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Blackie's On A Rampage pt. VI: Miscellaneous Terminology
water lymon | 10:04 PM on 11.13.2007 28 comments




[Welcome to Blackie's on a Rampage, a continuing series that stole the success of its short-lived Roman numberals from Final Fantasy XXIVCL: Eternal Death Lock of Sunshine Peace [variable] of Royal Lasting Forever™. This series is mainly my way of bitching about things incessantly, although my opinion doesn't matter for shit, and trying to see the views of certain topics from people on Destructoid.]

I've been reading/lurking Destructoid for over a year now, and in the time, I've gotten to know everyone here, and its great. I couldn't ask for a better place to go and complain about stuff I don't like, even if the majority of the replies are Puppet yelling "gtfo off mah internets furfag". Aside from the fact that that sentence makes as sense as fucking ET, I don't care when sentences come out like that. However, for some reason, I get mad when certain words are used it a horrible context, most of them applying to, and coming from, gamers. Of course, this is just the grammar Hitler in me, trying to escape from the wall-padded fortress of solitude that is my mind (COKE AND PEPSI ARE THE SAME THING!) , but seriously, there are a few words that just seem completely out of place when used. Although I'll spend most of this blog complaining about the word 'gamer girls', that subject has been drawn out as much as Mario/Peach porn, so I'm discussing this in multiple parts. Hit the non-existant jump (just scroll down.) to read exactly why I think there are 3 terms that need to be black balled from the internet as a whore. Thats not a typo, just a Freudian slip.


'girl gamer'
Of course, the majority of you will assume "lol, girl gamur is old topic, u r lookin 4 page views", but thats not it. I've given up on trying to convince idiots that girl gamers aren't special just because they have boobs, but whatever. The main problem I'm trying to encroach on is the term itself. 'Girl gamer' is not a valid term. You want to know why? Psh, semantics. But seriously, because there's no such thing as a girl gamer. Lemme explain; What do gamers do? They play games. Using this logic, then anything that is used as a single term counts as part of that word. Using my Bizzaro world logic, that means that girl gamers play girl games. There is no suck fucking thing as a girl game. No. Such. Thing. If you direct me to one place where a game has been tagged under the 'girl game' genre, then I will retract my statement, and suck your balls, Imaginationland pt. I style. Okay, so I won't suck your balls, but that doesn't matter, because this doesn't matter, since I almost guarantee that this genre has not been recognized by anyone. FPS gamer makes sense. RTS gamer makes sense. Shitty gamer makes sense, in the adjective form, but when you use the word 'girl gamer' all as a noun, you're trying to discriminate yourself by saying you're not a normal gamer. Well guess what?

You are.

Just cuz you have two boobies doesn't mean that you're any different than those of us with cocks. Get off of your fucking pedestal. You're a gamer. I'm a gamer. We're all just gamers. I don't care if you think that you need to create a site for your gender just to feel important, or glue Nintendo 64 controllers to your chest to feel like a real gamer, because as soon as you do that, you'll be treated the exact opposite way. By making yourself seem 'different' from the guys that play games, you're making yourself seem a) stupid, and b) like an attention whore.

Case in point: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=gamer+girl&btnG=Search
Alright, seems just like what I would expect.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=gamer+guy&btnG=Search
... No comment.

I understand the whole "creating a support network for women who hate being objectified by gamers that are men just because they are gamers too" thing, but are you seriously blaming all men for what rarely happens and is definitely over-exaggerated? What have men done to girl gamers that needs a support site? No rape jokes plz. And if you don't like being 'objectified', then a) don't seperate yourself from the herd of male gamers, and b) don't glue fucking controllers to your chest. </end rant>
[p.s. Feminists, please remove the stick from your ass. I don't mind trying to protect values, but god damn it, when shit like this happens, you know its time to let go.




'gameplay'

I will first admit, that I did not come up with the majority of these main ideas, but I would like to expand on something that is funny, but true. Where the hell did the term gameplay come from? Allow me to explain, using the "See? Man ticks!" that Nex has become so fond of: Game is a noun. Play is the verb that you use with said noun. If gameplay is something that can be described as good, then any type of two-part compound word can become a proper term. Here's what Alex Kierkegaard has to say about it:

This book has good bookread.
This record has good recordlisten.
This movie has good moviewatch.

