"But you can't possibly own it!"

[Imogene]

And Beyond Good and Evil adds to the awesome.

Here here! Good call ol' bean.
*blink*
Wait... do you call a female "ol' bean"?
/not British
//plays one on TV...

[AFpheonix]

I love Beyond Good and Evil! What a fabulous concept for a game that was.

I'm sad at the moment because the tv keeled so I can't play XBox.....

Oh well, I started a few of the computer games I had in queue, but Knights of The Old Republic just isn't the same on a keyboard and mouse. I prefer a controller.

My geekdom? Well, let's just say that my valentine's day gift from my husband was the original trilogy Star Wars.
God, how I love that man....

[Geek King]

I am a girl who plays video games, collects comic books LARPs and roleplays. Guys either worship me as their Goddess or think I'm weird! *shrugs*

How about a wierd godess camp? I could deal with that. Hell, I'll lead it, just let me wear the big hat.

[Buglady]

40k Spaceballs Army I have planned (They even donated one of their own minis to use as dark Helmet. Yay for swag!)

Hee. Horsetuna, we've GOT to meet (I think I'm in the same city as you). Spaceballs 40K?

There's I don't know how many Warhammer 40K armies, landscape pieces, and a 17 foot gaming table downstairs... The Boy is moving over to Warmachine lately but still does the odd weekend Warhammer campaign.

I'm a fantasy reader more than a gamer myself, but I tag along on the Sentry Box shopping trips and usually spend more than the guys, heh. I'm a history geek (SCA, Black Powder) and hands-on recreator of antique crafts/skills.

[Jinxy]

Bless you, I'm actually so excited that I didn't read the rest of the responses, I rushed to post.
I too have been in your shoes (as the manager however,not owner) at a comics shop. The constant barage of "But,....but,...you're a girl" leads to all sorts of creative comebacks as the years pass by. I worked there from 16 to 28 (ish) and would actually willing get the B.Y.A.G. twice a day to be able to do it and make a living.

Jinx213 who's going to toot her own horn
http://www.sequentialtart.com/archiv...retailer.shtml

[Sailornight6]

my game is the twisted metal. i love twisted metal 2

[Drakstern]

I found it amusing when I was at A-Kon a couple years back how some of the girls were looked down on at the con...

Seriously, you'd think some of the geek guys would go 'Hey, girl that's into the stuff I'm into' instead of going 'SHE'S MUSCLING IN ON MY TERRITORY!'

Myself, I did my usual 'I'm a coward, but at least I'll talk to the girls' routine. It worked well. I also got randomly glomped for wearing a Megatokyo shirt, but that's beside the point...

[Tigress]

I love Beyond Good and Evil! What a fabulous concept for a game that was.

It's also a fabulous idea for a costume.

Yeah, I kind of enjoyed the game.

[Tigress]

I found it amusing when I was at A-Kon a couple years back how some of the girls were looked down on at the con...

Seriously, you'd think some of the geek guys would go 'Hey, girl that's into the stuff I'm into' instead of going 'SHE'S MUSCLING IN ON MY TERRITORY!'

A lot of girls may be there because their boyfriends wanted to go and they are just doing it to bond or give the boyfriend's interests a chance. So the girls are forbidden fruit and the more socially inept guys get angry at them for being there and taunting them with unavailability. Also, if they are dressed kind of preppy, the guys may see them as stuck-up or something.

[Retail Associate]

Well you know, us girls are only good for a couple things.

I work in the fashions dept. I don't know squat about clothing, fashion, shoes or jewelry. I don't wanna know and I couldn't care less either. I just go, do my job and long for my shift to end.

When a customer asks me for my opinion about putting this shirt with that skirt or these shoes with that outfit, I always tell them I have no sense of fashion and they're asking the wrong person. I'll usually redirect them to one of my co-workers.

I'd rather work in hardware or plumbing & electrical. I know much more about that kind of stuff than I do fashions. But those jobs are always taken by the few guys who work at my store.

My first day in fashions my manager took me on a tour of all the areas we cover (which includes womens, infants, kids, mens, shoes & jewelry). She then asked me which would interest me the most. I answered..."Ah, hardware?!"

[Noelegy]

And yet, these guys never, ever seem to figure out why they never, ever get laid.

Just as well, I guess.

Why can't they just bask in the coolness of a female comic geek? *sigh*

I've been reading and collecting comics since about 1985. One day about ten years ago, I was perusing the comic racks at a local bookstore, alongside a boy who was about eleven, I guess. He said something to the effect of how comics aren't for grownups, and in one of those extremely rare instances where the thing you ought to have said is actually what comes out of your mouth, I said, "Oh, so I guess you think KIDS write, draw, edit, and publish these?"

Him:

I get similar comments when I dare to bring a graphic novel to work to read in the breakroom. Seeing someone reading a book is enough of a rarity up here that people can't let it go by without commenting on it, but *gasp* a comic book?

[Noelegy]

You can't bait anyone in Atlanta anymore. They're used to seeing freaks running amok in the streets in the summer there. I sat in a diner wearing whiteface, black lipstick, dyed my hair to make it even blacker and teased it like an eighties hair band rocker, and was wearing all black clothes (anyone reading Sandman will recognize this character).

Did you have a little curlicue drawn under one eye and an ankh hanging around your neck? Peachy Keen!

The high point of my geeklife was meeting Neil Gaiman at AggieCon. I'd made myself a charm bracelet of onyx beads interspersed with the various Endless symbols (ankh, mirror, book, etc.), and either he was being very polite or he was actually impressed by it. Charming man, very, very nice.

I'm currently working on a Death soft-sculpture doll for a friend.

[Witch of Endor]

Seriously, you'd think some of the geek guys would go 'Hey, girl that's into the stuff I'm into' instead of going 'SHE'S MUSCLING IN ON MY TERRITORY!'

I know! That was my first thought... they meet someone who shares their interests, and instead of being happy about it they get territorial. Yup, definitely the reason so many of them don't get laid.

My games are Diablo II, The Sims, and Flyff. I'm planning on building a computer because my old laptop has finally bit off more than it can chew with that last one.

As for comics, I'm into manga and my favourites range from the very sugary and girly (Chobits) to the very bloody (Blade of the Immortal).

[Tria]

I am a girl who plays video games, collects comic books LARPs and roleplays. Guys either worship me as their Goddess or think I'm weird! *shrugs*

Woot, aside from preferiing to read or look at pictures by themselves I'm into all that. I appearantly don't look like a gamer to most people.

[RecoveringKinkoid]

"Did you have a little curlicue drawn under one eye and an ankh hanging around your neck? Peachy Keen! "

Why, yes, I did.

I have to say, it was a cool costume. Husband had one equally cool. He had long hair at the time, so we spiked it all up (it's already jet black), painted his face white, dressed him in black jeans with a long black coat, and hung this "ruby pendant" that I made around his neck.

I actually got crazier looks in the dealer's room when I wasn't wearing a costume. People are genuinely flabbergasted at seeing a female wearing a Deadworld t-shirt.

Any form of weird, insane costume is no problem. But a CHICK that reads DEADWORLD????!?!?!?!?