It’s no surprise to any of us that gamers almost always have an opinion on most everything related to the subject of games. That’s what things like video game reviews are all about. Whether we like or hate a game we make sure to let people know why. Opinions don’t always necessarily need to be about a score a game received, but can be about a specific developer, a company, CEO, game designer, etc. The list goes on and on.
If you’ve found yourself on this site, then you most likely buy and play video games. How you got those games in your possession is all up to you. Which brings me to topic at hand. Do you buy your games new or used, and why?
This is a question I posed to some peeps at The Game Fanatics. We came up with a few reasons as to why we decided to choose to buy one over the other. Naturally, most of the discussion revolved around profit and loss. Economic reasoning behind buying a copy new or used. From the point of view of a developer, buyer, and seller.
Some reasons behind choosing to buy a new copy versus a used one were because the seller of that used copy is getting ripped off. If someone sells a game back to a store, they get store credit, and more often than not it’s nowhere near the amount that the store will turn around and resell that game for.
Another reason was that the developer of said game is also getting “screwed out” of money if someone buys a copy of their game used instead of new. Whenever a store like GameStop sells a used copy, no profit made from that copy will ever be seen by the eyes of the development team.
William explained it very well during our discussion:
[quote]Not only is that vastly unfair to the consumers, but it is screwing the developers out of a lot of money. Money they not only deserve for making the game, but could be used to grow the studio and make more games in the future.[/quote]
Used games are the reason things like online passes exist. It’s just a last ditch attempt at the developer trying to make some sort of profit from a used copy. If you ask me though, I’d say it’s more of a way to discourage buying a used copy. When you think about it, most games that are relevant to online play are fairly new. The used copy of that title will most likely sell for 5 dollars less than a new copy, 10 dollars if you’re lucky. The online pass for that game will cost you somewhere around 10 bucks. So instead of saving a few dollars now you spent a bit over or around what buying a new copy would have gotten you anyway.
It’s slightly different when a consumer decides to walk into the store and pick up the used copy of a game themselves. They see the new one and see a used copy for 15 bucks less. So they pick it up. Cool, there’s nothing wrong with that, maybe with the 15 bucks they saved they’ll put 5 dollars toward a reservation. The consumer isn’t effectively thinking in their heads “Aww, sweet! I totally just screwed Company A out of 50 bucks right there!” They just want to buy a game to add to their collection.
But what about when a person walks in and grabs the new copy and takes it up the register? What happens then? Jasdeep raised a good point here.
[quote]Actively encouraging customers to buy a used copy of a game rather than a new one is blatantly wrong. They’re effectively taking money out of publisher and developer pockets.[/quote]
Which can be true to a certain extent. Worker Bill practices what they’ve been trained for and says something along the lines of, “I think we have this game used, it’s a few bucks cheaper. Want to get it used instead?” Customer Brian now has a choice to make, and more often than not they’ll choose the copy that costs less. In this certain situation, Brian was fully prepared to pay full retail price for that copy. Everyone was going to win here, gamer, publisher, seller, and developer. By doing this the seller essentially just took a profit from right under the publisher and developer.
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What GameStop is doing here isn’t illegal. If one looks at it from a point of view where morals and emotions play no part in a purchase at all, it’s a great deal. The person who originally owned that copy turned over ownership to GameStop for a price, now GameStop is turning around and doing the same to someone else who wants that copy, and now they’re getting it for less.
Another way gamers may decide to buy their games can be disconnected from moral or emotional influences like mentioned above. Instead of thinking about how buying a used game may affect others, how about just think about what you want to do? That’s not a bad thing to do. Money is tight these days. If you’re saving a few bucks on a used copy or buying an old classic copy of a game you absolutely need in your collection, why not just get it used? It’s a lot more logical and less messy. Which is how Tavia said she decides how to buy her games.
[quote]If it was easy and cheap to buy older games from the developers/publishers I would. But I’m not going to pay full price for Kameo or Crackdown when I know there’s no demand to justify the price.
I’m more driven by economics and convenience than emotions or moral stances when it comes to game purchases.[/quote]
Jen actually used to work at GameStop herself,
[quote][At GameStop] I had to deal with used games every damn day. We would end up with 50+ Madden 2001, it was really a pain. I would buy used games from my own store, only because I knew I would get a good case and a good looking copy of the game. Nowadays, I will buy new, unless I’m hunting for a retro game to add to my collection.[/quote]
Which brings up the other side of the spectrum of used copies. What about trade-ins? From the looks of it, it looked like Ben was the one who’s practiced the trade-in system from the customer point of view the most out of all of us.
