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Welcome, I'm RedMage.

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I like your sig. I even know what it means. I even remember when it first came out. Damn I'm old. I just canceled my WoW account, I played on an Assuie time zone server too, among others. I always got a hoot out of the kiwis and the aussies bickering and it always ended up discussing who had the best beer. My main was a hunter. I had more alts then anyone should ever have. My gaming history is long.

postpaleo

I guess you've had a long history with games, eh?

Well, I guess that depends on perspective. Probably compared to most that would have to be a yes. I like them.

Have you ever played the original Mario Bros.? As in, the arcade version?

Lol, you keep worse hours then I do. Oh wait time zones. Thats why I like the server I picked, people were actually on. Lol, I go back way further then that. As far as computer games go. There weren't any, back then you had to code your own. I never was very good at it. I would copy things from magizenes. VIC20 was the first computer in the house, my dad got it. Before that we played with stones by the light of the fire in the cave

postpaleo

Welcome, postpaleo. I hope you enjoy yourself at this website.

postpaleo, what did you do for fun as a child?

That's kind of a tough one for me, a lot of this is, because I'm older, I just can't remember a lot of it anymore. Some of my past comes to me better with certian meds, as does writing and general functioning. Writing anything at all, is very new to me, very new. I think I only had one English teacher that didn't end up slapping me in class at some point in a year. My first doseage of the one I'm doing now was a huge breath of freash air, still messing with the drugs and it's a very hard road to travel, been doing it now for 10? years. Bipolar has been the thrust of it, we'll see if this changes the tactics now that I found the aspie test to be so dead on, in alot of the questions.

Well for starters, I'm an only child, I entertained myself and still can. Alone isn't a bad place for me at all, I rather like it, not always has this been the case. I have a poor conception of what normal is, I assume others think like me and am constantly startled that they don't see what I see. I can float through the normal world very well, when all my coping skills are working and I can push myself. So what one might see for a kid growing up in a little town in the 50's early 60's America was me. Baseball, cowboys and Indians, cub scouts, boy scouts, running through the woods, building forts, you name it I was most likely doing it. It was in school where I had my problems and this condition, for that matter a lot of the mental conditions, just plain wasn't understood, so trauma was invlolved. All the tests I took told my parents I was supposed to be smart, but my school work was the complete opposite. I guess I was more bendable when I was younger, I'm less so now and my head butts up against the machine more often. Chess was a biggie for me, I learned young and it wasn't a common form of entertainment around here. I read a lot too, another form of entertainment that wasn't common amoung my peers The dorks, pfffft, lol. Umm I liked women alot too and I never thought I was good looking when I was young, I found, and still do, looking at myself embarressing. My wife tells me I was and I guess I was or I'd have never had any girlfriends at all. Women and me is another story and not a pretty one, but I understand it now and yes, they would fit in with your question about entertainment. Self medication would be the more correct term. That isn't a story for here though.

It was late in life when I started playing Pong, Asteroids got a lot of my quarters.

Something set me off, I rebelled from electricty, moved back in the cave, gathered colored pebbles, ground holes in the floor to crush grass seeds and acorns, ten holes by ten, black and white pebbles, and made myself a computer. Then I sat and rocked, moved pebbles, figured it all out, and came back to the world for another round.

I had that one semi explained to me. Did they ever get a computer version that could do it? Last I knew it hadn't been done. I mean to beat the good ones at it.

Can one learn these tongues, given the absence of written scripts during the Stone Age - whether Palaeolithic, Mesolithic, or Neolithic - and the lack of a continuously spoken oral language? Or am I missing something here? Can I learn from you, Inventor?

Or is lithic the language of the stones, with Palaeo, Meso and Neo being dialects?

Lithics in a nut shell just referes to stone. A good amount of lithic terms we use are in French. If you describe it first, it tends to keep your language, your terms for something that hasn't been described before. Debitage would be one term, which means "waste flake". No such thing, it still needs to be looked at carefully, but it is a general classifcation of what is left from the making of something else.

Paleo, Meso and Neo in a nut shell are different stages, having to do more with time. I've seen all of these terms applied to the Americas, but most often see them applied to Europe. In my country you would hear me using paleo, archaic, transitional and woodland and all 4 of those terms would have early, middle, and late stages to them. Contact period would be another, but doesn't lend itself easily to stages, it has to be a little more specific.

We're kidding about them being languages. But if you were to hear us using lithic terms in abundance you could easily think we were either out of our minds or drinking heavily or mixing French and English with a few terms that wouldn't make any sense at all or all of the above. Hence the terms Neo, Meso and Paleo might be blended in when comparing different stages of lithics and how they were used and where they might come from.

postpaleo

Do I recall correctly that you were in New Mexico at some point? If so, did you ever play arcade games at the now defunct (I believe) Shakey's Pizza Parlor on Central Avenue, next to the Giant Lumberjack?

I know this wasn't directed at me, however..... When I was in New Mexico, I was out at the White Sands Missle range, for way too long. We got to play "asteroids" with Gatling guns (Vulcans) and missles (Chapperals). I miss some of the Army toys, they were fun. They were experimental when I was in and have long been replaced, although I think the Vulcans are still used in Israel. 1 year, 7 months, 19 days of hell, before they let me go.