So yeah, I've just made up three new words: bookread, recordlisten and moviewatch. Now these words may sound stupid to you, but that's not all there is to it. These words are also useless. To demonstrate this point I'll rewrite the above sentences without using them. So here goes:

This is a good book.
This is a good record.
This is a good movie.

See where I am going with this? Just keep in mind that people have been discussing books, records and movies in the English language for a long time, without ever feeling the need to invent ghastly word-constructs like "bookread", etc.

Now some will be thinking, "But, man, there are just things I want to say that can't possibly be expressed without using the word gameplay".

You are wrong. There is nothing one might want to say that can't be expressed without using the word gameplay. I could start going through random videogame publications picking examples, but I'll just do one of the most frequently-occurring ones and I'll trust you to figure out the rest.


He's completely right. And thank god he's said it for me, because I agree, almost 100%. Even though its not terminally right, its become such a common word in gaming, and its here to stay. You can stop reading here if you want and go do some good masturbation[i]jack-off[/url].



gamer t-shirt slogans in general
Yeah, I had to do this one. These. Fucking. Suck. Like, there are a few gems from real gamers, but when the general public tries to cash in on our past, you know we're focused on market economies way too much. For example:

What the fuck does that even mean!? Like, seriously! Who the fuck decided it was good to turn Zelda (yeah, not even Link, the motherfucking princess ZELDA) into an adjective? Whoever created this shirt: I hate you. So much. I reread this article by Colette the other day, and thats mainly why I'm complaining, but Jesus H. Christ, someone explain to me what the shirt creators were smoking when they made these. Chimp My Ride? Mario, the whore? Look, if you're going to create merchandise, don't try to market to the 2% of the population that thinks these are clever. Market to the uprise of gamers who will find a shirt like this freaking amazing:



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kwaselow's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/13/2007 22:11
kwaselow
I applaud you

However, I will still proudly wear my "A mushroom a day keeps the koopas away" shirt. I will also try to get the "Take the mushroom and run" shirt. Steve Miller Band + Mario = Win
Spykron's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/13/2007 22:15
Spykron
those agents are shirts are amazing. i also love my shirt from penny arcade that has shiggy in black on a red shirt to look like che guevara. back when the wii was going to be the revolution.
the GAMEGOBLIN's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/13/2007 22:22
the GAMEGOBLIN
GGGGGGGGGGRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRREAT!!!!!
[img]https://customer4.mytrp.com/custom/kellogg63stage_portal/images/char_tony_interior.gif[/img]
the GAMEGOBLIN's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/13/2007 22:23
the GAMEGOBLIN
as if that didn't work. You know what I was going to do anyway...


bluexy's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/13/2007 22:26
bluexy
I attempted to donate chicken but the button didn't work... so I just shoved a leg into my CD-ROM. It sounds like the transaction is still going through though.
HawtPawkitHero's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/13/2007 22:29
HawtPawkitHero
this chick was on [url=www.HotGamerGirls.com]www.hotgamergirls.com[/url]

She must have posted to the wrong site.
[url=www.uglygamergirls.com]Try here, Diana[/url]
HawtPawkitHero's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/13/2007 22:29
HawtPawkitHero
fuck you bbcode.
bottled dark's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/13/2007 22:39
bottled dark
i will now use "recordlisten" all the fucking time.
Tron Knotts's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/13/2007 23:01
Tron Knotts
So, what should I say instead of Gameplay?

"How the game plays"? "The way in which the game is played"?

Ugh.
Joseph Leray's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/13/2007 23:01
Joseph Leray
Nonono -- gameplay is a perfectly valid way of describe an aspect of the experience of playing a video game. All books are read the same -- with your goddamned eyes. There's no variation. The physical act of reading/listening/watching will never vary. EVER. It's an inherently passive form of entertainment.