[quote]I used to trade in games all the time, it was the primary way I could even afford new games when I was younger and before I got my first job. Also, it is total crap that they don’t give you a decent amount of trade in monies. I recently traded in a bunch of older stuff I have on PC now or just don’t play, in order to get a 3DS. Old DS games like New Super Mario Bros. and Mario Kart got me around $18 each. Those are 4 year old DS games.
Similarly, I got about the same for the Orange Box and Fallout 3 (not GOTY). for games that came out that long ago, that’s a pretty good deal. Some games they do give you next to nothing for but there are plenty of exceptions. And it is much easier to sell these games in bulk to a store than buy them on Craigslist or ebay or something.[/quote]
Trade-ins totally make sense from the perspective of someone who has no other means of getting a hold of extra cash to put towards a new video game purchase. And not only that, but for some people it doesn’t make sense to hold on to a copy of a game you’re never going to play again. Rather than let it gather dust, why not sell it and get a some store credit to pick up a new title?
In an effort to eliminate used copies in this generation of consoles and PC, there’s been digital downloads introduced. And that’s where things like Steam and Origin come into the picture. Gamers buy a copy and download it straight to their hard drive. There’s no middle man anymore and no way to get credit back for a game you don’t feel like playing anymore. Or so we thought.
Jasdeep mentioned the company Green Man Gaming. They’re essentially the same as Steam or Origin where they provide gamers with PC games direct from their website available for instant play once the download finishes. It is slightly different due to the fact that you can actually sell back your purchased games for credit towards a new one. If you care to learn more about them check out their site here.
In retrospective, used games can have both good or bad repercussions depending on which way you look at them. They can be good in the sense that you save a few bucks, add an old title to your collection of games, and help you buy new ones by trading in an old game or two. The negative effects one might see would be that it can be harmful to the development of games and the games industry as a whole in the long run, and the selling and buying of used games can also be seen as a rip off to customers as well.
Technically, neither decision is right or wrong. It all really has to do with what YOU want to do. What matters most to me is that we all continue to enjoy games for what they are, experiences to share with one another. As long as I always have someone to talk to about games I’ll be happy. In the end, no matter what you do, remember, “Keep calm, and game on”.
Since we’re on the topic of GameStop, check out the last two images below to get a laugh or two, featuring a pre-owned pizza and two used copies of the same game at different prices.
Enjoy!
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We’re each 17, he’s in my 12 months at school, we were equally new students in September and which is how we met. He just walked up to me and started talking to me in college and we grew to become friends. I was only considering of him as a prospective buddy at that time and I was finding the impression that he had a crush on me and I felt awkward and I hoped that he didn’t, and then sooner or later I realised that I really liked him. I Am quite insane about him. I genuinely genuinely actually like him, a lot, I adore him, I nearly really feel like stating I really like him even however I know that is silly. There have been times when I’ve really felt that he liked me simply because I could perception him being nervous, awkward, searching at me when I wasn’t seeking and then hunting away, and sometimes I just assumed I noticed something in his eyes, and just the way he smiled at me, but I don’t know if I’ve just imagined it all.
People in college are usually asking us if we’re a couple, and masses of people have stated to me that they see a connection or chemistry in between us and that they get the impression he likes me, and we have a mutual pal who we sit with at lunch and the other day he was teasing her and this other good friend of hers (who is a guy) saying that there is certainly some thing more between them and so forth and she denied it and then turned the joke again on him stating that he fancies me, ‘you never have to hold your partnership a secret’ etc and i was just embarassed and he was like ‘who?’ and then made a joke of it saying ‘i love her.. she loves me, absolutely everyone loves me’ or some thing like that, at the time I assumed we had been both just embarassed and I think I noticed him blush and I believed possibly that gave away that he likes me as a lot more than a friend, but I dunno.
