Have you ever met an authentic guy gamer
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Yeah I qualify to be a "guy gamer" in your list. The fact that I haven't been playing games from the dawn doesn't mean anything. I've been playing since I was fucking born, and no list is gonna tell me otherwise because my first console was a Nintendo 64 It doesn't make anyone less hardcore the longer you have been playing.
I can recognize the portrayals and strategies used by developers in games, I can understand the mechanics, I can understand the art design. I can see how it works, why it is good or bad. This is now less about wether the gender of gaming, but it upon myself that the term hardcore cannot be applied to me is an insult.
What I mean to say is, it matters not how long you've been playing, but rather that you have the retrospective and the passion to learn. You need not have experienced the first advent of gaming to learn from it. It is benefactory that we take a concise lesson from those events and mold them into something meaningful of today, whether it be in a speech, game, or a reply to a silly internet thread.
(I have also successfully converted many people to the wonders of gaming. Including attractive single women. If that fucking helps my gamerscore in your book.)
I can recognize the portrayals and strategies used by developers in games, I can understand the mechanics, I can understand the art design. I can see how it works, why it is good or bad. This is now less about wether the gender of gaming, but it upon myself that the term hardcore cannot be applied to me is an insult.
What I mean to say is, it matters not how long you've been playing, but rather that you have the retrospective and the passion to learn. You need not have experienced the first advent of gaming to learn from it. It is benefactory that we take a concise lesson from those events and mold them into something meaningful of today, whether it be in a speech, game, or a reply to a silly internet thread.
(I have also successfully converted many people to the wonders of gaming. Including attractive single women. If that fucking helps my gamerscore in your book.)
The problem was your word choice. You were asking if guys had met an "authentic" girl gamer, IE implying that any girl gamer that doesn't meet those criteria is somehow less of a gamer. It reeked of elitism, and that's what people were calling you out on.ninjastovall0 said:
Had you worded it differently (for example: "competitive girl gamers") you wouldn't have gotten so much flack. Also, excluding people based on genre preference is pretty petty, too. It's like saying you aren't an "authentic" music fan if you like rap or rock.
That's what people were reacting to. You can claim people just "misunderstood" your true meaning, but then you should have edited your OP as soon as it became clear that they didn't get your point.
Is it sexism that this thread is up while the other was deleted? Probably.
I don't really mind, but I thought it was really cool that this thread was satiring the sexist tendencies of the other thread, but when the other thread was removed, that shifted the sexism in the other direction. Problems are fixed by the introduction of new speech, not censorship of old speech.
I don't really mind, but I thought it was really cool that this thread was satiring the sexist tendencies of the other thread, but when the other thread was removed, that shifted the sexism in the other direction. Problems are fixed by the introduction of new speech, not censorship of old speech.
Your qualitys for ''being a guy gamer'' are just stupid they need to talk about it when trying to pick up girls? haveing played any of the big fps games in like the past 10 years = not a gamer? yet u throw in WoW as being a game that makes you a gamer.... Sorry but to me your opinion on what a guy gamer is flawed
ninjastovall0 said:
I see some kind of contradiction here. You asked "GUYS if they had met GIRL gamers in real life" and yet some how "(a polite girl) answered my question in a private message." You weren't even asking the question of girls.ninjastovall0 said:
And I am gonna guess I am not such a polite girl for pointing this out along with the search bar overlook before.
Meh, I don't care.
Never considered Sims or Wow to be authentic gaming, perhaps you should have used the original mario and sonic games instead? ...or pacman?
Um...Yeah. This isn't really satire so much as...parody. And it's not as clever as you think it is.
I mean, this isn't as bad as the first guy ("authentic gamer"...seriously?) but really...This wasn't actually necessary in any way.
I mean, this isn't as bad as the first guy ("authentic gamer"...seriously?) but really...This wasn't actually necessary in any way.
Wow. This is just. Wow.
I don't want to comment, because honestly. If everyone was an "authentic guy gamer" like OP wants, all of us who play games would be classified as what could charitably be "socially retarded man-children"
I don't want to comment, because honestly. If everyone was an "authentic guy gamer" like OP wants, all of us who play games would be classified as what could charitably be "socially retarded man-children"
Bro, look a bit closer will you.eatenbyagrue said:
A lot of people don't seem to get the OP's point, which was to mock a dude that made a thread almost identical to this but about 'authentic girl gamers'.
This is satire, the main difference between this thread and the other one, in which the OP was serious about standards like these.
This, I agree with you completely person on the internet, the first guy was obviously asking a relatively simple question but he just phrased it a bit stupidlyFieryTrainwreck said:
