You probably have, they just don't use mics. I used my mic for a bit but got a lot of people asking if I was a girl and when one person started being really creepy I stopped using it.
Which is more rare, N7 weapons or female gamers?
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Posté 30 avril 2012 - 02:36
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Irkalla wrote...
Maybe you just won't hear us talking on public matches; because kitchen and sandwiches.
On which we reply: "What basement dwelling should I fedex it to?"
I will pirate that answer for future use
Also considering how much of putoff it is when a guy trys to hit on you in a game, i am almost glad my microphone blows enough that my voice isnt giving them too much and with my nick they think otherwise, so i can easily enjoy the games, most times,
even worse are those that can't stand when a woman outscores them (i get called cheater a lot more often then equally skilled guy players) or even try to impress you with their digital prowess-.-
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Posté 30 avril 2012 - 02:37
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I thought that video would be funny, but its educational.
Bleh!
Bleh!
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Posté 30 avril 2012 - 02:38
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Descy_ wrote...
Chriss5688 wrote...
I have quite a few ladies in my Origin's friends list, "found" them here in BSN, and met even more (didn't add them though) through pub matches.Chriss5688 wrote...
I have quite a few ladies in my Origin's friends list, "found" them here in BSN,Chriss5688 wrote...
I have quite a few ladies in my Origin's friends list,Chriss5688 wrote...
I have quite a few ladiesChriss5688 wrote...
ladies
...ladies.
I am curious, why make the effort to quote me in such a way because of one word?
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Posté 30 avril 2012 - 02:39
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Chriss5688 wrote...
Descy_ wrote...
Chriss5688 wrote...
I have quite a few ladies in my Origin's friends list, "found" them here in BSN, and met even more (didn't add them though) through pub matches.Chriss5688 wrote...
I have quite a few ladies in my Origin's friends list, "found" them here in BSN,Chriss5688 wrote...
I have quite a few ladies in my Origin's friends list,Chriss5688 wrote...
I have quite a few ladiesChriss5688 wrote...
ladies
...ladies.
I am curious, why make the effort to quote me in such a way because of one word?
Apparently you werent here last night for my thread.
...ladies.
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Posté 30 avril 2012 - 02:48
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Definitely N7 weapons. Female players that are quite good on gold are even more common than getting an N7/Ultra rare out of Spectre packs.
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Posté 30 avril 2012 - 02:56
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ShadedPhoenix wrote...
Irkalla wrote...
Maybe you just won't hear us talking on public matches; because kitchen and sandwiches.
On which we reply: "What basement dwelling should I fedex it to?"
I will pirate that answer for future use
Also considering how much of putoff it is when a guy trys to hit on you in a game, i am almost glad my microphone blows enough that my voice isnt giving them too much and with my nick they think otherwise, so i can easily enjoy the games, most times,
even worse are those that can't stand when a woman outscores them (i get called cheater a lot more often then equally skilled guy players) or even try to impress you with their digital prowess-.-
It's under GPL, no need to pirate
And I know the feels. Thankfully, I'm PC, as it tends to happen far less here than on consoles. (which are infested with kids)
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Posté 30 avril 2012 - 02:59
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ShadedPhoenix wrote...
Irkalla wrote...
Maybe you just won't hear us talking on public matches; because kitchen and sandwiches.
On which we reply: "What basement dwelling should I fedex it to?"
I will pirate that answer for future use
Also considering how much of putoff it is when a guy trys to hit on you in a game, i am almost glad my microphone blows enough that my voice isnt giving them too much and with my nick they think otherwise, so i can easily enjoy the games, most times,
even worse are those that can't stand when a woman outscores them (i get called cheater a lot more often then equally skilled guy players) or even try to impress you with their digital prowess-.-
I hate listening to guys hit on girls in-game, but oh. my. god.
Sometimes it's just too hilarious. Especially when the girl makes the guy feel bad about doing it.
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Posté 30 avril 2012 - 02:59
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Hail PC! Plattform of the (usually) more mature gamer
(actually the storys i heard from consoles, that is scarily true)
But when i cannot pirate the answer? how can i feel like a good rogue/infiltrator?
