MadDoggyca Posted August 26, 2010 Share Posted August 26, 2010 Since when did "gamer" become synonymous with shooter only games? no I included games form all genes. A gamer as tast for all Genes not just one type. Some one that only plays solitary. Or WoW. Or maybe lets mix it up a tad. Solitaery+WoW+farmvill IS NOT A Gamer. Casuel gaming or wasting your entire life one 1 Game dose not game u a gamer at all. Gamers have exstensive knowlage in a wide range of the Gaming world. From hardware, To Upcomming titles. To SOme of the biggest titles that have passed. as well as Leader Boards and a massive xfire List of geeks>LOL NFL/NHL FlightSim/NFS/GRANDTRrismo call of duty/doom/metro2033 mario/zelda/sonic Ecco the Dolphin/myst Tetris/DR mario Kerby/bubble bubble. Final Fantasy/ Parisite Eve /Kingdom Hearts this is not a gamer the click of the sound also work as a example of WoW as well (tast of the acution) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Knife Party Posted August 26, 2010 Share Posted August 26, 2010 :hump: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chaos mage Posted August 26, 2010 Share Posted August 26, 2010 The problem is that if we don't just keep the headset off, we won't be left alone to actually enjoy and play THE GAME. A lot of boys seem to think we're just there to get attention, or to talk about our breasts and vaginas. Or we get to enjoy an endless stream of typical and overused insults: "Get back in the kitchen", "Shut up, and go make me a sandwich", "You must be fat", "You sound like a little boy", etc.. On behalf of the embarrassed part of male gamers online, I apologize for the lack of respect. If we could fix the problem, we would. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cropcircles Posted August 26, 2010 Share Posted August 26, 2010 wcgultimategamer Katherine Gunn Vanessa Arteara Rachel Quirico Faye Mata Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miraya Posted August 26, 2010 Author Share Posted August 26, 2010 Emily_June yeah i been there.. And the nastier stuff.. I guess that why we usually hide . . . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emily_June Posted August 26, 2010 Share Posted August 26, 2010 On behalf of the embarrassed part of male gamers online, I apologize for the lack of respect. If we could fix the problem, we would. Haha. To be fair, I've come across more than a few very pleasant and polite male gamers, as well. And other female gamers I've found myself in online matches with are obnoxious bitches 90% of the time--especially to other girls. They tend to harbor some sort of animosity and/or jealousy towards other female gamers, or they want to buddy (or clan) up with every other female gamer; some kind of girl power thing. Neither of which I completely understand or sympathize with. Because of that, and despite the piggish, disgusting comments a lot of males make in the gaming world, I still prefer to play with the boys. Girl gamers have a lot of growing up and problem fixing to do, too. And it's all just a matter of not taking it too seriously. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vice Posted August 26, 2010 Share Posted August 26, 2010 That's pretty mean to single her out. Was it because she was just a girl? Would it be done to any guys in the clan? Videos had been made about all the people in the clan, usually in a jokey fashion like people who got owned constantly or rage quit often. People that would start talking smack then get there ass handed to them within seconds of the trash talk. Funny things like that, but the raging for one of our girls and making it sound like she was reaching orgasm took it to far and the video was promptly removed. In our clan we treat everyone the same and we take the game not very seriously. It is not uncommon for us to lose 10 matches in a row just because we are all on mics talking about mundane **** like turtle shell ashtrays and sellotape strength. We have fun and the fact that some of us are girls some of us are guys some of us are American, German, English, Irish, French etc it just isn't even a topic of discussion really. Some of the more interesting people in our clan include an ex-Blizzard employee who worked on the art for there games, a few ex-professional gamers, some lead game developers for a number of indie games. This is more interesting to us than who has a Pee Pee or a Hoo Hoo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skulltrail Posted August 26, 2010 Share Posted August 26, 2010 A reason to break up. He thinks you aren't real. :p Female gamers do exist but like in most male-crowded activities, there aren't many. I think gamer chicks are hawt and independent. Some are a little too freaky for my taste but most are great companions or friends. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Konstanov Posted August 26, 2010 Share Posted August 26, 2010 Both the wife and I have sleeping dificulties, me ever since I was a teenager, and the wife ever since she gave birth, and we'll always go down to the living room to do whatever as to not keep each other up. I have heard profanity being shouted by my wife every once in awhile while she was playing God of War 3. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McCordRm Posted August 26, 2010 Share Posted August 26, 2010 Here's the thing. I'm in the military and I hate it when people DON'T talk about military/Govt related stuff just because I'm around. I find that a hell of a lot more 'offensive' than anything they would have said. SO the point being, doesn't telling people to watch their mouth because there's a female present actually force segregation as opposed to equality? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raa Posted August 26, 2010 Share Posted August 26, 2010 SO the point being, doesn't telling people to watch their mouth because there's a female present actually force segregation as opposed to equality? I think that's more in the context of not making kitchen or other stereotypical comments when females are present. I know i've told people off before and asked for more respect to be shown. To me, that's equality. There's no segregation in not discussing your own personal interests during a game, imo. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McCordRm Posted August 26, 2010 Share Posted August 26, 2010 It's interesting the things we're willing to consider "teasing in good fun" and that which we let offend us. That's all I'm saying. If one of the guys makes a remark about my small stature, it doesn't **** me off. Yet you've got that guy at the airport that ran down a co-worker with a knife because the dude made a small penis joke about him. If women can't handle remarks based on their being female... they're in the wrong crowd. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MadDoggyca Posted August 26, 2010 Share Posted August 26, 2010 Both the wife and I have sleeping dificulties, me ever since I was a teenager, and the wife ever since she gave birth, and we'll always go down to the living room to do whatever as to not keep each other up. I have heard profanity being shouted by my wife every once in awhile while she was playing God of War 3. YES!!! LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