And then the next day we have been obtaining a conversation at break and he just randomly introduced up that he satisfied this woman type his taekwondo club, (to ‘meet’ as in the slang to ‘kiss’ like they organized to kiss) and he said that he would not go out with her simply because it would be awkward because he is utilised to just speaking to her as a mate. at the time i just felt like ‘ok why are you telling me this’ and a component of me questioned if he was trying to hint at me that he’s not fascinated in me, and a component of me wondered if he wanted to see what my reaction was, to see if I was jealous, or perhaps he was just producing conversation. i dunno. and then tonight we were supposed to be going to see a motion picture with this other lady who he hangs out with, but she couldn’t make it so he asked me if I wished to go see a various film just with him, and i said yeah and so we met up at the cinema, went into the movie, and we have been chatting and he introduced up the matter of the girl from his taekwondo club again, he mentioned that he may be likely out with her. i was just like…oh right. what’s she like. and he described her. and i said ‘do you like her?’ and he was like ‘yeah..’ in a ‘yeah she’s alright y’know’ tone of voice, and the conversation just stopped there for a few moments. so we watched the movie and then walked straight home, chatting about college and crap like that.
what do you think? we get on really well, have masses in common, we would appear cute as a couple, I actually fancy him, I feel chemistry between us, but is it all just in my head? it’s possible he only wishes to be friends?
We’re both 17, he’s in my year at school, we were both new students in September and that’s how we met. He just walked up to me and started talking to me in school and we became friends. I was only thinking of him as a potential friend at that time and I was getting the impression that he had a crush on me and I felt awkward and I hoped that he didn’t, and then eventually I realised that I actually liked him. I’m pretty crazy about him. I really really really like him, a lot, I adore him, I almost feel like saying I love him even though I know that’s silly. There have been times when I’ve really felt that he liked me because I could sense him being nervous, awkward, looking at me when I wasn’t looking and then looking away, and sometimes I just thought I saw something in his eyes, and just the way he smiled at me, but I don’t know if I’ve just imagined it all.
People in school are always asking us if we’re a couple, and loads of people have said to me that they see a connection or chemistry between us and that they get the impression he likes me, and we have a mutual friend who we sit with at lunch and the other day he was teasing her and this other friend of hers (who is a guy) saying that there’s something more between them etc and she denied it and then turned the joke back on him saying that he fancies me, ‘you don’t have to keep your relationship a secret’ etc and i was just embarassed and he was like ‘who?’ and then made a joke of it saying ‘i love her.. she loves me, everyone loves me’ or something like that, at the time I thought we were both just embarassed and I think I saw him blush and I thought maybe that gave away that he likes me as more than a friend, but I dunno.
And then the next day we were having a conversation at break and he just randomly brought up that he met this girl form his taekwondo club, (to ‘meet’ as in the slang to ‘kiss’ like they arranged to kiss) and he said that he wouldn’t go out with her because it would be awkward because he’s used to just talking to her as a mate. at the time i just felt like ‘ok why are you telling me this’ and a part of me wondered if he was trying to hint at me that he’s not interested in me, and a part of me wondered if he wanted to see what my reaction was, to see if I was jealous, or maybe he was just making conversation. i dunno. and then tonight we were supposed to be going to see a movie with this other girl who he hangs out with, but she couldn’t make it so he asked me if I wanted to go see a different movie just with him, and i said yeah and so we met up at the cinema, went into the movie, and we were chatting and he brought up the subject of the girl from his taekwondo club again, he said that he might be going out with her. i was just like…oh right. what’s she like. and he described her. and i said ‘do you like her?’ and he was like ‘yeah..’ in a ‘yeah she’s alright y’know’ tone of voice, and the conversation just stopped there for a few moments. so we watched the movie and then walked straight home, chatting about school and crap like that.
what do you think? we get on really well, have loads in common, we would look cute as a couple, I really fancy him, I feel chemistry between us, but is it all just in my head? maybe he only wants to be friends?
Hi, i’m a teenager and this march, i’m going to singapore with my cousin and mother due to a 5 days length seminar my mom is attending. In other words I and my cousin would be walking around Singapore to pass the time. I’ve been to Singapore for several times. The latest is at december 2008. I’ve been to chinatown, sentosa, jurong birdpark, ochard road, singapore zoo, night safari, harbour front (or font) and a few other places that I could not remember ^^;
And this year i’m planning to go to little india, science museum, etc.
Is there any other intersting places to go other than the one that I state above? And oh, before I forget, shopping for clothes is my number 1 sports so is there any shops in Singapore that sells japan fashion (you know those harajuku, Lolita and stuff) Thanks
Ps: I think there is a place where children could play indoor golf right? What’s that place again? I forgot.
