What's your main obsession?

So what are your main obsessions? describe them :)

My main obsession is staying healthy

Doctor Who

Narrative structures (particularly in gaming and tv shows)

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

DanaC;561026 wrote:

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

DanaC;561026 wrote:

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.

SteveDallas;561042 wrote:

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

DanaC;561049 wrote:

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.

DanaC;561049 wrote:

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...

tacos

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.

my husband.























































































:lol: :p

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

programming.
cooking.
lorazepam.

Beest;561035 wrote:

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.

Magic and mentalism.

Scotch

Apollo;561270 wrote:

lorazepam.

could you pass some this way, please?

omg robsterman is back.

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

case;561499 wrote:

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:.

*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.

Brianna;561572 wrote:

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.

SteveDallas;561592 wrote:

I can't think of anything pithy to say about necromancy.

It's a dead art :yeldead:

Originally Posted by DanaC
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;561094 wrote:

No, go ahead, really...

Seconded.

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

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.

SteveDallas;561592 wrote:

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!

Beest;561611 wrote:

It's a dead art :yeldead:

Excellent! I bow in your general direction.

Classical or modern necromancy?

BrianR;561803 wrote:

Classical or modern necromancy?

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

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

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

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! :)

body piercing, duh. And slash fanfiction.

wholesome, huh?

Politics and necromancy seem a good fit...

History :P

Beest;561614 wrote:

Seconded.

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

DanaC;561620 wrote:

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.....

Brianna;561867 wrote:

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.

SteveDallas;561892 wrote:

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.

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.

Tits, definately going with tits.

edit: Gaming comes after

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.

International politics.
Scotch.
Coffee.

Definitely one of those three.

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.

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

Every day is Mary Jane day.

I think cooking is my main obsession lately.

I'm making my family fat!