@Descy, why should one do that? it is way more fun to make them feel having sucess before crushing all their hopes and dreams with the most basic sentence ("i have a bf, the guy that keeps sniping you with the same clantag as me"
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(actually the storys i heard from consoles, that is scarily true)
But when i cannot pirate the answer? how can i feel like a good rogue/infiltrator?
@Descy, why should one do that? it is way more fun to make them feel having sucess before crushing all their hopes and dreams with the most basic sentence ("i have a bf, the guy that keeps sniping you with the same clantag as me"
)
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Posté 30 avril 2012 - 03:01
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This question probably gets harder for those of you who already refer.to your suite of N6 weapons as your"ladies".
On a serious note most of us have gotten over pondering this questiin in games because we realize the difference between a game and a hookup service.
On a serious note most of us have gotten over pondering this questiin in games because we realize the difference between a game and a hookup service.
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Posté 30 avril 2012 - 04:12
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Women are not going to show themselves. For three reasons.
1. Guys hitting on them in-game.
2. Harassment.
3. Unfitting "banter"
Wall of text warning. Writing some interesting tidbits of human psychology that fit rather well with the subject.
On Guys Hitting on Them In-Game:
There are quite a few guys who think that a game may lead them to a significant other.These guys have not thought about what this looks like from the female's point of view.They have not read up any sort of human social psychology.
Particularly when talking about... "Romantic" feelings people need a face/body to tie to the voice/personality, and it is the physical person that is bonded to (Especially for the women). I am not only talking about genitalia, I am talking physical presence. A woman simply cannot have those kind of feelings for a guy and sustain them if he does not have a physical presence in her life.
Example, the classic "Jodie" stories in the military, when a wife or girlfriend cheats when one is in training or on deployment.Or the one of the female's classic complaints about a relationship "He's never there for me."This works to an effect both ways, but it SEEMS that distance has more of an impact on females than males.Even if the impact is equal, the effect is the same: That kind of thing does not happen over a game.Keeping that in mind, how do you think a girl mentally reacts to a faceless voice hitting on her? It would be, in their words, creepy.They seem to be rather fond of that word.
On "Harassment":
More of an issue on XBox LIVE and other services that allow you to easily talk to or message ANYONE at ANYTIME.Pretty well summed up in the penny arcade video, guys unhappy with their lives just trying to spread some misery around. Either gaining a laugh out of it, or simply hating. I daresay this is a little less common than hitting on them, but this is just as annoying. With some girls it just ruins their day when someone random insults them. Depending on the way one was raised, one would either shrug off the insult or just feel like crap because of it.Females are more social than guys, and an all-female enviroment is generally more obviously caring than an all-guy enviroment.
Good example would have to be the differences in the way we socialize in general. Girls make almost constant eye-contact with each other when talking, and comments are in general supportive when dealing with something unpleasant. Eye contact is infrequent with guys in general, an occasional glance will suffice. When dealing with something unpleasant, guys will tell each other something along the lines of "its not so bad", and compare amusing stories of when things went worse.
When I talk with girls, I try to maintain eye contact as they do. This does not work well, it ends up being similar to a jamming signal. to put it in nerd terms, its like I am trying to write something, and there are constant popups about pretty smilies or something, its distracting. And if they have pretty eyes... distraction * 10.
On "Unfitting 'Banter':
"See the above notes on female social interaction.They take comments in a conversation much more seriously than guys do.So while guys may insult each other for fun, girls will more likely take it seriously. To make it more obvious that we are not serious, we make the insults far too ridiculous and lacking imagination to be considered valid. Well that is just viewed as pettiness to your usual female. Banter is rarely received well.
I fall victim to this, too. When I think someone is allright, I begin to mess with them. A girl I play laser tag with is a platinum-blonde, so her hair glows slightly in the black lights. In particular, one lock of hair that she bobby-pins off to the side glows about as much as a white t-shirt. I call her "glowstreak", even this was not recieved too well at first. I eventually talked with her, clarified that nicknames are not detrimental, and agreed to simply call her "Katie" outside of lasertag. That kind of stuff us guys do with friends is not well recieved with the ladies, many of us do not understand.
It does not matter, either way. Female, male, makes no difference.Well, it does for them for the above reasons, but for guys it should not matter. What should matter is whether or not a team player opens their mic or not.
