Over on Roosh’s Return of Kings site, the lovely individual known as Redpiller1985 has totally figured out what has ruined video games, which sadly “have declined since their great rise in the 70ā²s-00ā²s.” He’s looking at you, ladies!
Ok, well, that’s not exactly a new sentiment to hear from a #GamerGater. But Redpiller1985 has managed to precisely identify just which kinds of ladies — sorry, “chicks” — are ruining gaming the most: the pretty ones who actually play video games. Or at least pretend to!
You go to any Youtube channel about gaming and it will have a useless pretty chick talking about her experiences with Pokemon as a child. These women are not actual gamers but women riding a fad. Theyāre called āGamer Gurlsā for the reason to mock the gurl phrase that feminists like to use. These semi-attractive chicks have learned that they can get the princess treatment by pretending to be a video game enthusiast.
Huh. You mean like this person or this person or this person? Or possibly this person?
But I digress. As it turns out, according to Redpiller1985, there is another kind of chick who is also ruining gaming: the ugly ducklings. Well, the ugly ducklings that grow up to be ugly chicks, that is.
Also another type of chick started to pop up. These women though donāt have the facade of being attractive. Instead they use videogames to up their social status. The land whales realized that if they could fake their enthusiasm for games, some video game beta would find them attractive as well. The betas fight over these chicks and since theyāre all manginas of the highest degree. This is one of the reasons that betaness and even omeganess are the norms in video game culture.
I’ve prepared this helpful Venn Diagram:
Anyway, these chicks are why Call of Duty is more popular than the unnamed “quality products” that Redpiller1985 prefers are objectively better than Call of Duty, which is apparently (who knew!) bought mostly by “chicks.”
Ā Girl gamers and their beta male hangers-on rather buy Call of Duty than support quality products. Donāt let women in to your sub-culture unless you want it permanently disfigured. Too bad they already did it to my favorite sub-culture.
Redpiller1985’s complaint about Call of Duty is just a teensy bit ironic, given that not long before he wrote his post, a contributor to Roosh’s terrible gaming site Reaxxion had declared Call of Duty “the best shooter series ever,” in part because it has flamethrowers. (No, really.)
Redpiller1985 also complains that chicks are destroying the fine art of video game journalism as well:
Women and beta males have made video game journalism an entry point for dilettantes with humanity majors. … Video game publications have turned into tabloids with female writers at the helm. Most people canāt name a female game journalist because they coast on their male colleagues who do the actual work.
Well, actually, most people can’t name a video game journalist because they don’t actually give a shit about video game journalism, which is barely journalism at all.
But it is a little ironic to see complain about someone else’s journalistic ability, given that he is writing for what many consider the worst blog on the internet. And that he is also the author of this, er, sentence:
The betas fight over these chicks and since theyāre all manginas of the highest degree.
Since they’re all manginas of the highest degree WHAT?!
Only time will tell, because redpiller1985 never finishes that thought.
H/T — @thrillith via r/GamerGhazi. And then another H/T to @thrillith for also tweeting about that Reaxxion piece on Call of Duty.
No, I hadn’t noticed the “stages of grief” thing. I saw a lot of depressed people, though, like the fox mask kid seemed really sad.
I did notice that the two fairies were Tattle and Tale, though.
@proxieme: We’ll probably get another 360. We had to go to Gamestop last week to look for Minecraft for the 11-year-old and they had used copies of Dance Party for .99 which made me side-eye it a bit. Zumba sounds like fun, though!
@gillyrosebee: Spirograph on the PC! SQUEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!! I got one for xmas when I was 7, so misty-eyed nostalgia reigns this morning.
Kirby: I thought the timer idea was a stroke of genius, but I can also understand how not everyone would be cool with the stress of it. And it is stressful. The way the save system works has a lot of potential frustration to it too (you have a mini save by saving at an owl statue, and a major save by going back to day one. If your console crashes or you accidentally hit the off switch without major saving you start right back at the latest dawn of day one and you lose all your progress).
Falconer: yes, in every level there is a character that displays one of the levels of grief. Also, the ice dungeon wasn’t my favourite either, but if you thought the water dungeon in OoT was bad, in Majoras Mask…holy shucking fit.
By “bad” I mean “hard” btw, especially if you’re trying to collect all the stray fairies.
The timer was the big stumbling block for me when it came to Majora’s Mask as well. Another issue was that right after I finished the first dungeon a family member chose that moment to vaccuum behind the TV and unplugged the system. I’m planning on picking up the upcoming 3DS release in the hopes that I can get back into it because other than the stressfulness of the timer I really enjoyed it.
@falconer:
This is the video where I first heard about it, and they give examples. The title isn’t a spoiler, this is a fan theory of the game, but the video itself probably contains spoilers.
Re: the timer
It didn’t bother me much as a kid, actually, except that I didn’t know about slowing down time so the game felt impossible. I’ve grown to hate it when you need to be at certain places at certain times otherwise you miss content (I’m such a completionist). Who knows, though, I also tend to make mountains of mole hills in my mind, and the ability to rewind time means you don’t ever truly miss content.
Bother, now I have to play this thing again and see if things are different now that I’m older.
Actually, realizing what the themes of the game were really made Majora’s Mask seem like a masterpiece in my mind. I love stuff like that; I’m generally pretty clueless in my media consumption and I tend to not pick up on the clever things people do with games, music, movies, and so on. When I finally learn about them, I get this little rush of joy that they are so much cooler than I gave them credit for initially.
*snort*
re: Phantom Tollboth [I can’t remember the name of the responding poster :-/ & scrolled too through fast and couldn’t find it again]:
Yup!
And then there’s the whole “you need rhyme and wisdom to find wisdom” thing.
Kirby: same! My favourite type of creative product is one that had a great atmosphere or one that has a lot of little details, things you won’t find unless you play/read/watch it again.
My love for atmospheric things is what causes me to like films that got a negative reception. The Village for example, by that M. Night Shylamalaman dude (his name, halp).
Khoshekh clocked me in the face with his cast. Good morning to you too.
Awww, Khoshekh! I got a little black kitten recently and almost named him Khoshekh, but then I settled on Cecil instead š
Aww!
I had a little black kitten called Sooty for a few days. She was supposed to just be with me for the weekend until the shelter opened. Safe to say she managed to find a permanent home before Monday came around. Little black kittens are magical.
They are!
Squeee! Sooty used to look a bit like that! They estimated she was about 7 weeks old when we found her. Vet theory was that she’d been dumped by a breeder, since she turned out to be a pedigree of some sort (Bombay… something) but her proportions were ‘off’. Hopefully it’s html for pictures…
Kaz: Just dump the image URL with no formatting and it will embed.
Oh boo, the picture doesn’t seem to be showing.
Have a link http://i777.photobucket.com/albums/yy55/benevolentbastet/P1040187.jpg
Kitty!
Very sweet!
She was the sweetest kitten. Just wanted to be close to people, whatever it took
This thread is reminding me of when my kids played games on the PC. One was a cooking game; if you completed the recipe successfully, you could print it out and make it in meatspace. I can just imagine what the dudebros would have to say about that. There were several fight-the-monster games as well, and one in which you essentially played Boggle – the more words you could make from the letters in the time available, the more damage your attack would do. Fun times.
Regarding the OP:
“Now you’ve listened to my blather
Here’s the nonsense that I’ve spewed/
Chicks can only spoil gaming;
Don’t game unless you are a dude.”
Oh, and Civilization! I played once as an Objectivist, making all the decisions based on Randian principles. Wound up with the smallest civ, smallest population, and greatest wealth. Huh. It only worked because I turned war off, though.
That’s one of the things I LOVE about Civilization: you can play it however you want.
Anyway, KITTY PICS!!!
http://i614.photobucket.com/albums/tt225/deniseeliza/IMG_1687.jpg
^ This one is Cecil at about 9 or 10 weeks old
http://i614.photobucket.com/albums/tt225/deniseeliza/IMG_1871.jpg
^ And here he is about 3 months later… he’s almost too big for the bowl!!
Those ears! Lookit those ears!
deniseeliza, my cat is like 6 months and she looks closer to that size than the second pic. My cat is tiny lol. I took her to the vet a couple weeks ago and the vet said she always expects to see kitten teeth when she looks at her because of her size.
I always liked really big cats too though. They’re like little jungle cats.
^ She also has HUGE eyes