See what you think of this one. Mariama is a Sierra Leone born German musician and songwriter (she moved as a baby) and here she's playing acoustic guitar in Paris for the French website Soul Kitchen.

http://videosift.com/video/Mariama-Underground-SK-Session

about time she moved on. They've been relying on her way too much. Give the other crew a chance to shine

>> ^UsesProzac:

Huh, I was a single girl on WoW and then I was a taken girl on WoW. Never experienced any of that except for perhaps a little unwanted attention both when single and not. Most of the time gender didn't even come up. There were sometimes jokes about making sandwiches and the like over vent during raids, but that wasn't the drama that usually happened. "Don't stand in fire you fucking idiot." <- That was.
It all depends on the person. It hurts me to see you make sweeping generalities like that.
I met my partner on WoW and now we have a child. I was a troll rogue and then I was a troll priest, just in case anyone was wondering. I didn't do much in the way of alts, spent way too much time on my main, which was the priest. Good luck finding a constant spot in a raid as a melee dps.
I used to raid five days a week and arena the other two. Oh, WoW. I'm glad I have a life outside of it, now!
>> ^Porksandwich:
My experience with women who play WoW, purely from in-game. Most of them pretend to be men, you will rarely find out they are female until you hear their voice and they can't pull off the teen boy. These are usually single and have been creeped on in the past so they don't want cyber stalkers.
OR
They proudly declare they are a woman, but they also happen to be married or at least near-married. They won't inform people of this until it gets weird. Seen it happen many times in guilds where there's a woman whose overly flirty with other members and they think she likes them "in that way" only to find out that after they've helped her do a bunch of a shit..she's married and doesn't appreciate blah blah. Then the guild falls apart because people take sides.
Hell in one guild, a girl pretending to be guy was like dating one of the married men in the guild who was married to one of the women who was flirting around and getting "unwanted" attention after she got what she wanted from people.
I gave up on guilds after this one, because I would rather not be mid-raid and have drama break out over vent/ts due to this stuff. Enough other crap happens with people competing for loot/high scores/etc.



Not meant to be generalities, they are the experiences I had with the game. I think there were 4 women in the guild that I knew of. Could have been more, but I only knew the raiders or longer term members.

One was married to the guild leader, she used to ask for help to complete things and keep us waiting a good hour or two before she showed up. I didn't like her simply because she tried to treat the guild as her errand runners asking for help and having us wait so she could keep constantly busy. She got involved with a guy in the guild (not her husband) and that kicked off some events.

Next was young, and took a lot of the "sandwich" stuff you are talking about. She got involved with the married guild leader, that kicked off another bunch of stuff....probably 10-15 years difference. This is the husband of the one above....they had kids together and it basically split the guild right down the middle. The young girl involved with him had other admirers and tried to play a guy for the longest time only talking during certain raids. She was called all sorts of names once it came to light that she was dating the husband....no one really mentioned the wife doing the same thing. There was one guy she led on for a long time, they were friends and he thought it was more until he found out she was after the married guy. That started another ripple of problems...she left the guild for awhile to try to get him back as a friend, etc. As much stuff happened involving her, I think she did a lot of intentionally or was younger than she claimed. I generally liked her, but I had to wonder with as much stuff that cropped up around her as to what was going on there.

Another "involved" woman, who was either newly married or soon to be married to another guy in the guild was involved with the guy who was involved with the wife of the guild leader...the first woman I mentioned. That guy told me she was sending him pictures, and then she lost it when she found out he was involved with the other woman. Her husband/soon-to-be never suspected afaik. She was nice enough, but I was friends with her husband and I couldn't stand to hang around him anymore knowing all of this and him being in the dark.

Fourth woman was friends with a couple younger guys in the guild. Who used their vault access to steal a bunch of stuff from the vault and switch servers during a free move. She switched with them once it came to light they had stolen. Then renamed herself and came back, trying to hide her identity. She also tried to hide that she was female to the majority of the guild for a long time as well....she'd type most of her replies. Rarely spoke unless it was a tougher raid. I don't know if she had unwanted attention, or just made like she had unwanted attention from a few...because she moved with the guys she complained about on that free server move. The switch and hiding her identity was probably the worst of it involving her, and really she hadn't done anything wrong that anyone could see but she looked guilty as hell doing what she did. Then she defended those guy's actions who stole tabs and tabs of stuff from the vault before they left.

And yeah they all probably stick out because it was a lot of hub-bub involving them, and all the guys and gals involved were all culpable for their actions. But it was one guild that had more than 1 married woman in it and it failed spectacularly... Other guys in the guild would come hang out with me or solo play instead of doing guild stuff because it was toxic to be around most people in the guild with how everyone was supporting one or the other in just overall poor choices and questionable actions.

I am not saying all women in games are like this, but with this one experience with it made me want to stick to non-voice stuff so I couldn't identify the sex of anyone involved. And yeah I'd like to find a female who games.......but I'd actually like to continue enjoying games heh.

>> ^RedSky:

I like Four Tet.


As do I, but I wish he hadn't been making the same record for the last 10 years...