There is little to no incentive for a woman to open the mic, and a lot of incentive to keep it closed at all times.
1. Guys hitting on them in-game.
2. Harassment.
3. Unfitting "banter"
Wall of text warning. Writing some interesting tidbits of human psychology that fit rather well with the subject.
On Guys Hitting on Them In-Game:
There are quite a few guys who think that a game may lead them to a significant other.These guys have not thought about what this looks like from the female's point of view.They have not read up any sort of human social psychology.
Particularly when talking about... "Romantic" feelings people need a face/body to tie to the voice/personality, and it is the physical person that is bonded to (Especially for the women). I am not only talking about genitalia, I am talking physical presence. A woman simply cannot have those kind of feelings for a guy and sustain them if he does not have a physical presence in her life.
Example, the classic "Jodie" stories in the military, when a wife or girlfriend cheats when one is in training or on deployment.Or the one of the female's classic complaints about a relationship "He's never there for me."This works to an effect both ways, but it SEEMS that distance has more of an impact on females than males.Even if the impact is equal, the effect is the same: That kind of thing does not happen over a game.Keeping that in mind, how do you think a girl mentally reacts to a faceless voice hitting on her? It would be, in their words, creepy.They seem to be rather fond of that word.
On "Harassment":
More of an issue on XBox LIVE and other services that allow you to easily talk to or message ANYONE at ANYTIME.Pretty well summed up in the penny arcade video, guys unhappy with their lives just trying to spread some misery around. Either gaining a laugh out of it, or simply hating. I daresay this is a little less common than hitting on them, but this is just as annoying. With some girls it just ruins their day when someone random insults them. Depending on the way one was raised, one would either shrug off the insult or just feel like crap because of it.Females are more social than guys, and an all-female enviroment is generally more obviously caring than an all-guy enviroment.
Good example would have to be the differences in the way we socialize in general. Girls make almost constant eye-contact with each other when talking, and comments are in general supportive when dealing with something unpleasant. Eye contact is infrequent with guys in general, an occasional glance will suffice. When dealing with something unpleasant, guys will tell each other something along the lines of "its not so bad", and compare amusing stories of when things went worse.
When I talk with girls, I try to maintain eye contact as they do. This does not work well, it ends up being similar to a jamming signal. to put it in nerd terms, its like I am trying to write something, and there are constant popups about pretty smilies or something, its distracting. And if they have pretty eyes... distraction * 10.
On "Unfitting 'Banter':
"See the above notes on female social interaction.They take comments in a conversation much more seriously than guys do.So while guys may insult each other for fun, girls will more likely take it seriously. To make it more obvious that we are not serious, we make the insults far too ridiculous and lacking imagination to be considered valid. Well that is just viewed as pettiness to your usual female. Banter is rarely received well.
I fall victim to this, too. When I think someone is allright, I begin to mess with them. A girl I play laser tag with is a platinum-blonde, so her hair glows slightly in the black lights. In particular, one lock of hair that she bobby-pins off to the side glows about as much as a white t-shirt. I call her "glowstreak", even this was not recieved too well at first. I eventually talked with her, clarified that nicknames are not detrimental, and agreed to simply call her "Katie" outside of lasertag. That kind of stuff us guys do with friends is not well recieved with the ladies, many of us do not understand.
It does not matter, either way. Female, male, makes no difference.Well, it does for them for the above reasons, but for guys it should not matter. What should matter is whether or not a team player opens their mic or not.
There is little to no incentive for a woman to open the mic, and a lot of incentive to keep it closed at all times.
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Posté 30 avril 2012 - 04:14
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Probably the latter....seeing as how I haven't unlocked a single N7 weapon yet.
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Posté 30 avril 2012 - 04:16
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lordshenlong wrote...
there's plenty of female gamers, unlike the n7 weapons.
This.
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Posté 30 avril 2012 - 04:19
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You mean I've wasted countless hours of my life? Oh well, back to the prostitutes then.Thermight wrote...
This question probably gets harder for those of you who already refer.to your suite of N6 weapons as your"ladies".
On a serious note most of us have gotten over pondering this questiin in games because we realize the difference between a game and a hookup service.
