Have you ever met an authentic guy gamer

[FoolKiller]

I love the thread.

No, I don't know any guy (even the most dedicated gamer) that would mindlessly ramble on about gaming trying to pick up a non-gaming gal. That just would be a stupid move on the part of the guy.

Oh, and if I hadn't mentioned it already, I love the thread.

 

[TheDarkestDerp]

I love this!

(sorry CoD, Halo and other ultra-masculine space marine penis-fests, you're not real games).

God, don't be so bloody narrow minded!

What are you talking about? The likes of Call of Duty are horrifically sexist and should be banned. They clearly exploit strong male characters for sales figures, degrading the gender in the process...

Those poor boys. *smirks* Dressing like that and waving those guns around, like Freudian substitutes for their masculinity. DOn't they realize their giving girls the wrong idea? *chuckles*

 

[Sux2bu]

Hello, nice to meet you.
I am in fact the only real gamer in the city of Airdrie and the only one i have ever met.
I apply to every one of your points and agree with you completely(been on the computer since 3 months old, 9 hours a day.).
Umm...what else...the only games i ever really enjoyed in my life where the Half life series, Garry's mod , banjo and kazooie and the newcomer minecraft. (absolutely detest Halo and COD)
Oh and my ego is on par with Ben Yahtzee Croshaw, my personal hero.

 

[JezebelinHell]

Seriously, why do people work so hard to misunderstand other people on the internet? It was exceedingly obvious what the guy meant, and yet everyone lambasted him for imprecise language. Semantics hounds can grind every discussion to a crashing halt if you let them, and that's apparently the direction we've gone here.

Edit: also, entirely unbelievably juxtaposition is probably the shittiest form of satire.

Well put, It's pretty clear what that young fellow is trying to say/ask but folks just got all loopy-doop on him because maybe it couldv'e been worded a bit better. Geez....

Actually I think the main problem is that every week there is yet another "do girl gamers exist" post on this forum. Every week everyone has to state the same things over and over. Surprise, I think they are tired of it. I have only been on here 4 months or so and I am tired of it. A simple search for "girl gamer" will take you to dozens of prior posts with more than enough information to answer the question. Girls stating what they play, why they play it, why they don't play some things... blah blah blah.
Also, his initial post referred to wondering what the lady on the show was basing her numbers on, he really should have been researching her for that information not making yet another "girl gamer" post on here, that simply cannot answer where she came up with 45% at.
And listing specifics to "test" the "girls" against really endeared him even more in this case.

I do not believe it is a misunderstanding or much to do with wording, I think it is more of a complete annoyance with the overly repeated subject at hand.

 

[SimuLord]

This satire was funnier the first time.

 

[omega_peaches]

This is either your reeeeaaaaalllly shite attempt at being funny, or you are actually serious.
I bet it's the former.

 

[boholikeu]

You are just the worst kind of person....
Im glad there were misunderstandings, goes to show what happens when people dont TRY TO GET THE POINT the thread creator is desperately trying to elate.
(smiles)Hahaha...oh..lol
The irony is almost poetic.

So was your thread supposed to be satire too?

 

[zelda2fanboy]

Wow, the escapist is full of big ol meanies today. "I'm gonna start a thread based off of some weird deluded guy's other thread just to show him how weird and deluded he is. Nah."

 

[Firetaffer]

Guy Gamers? They exist? All I can say is balls or gtfo.

 

[The Sandvich]

(sorry CoD, Halo and other ultra-masculine space marine penis-fests, you're not real games).

God, don't be so bloody narrow minded!

You either didn't understand the joke of the thread, or are pretending that it's serious and going along with the joke. Goddamn internet and it's lack of emoting

 

[Skorpyo]

But how? HOW!?

How can someone make a thread that is win AND fail!? HOW!?

AAAAAARRRRRRRGGGGGGGHHHHHHHH!!!!

Spoiler

Honestly OP, this satire is win. I applaude you.

 

[Serenegoose]

I've never met an authentic guy gamer before... I'm starting to think they just don't exist. All they ever want to do is trudge down the same shallow corridor hiding behind the same brown block shooting at the same aliens. It's like they don't appreciate art at all!


*theatrical sigh*

 

[Adzma]

I find it very amusing how many people were offended by an opinion written by someone they neither know nor care about on the internet.

Satire is different however. Satire is good.

 

[TilMorrow]

/facepalm why can't people learn to get along?

 

[The_Echo]

Well, if you take out the third point, which is more "why the hell would you know that" territory, then I would qualify as one.

(Correction: I have stupid amounts of familiarity with trivia concerning the Spyro series, and know the gist of the beginnings and relationships between Insomniac, Naughty Dog, Sucker Punch and Ready at Dawn.)

 

[Kyogissun]

(sorry CoD, Halo and other ultra-masculine space marine penis-fests, you're not real games)

OBVIOUS TROLL IS SO FUCKING OBVIOUS.

I mean god damn dude, you really could have had a very confusing 'not sure if trollan' kind of thread going but you KILLED it with this post.

So, if srs bsns gamer or troll, either way you totally fucked up.

 

[AWDMANOUT]

I... I don't get it.

Does that make me dumb?

I tried to look at the other thread to make sense of it... But it decided to not exist anymore...

I might be dumb. Saying things like...

"Look! More sleeping people! It must be naptime! But who has naptime now? Nap time comes before pants time, not after. I think these people are just making up times."

 

[The Madman]

I saw one once, but his dead soulless eyes frightened me so I ran away.

 

[Krumm]

1. They didn't get into gaming because their friends were into it, or because their parents just bought them a console/PC.

My Dad had a C64 with a ton of games. No manuals though, so I had to work out the controls on my own. Never did find out how to open doors in Hero Quest

2. They actually play main titles like Sims and WoW that sell massive units and have online interaction.

I played Warhammer Online for almost a year, and The Sims 2 for about 5 minutes. Nowadays, other than Little Big Planet, I don't do online multiplayer

3. Whatever they like they have substantial knowledge about its past, such as being able to expain in detail the market circumstances that led Origin to agreeing to the EA takeover, the histories of Interplay and SSI and can carry a conversation by adding their own points/knowledge/past.

Maybe just a little

4. They're willing to talk about gaming in public, even when they are trying to pick up a good looking girl who clearly isn't into gaming at a party, and even if most of the people in the conversation aren't actually interest in gaming.

I wasn't trying to pick her up (I'd met her boyfriend. Big man), and the conversation was about how she wasn't a gamer. I even made some recommendations (X-Com, since it's expected that you'll lose a lot of troops)

Spoiler: And just to show that I'm not a woman pretending to be a guy gamer

 

[Kae]

Other than myself, not I mean my brother love games too but of all 3 of us I'm the only one that investigates videogame history, in fact they often get annoyed at me for giving such long explanations to a simple game question like when is that game coming out?, and my elder brother and myself got into gaming because we saw this game machines at the store, for me it was obvious that I wanted to play that, I mean the ability to control what happened on-screen was just mind-boggling to me and immediately mesmerized me shortly after, I spent my early years (like from 5 to 9) going to the arcade almost every day, to this day I have no idea where I got all those coins, but it would not surprise me if I spent a thousand dollars on arcades.