Pss: if possible I want it to be cheap and saving. But its okay to tell me those expensive fancy ones if you don’t know ANY cheap places.
And don’t play play with your answers, I want it to be the best in Singapore, JB and some say Batam, so use your brain okay? XD lol, PCK… Sorry if I ask and talk too much…
I need some help finding a good eyeliner that will work for me. I’m pretty new to using eyeliner. I’ve been using this crappy stuff that’s not even a known brand, it’s not irritating my eyes or anything but it smudges and smears and ends up not even being noticeable after an hour or two. I’ve tried other stuff and it’s the same way. I tried liquid eyeliner but I should have researched it first, because it either gets into my eye or I can’t do it right.
I’m going shopping and I need to know somethings. I apply my eyeliner on the bottom, on my water line (I realized after Googling it not to put liquid eyeliner on my water line, my mom didn’t quite tell me that,). I’ve heard that applying it under your waterline is good as well as your waterline because when it smudges it’s basically smudging into that. But my eyeliner is crap anyway.
So, what’s a good brand/product? I live in Canada so it has to be available here. I’m not going to a fancy department store, but I’m going to like Shoppers Drugmart where they do have good brands there and a whole amazing cosmetic section.
What’s better for what I’m trying to do; pencil, or those twist ups (don’t know the proper name but I know they twist up..)
Sorry I’m a total newbie, but I really need some help! Please and thank you!
for RANDOM things. obviously the most expensive things most of us own are the horse itself, saddles, and trailers. but what about really random stuff? you can say the most expensive item you’ve ever bought or the most you’ve spent in one setting (like a “shopping cart” of stuff online, or a day at the horse fair). I’m really frugal, so surprisingly $200 is actually the most i’ve spent in one place. Today i was at midwest horse fair (anyone else???), and i spent 200 there LOL. BUT, one of my purchases was $150 alone. i was planning on getting a horse helmet, when i ran across the Equiface Saver. they’re really, really expensive, but so worth it in my opinion. they protect the poll area, and the majority of the face. i was hesitant, but the horror stories about helmet failures and helmets that didn’t stay on properly and the damage that can be done to a horse’s face really got to me. he was a good salesman i guess
. my horse is bigger, and fits very snuggly in trailers, so any sudden movement could seriously injure him. he’s also prone to panicking when unloading, and i’m just waiting for the day where he rears up in the trailer. $150 is very worth preventing brain damage and serious lacerations on his face. then i also bought some random stuff, like a new fly mask, a jelly scrubber, fly spray, etc, all making it $200. it was rough spending that LOL. like, i’m really cheap when it comes to things like halters/leads, bridles, my saddle was used, i never buy new stuff unless i have to, i don’t buy fancy stuff i want (like this really awesome lead rope). Then on the other hand, i buy expensive feed, the most expensive fly spray, fancy fly masks, and i have the most expensive vet in the area. so i guess it depends LOL
But what about you? what’s the most you’ve ever spent?
shit! i just gave you a TD on accident meagan LOL, sorry!!! pretend that’s a thumbs up :/ LOL
LOL, you know me, i’m out to sabotage you
There’s a guy at my school who fancies me. And i mean REALLY fancies me. He won’t leave me alone. I’ve only really talked to him properly without everyone else around since Wednesday, and he asked for my number so i gave it to him. At first, the texts were okay, like we were playing 20 questions:favourites… ie: what’s your favourite animal? what’s your favourite comedian ect. but then he started to seem a bit obsessive, and i would send a reply and he’d text back within a few seconds. The we started to chat on msn, and i said i had to go for dinner, and he said ‘okay, bye, love you’ and logged off. i knew he had liked me, but i had told my friends that i didn’t really know that much about him, so i didn’t want to be with him if i didn’t like what i was never told. Which i discovered later (by talking to the guy, and he said ‘not to make things awkward’-like they weren’t already-’but your friends said you’d go out with me if you knew more about me’) that my best friends had been handing over my words to him like frickin’ peace offerings to a God. So, still feeling betrayed, me, my ‘friend’ and the guy and his best friend went out to the city yesterday, just to walk around and buy ice cream and whatever else. When i got home, i had three texts on my phone from the guy, all in the space of 10 minutes. I sat and watched X-Factor with my Mum, and he had text me again afterwards, asking me to go on msn. I lied and said that i couldn’t, that my Laptop was updating new software, and he said that he’d wait all night for me if he had too.