Not blocked anymore! Nice!

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I've added a backup embed to Seric's Four Tet - She Moves She, would you mind having a look to see if it's still blocked for you with the dm embed?

I've added a backup embed to Seric's Four Tet - She Moves She, would you mind having a look to see if it's still blocked for you with the dm embed?

Rule number 1, never underestimate how stupid people can be.>> ^Ryjkyj:

Fake, she moves in so slowly that she would feel the movement early in. No one's that stupid, are they?

Fake, she moves in so slowly that she would feel the movement early in. No one's that stupid, are they?

By her language at the end of the video...it sounds like she thought she was sitting on top of someone with her car right there. She asked the guy if someone was under her car. Right at the 5:30 mark she said did someone come underneath me?

And then after asking it, she moves the car...so she thinks there's the possibility of someone being under her car and tries to drive off.

Dash of dementia, sprinkled with a nice handful of pills, and a healthy dose of reality not existing when she rolls up her windows and starts driving.

I don't know how they guy can tell the cars apart, I saw I think 3 red cars that looked like it.

My parents inherited some property when my grandma passed, where she used to live before she became to frail to live alone. There was a stray cat explosion there around the time she moved out of the house. Still had to maintain the place, and you'd see upwards of 20 stray cats at times. There were maybe two houses there who were guilty of buying/taking in animals they didn't properly care for. Since you can get in trouble with dogs more easily than cats, these same people tended to keep them locked in their yards slowly starving and dehydrating them. The cats roamed free, bred like crazy. People generally try to keep them fed, but it's roughly 50-75 bucks a cat to get them checked for feline leukemia and then neutered/spayed... and roughly the same if they test positive for feline leukemia and have to be put down because they'll kill all the other cats eventually if returned. And it seems like an injustice to capture them and have them all put down when they aren't hurting anyone or attacking people's pets.

Only thing that can help the problem is stricter laws on pet owners, because allowing people to continually take in/buy/adopt pets and slowly torture them to death via extreme heat/cold/lack of food/water/no vaccinations/medical treatment is not being punished severely enough to stop it. It's just too wrong to see it happen and know the law won't punish them enough to deter others.

>> ^dannym3141:

I know you'll all just call me gay, but this reached some other kind of uncanny valley with me. This made me feel almost disgusted and put off with the "i just want to fuck you" and her thrusting her pelvis around. It was almost like i was thinking about the amount of people she was announcing that to and the ocean of semen she was swishing around every time she moved her hips. Euch. Total turn off.
Oh, in before "i'll go to her uncanny valley!"


Thanks a lot, I had nothing better to think of than "oceans of semen"...

I know you'll all just call me gay, but this reached some other kind of uncanny valley with me. This made me feel almost disgusted and put off with the "i just want to fuck you" and her thrusting her pelvis around. It was almost like i was thinking about the amount of people she was announcing that to and the ocean of semen she was swishing around every time she moved her hips. Euch. Total turn off.

Oh, in before "i'll go to her uncanny valley!"

lol... no love.... i like the way she moves her hips

>> ^mentality:
>> ^MilkmanDan: The old mindless killing machine, inherently evil sort of vampire is incapable of being interesting as a character because they are 1 dimensional. Craig was talking about evil vampires. Evil doesn't mean going around mindlessly killing things.
>> ^MilkmanDan: The series definitely isn't "high art" by literary standards, but I thought the books were OK. Twilight is like porn, but for women. Where else can a creepy older male stalker watch a young girl sleep at night and she ends up liking it? Like porn, twilight is trashy fantasy wish fullfilment.
Here we have Bella, a plain girl with no talent, no strength of character, and no redeeming qualities whatsoever. There's nothing interesting about her at all. She moves to a new town and all of a sudden she's the hottest girl, the popular girl, and the most popular boy in class finds her irresistably attractive because of her smell. And this boy just happens to be a powerful 100 year old vampire who would stop at nothing to protect her. Pefect fantasy for any 14 year old girl who is obsessed about her social status and is sick of immature 14 year old boys.

Wow.... That actually makes a whole lot of sense.

>> ^MilkmanDan: The old mindless killing machine, inherently evil sort of vampire is incapable of being interesting as a character because they are 1 dimensional.

Craig was talking about evil vampires. Evil doesn't mean going around mindlessly killing things.

>> ^MilkmanDan: The series definitely isn't "high art" by literary standards, but I thought the books were OK.

Twilight is like porn, but for women. Where else can a creepy older male stalker watch a young girl sleep at night and she ends up liking it? Like porn, twilight is trashy fantasy wish fullfilment.

Here we have Bella, a plain girl with no talent, no strength of character, and no redeeming qualities whatsoever. There's nothing interesting about her at all. She moves to a new town and all of a sudden she's the hottest girl, the popular girl, and the most popular boy in class finds her irresistably attractive because of her smell. And this boy just happens to be a powerful 100 year old vampire who would stop at nothing to protect her. Pefect fantasy for any 14 year old girl who is obsessed about her social status and is sick of immature 14 year old boys.