AM

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Originally Posted by SteveDallas (Post 561592)
The bubble has well and truly burst.

This vexes me, and highly so.

Doubtful it stood, but whither wander you now? Never more do I see your shining face at Br'anna's door!

dar512 04-30-2009 10:14 PM

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Originally Posted by Beest (Post 561611)
It's a dead art :yeldead:

Excellent! I bow in your general direction.

BrianR 04-30-2009 11:44 PM

Classical or modern necromancy?

Trilby 05-01-2009 05:19 AM

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Originally Posted by BrianR (Post 561803)
Classical or modern necromancy?

Classical, of course. I don't go in for anything "nouveau"

SteveDallas 05-01-2009 08:35 AM

Wait, is this how you do your English papers? You commune with the ghost of the dead author?

DanaC 05-01-2009 08:36 AM

I'd have thought that was more appropriate to my field...

Trilby 05-01-2009 08:38 AM

to SD: Yes, how do you do it? Write them yourself!?

to DC: what's that field again? I was certain you were in politics! :)

Cloud 05-01-2009 08:51 AM

body piercing, duh. And slash fanfiction.

wholesome, huh?

DanaC 05-01-2009 08:54 AM

Politics and necromancy seem a good fit...

History :P

monster 05-01-2009 09:07 AM

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Originally Posted by Beest (Post 561614)
Seconded.

Start a new thread on it, I;m not sure if it goes on Philosphy or entertainment though..

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Originally Posted by DanaC (Post 561620)
If you're serious, I'd be happy to once my dissertation and exams are done with...I assumed it would bore the pants off everyone else. I am aware I have a hobby horse...not always sure when it's welcome and when not lol.

Sadly, he is. :( still, at least I'm not forced to listed to a thread, unlike the directors' podcast commentaries that come with the DVDs.....

SteveDallas 05-01-2009 09:46 AM

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Originally Posted by Brianna (Post 561867)
to SD: Yes, how do you do it? Write them yourself!?

Well, you know, Dead White European Male.... I figured I had three out of four going, so I might as well give it a shot.

Trilby 05-01-2009 10:54 AM

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Originally Posted by SteveDallas (Post 561892)
Well, you know, Dead White European Male.... I figured I had three out of four going, so I might as well give it a shot.

that's very old fashioned of you.

Tiki 05-01-2009 12:38 PM

My main obsessions are glass, poetry, and gardening.

I have an interest in herbal medicine, too, but that's an old one I haven't much pursued in the last few years.

ohgr 05-16-2009 10:39 PM

Tits, definately going with tits.

edit: Gaming comes after

TheMercenary 05-19-2009 10:07 AM

Work. My job and profession. It is good in that respect because I really like doing it, but other aspects of my life suffer for it.

Kaliayev 05-21-2009 03:39 PM

International politics.
Scotch.
Coffee.

Definitely one of those three.

BigV 05-21-2009 05:03 PM

Between obsessions just now.... I touted my previous obsession in a recently retired usertitle: Recovering Uxoriholic. I'm on a safe glide path back to reality from that one, thankfully.

Not work--work simply funds my life. That I enjoy it is a happy circumstance, not quite a coincidence, but hardly an obsession.

Raising my kids is probably the closest thing I have to an obsession now.

Gravdigr 06-01-2009 05:49 PM

Today (apparently) I am obsessed w/marijuana. Wait, what?

DanaC 06-01-2009 05:59 PM

Every day is Mary Jane day.

Aliantha 06-01-2009 06:12 PM

I think cooking is my main obsession lately.

I'm making my family fat!


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