• grte@lemmy.ca
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    2 months ago

    This is pretty clear to anyone who has ever played a game of Counterstrike or whatever and a woman makes the mistake of using voice chat. You’ll get the whole gamut from misogynistic nonsense to the most awkward and creepy attempts to hit on them possible, pretty much every time.

    • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.social
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      2 months ago

      I only ever really saw the clsssic toxic gamer behavior flourish once most games switched from having private dedicated servers ran by the players that almost always had an admin present to handle toxicity to unmoderated developer hosted servers no players have any bit of control over. Counter-Strike: Source vs CS:GO/CS2 is quite a leap in the general attitude of players you would encounter.

      Wild how removing people who managed the player’s behavior makes the bad behavior intensify.

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        Confirmed. Counterstrike specifically was very inclusive and very open to most players of all ages, demographics, and skill ranges especially compared to other shooters of the 00’s. Then matchmaking and eventually premier got introduced and any chance of moderating the community died and here we are today.

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          2 months ago

          matchmaking killed the fun in so many ways. cs got tryhardy and toxic, but so many multiplayer games are now insufferable because of matchmaking and agressive monetization.

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      2 months ago

      It’s just one joke, over and over again. I’m a guy, but one of the reasons I stopped going to lan parties was hearing this same few jokes again and again whenever a woman showed up. If it wasn’t a woman, it would be something else from the limited number of topics and opinions they had. When it wasn’t frustrating, it was simply boring.

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      2 months ago

      I don’t doubt this but now I’m really curious about the numbers. Is it the same on PC? How do women’s experience compare to other genders in similar surveys?

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    2 months ago

    “Researchers surveyed 1,000 women of all ages across the UK who play mobile games.”

    Shows a picture of a woman holding what appears to be a PS4 controller.

    Poifect.

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    2 months ago

    “ackshually mobile games don’t count as real games 🤓” - lemmy users

    “women avoid me 🤓” - same lemmy users

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    2 months ago

    Yeah that’s definitely not going to be exclusive to mobile games, but I always feel like mobile games are generally more isolating to begin with.

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    I’ve been playing a certain well known game for over a decade now. I’ve developed such skill at never specifying anything that could out my gender I could put it on a resume.

    It’s actually quite fun. Oh the stuff men talk about when they don’t know there’s a lass in their raid group lolol

    Now that I’m “old”, it ain’t about guilt, shame, or exclusion, it’s about how fun this facade is. Y’all neeeever know. So keep talking.

  • ✨️⭐️✨️🍹♥️🍹✨️⭐️✨️@sh.itjust.works
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    2 months ago

    just like in real life.

    online there are the sexual guys who will buy you anything to be theirs.

    And there are the annoying sexist ones. I think it often has to do with a primitive feeling in the guy of “there is a female right there that im interacting with but she isnt having sex with me. i am thus annoyed.” so the male does mean pokes at the female because it’s “her fault” they arent having sex. i’ve seen it a trillion times. “why arent you MY bitch?” pokes rudely

    And lastly there is the good type of male who, just like the good type of female, can have fun with you while playing the game together and enjoying the play; simple as that.

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      There was that study that found that the men most aggressive towards women in gaming were those less skilled than them, I think about that one a lot

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        2 months ago

        That same “study” uses evolution psychology which was proven to be not reliable. But hey at least we get to demonize men right as always.

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          1 month ago

          The explanation for the data uses evolution psychology, but that doesn’t invalidate the data itself.

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    I don’t play these types of games with randos on open mics anymore, but it definitely felt taboo when a girl was speaking. It’s too bad there weren’t just as many to normalize it then everyone would finally hopefully move past it… Maybe?

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    2 months ago

    I’m sure the solution to this problem has nothing to do with killing internet anonymity like fascist governments are currently trying to do…

    Edit: wow it actually doesn’t say that, I was really expecting that to be the angle of this UK article.

    Instead it says these feelings of gamer imposter syndrome women feel is most likely a symptom of culture, but not a cause for women to not play games. And suggests that gaming spaces being more inclusive would help women feel less like importers despite playing games and being gamers.