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Anna of the North wrote:

I would love to have this software! Please don't wait until my birthday :-)

You're awesome. I forgot that you might be around here today.

:-) &hearts

I would love to have this software! Please don't wait until my birthday :-)

Mairkurion {tm} wrote:

Thanks for popping over, Anna. I just wanted to let you know that, in this case, it doesn't really have to do with American attitudes or male chauvinism or insecurities. We had a rash of sock puppets where guys were pretending to be girls, who, for lack of a better way of putting it, fit Jenny's profile. So the denizens of this thread, who probably don't agree on anything more than we love gaming and we want people to be real if they choose to represent who they really are on the boards, busted a few of these fellows, and because of some hurt feelings, don't really have any tolerance for this kind of game (outside of an actual game, of course!) Also, we feel kind of protective of the Paizo community because we care about the people in it, and the Paizo company, because we tend to put the "fanatic" in fan. Geez, sorry for the long sentence.

I'll just bump this back down, in case Anna comes back.

Hej!

My brother told me about this on the telephone this evening. He says exactly the same thing as you. We have this similar problem in Sweden that men pretend to be women online as a method to meet up. Usually, I think these are shy guys but sometimes it's very creepy!

Here I am. Sorry I look like a mess, but I just got home and now it's bedtime.

PS-writing English backwards is hard!

PPS-...so is taking a picture of yourself with an iPhone!

Anna of the North wrote:

My stepbrother is fanatical over Greyhawk. I painted a wall of his study three years ago as a map of Oerth. I'll have to ask him to take a photograph and post it somewhere for you to see.

Välkommen till Paizo, Anna! Ursäkta mig, min svenska är rostig. Vem är din steg-bror?

Ha-ha! Your Swedish is OK... My stepbrother is a regular community poster, but I should ask him if it is OK to identify him. Maybe he will see this post before I call him. Now it is midnight here, but he is in the USA. I will ask him tonight.

Hello, Mairkurion--thanks for the invitation. I am reading through some of this thread posts now.

Funny that Americans have this sexist view--pretty girls can't possibly like the same things as average guys? If a pretty girl agrees with you, then she must have some ulterior intent? Maybe this is why there aren't more women playing--if their skin is fair and their boobs high, it's too difficult to get some guys to take them seriously.

My stepbrother is fanatical over Greyhawk. I painted a wall of his study three years ago as a map of Oerth. I'll have to ask him to take a photograph and post it somewhere for you to see.

I'm studying boreal introgressive hybridization as affected by climate change.

Anna of the North wrote:

Higher IQ linked to concepts of monogamy, atheism, and liberalism.

Thoughts?

Intelligence is not well-defined by any stretch. IQ measures your ability to do well on IQ tests, but that's about it. So I wouldn't take it very seriously.

And this monogamous atheistic liberal scientist agrees.

I would say that the particular traits mentioned certainly correlate with particular personality traits, but I think that's just obvious. People who differ differ.

Here's the wiki article on Kanazawa, for those interested.

Higher IQ linked to concepts of monogamy, atheism, and liberalism.

Thoughts?

Higher IQ linked to concepts of monogamy, atheism, and liberalism. Not terribly surprising, from my point of view.

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Han, FTW.