On the other hand, there is a wide variety of different ways to play a video game. Playing a video game, an active process (as opposed to passive), is totally different. "Gameplay" is a way of describing the various ways that a player can manipulate a game's mechanics and tropes. There are no book mechanics to manipulate -- you just read it and move on.
Bob Muir's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/13/2007 23:05
Bob Muir
I disagree with you on the "gameplay" argument (since terminology for many mediums is sometimes silly), but otherwise, good rant. I totally agree that girls need to stop separating themselves and that game shirts need to be more artistically minded.
Bob Muir's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/13/2007 23:05
Bob Muir
I disagree with you on the "gameplay" argument (since terminology for many mediums is sometimes silly), but otherwise, good rant. I totally agree that girls need to stop separating themselves and that game shirts need to be more artistically minded.
MaxVest's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/13/2007 23:15
MaxVest
This blog had good blogread but double plus ungood blogplay.

You would prefer play control? Actually, I think segregating gameplay as a separate concept from the game itself comes from review scores, where a game that is only moderately fun yet excels in other areas may garner the score that labels it a "good game".

@Orcist: You haven't been manipulating your book mechanics and tropes? You, my friend, are totally missing out. Blows. Your. Mind.
MaxVest's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/13/2007 23:33
MaxVest
I think people understand that, but a rant has to be rooted in some ineffable truth. Otherwise it just begs you to snatch the wind from its sails; it's part of the game. As Homer Simpson put it so elegantly, "It's funny because it's true."

But then again, who am I to argue with Mr. Kierkegaard?
Spykron's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/13/2007 23:44
Spykron
lemons have good lemoneat.
Farktoid's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/14/2007 00:13
Farktoid
Probably should delete the gameplay part dude. A good rant, but your attempt at irony in the middle fell off the bus.

Nay, it was KICKED off the bus by a nun with a riding crop and a hardbound copy of the Anarchist's Cookbook.
MechaMonkey's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/14/2007 08:41
MechaMonkey
This article has great articleread.
king3vbo's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/14/2007 10:08
king3vbo
So how much would it be to buy you?
Thornnn's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/14/2007 11:01
Thornnn
What's a "girl" ??? I play video games and I've never seen one.
Sharpless's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/14/2007 12:59
Sharpless
I agree with everything but the gameplay part. And it was "comic relief"? Suuuuure. Riiiiiight. I belieeeeve you. What? No, I alllllways talk like thiiiiis. I'm not being sarcaaaastic.

Also, I generally agree that most gaming t-shirts are pretty shit. But I love my Kung Fu/"I know kung fu" t-shirt. Would buy again.

HawtPawkit, you're a dick. :) I'd hit that girl. Sexually. With bells on.
Dynamic Sheep's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/14/2007 14:48
Dynamic Sheep
(COKE AND PEPSI ARE THE SAME THING!)

This, good sir, is false. You have to work somewhere (like I did at McD's between 16 and 18) where all they have is coke for a while, and drink a shit load of that, then drink pepsi... you will notice a difference. Pepsi is sweeter, and less dense with fizzies than Coke. They are both soda though. I can't stand Coke anymore, and rarely drink Pepsi. Doctor Pepper all the way!
UglyDuck's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/14/2007 18:14
UglyDuck
One thing I'll disagree on is the gameplay issue. I might be talking out of my ass here, but it sounds valid in my head so let's give it a go.

The difference between a game and all of the above is that you can do things in a game. You as the viewer or reader or listener can't do anything in whatever it is you're doing. The better analogy would be something you are part of like a sport. If you're good at a ball sport, you've got good ball-control, lolpun. Gameplay reffers to the action of you doing something in the game, and the relationship you have with it. All the others are passive, you have no interaction.

I know it's quite tenuous, and I still see where you're coming from, but then most stuff in the English language doesn't make sense. Just think about how people start sentances with "Well," - does it make sense, to prefix your words with a description of health or a stone water collector? No, but that's the way it is.

Overall, you could argue that nothing makes sense to the point where we just grunt and kill each other, but that would be very predictable and would make undertaking too lucrative.

Also, late to the party.
PetiePal's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/19/2007 11:33
PetiePal
Amusing Lemon. Amusing. And Nicole is getting worse as a "Gamer Girl." Not anything as bad as Mrs. Violence. Can't stand that bitch.
Twisted Imp's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/04/2007 15:50
Twisted Imp

lol.That's what I get when I google a gamer girl.
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