I told my Mum really quickly, and she grabbed my phone off the side and switched it off, telling me not to worry about it. If i didn’t reply, he wouldn’t have to text again. But I’m rolling over in bed just thinking about what i’ll find on my phone tomorrow after all of this. What should i do?
Plus, i guess this is a double question, because i want to know what to do with my friends. One told half the school the guy fancied me, so now i have every guy in our year asking me if i’m going out with him or not yet. Another, as i said, had told him what i had told her in confidence, and now i’m just annoyed that i spent yesterday with her, chatting and laughing too. I have a third friend who just won’t drop the damn subject, and she also gets annoyed after a English lesson with these two girls sitting behind her, and she always comes out saying “i hate it when people get in my business” :O i mean what the **** have you been doing to me all week?!?! Hypocrite or what?
Ok, i used master google to find similar questions, and i found out a lot of people said to get a restraining order :S really? i mean, ok, this guy is sending me texts A LOT, but what i’m trying to say is that i just want it all to stop. I like being single (seriously. my friends laugh at that) and i don’t want to go out with this guy just to make him happy. He just won’t drop it.
00:31 am… ouch, so bloody tired and i can’t sleep. damn. please help
When I was younger I went to a private, Christian school from K-2 then I moved to a public school that says nothing about religion from 3-10th grade (where I currently am now). My family used to always go to church but then we slowly stopped going because of a few incidents. When I was in 7th grade my dad was diagnosed with prostate cancer and my family stopped going to church because we really saw no point in going. I didn’t go to church for about 2 years, not even on Christmas or Easter. During that time I started to lose my faith and question my beliefs. In 7th grade also, one of my friends died in a tragic accident and I thought “if god existed, why would he let my friend die when he was only 12? And why would god let my dad get cancer when he didn’t do anything wrong? Why did he let 9/11 happen? Why did he let the Haiti earthquake happen?”. I am not an atheist but there is no sure fire proof that a “god” or “Jesus” existed. My mom now forces me to go to church. She said that I will go to hell if I don’t go to church and we need to be “born again Christians”. I told her you don’t have to be at the doors of the church every sunday just so you won’t go to hell. In my opinion, religion is like spending your whole life preparing for death. You go to church and call yourself a Christian because you were taught that you would go to hell if you didn’t. Everything you learn in church is about heaven and death. And when people put their hands up in church, it’s not like “God” is going to speak words to you. What’s the point? Church is boring to me. I’d rather be sleeping in then there at 9 am. My parents don’t understand me at all because I have different viewes then them. I’m just not really sure what I believe. And some people are like “Oh, I pray that I will get a new fancy car”. God is not going to shine down on you with a car. It’s called “free-will”. First YOU need to get a job, so YOU can get a new car.
We’re both 17, he’s in my year at school, we were both new students in September and that’s how we met. He just walked up to me and started talking to me in school and we became friends. I was only thinking of him as a potential friend at that time and I was getting the impression that he had a crush on me and I felt awkward and I hoped that he didn’t, and then eventually I realised that I actually liked him. I’m pretty crazy about him. I really really really like him, a lot, I adore him, I almost feel like saying I love him even though I know that’s silly. There have been times when I’ve really felt that he liked me because I could sense him being nervous, awkward, looking at me when I wasn’t looking and then looking away, and sometimes I just thought I saw something in his eyes, and just the way he smiled at me, but I don’t know if I’ve just imagined it all.
People in school are always asking us if we’re a couple, and loads of people have said to me that they see a connection or chemistry between us and that they get the impression he likes me, and we have a mutual friend who we sit with at lunch and the other day he was teasing her and this other friend of hers (who is a guy) saying that there’s something more between them etc and she denied it and then turned the joke back on him saying that he fancies me, ‘you don’t have to keep your relationship a secret’ etc and i was just embarassed and he was like ‘who?’ and then made a joke of it saying ‘i love her.. she loves me, everyone loves me’ or something like that, at the time I thought we were both just embarassed and I think I saw him blush and I thought maybe that gave away that he likes me as more than a friend, but I dunno.
