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Gaming Girls Of GenCon Interviewed

Posted by simoniker on from the more-alliteration-please dept.

Thanks to RPGnet for posting an article interviewing a cross-section of the women at the GenCon gaming convention, and discussing how they fit into a "cohesive, well-established, largely male-oriented culture." The author of the piece interviews individuals that she classifies as the 'young gamer', the 'entrepreneur', the 'organizer', and the 'booth babe', among others, and tries to illuminate "how women fit themselves into the loose conglomeration that is gamer culture, and how they formed their own unique subset of gaming."

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  1. Re:I think... by Locky · · Score: 3, Funny

    I wonder if its possible for UIDs to get Slashdotted.

  2. I know... by the+darn · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...that there's a joke here, and it probably involves breasts, but I'm too tired to think of it just now.

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  3. You might be reading Slashdot if . . . by Momomoto · · Score: 5, Funny

    . . . you clicked on the link just to see if there were any hot women who game living in your area.

    So lonely.

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  4. E3 Girls by M3wThr33 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Of the 4 times I've been to E3, I've taken my girlfriend 3 times(Didn't know her on my first time).

    There's always some good stories of people's shock when they realize she's not a babe or some booth worker(She's not bimbo-like, but I guess anything with boobs can be considered one).

    Like this year, she was playing Vice City PC, and some moderately-old mother(Why was SHE here?) was watching her play it with an open jaw. I guess seeing a woman mow down pedestrains wasn't her thing.

    Or two years ago she was testing out some flight chair that moves based on your analog stick, and they used Rogue Squadron to demo it. She got in the chair, started playing(She already got the game at launch) and the guy started telling her how to play, but stopped mid-sentence as she was taking out the towers on the Death Star.