"I've never seen women play any games except all these games I've seen them play, but that doesn't count because reasons"

Bonus points for transphobia and ableism.

Fuck people who think like this. TIL that only men play lots of genres of games, which is news to me because the majority of my male friends only play shooters and one plays nothing but... wait for it... RPGs.

G*mers are a mistake.

    • Pezevenk [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      It's not even true any more though. There's so many cis women playing games, they just don't join their dumb communities or don't say they are women (and of course they don't talk to any women irl) so they never figure it out.

      • hauntingspectre [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        It also seems to me that voice chat on consoles has really declined in frequency, at least in my limited exposure recently. I played MW2 on Xbox, and I swear that took the cake for "most toxic voicechat". Now? I rarely hear a peep out of anyone on console.

      • WittyProfileName [she/her]
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        4 years ago

        Don't even play multiplayer games with randos anymore because shit is crazy toxic, used to play a healer character in ESO but matchmade parties were just about screaming at the healer if you failed.

      • hauntingspectre [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        There's no need to play online/multiplayer modes for many games though. I haven't played an online game since Battlefield V came out, and before that it had been 10 years or so.

        Instead I stick to single player games, because that's what's fun for me, and means I don't have to deal with chat. One of my games (Wargame: Red Dragon) loads you into single player through the same portal as multiplayer, and oh my god the shit in that chat is gross.