Females and Kinects

[Baldr]

I know this may be the wrong crowd to ask. My day job is collegiate service tech for the local cable company. A lot of the dorms and apartments occupied by females I go into have a Kinect and a Xbox. I'm just curious why this is? A lot of them don't look and act like gamers.

Just another fyi observation, females for the most part have messier rooms.

 

[Hazy992]

I know I'm not gonna be the last to say this, but what does a 'gamer' look and act like? No two gamers are the same, the only unifying thing between us all is that we play video games.

 

[Full]

They probably do because Kinect, no matter how much I personally have a distaste for it, is pretty cool for just casual entertainment consumers, which I presume is what most college students/people in general are. It doesn't have anything to do with them being a women and happening to have a Kinect.

 

[Baldr]

Sorry, it just hit me. A possiblity since 90% of the Xbox are those new s-type, is that they came with the computer they use for school.

 

[ResonanceSD]

A lot of them don't look and act like gamers.

Is there some kind of base-template for "gamers"?

I was pretty sure the only thing we had in common was "playing games".

 

[DoPo]

Sorry, it just hit me. A possiblity since 90% of the Xbox are those new s-type, is that they came with the computer they use for school.

Wait, does your college supply computers and Xboxes? Or if not, who does it? And can I have some?

Other than that,

I know I'm not gonna be the last to say this, but what does a 'gamer' look and act like? No two gamers are the same, the only unifying thing between us all is that we play video games.

A lot of them don't look and act like gamers.

Is there some kind of base-template for "gamers"?

I was pretty sure the only thing we had in common was "playing games".

What these guys said.

 

[tippy2k2]

They probably do because Kinect, no matter how much I personally have a distaste for it, is pretty cool for just casual entertainment consumers, which I presume is what most college students/people in general are. It doesn't have anything to do with them being a women and happening to have a Kinect.

I would second this notion.

I am a 26 year old dude and I have a Kinect. The only game that really ever gets played on it is Dance Central, which is a great way to meet people/have some fun. Last time I was at college, this was a central goal to many of the college students

Sorry, it just hit me. A possiblity since 90% of the Xbox are those new s-type, is that they came with the computer they use for school.

My brother (who is now a freshman in college) did that deal but he only got a 360; it did not come with a Kinect. That may vary pending your location but to my knowledge, that deal just gives you the 360. However, it could be a factor since you're half-way to a Kinect when you get the 360.

 

[Baldr]

I went to school for videogame development, most of my friends and collegues are gamers and game developers. I'm so use to a type of gamer I guess, because usually I can tell right away when I walk into a room if the occupants are hardcore gamers.

A room with a console and a stack of games is the first clue, and a decent setup for a computer with a headset. Usually posters of games and anime.

 

[CannibalCorpses]

Just another fyi observation, females for the most part have messier rooms.

Thats because guys have to try to get laid, women just have to say yes

 

[Fiz_The_Toaster]

I wasn't aware that female gamers were supposed to act a certain way, and now I feel like my life is a lie.

I now has a sad.

In seriousness now, so what?

They play games, so that's what makes them a gamer. I find it irritating as hell when someone deems another person "not a gamer" just because of the way they do/don't act/dress/post on their walls.

 

[DoPo]

A room with a console

No console. No TV at all, actually. My flatmate has an Xbox controller, though.

and a stack of games

I have 10-ish disks at the moment. Don't know if you count that as a stack. You can't really see them easily, though. I do have a stack of another 10-15 disks that is easier to see at a simple glance through my room, though - mostly Windows, Linux, backup disks and few corrupted ones, as well as maybe blank ones. None of them are labelled, though, and I've been too lazy to sort them out. My flatmate has about 2 or three boxed games, also a bit hard to notice, as they are tucked in the bookshelf, along with the books.

a decent setup for a computer

I have a laptop, so does my flatmate. His is better, though - 17 inch screen and has an i7. That's what you can tell from just looking at it, at least.

with a headset.

Do earplugs count? me and my flatmate both use them. I also have a set of broken headphones (as in the plastic that connects them is snapped, they still work) and I'm looking to "fix" them, so maybe just duct tape them to something.

Usually posters of games and anime.

My flatmate has a single poster of Dark Souls. We have several other posters left over from my previous flatmate, but none of them are either on the walls or gamin/anime related in any way. Well, maybe, if you count the "101 inappropriate pickup lines" but even that is stretching it a lot.

Eh, too bad, I guess we're not l33t enough to hang out with the c00l guyz. I'm actually sort of OK with that, I worry about my flatmate - he may need to drop out now, since he's doing a computer games course right now.

 

[Lilani]

They play games, so that's what makes them a gamer. I find it irritating as hell when someone deems another person "not a gamer" just because of the way they do/don't act/dress/post on their walls.

Yeah, there's been a lot of "nerd rage" lately at being a nerd becoming "mainstream." And the reaction is hilariously ironic, because all of these "true nerds" self-identify as social outcasts, and by reacting so negatively against this new wave of nerds they are essentially creating outcasts, as well. People who aren't even accepted into the realm of nerds. Imagine that--outcasts that even the outcasts won't accept. Hell, if that's the case, they're probably better nerds than those supposed "pure bloods."

And for the OP...yeah, a "gamer" probably had a signature "look" for a long time, but now lots of people are "gamers" and there are many new ways to play games, so not every "gamer" is going to look the same. And as it should be. It's that "exclusive club" mentality that's lead to all sorts of corrosive kinds of elitism in the gaming and nerd culture, and frankly it's not doing anybody any favors. Not that I'm saying you're being elitist, but things aren't as black-and-white as they used to be.

Also, on the messy room thing, that's sort of inherent to most college students, male or female. Just because we females typically have higher standards for how we look and smell than men doesn't mean we're any more organized.

 

[Fiz_The_Toaster]

They play games, so that's what makes them a gamer. I find it irritating as hell when someone deems another person "not a gamer" just because of the way they do/don't act/dress/post on their walls.

Yeah, there's been a lot of "nerd rage" lately at being a nerd becoming "mainstream." And the reaction is hilariously ironic, because all of these "true nerds" self-identify as social outcasts, and by reacting so negatively against this new wave of nerds they are essentially creating outcasts, as well. People who aren't even accepted into the realm of nerds. Imagine that--outcasts that even the outcasts won't accept. Hell, if that's the case, they're probably better nerds than those supposed "pure bloods."

And for the OP...yeah, a "gamer" probably had a signature "look" for a long time, but now lots of people are "gamers" and there are many new ways to play games, so not every "gamer" is going to look the same. And as it should be. It's that "exclusive club" mentality that's lead to all sorts of corrosive kinds of elitism in the gaming and nerd culture, and frankly it's not doing anybody any favors. Not that I'm saying you're being elitist, but things aren't as black-and-white as they used to be.

Also, on the messy room thing, that's sort of inherent to most college students, male or female. Just because we females typically have higher standards for how we look and smell than men doesn't mean we're any more organized.

I find it interesting that we, and I mean that as nerds and gamers, will quiz each other over stupid shit just to see if they're "legit" while all I have to do is ***** about how my Vikings are doing and the sports people will accept me no questions asked. Our little group has been confusing the hell out of me for years, and I've just about given up.

As for the messy room thing, my room was organized as hell but I had a peace treaty with the dust bunnies. I just hated dusting.

 

[Launcelot111]

Just another fyi observation, females for the most part have messier rooms.

Thats because guys have to try to get laid, women just have to say yes

Also because girls bring like three times more shit with them.

I brought everything I owned back from college on an airplane in like three bags. My female cousin needed two full cars. Among the things she brought home were little bottles of shampoo to be handed out as decoys whenever people needed to borrow shampoo so she wouldn't have to share her good shampoo. She might have gone over the top, but still, girls always wear like three layers of thin clothes and they're big on stuff like throw pillows and colorful pencil holders. All that leads to way more shit on the floor.

OT: Those girls are clearly not gamers because they don't wear t-shirts with bad Mario puns on them.

 

[DementedSheep]

What do you think they have it for? Decoration?
A lot of different types of people play games now and there are many different types of games. Just because they don?t look or act like how you think they should does not mean they don?t game. Why is this such a hard concept for people to understand?