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.
Mainly Borderlands 2 these days, with some dipping back into Minecraft (Feed The Beast mod packs are fun). Though I haven’t yet found a good way to balance game play with work, so it’s been pretty sporadic.
Actually, I recently re-bought a copy of Myst III and IV so that I could let a friend play through them. I almost want to play through them myself first for nostalgia’s sake, but then again it might be more fun to not remember the games when I’m watching them play through…
Sadly, it looks like III’s graphics don’t quite hold up… That was the first game that stepped away from the static pre-rendered scenes to give a free-look camera, so the resolution is much lower. Here’s hoping that the game itself is as wonderful as I remember!
My iPad games are so nerdy, but I play Panem Rising, which is just a card fighting game that you don’t need to spend money on to get decent cards (it’s a Hunger Games thing). There’s no action, just clicking. I also play Criminal Case, which is a hidden object game where you solve murders. My other obsession is Clash of Lords 2, which is a strategy game where you build a city and fight other people, but that one is a money sucker, total pay to win. There is also a Heroes of Dragon Age game which is another point and click type, heroes fighting each other. I mostly play it to see all the characters.
I also like Bingo Blitz (bingo game) and Candy Crush. Yes, I’ll play just about anything.
DOOOOO IIITTT!! I played through the game last year-ish, and it was one of the most beautiful endings I’ve ever seen in a Zelda game.
Not… not that I really know the endings to many Zelda games… I don’t have a console myself, so I haven’t really been able to play through the more recent ones. I really should find a way to do so… They looked silly to me at first, but I’ve heard a lot of good things about them.
I’m a silly girly girl and have been playing Bubble Galaxy, a bubble shooter puzzle game on my phone. I like it because it’s legitimately free. Not free to download with tons of purchases you have to make to advance.
I love those bubble shooting games, lol!
I’m refusing to download anything that has that little warning about later costs.
Speaking of gaming, my online gaming community is a pretty welcoming place. In particular, women and minority voices are welcome, and we’re trying to recruit more. Lately our biggest timesinks have been Civilization, Warframe, MechWarrior Online, and TERA, but we’re a multi-game group — whatever you like to play, you can probably find somebody to play with. Or at least folks to chat with while you play. š Let me know if you’re interested.
The first bubble shooter game I played was Bubble Bobble on my friend’s Playstation. This friend was a guy and our whole group would play together, both sexes. I think it’s a recent invention that these are girls games. Apparently in the late 90s it was a unisex game.
The only game I have on my phone is an old-school Sudoku, because it came on the phone and it’s a flip with no internet access, so installing new games would be too much hassle for me. It keeps me quite entertained, so much so that I downloaded another free Sudoku for my tablet.
Definitely. Anyone who played arcade games in the 80’s knows that they were just as simplistic as any casual social media game that today’s GG doods have decreed are “not real games.” Apparently video games were only invented within the past decade or so, and nothing before that actually counted.
One of my favorite games as a kid was Qbert, and that was just a guy jumping on blocks. Also Burger Time. My niece showed me a game she downloaded on her iPod where she has to make burgers, and I was like, “It’s Burger Time all over again!” It’s not exactly the same game, but I was really nostalgic anyway.
In the 80s video games weren’t a man thing or a woman thing, they were a kid thing. So, from my perspective, this seems a lot like the attempts of men to claim that My Little Pony was always for them really and let’s forget all those little girls who loved it first and in fact what are all these girls doing in my fandom ruining it for me?
I really liked Dig Dug and Kangaroo.
Ah, Ghosts and Goblins, Frogger, Gauntlet, first played in the arcade, and then played on my Commodore 64.
I loved Rally X at the arcade – got quite good at that one. Played Galaga a bit too (they had it at the rollerskating rink), but never liked Space Invaders much. About 15 years ago, played the tank game in an arcade when you sat in like an open tank and it moved if you were hit (two person game, player vs player).
I used to love the gaming tables that you got in some places where you could sit there with your pizza on the side and play Pac Man.
I also quite like pinball, enough that I have a fantasy of buying a pinball machine and putting it somewhere in the house. I’m not terribly good at pinball, but I love the flippers and the lights and sounds, and bits moving.
No no no, pinball is a manly man’s game, you’re not allowed to like it, pallygirl.
Pokemon as a casual game? You have to demonstrate patience, pattern recognition, learning and retention, tactics and planning to be able to finish one of those games, same as any video RPG.
I’m currently trying to concentrate long enough to finish Final Fantasy 9 — I’m about halfway through Disc 3 and have reached the end of the horrible “woman so guilty about losing a battle that she can’t speak” plot. I got all the chocograph pieces and just last night got a Golden Chocobo. Everyone’s near 30th level (Zidane is 40th or so), with Steiner lagging behind because he missed, like, half of each of the first two discs. And I’m so glad I don’t have to look at those annoying jesters any more.
Beloved is playing Minecraft, and she’s discovered software for writing a text adventure in the tradition of Zork and the Hitchhiker’s Guide games. Her big project in Minecraft is building a city in the sky, and she managed to get three villages’ worth of Squidwards up there but they’re clustering in the first couple of buildings and not spreading out.
After I’m done with FF9, I was considering ordering my Good Old Games library alphabetically and playing through each title in order. Lord knows I don’t need to buy any more games. Looks like the first 10 games in that run would be Age of Wonders (3 separate titles), Avadon and Avadon 2 (Avadon 2 sorted first because computers), Avernum (a collection of 6 games), Baldur’s Gate (2 titles), Botanicula, and Conquest of the New World.
In tabletop, I’ve been working on a series of adventures for Labyrinth Lord taken from a throwaway line in the 5th Edition Dungeon Master’s Guide, but that’s been slow going.
Oh my god, I have 78 separate titles on my Good Old Games account.
I definitely don’t need to buy any more.
Also, just going to leave this here:
Last night as I rocked my baby girl to sleep, she sat up in my lap, leaned in and kissed me on the nose, and said, “S— kiss her daddy.”
OK, that beats even the kitty pics on the aww factor.
I will continue to misander by continuing to like pinball.
#pinballgate
It’s about ethics in hitting balls.
Speaking of games that aren’t pay to win/are evil iPhone CASUAL GIRLY GAMES!11! I1!
Has anyone checked out Hatch? It’s a virtual pet game, and requires daily maintenance, but it doesn’t require *constant* care like most do. I’ve had a fugu going for over a year now.
If you like virtual pet games but not daily care, My Kitty GREE is a good one. It has neat minigames and such. It’s also leaving the App Store sometime in February, which is sad.
On actiony iPhone games, Vainglory is pretty freaking awesome. It’s PvP arena stuff, but there’s no chat, so no sexist idiots. The female characters are a bit scantily clothed, but so are some of the male ones, so at least it’s semi-equal opportunity skimpy. And they’re better than a lot I see.
I’m sure it’s some sort of a misandrist con that I have pulled in the last few days by convincing my husband to buy a 3DS and play Fantasy Life. I am still killing video games by persuading him to spend money and enjoy games that he wouldn’t have bought otherwise, right? I’m not 100% sure since I didn’t get the “how to destroy the gaming industry with longterm fake enthusiasm” booklet.
Falconer–Adorable.
My younger sister used to refer to herself as “baby” and get ticked off if you tried to tell her what a big girl she was.
Speaking of pet simulators–I used to play Catz when my family didn’t have any. Now I play real-life cat simulators, with extra realistic macbook cord-chewing and vomiting.