9:52 PM on 12.29.2006
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ZOMG a vidblog by Aktrez! The outspoken GGL gamer just sent us a thought provoking viewpoint through our MySpace on the topics of pwning, womenly kinship, Diablo II, hardcore boyfriends, not knitting, and what it's like to maneuver through the testosterone fortress that is the gaming community. (Well, except for Destructoid. Our resident writers Faith and Nagiko have bigger nads than most guys.) Check out the vid and discuss in the comments below. So what do you think? Does she have a point or do you disagree?
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don't let me down #4!
not all guys are assholes, yeah the majority of guy gamers are, but not every single guy has a personality as appealing asa can of disgusting spam.
note: no offense to any spam enthusiasts.
btw, totally off-topic and irrevent, but Saddam's dead.
I would also like to note that the reason I did this vblog was actually an answer to this link http://www.digg.com/gaming_news/Top_Ten_Hottest_Girl_Gamers_who_are_actually_gamers.
Just so you don't think it came out of no where.
http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/12/29/hussein/index.html
just heard it on tv too
I wish more girls played games, I wonder if most girls get started like she did, being introduced by a boyfriend to games.
They're gamers.
Who are girls.
And that's about all we need to know.
Jaysus.
That was it.
Over.
I think plenty of girls have had some exposure to gaming, just very few tend to enjoy the same sorts of games guys do. My sister owns a cube, has my PS2 hostage for the duration of my college winter break with Guitar Hero, and after a few sessions of Wii sports is starting to bug my mom to start hunting for a unit for her.
She doesn't play any sort of online multiplayer games at all, I could see her playing a MMORPG in the future, but I doubt she'd ever pick up an FPS or an RTS.
Here's the thing.
I already act "like playing with females is no big deal."
Seriously. That was my point.
Let's be honest, a LOT of women (and girls) are taking a ride on this whole girl gamers meme. I think it's a complete and utter non-issue. I don't consider it any more valid than Black Gamers, Gay Gamers, or Native-American Gamers. Gamers are gamers. Period.
I don't think anyone needs to "go on record" (whatever that means) and I don't really care about the "issues" surrounding gender in gaming.
I don't understand why people are still shocked there are actually girl gamers out there. I mean, it's like being surprised women enjoy watching movies or something. I knew girls who could kick my ass in Goldeneye back in high school. These people should try meeting more women, they might be surprised to find out they don't spend all their time braiding hair and fantasizing about boy bands.
Here's all you need to know...
"Girls game."
Cut to the car chase.
Seriously. If your boobies are so important that you have to make whole gaming clans devoted to owners of similar fleshbags, couldn't you at least let us take a peek?
I'm a girl too, as you may have guessed from my username, but I don't go around pretending that the whole internets are against me. As far as I'm concerned, I'm a gamer, and the ONLY time my gender becomes an issue is when OTHER GIRLS make it one.
So shut up, get back to the kitchen, and let me game in peace ;)
The fact that girls game is over, and Lezbro is right, many girls are milking it and getting jobs because they are girls that game. As of right now, it's easier for a woman to get into the industry than a man, let's not fool ourselves here.
As for the PMS members in here, your the fakest of the fake, so GTFO.
I believe you're thinking of Chobot. God, I seriously hate that girl.
How old and or ignorant are you, didn't parents/school teach you yet?
No she got that habit too, the interview is on this site somewhere.
Serious don't know jack about PMS besides that in Dutch PMS is something older woman get, got now clue what that is called in English.
(n) : the physical and psychological malaise experienced by many women between ovulation and the onset of menstruation; premenstrual tension
If you want a summary, it refers to the delightful hormone-driven mood swings that many (most?) women enjoy every month.
Just giving the origins of the name, was going to make him figure the rest out. Men are not as dumb as we are made out to be, oh wait...
It just seems like whenever i play with a girl, they dont like to speak up and say they are a girl, because they know all the guys will freak out...so to prevent that, they dont speak up...and it creates a vicious cycle where whenever a guy hears a girl talk, they freak out, so the girl goes into a solitude of quietness.
I see a girl, shes beautiful, i find out she plays games...Does it make her more beautiful? No, it just makes me happy we have something in common. I see a guy, i find out he plays games, sweet, lets play sometime...its all the same.
Also, PMS Hearbreakr, id send you a friend request on XBL but i dont want it to seem like im the guy just adding you because your a girl. Ill add anyone who has the same games as me. Not to mention your friends list is probably full. So if you want to play, send me a friend request.
GT: CaptainBlue