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Girls in the Gaming World
dkleinsc writes "The BBC is running an article about life as a female gaming squad. There's some discussion about the welcome or lack thereof women get in the gaming community, and arguments over whether it's a good idea to have separate women's matches."
Swell.. now that this the existence of female gamers is common knowledge, the most common messages in Counter-Strike will be "A/S/L?!" and "w4nna g0 c4mp1ng 0n 7h47 r00f709?!!!"
Trolling is a art,
Ctrl-Alt-Del Comic about a girl gamer
My co-worker used to play online using a feminine name. If you'd ever seen my co-worker you'd realize how funny this was. Think Richard Stallman meets John Goodman... Anyway, he swore that he did better with a female name because people were less likely to kill him.
I heard that Slashdot moderators also go kindly on female posters.
Sarah_the_geek_grrl
I've spent the last year trying to get my fiancee interested in games... this last week, she started showing signs of being hooked on Roller Coaster Tycoon. I guess it goes: Mid-range PC: $800 RollerCoaster Tycoon Deluxe: $20 Watching my SO build a coaster that makes all the riders sick: Priceless!
Windows isn't the answer... it's the question. NO is the answer!
I've always thought typical female disdain for pixel-blasting violence to be a most endearing quality. I, for one, am against this slippery slope towards androgyny.
Does anyone else see this as an attempt to make an issue out of a non-issue?
That's the nature of the politically correct world we live in. Soon you'll see:
The Gay Quake 3 Arena Championship
African American Counter-Strike
Unreal Tournament (Kosher Rules)
etc etc etc I'm only half joking here.
Trolling is a art,
1. Serious Gamers
Guys don't like playing them because they're smarter, better, faster, and sometimes you fall in love...
2. "WHEEE CUTE!"
Usually they watch anime and/or create bad erotic fanart about doe-eyed male anime characters. They don't play any game that doesn't involve a cute catgirl or bunnygirl. See Final Fantasy XI or Ragnarok Online.
3. Your Mom Playing Solitaire
You know she's playing it right now. Remember that 1.5ghz Athlon system you built for her so she can send digital photos to grandma and make her own mix CD's? Yea, it's a $900 solitaire deck shuffler.
That this would even be an issue is testament to how little we've really achieved in gender equality.
... er, whatever)
:)
Why do we have to relegate everything to the sexes ?
I'm a liberal !
Let women go head to head with men ! (hmmm, there's something about that statement that
So long as I don't have a female boss, I'm happy !
I'm mean really guys, lets get realistic here
A slashdotting - you get the stick first and then the carrot !
Why is it that when the few girls get into the gaming spotlight they focus on a groups with names like "DoMe"?
Longevity is very important in video games considering most shooters leave me with a half-life of 2.5 minutes.
My 13 year old daughter is probably the most vicious player I have ever met! Not only does she frag you, she goes the "extra yard" by blowing up your corpse! And when we are playing death matches in Quake she will mutter things like "My name is Perfect Little Angel, how may I kill you today?"
Maybe this is what the guys are afraid of when they are playing online is that they could get their asses handed to them by "a girl".My wife is an avid gamer, and has handed my butt to me on the proverbial platter several times in UT and UT2003 and now she's mastered (God help us all) the Raptor in the UT2004 demo. I've always been the proud monkey at LAN parties when she starts screaming "How'd you like that one, MotherF***er?" at all my guy friends. The family that plays together, stays together.
End of Line.
As a male, I for one, welcome our new female overlords!
Baseball players have to be in good physical condition, video game players do not.
(cough) David Wells (cough)
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personally i can't imagine any sort of results from a darts tournament being very inspiring.
I have to say I can only imagine what it would be for me to live *as* a female gaming squad.
I suppose I would have 10 breasts and 10 arms to fondle myself wi....
OH, WAIT!
I had forgotten that Slashdot editors are incapable of using correct grammar! They must have meant, "Life for a female gaming squad."
Everyone knows BOY gamers have a joystick. GIRL gamers have a mouse with a ultra sensitive scroll-wheel. Sheesh.