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 70′s-00′s.” 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. They’re called “Gamer Gurls” 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 don’t 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 they’re 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.”
Girl gamers and their beta male hangers-on rather buy Call of Duty than support quality products. Don’t 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 can’t 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 they’re 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.
Twincats – All the dance games we have are for kids, so I’m no help with firsthand knowledge.
If you want to really piss of the dudebros, though, I say get a Zumba game.
Kaz – Yeah, that’s the other thing: timing.
We didn’t get a desktop in my house until I was a young teen…and then I banned after I pissed off my dad by forgetting to sign out of AOL.
Those minute plans *ADDED UP*.
twimcats – 360 or XB1?
Also, am I the only one who has discovered doge2048 and subsequently allowed it to take over my brain?
No you are not. Push everything to the right and down and you will survive.
Unless it’s a matter of pushing everything up and then down four or five times in a row!
I kinda feel like I want to take tomorrow as a sick day and play Civilization all day long.
Pretty sure that was me, ParadoxicalIntention.
Depends on what kind of gaming you want to do, I think. I don’t believe they released any .hack game for PC, so if I want to play .hack I pretty much need a console, or else engage with the cracker underworld. I’m not willing to engage with the cracker underworld but I really want to play .hack, so I have a PS2 for that. Some PC ports are also horrendous. We should acknowledge that some PC ports are horrendous and some games just need to be played on consoles.
Unfortunately I’m old and set in my ways, and I can’t just start to play a completely random game to see for myself if it’s any good. I’m not going to diss anyone who can, because people who can have a psychological skill that I don’t myself possess. Fact remains that I don’t myself possess it. I don’t want to play games, I want to play specific games.
@Kirbywarp: I play lots of modded Minecraft, and I usually use something like the ATLauncher or the FTB Launcher to do so, because pre-made packs yo.
I like playing with the Yogscast Complete Pack on the ATLauncher, because it has tons of mods, and they’re all pretty varied (stay away from Totemic though, it’s very broken).
I’m focusing my play on the magic mods (Ars Magica, Witchery, Thaumcraft, ect) right now.
Also, I will second deniseeliza on Papers, Please. It’s a damn good game, and surprisingly so. I never knew that working at a border checkpoint could be so intriguing and stressful.
@Policy of Madness; My bad. I got confused for a second there.
I can understand wanting to play specific games, and it’s good you’ve found games you want to play. : 3
Even when I get the bundles, I usually only get them because I wanted a specific game in it, and I give the rest of the games away to friends who also can’t afford too many new games. Spread the wealth, yeah?
I can agree on some PC ports being horrendous. I tried playing Wayward Manor PC port, which was ported from mobile, and I needed a patch to make the damn thing work properly. I couldn’t finish the first level because my computer wasn’t recognizing the clicks!
I also can’t get Katamari games on PC either. : / There’s actually lots of good games around the PS2 era that I can’t get on PC, which is why I own a PS2. Mine’s slowly dying though. ; n ;
Is Diane F. Martin sarcastically posing as a straw fake geek girl to mock the red pill guy? Or she a troll posing as one? I’m confused and my trolldar is on the fritz.
Dunno, but I did a “nonsensical, therefore ignore” with that comment.
I thought about replying to that comment, but it’s such a perfect round ball of nonsense that I couldn’t find a way in to say anything about it.
I assumed that comment was some kind of performance art and I did what I always do at a biennial: make my “I am giving this deep thought and consideration” look, complete with pensive chin rubbing, then nod and move on.
Not necessarily vidya (okay, not at all) but have y’all seen this? http://nathanfriend.io/inspirograph/
Such a blast from the past!
Thanks a lot, gillyrosebee. I was trying to edit my novel, not play with doge faces.
Welcome to my world, wordsp1nner. I *could* read about transportation policy and its affect on land use planning, or I could try to line up the doge pizza tiles. What do YOU think I’ve been doing all evening?
Also, I’ve had the hiccups for the last three hours. I’m not really up to paying attention to anything more than shiba inu faces right now
I believe that Diane F Martin is a bot trying to pass the Turing Test. Sarcasm is the hardest thing for a bot to do successfully.
Papers, Please is awesome! I make some of my students play it sometimes.
I’m also a huge fan of Democracy 3 and Dungeon Crawl: Stone Soup, which is this awesome collaboratively designed open source roguelike.
Ok so I have to agree with what someone else here said. It is these youngsters that are really “ruining” gaming for everyone. They are freaking out over criticism as if video games haven’t been criticized in various ways since the beginning. Has it stopped me from enjoying/loving games? Not in the slightest.
I’m one of those that started out on Atari, way back in the day and never stopped playing. I grew up dirt poor with a single mom, so a computer was out of reach for us. But second hand consoles and games were always available. I can afford to buy a computer now, but since console gaming is what I have known all my life, it just seems silly to fix what ain’t broke. Maybe some day I will try some of my gaming on a pc, who knows.
So on the candy crush thing. I play every genre of games, from FPS to RPG and everything in between. The only thing I can’t get into is sports games…I’m a nerd IRL so sports don’t interest me. I hate the idea that you have to play a certain kind of game in order to be a real gamer. I want as much variety as possible. Games like Journey have impacted me emotionally and I didn’t really know that was possible.
Last thing is the easy setting. Ok so when I was a kid and had no job and no real responsibilities, I never used cheats or played on easy or any of that. I wanted to wring as much time out of each game as I could. Nowadays I don’t have nearly as much time as I would like to play new games, let alone beloved older ones. Half the time I will play on easy because of this. It’s not that I couldn’t beat the game on Nightmare if I wanted to, it’s that I don’t have enough time to commit to such an endeavor anymore.
I really hope that these whiney little self absorbed twits grow up soon so that their stench will clear from OUR community.
Papers, Please is an intensely psychological experience. It’s really fascinating.
Also, I think this idea that women claim to be gamers just to get like accolades or something is really dumb. I have told people about my video game hobby and gotten bemused reactions, disdainful reactions and apathetic reactions. In dating, video games are just sort of a given, nobody has ever been surprised that I like games. It might be because most people in general of my age group and younger have at least played video games sometimes. Good grief, it seems like these dudes live in a bubble or something.
What I don’t understand is why these dudes would think women are doing anything to attract attention from them, given how much life experience they already have indicating that women generally go out of our way to avoid them.
TIL from youtube comments that if a classic game series is rebooted and most of the old fans hate it, they are nevertheless obligated to buy copies so that the publisher will create a sequel for the benefit of the people who did like the reboot. It’s really unfair if they don’t and instead agitate for a return to the original format, and the people who enjoyed the reboot are completely within their rights to call the old fans nasty names for not having bought the rebooted game.
Also, 20 years old is SUPER OLD Y’ALL omg SO OLD.
TIL that having a cat enthusiastically rubbing her head all over your face is all fun and games until she manages to stick her fuzzy little ear in your eye.