And then the next day we were having a conversation at break and he just randomly brought up that he met this girl form his taekwondo club, (to ‘meet’ as in the slang to ‘kiss’ like they arranged to kiss) and he said that he wouldn’t go out with her because it would be awkward because he’s used to just talking to her as a mate. at the time i just felt like ‘ok why are you telling me this’ and a part of me wondered if he was trying to hint at me that he’s not interested in me, and a part of me wondered if he wanted to see what my reaction was, to see if I was jealous, or maybe he was just making conversation. i dunno. and then tonight we were supposed to be going to see a movie with this other girl who he hangs out with, but she couldn’t make it so he asked me if I wanted to go see a different movie just with him, and i said yeah and so we met up at the cinema, went into the movie, and we were chatting and he brought up the subject of the girl from his taekwondo club again, he said that he might be going out with her. i was just like…oh right. what’s she like. and he described her. and i said ‘do you like her?’ and he was like ‘yeah..’ in a ‘yeah she’s alright y’know’ tone of voice, and the conversation just stopped there for a few moments. so we watched the movie and then walked straight home, chatting about school and crap like that.
what do you think? we get on really well, have loads in common, we would look cute as a couple, I really fancy him, I feel chemistry between us, but is it all just in my head? maybe he only wants to be friends?
Hi, i’m a teenager and this march, i’m going to singapore with my cousin and mother due to a 5 days length seminar my mom is attending. In other words I and my cousin would be walking around Singapore to pass the time. I’ve been to Singapore for several times. The latest is at december 2008. I’ve been to chinatown, sentosa, jurong birdpark, ochard road, singapore zoo, night safari, harbour front (or font) and a few other places that I could not remember ^^;
And this year i’m planning to go to little india, science museum, etc.
Is there any other intersting places to go other than the one that I state above? And oh, before I forget, shopping for clothes is my number 1 sports so is there any shops in Singapore that sells japan fashion (you know those harajuku, Lolita and stuff) Thanks
Ps: I think there is a place where children could play indoor golf right? What’s that place again? I forgot.
Pss: if possible I want it to be cheap and saving. But its okay to tell me those expensive fancy ones if you don’t know ANY cheap places.
And don’t play play with your answers, I want it to be the best in Singapore, JB and some say Batam, so use your brain okay? XD lol, PCK… Sorry if I ask and talk too much…
We’re both 17, he’s in my year at school, we were both new students in September and that’s how we met. He just walked up to me and started talking to me in school and we became friends. I was only thinking of him as a potential friend at that time and I was getting the impression that he had a crush on me and I felt awkward and I hoped that he didn’t, and then eventually I realised that I actually liked him. I’m pretty crazy about him. I really really really like him, a lot, I adore him, I almost feel like saying I love him even though I know that’s silly. There have been times when I’ve really felt that he liked me because I could sense him being nervous, awkward, looking at me when I wasn’t looking and then looking away, and sometimes I just thought I saw something in his eyes, and just the way he smiled at me, but I don’t know if I’ve just imagined it all.
People in school are always asking us if we’re a couple, and loads of people have said to me that they see a connection or chemistry between us and that they get the impression he likes me, and we have a mutual friend who we sit with at lunch and the other day he was teasing her and this other friend of hers (who is a guy) saying that there’s something more between them etc and she denied it and then turned the joke back on him saying that he fancies me, ‘you don’t have to keep your relationship a secret’ etc and i was just embarassed and he was like ‘who?’ and then made a joke of it saying ‘i love her.. she loves me, everyone loves me’ or something like that, at the time I thought we were both just embarassed and I think I saw him blush and I thought maybe that gave away that he likes me as more than a friend, but I dunno.
And then the next day we were having a conversation at break and he just randomly brought up that he met this girl form his taekwondo club, (to ‘meet’ as in the slang to ‘kiss’ like they arranged to kiss) and he said that he wouldn’t go out with her because it would be awkward because he’s used to just talking to her as a mate. at the time i just felt like ‘ok why are you telling me this’ and a part of me wondered if he was trying to hint at me that he’s not interested in me, and a part of me wondered if he wanted to see what my reaction was, to see if I was jealous, or maybe he was just making conversation. i dunno. and then tonight we were supposed to be going to see a movie with this other girl who he hangs out with, but she couldn’t make it so he asked me if I wanted to go see a different movie just with him, and i said yeah and so we met up at the cinema, went into the movie, and we were chatting and he brought up the subject of the girl from his taekwondo club again, he said that he might be going out with her. i was just like…oh right. what’s she like. and he described her. and i said ‘do you like her?’ and he was like ‘yeah..’ in a ‘yeah she’s alright y’know’ tone of voice, and the conversation just stopped there for a few moments. so we watched the movie and then walked straight home, chatting about school and crap like that.
what do you think? we get on really well, have loads in common, we would look cute as a couple, I really fancy him, I feel chemistry between us, but is it all just in my head? maybe he only wants to be friends?
