I never understood this mentality, myself.
Gamers: "I never get laid... π©"
Also Gamers: "Women are just kitchen accessories."
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I have ~10k hours in counterstrike across multi game versions and accounts. I noticed a similar thing over my years. The players doing well in a match were often neutral towards gamer girls, but the guy having a shit match would be the fastest sack of shit every time. Especially if one of the top fraggers pointed out they were being beaten by a girl.
Obviously there are always exceptions to any rules but in my anecdotal experience the guys who were confident in their abilities didn't care about women but losers would attack them just for speaking.
Man. I miss when gungame was filled with people and all the fun addons. Warcraft 3 mods, vote for knife fight, βgotcha bitchβ with every knife kill.
I want to go back.
Counter Strike was way better when this was the vibe. I am so tired of competitive this and gun case that. I've never been interested in 5v5 scrimming in any serious way, but that's all CS2 wants me to do.
I want gun game, I want wc3, I want ZM. I want quirky custom maps (glass!) and quake sounds and !bet ct all. I want to fuck around with new friends on a server for an evening, not to sweat my balls off throwing practiced smokes on dust2.
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OG /gg and /surf maps.
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I didnβt even know people were still playing Halo 3 in 2015
Master Chief Collection came out in late 2014.
It sucked so hard for the first 4 years that I didnβt start playing it again until 2018 when they sorta fixed it.
This is probably seen through rose tinted glasses, but Halo 3 had the best multi-player experience I think. It has community created maps, game modes, and an a way for anybody with a account to share what they made. From pictures to custom forge maps. I have nothing but fond memories of the experience. So it makes sense to me at least that some people wouldn't stop playing until Microsoft or Bungie or whoever made them.
Halo 3 released on better hardware, so they included huge multiplayer maps like Sandtrap, but they hadn't yet realised that huge maps require faster traversal. As a result, your Spartan moves around like a sack of wet potatoes.
Halo 2 has the best slow multiplayer because of the tighter maps, and Halo 5 has the best fast multiplayer because of the traversal tools.
My life went down in Containment doing 1v1 splitscreem pvp with my friend.
I will never let anyone say Halo 2 was worse than any other entry.
It's either Reach, CE or 2 (in the chronological order).
This is definitely an objective opinion based on facts and universal experiences: the best multiplayer experience was Halo 1, when we ran ethernet cables between our dorm rooms. I'd wake up to someone slamming on my door telling me to turn my Xbox on, and I'd jump right into a death match.
its the best one, I still go back to it from time to time
Understandable - management has a natural affinity with dumbass.
"but behaved more submissively towards players with a male voice" I want to know what they mean by submissive
Same way you're "submissive" to your boss
butt stuff, gotcha
Appeal to authority. Higher-skilled male players got to call the shots, lead, delegate etc.
They were less confrontational and more likely to accept direction
They got into some freaky shit in those lobbies.
So my transition from cringe lord to become a better individual overall is actually just me getting better at video game? Fair enough
No, but it means you give less of a shit when you lose.
Not necessarily.
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Obligatory footnote: EvoPsych is mostly bunk, deeply intertwined with eugenics and riddled with homophobia, sexism and rape apologia.
Traditionally, yes, but I do want to note that modern takes use it to also argue for cooperation, since working with with others is good for survival and passing on genes. They also are the first to tell people how bunk the alpha male crap is, and the fact a lone wolf is a dead wolf.
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Source?
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4503401/
Pretty sure it was just an excuse for the authors to play Halo, but skimming the study it still looks like valid science.
Who actually needs an excuse to play Halo though?
neeeeeerds
People with jobs that aren't playing video games.
Invite your boss and coworkers to play Halo with you. Problem solved
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I get the meme, but I don't know how to apply it to this post.
Could someone elaborate?
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"Always has been"
The line at the bottom, the reply to the wall of text
"Noted. misogyny is a skill issue"
always has been
Ahh, ok. Thanks. Was focusing on the body/paragraph of the text.
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