treemonster Posted August 27, 2010 Share Posted August 27, 2010 the guys i tend to play games with insult each other all the time. if the girls can't stand it we're not the group they are going to enjoy playing with anyway. on the flip side there's guilds and such that go out of their way to please teh girls in their groups all the time, and go to extreme white knighting for them even when it breaks up the whole guild because e sex or e dating was involved and someone got jealous or their feelings got hurt or something. then there's guilds where a woman sets the rules such as no swearing or w/e because they can't use headphones and their kids are in the room or worse they want their kids to play these games with them and don't want them exposed to adult humour. these are not guilds I want to play with. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emily_June Posted August 27, 2010 Share Posted August 27, 2010 the guys i tend to play games with insult each other all the time. if the girls can't stand it we're not the group they are going to enjoy playing with anyway. on the flip side there's guilds and such that go out of their way to please teh girls in their groups all the time, and go to extreme white knighting for them even when it breaks up the whole guild because e sex or e dating was involved and someone got jealous or their feelings got hurt or something. then there's guilds where a woman sets the rules such as no swearing or w/e because they can't use headphones and their kids are in the room or worse they want their kids to play these games with them and don't want them exposed to adult humour. these are not guilds I want to play with. That all sounds like too much drama for gaming, regardless of gender. Gaming, for me, has to remain drama-free for me to enjoy it. That's why I don't join clans or accept friend requests. Eventually, everyone wants to bring some sort of drama to the table--especially when you mix the girls with the boys--and it's just entirely unnecessary. I prefer to play solo or with new strangers (aside from the boyfriend, of course) on a regular basis, for that very reason. Yucky. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Tyranade Subscriber² Posted August 27, 2010 Subscriber² Share Posted August 27, 2010 Yes there are, look at the youtube channel TradeChat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MR_Candyman Posted August 27, 2010 Share Posted August 27, 2010 the guys i tend to play games with insult each other all the time. if the girls can't stand it we're not the group they are going to enjoy playing with anyway. on the flip side there's guilds and such that go out of their way to please teh girls in their groups all the time, and go to extreme white knighting for them even when it breaks up the whole guild because e sex or e dating was involved and someone got jealous or their feelings got hurt or something. then there's guilds where a woman sets the rules such as no swearing or w/e because they can't use headphones and their kids are in the room or worse they want their kids to play these games with them and don't want them exposed to adult humour. these are not guilds I want to play with. In my guild we set up a special chat channel for profanity and things we just didn't want people's children to read. It limited it to text, but I think it was a good idea and worked very well. Usually what happens is you will get one person out of a dating or married couple who absolutely suck at playing the game so you end up alienating both of them because if you bring one to the raid, you'll have to bring the other. There's some you try to teach to be better players but then they get offended and ****y because you're essentially telling them they can't play their class properly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yusuf M. Veteran Posted August 27, 2010 Veteran Share Posted August 27, 2010 I just noticed this was in the Computer Gaming sub-forum. Moved Here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
treemonster Posted August 27, 2010 Share Posted August 27, 2010 That all sounds like too much drama for gaming, regardless of gender. Gaming, for me, has to remain drama-free for me to enjoy it. That's why I don't join clans or accept friend requests. Eventually, everyone wants to bring some sort of drama to the table--especially when you mix the girls with the boys--and it's just entirely unnecessary. I prefer to play solo or with new strangers (aside from the boyfriend, of course) on a regular basis, for that very reason. Yucky. playing any kind of online game you're going to have some level of drama. even in a single match of tf2 with all guys, you're going to have some say hax or newbz or something offensive.the same goes for online forums such as neowin, irc chat rooms, and pretty much every thing you can do on the internet, regardless of topic. girls only raises the potential for drama, it does guarantee it and the lack of girls doesn't guaranteee drama free play. all of the biggest drama queens i've played with were guys, regardless if girls were involved or not. In my guild we set up a special chat channel for profanity and things we just didn't want people's children to read. It limited it to text, but I think it was a good idea and worked very well. Usually what happens is you will get one person out of a dating or married couple who absolutely suck at playing the game so you end up alienating both of them because if you bring one to the raid, you'll have to bring the other. There's some you try to teach to be better players but then they get offended and ****y because you're essentially telling them they can't play their class properly. i tend to play in guilds that play with each other more for their personality and participation than ability. and the kinds of activities i like to do isn't limited like wow raids, and even doing premade BGs in wow there was usually plenty of room. on teh other hand when i'm leading you have to listen to what i'm saying and do what i ask, and save your questions for after the match. that does cause some people to get frustrated in my experience. i've steered away from family oriented guilds