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Basically, I have a crush on the new teacher in my school. Just a crush, I would never do anything to
hurt him or his career. Frankly, I’m not an idiot that would go out with the teacher or anything, I just think he is really attractive and has a nice personality. My other teacher found out that I have a crush on him. If you read my other questions, you’ll know that I didn’t mean to be obvious, and it just happened. First of all he was saying it as a joke, and in another question I was saying about him treating me unfairly.
Well, it has got worse. The teacher in question is making my life hell, we used to be on good terms, and he always liked my group of friends. Now, whenever he sees any of my friends without me, he is nice to them. But the minute he see’s me, he makes up an excuse about how we shouldn’t be there. Any excuse to shout at me. Also in lessons, he has been blatantly ignoring me when I put my hand up, and even separating my from my friends for doing nothing wrong. People have said he might have been being funny with me because he is scared that I fancy him. But I think it is something else, ever since he found out I have a crush on the new teacher, right from that day he has treated me terrible. My whole class has picked up on it. It’s not like they are friends either. In fact, the new teacher I have a crush on said to me last week. ‘ I think it’s sweet that you have a crush on me, and I know that your not like that. I hope Mr. ****** isn’t giving you grief about it. Your really mature about it, and I hope it’s not my fault,”
So, what do you think I should do? Getting shouted at for wearing make-up,getting split up from my friends, getting shouted at for no reason in particular, not to mention evil glares whenever he sees me. I just don’t want something as petty as a crush to ruin my school life. I just wish I didn’t like the new teacher. What’s your opinion on this, and what do you think I should do next?
Thank you for reading through all of these questions, and having the patience to answer me! I am just so confused right now.
Prologue:
When Bella Beckham was a little girl, she would sing along on her mini plastic tape recorder to Michael Jackson and Britney Spears hits and get twirled in the air in daddy’s arms to the sounds of the Rolling Stones and the Beatles. The precocious child would dance around the table at fancy Upper West Side restaurants using the breadsticks as a baton and she would innocently greet a new babysitter in nothing but her birthday suit.
The world watched in fascination as that little girl from a crazy Italian New York family turned into the exhibitionist, multi-talented singer-songwriter with a flair for theatrics and entertainment: Bella Beckham.
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Monday, August 23, 9 a.m.
The Diary of Bella Beckham
My life as a pop princess began at the Burger King.
I could tell you that at the time, I was your average sixteen-year-old girl with slacker grades, dysfunctional family, bad hair days, unattractive pimples, and a love for singing out loud to every pop song on the radio. But that was the Wonder Bella who appeared doomed to live out her junior year as a social oddity at her new high school in Boston.
The other Wonder Bella, the one who slaved away at the Burger King every afternoon, she sang aloud to every song on the radio in order to drown out customers’ voices so her mind could focus on her real ambition: escape. Sing-aloud Wonder dreamed of escape from Boston, escape from high school, escape to Somewhere, Anywhere (okay, preferably New York or L.A., though London or Paris would probably do, as would any dark steamy Latin American beach metropolis like in the telenovelas on the Spanish language channel). She also longed for escape from parents whose marriage was on nuclear meltdown, escape from the sorrow that had overwhelmed our household since my parent’s divorce. In whatever glamorous city happened to be Somewhere, Anywhere, the other Wonder Bella would go and reinvent herself, become a sophisticated emancipated teen with a sensuous lips and ridiculous confidence. She could be like some Presidential Fitness teen ambassador; she’d have a kick-ass designer wardrobe and a smile that could light the world on fire. That chick would know how to make new friends like that and she would have guys lining up to date her, instead of the regular ole Wonder Bella, who you could tell guys thought was kinda not bad-looking but why’s she always by herself staring out into space, and anyway isn’t she the girl who dreams of being on TV, what’s her deal, how’d she get stranded here?
The regular ole Wonder Bella had two years of high school left to go, two more years trapped in sleepy Boston, Massachusetts. Escape for now would have to come from singing aloud at her job at the Burger King, passing the time in her own reverie.