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Posté 30 avril 2012 - 04:21
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met a girl who told me to lick her p.... was awkward....
then i pondered upon that and figured that it could only be insulting if she had a dirty one or if she was really un-attractive... and then thought about how ` suck my d ` for males compare.... concluded that it was the same cept we dnt care bout being ugly mofos
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then i pondered upon that and figured that it could only be insulting if she had a dirty one or if she was really un-attractive... and then thought about how ` suck my d ` for males compare.... concluded that it was the same cept we dnt care bout being ugly mofos
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Posté 30 avril 2012 - 04:21
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If I start talking in game, there's a good chance another woman will respond.
I'd say we're a significant, but silent, minority in ME 3 MP.
I'd say we're a significant, but silent, minority in ME 3 MP.
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Posté 30 avril 2012 - 04:21
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There is Mass Effect 3 stuff on Pinterest, and since there are no Pr*cks on Pinterest, that means that there must be female players. I assume that most of them don't talk to avoid harassment.
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Posté 30 avril 2012 - 04:22
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What is this "Female" you speak of?
Seriously though, we probably meet more women then we think, they just don't use their mics so that they don't spend the whole game getting hit on. After all a lot of us gamers are very lonely. Personally I play on PC, so silent morgue like games are the norm.
Seriously though, we probably meet more women then we think, they just don't use their mics so that they don't spend the whole game getting hit on. After all a lot of us gamers are very lonely. Personally I play on PC, so silent morgue like games are the norm.
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Posté 30 avril 2012 - 04:22
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I actually heard a female gamer on mic last night, I was shocked...that's the first female I've encountered after playing MP every single day since ME3 came out.
Oh, and I have two N7 weapons, so I guess female gamers are rarer! Ha!
Oh, and I have two N7 weapons, so I guess female gamers are rarer! Ha!
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Posté 30 avril 2012 - 04:23
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Major Durza wrote...
Women are not going to show themselves. For three reasons.1. Guys hitting on them in-game.2. Harassment.3. Unfitting "banter"
TLDR Warning (don't know exactly what that means, I just know it is something along the lines of "wall of text")
TL;DR stands for To Long Didn't Read.
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Posté 30 avril 2012 - 04:25
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I met a female ME3 player at work (she also plays Zelda and Skyrim, total turn on).
Considering that there are seven N7 weapons and ten iterations of each PER PERSON, gender not inclusive, I'd say that N7 weapons are more plentiful.
Considering that there are seven N7 weapons and ten iterations of each PER PERSON, gender not inclusive, I'd say that N7 weapons are more plentiful.
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Posté 30 avril 2012 - 04:27
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Why gamers continue to give a crap about what gender or sexuality their peers are is something that I'll probably never understand. If you're good enough in game to pull your weight, fulfil your role and follow direction, everything else is completely irrelevant. You could be a giant pink tentacle monster with a lolicon complex for all I care. Just... don't talk to me about it.
It means 'Too Long; Didn't Read.'
Major Durza wrote...
TLDR Warning (don't know exactly what that means, I just know it is something along the lines of "wall of text")
It means 'Too Long; Didn't Read.'
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Posté 30 avril 2012 - 04:28
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2 female gamers in lobby talking last night> My one and only N7 weapon. Yep, the N7's are more rare.
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Posté 30 avril 2012 - 04:34
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nwj94 wrote...
Major Durza wrote...
Women are not going to show themselves. For three reasons.1. Guys hitting on them in-game.2. Harassment.3. Unfitting "banter"
TLDR Warning (don't know exactly what that means, I just know it is something along the lines of "wall of text")
TL;DR stands for To Long Didn't Read.
Ah, thank you! Well, learned something before my Computer Science class today!
Will remove, because I did reread it after writing. Will edit this out.
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Posté 30 avril 2012 - 04:34
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Female gamers are quite common nowadays, however most of them more like to play casual games or the Sims games, instead of warlike games like Mass Effect. Those are probably more rare than N7 weapons. I don't know any female gamer playing Mass Effect 3, but have an N7 rating of 370 and have had about 6 N7 weapons unlocks. I've managed to get my wife to play and love Skyrim, but no success on Mass Effect...