for a variety of reason, including play style and the fact they'll bring their own married people drama right into vent and their online game play. i have nothing against people that can play with families, but i can't do it, because if they're not playin favourites with their kids or brother or wife, they care more about you joke in bad taste than their relative's joke in bad taste, and so on and so forth. in a decent guild just being related is no cause for getting a spot in a raid, nor is being a girl, but so called serious raid guilds fall into this trap quite often. family and dps meters really don't mix. some people can deal with doing so poorly it takes them 6 months of daily raids to clear kara in tbc, while for others they care more about winning and can't play even with their own bad playing family members. personally i've started games in teh same guild as my irl best friend, and changed guilds and even pvped against him. between the two of us it was a lot of fun to get together for a beer at the end of the week and talk about it, without giving away any secrets,(though giving each other tips on how to beat the other). then again he actually believes that he's never lost a duel against me in wow, when he maybe won 2 or 3 total out of several dozen. but then we tend to compete alot against each other including some good natured trash talk, not just in games but irl stuff as well. perosnally i get more frustrated when the raid or guild leader causes obvious failures successes simply because we hada 60% guild turn out rate one night and absolutely no discussion on how to improve our actual performance. or leaders or officers than yell at the guild for losing a match in arena or wiping in a raid or about their repair bills. when i lead a team i discuss our successes and failures calmly afterwards and ask what people think they could do better. and yeah sometimes just showing up is a success to a degree. but i keep it in check by saying, thanks fo showing up, let's do thi s again tomorrow or next week and then i find out if it was as successful as i thought when the same people come out or not. because alot of what i like to do in online games isn't really rewarded with in game items and points, but tends to have a higher fun factor instead of simply being yet another part of the grind. and some people can't deal with that even if it does end up being a lot of fun. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emily_June Posted August 27, 2010 Share Posted August 27, 2010 playing any kind of online game you're going to have some level of drama. even in a single match of tf2 with all guys, you're going to have some say hax or newbz or something offensive. the same goes for online forums such as neowin, irc chat rooms, and pretty much every thing you can do on the internet, regardless of topic. girls only raises the potential for drama, it does guarantee it and the lack of girls doesn't guaranteee drama free play. all of the biggest drama queens i've played with were guys, regardless if girls were involved or not. Hacks, "noobs", and profanity isn't the kind of thing I'm talking about. Things don't become offensive until people start taking them too seriously and personal, which is (or should be) hard to do with complete strangers. As far as I'm concerned, trash talking and offensive language is just part of online gaming. It's not "drama", it's just the game. Once people get to know one another and build these virtual relationships, feelings are easier to hurt and get hurt, fights are almost guaranteed to break out, sides are taken, personal rivalries are established, and all of this basically occurs at a heightened level because everyone's virtual anonymity allows them to release whatever inhibitions and manners they may have had in the real world. Eventually, gaming itself becomes secondary to what, in my opinion, shouldn't have been involved in gaming in the first place. A lot of people like the relationships they build in online gaming, and actually enjoy the drama they encounter in these relationships. I had enough of that in high school. Personal feelings have no place in gaming--but that's just the way I happen to enjoy it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
treemonster Posted August 27, 2010 Share Posted August 27, 2010 Hacks, "noobs", and profanity isn't the kind of thing I'm talking about. Things don't become offensive until people start taking them too seriously and personal, which is (or should be) hard to do with complete strangers. As far as I'm concerned, trash talking and offensive language is just part of online gaming. It's not "drama", it's just the game. Once people get to know one another and build these virtual relationships, feelings are easier to hurt and get hurt, fights are almost guaranteed to break out, sides are taken, personal rivalries are established, and gaming itself becomes secondary to what, in my opinion, shouldn't have been involved in gaming in the first place. And all of this "drama" basically occurs at a heightened level because everyone's virtual anonymity allows them to release whatever inhibitions and manners they may have had in the real world. A lot of people like the relationships they build in online gaming, and actually enjoy the drama they encounter in these relationships. I had enough of that in high school. Personal feelings have no place in gaming--but that's just the way I happen to enjoy it. that' happens in every facet of the net, and in irl as well, no matter what your age or occupation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrunknMunky Veteran Posted August 27, 2010 Veteran Share Posted August 27, 2010 I've been missing out on girly gamers for the past 2 days because this was in the wrong section? Gah! /reads the last 7 pages Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starbuck84 Posted August 27, 2010 Share Posted August 27, 2010 It'd be ignorant to say there are no game-girls. I met a girl some years back and she whooped me every time in halo. But the sad part is the fact once players know she was a female player, they all started making sick and nasty comments. So most of the time she just played and kept quiet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chosen One Posted August 27, 2010 Share Posted August 27, 2010 my 8 year old daughter plays COD4, World at War, and BC2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FiB3R Posted August 27, 2010 Share Posted August 27, 2010 Saw this when it was first posted, congrats on getting 7 pages out of it lol. Anybody mention all girl clans yet? I know there are a few. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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