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The Los Angeles Times
Bombshells. Sex kittens. Pin-up girls. In Hollywood, such creatures have always been in plentiful supply. But just about once in a generation, a bona fide sex symbol will come along to stand out from the pack: some beautiful sex-bomb goddess whose mere photograph is enough to flutter the collective pulse and whose appearance on a red carpet causes both flashbulbs and eyes to pop. These women are synonymous with the S-word because they make men think impure thoughts rather than associate them with any particular movie role, product or publicist-constructed persona.
Every era gets the sex symbol it deserves — at least, so goes pop cultural thinking on the matter. What then to make of Bella Beckham? To be sure, she is the newest “it” girl to ascend into the vaunted pantheon of sex-bomb goddesses.
just turned 13 like a week ago. I’m using my sis’s account and I just wanted to ask if you like my story. Please, don’t try to get best answer by saying it’s great. That won’t get it. If your rather harsh but tell me why it’s bad than you’ll get best answer. And if it’s good and you tell me why you’ll get best answer too. So it doesn’t matter for the sake of your points if you say it’s bad, don’t worry. Also, what would be a good title for it, and is it in the right format of a short story ( climax and everything?) What’s your thoughts on it. I know the grammer some what needs to be fixed, so I’ll fix that some more later. Here it is:
My type did well. I have a cot to rest, a facility to wash, a room for nutrition, and even a mirror to reflect what a wonder I am here on planet earth. I may be a lower class of my sorts, but I still add to the population other than humans. The greater number against the natives to earth, more control we have of it and the superb climate rather than our last planet- the planet of flames and hell.
Indeed, unlike others, I exited it without giving a thought to my kin. You have to play harsh if you don’t want to live harsh. My species favorite line.
But here alas, before I lay my head for sleep, I put on a cotton sleep wear granted to me for arriving to tend to the task of taking over this new planet. With that, I braid my elegant Indigo face skin and put my arm fingers to serenity from their usual hyper selves.
I fancy having my door wide in the night, so the scent of spring cleanses the room. Though tonight something else came in but intoxicated my dwelling instead.
At first, all I heard was the faint sound of footsteps, getting closer, and closer and closer. An animal in the night? But a taunting feelings in my instincts told me other.
My body lay still, as still as the dead men we prosecute. Because a figure scurried in franticly. It only had two arms sticking out at the side. It was a person.
I almost gag, thinking how its filthy little body is soiling my room. It’s face, all smooth and most times waist colored hair at the top of their head is repulsive to me.
It must be crazed running from the death room. I heard tales of people taking cover anywhere, such in panic they don’t care where. Mostly drugged too, for the aroma of us is hard for them to obtain without going mad.
The human stashes its alien body under my bed. Over on my table, I turn my head and see my Trauxen. The most valuable possession other than my soul I attain. It is used for times like these, to kill, in a rather painful way, humans.
At first I hesitate to move. Because I’m scared. Because I’m a coward. I shake these human like emotions from me. I should be more petrified if I don’t, for soon my enemy will populate against my kind, taking possession of earth again, shooing us off to where we where all breaded. Or inflict the torment we put upon them. I shiver at the thought.
My side hand reaches and grasps the weapon to my right. The unsteady breathing of the thing below me is the most irritating sound ever. A zing of thirst to execute fills me. I get from my bed and stand, feeling it’s air hit my skin.
With one quick movement, it pushes me to the ground. The nerve! I hear my attacker rush from beneath my mattress, ready to escape. But I am quick to get up, and from amidst the black I see the outline of it, trembling with fear. I can feel my eye twitch with glee as I aim.
I press to shoot.
The waves of blue emerge from the machine towards the figure.
And. . .
And back again to me?
Hitting me in the heart that humans say I don’t have.
I fall to the ground and wilt, the mirror in front of me. The mirror that I would once look at and see my dainty body. I hit myself.
The last thing I experience besides my aches is the human hiss in my ear, “Sometimes you got to play harsh if you don’t wanna live harsh.” He takes his foot and jams it into my skull, leaving me even more absolutely unable to invade or signal there’s a person on the loose.
And with one turn, he saunters out into the moonlight, my Trauxen in one hand, an apple in another and it’s heart filled with pride as I slowly vanish away to more agony in hell.