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[Bayonet Hipshot]

If you makes you feel better, I'm a tall guy, but we ended up in the same spot. I never made use of it.

 

Cheers.

 

Just curious, how tall are you though ? Because when I did my undergraduate studies in USA, I quickly realized that with Western women, its either 6'0" and above or bust and I understood why Western men tended to go for Asian women instead.

 

 

Huh, I mostly avoided that by being incredibly tight lipped about the things I liked unless I already knew the other person liked the same thing.

 

Must have not been easy.

[Gilli]

Huh, I mostly avoided that by being incredibly tight lipped about the things I liked unless I already knew the other person liked the same thing.

 

Oh I was very tight lipped about it. Problem was that I lived just across the street from the school building and so did some others from my class. So when I played with any of my toys (action figures like Extreme Dinosaurs or the TMNT) on the balcony and they'd see it, they started shouting:

"Sabrina is a baby! She plays with [insert toy name]!" 

 

AND they would bring that subject to school. "Hey Sabrina, did you play with your toys again?" 

[maia0407]

Oh I was very tight lipped about it. Problem was that I lived just across the street from the school building and so did some others from my class. So when I played with any of my toys (action figures like Extreme Dinosaurs or the TMNT) on the balcony and they'd see it, they started shouting:
"Sabrina is a baby! She plays with [insert toy name]!" 
 
AND they would bring that subject to school. "Hey Sabrina, did you play with your toys again?" 

Aw. What a bunch of mean little fuckers. Kids can be little sociopaths!

[Heimdall]

Must have not been easy.

I had a twin brother I shared everything with, so it was all good.

[Sylvianus]

Maybe you're late to the party?

There was a time when one of the easiest ways to make sure you never got a date was to mention your gaming hobby within the earshot of girls/women... but that, in my personal experience, was back in the 80s and 90s. But even back then, there were girls who gamed, but for every one of them there were dozens who ridiculed you for it.

Disclaimer: this is entirely anecdotal and personal experience. And it's not like there weren't guys who made fun of you because of it too.

That said, I'm all for more women in gaming. My favorite hobby becoming more accepted by and shared by others can't be a bad thing.

 

There are still many who behave that way today, especially those who are girly and judged conventionally attractive. Not to the point that they won't finally date you, but where it might be negatively perceived. Like they might be wondering for a few seconds, " Am I really going to date a man... or a little boy ? " 

 

Once I mentioned that, and the girl rolled her eyes. I felt that I ruined the idea she had previously about me. I learned from my mistake. 

 

I never mention video games when i am starting to date a girl. I do not hide that face of me, I just don't mention it. I let her discover herself alone way after she talked a lot with me that I have an xbox with a lot of games when i invite her in my home and that I play video games. More safe that way.  I want the girl to know me first before imagining in her head that I might be " a little boy who still plays with his toys " . Most women i know don't like video games and roll their eyes about it, but it never was a problem and I never was negatively perceived, because they already got to know me. The same for my buddies  They know that I am very mature, they can't anymore imagine in their head that I might be a " little boy who still plays with toys ".

 

The reactions I got were mostly " oh, you play video games ? " 

- Yes. 

- Show me. ( while they didn't even like video games and think it's stupid. )

 

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But I'm very happy that it's changing, and to see that more and more women love playing video games. It's the same with football. While most women find soccer really stupid and annoying, it is less negatively perceived than in the past. you see more and more of thhem in the stadiums. Especially during the football World Cup. Though, i still avoid talking football when there are female around me, the reactions are the same, they are annoyed or roll their eyes when it lasts too long lol. 

[straykat]

Cheers.

 

Just curious, how tall are you though ? Because when I did my undergraduate studies in USA, I quickly realized that with Western women, its either 6'0" and above or bust and I understood why Western men tended to go for Asian women instead.

 

 

Tall even by American standards. 6'5"

 

I said I was Asian earlier. It's actually half Asian.. my dad is Danish/Norwegian

 

 

I had plenty of opportunity to socialize or athletically succeed.. or whatever. It's a long story, but I made a choice to remove myself from any expectations.

[Gilli]

Aw. What a bunch of mean little fuckers. Kids can be little sociopaths!

 

Yep~ and now I have social anxiety 

 

 

But hey~ I have now many friends who like the same stuff, they just live in different countries all over the world. 

[Addictress]

What is this thread even about again?

Oh, right, my fantasy merger between CDProjekt Red and Bioware on DA4, in which the grand world of Thedas and the mystery of the Evanuris are expertly manifested in top-notch coding, combat mechanics, and intricate level design, while also keeping dudebro essences in check.

nsfw fantasy merger btw/ bioware and cdprojektred: who is the subsidiary?

[mrs_anomaly]

I certainly do not like hearing that people have borne ridicule for what can be a very enjoyable hobby within reason and if you really think about it, ultimately, a thought experiment. 

 

But, in my case at least, you're talking to an OG gamer   I'm 40 and I've been gaming for as long as I remember. And I read all the posts in the past few pages and I would like to add that I never as a kid felt like gaming was a male thing or a girl thing it just was. I have younger brothers and I wasn't gaming because of them or for them or due to them but rather because I wanted to. I've now taught my kids how to game including my two sons. 

 

I will tell you this though- while as a younger person I had "conventional beauty" I was ridiculed because I read books! I'm a nerd! In the 80's I was as cute as could be as a little girl but hey- I strangely had intellectual prowess a lot of little kids did not enjoy. But I still managed to find my niche socially and always had a boyfriend up until I met my husband. 

 

All I can say is you can never know who you are talking to on the internet Bayonet and you should realize there are plenty of us "old people" rattling around all over the interwebz and in gaming world on consoles and PC and plenty of us had the first computers and the first consoles (I did). 

 

Also really, just because you are a bit shorter, which is not unsual for Asians, it doesn't mean that you aren't a worthy person nor honestly you should take that out on us. I had to take my own son into a doctor bc he was trending "shorter" on the percentiles for the US for height. Just like Straykat I'm a halfie but I'm 5'8" and the doc thought my son was trending too short of his age. Lo and behold the female doctor from India (that I really like) after testing said due to his Asian blood he might just end up shorter. 

 

I decided to dig around because I was concerned- it turns out that "shorter" people generally have the same kind of satisfaction that taller people do. Furthermore I posit that when one encounters a general attitude of disgust for who you are- you shouldn't be dating/courting/looking for approval from those people. 

 

My own Korean mother looks at my gaming hobby and always has with disgust, distrust and confusion as if somewhere somehow I've gone "wrong" due to this hobby. So when she visits I just do not game in her presence whatsoever. 

 

We all have our crosses to bear- life is hard even when it's easy- but it isn't an excuse to not tolerate the opinion of others nor allow for the fact that out of an entire group doing something "the 40%" doesn't matter for example. 

[Kabraxal]

Would have? Inquisition already is better than The Witcher 3 in almost every way possible.

[sjsharp2011]

Whilst I agree  it could have been a better game had Bioware not tried to release on 5 systems and only focused on current gen we can't change what's gone we can only hope that Bioware learns from the mistakes made there. As for it being better than the Witcher 3 I think it is subjective as they're games set in 2 different universes. For me both games  accomplish I think what they set out to accomplish as DA has a different combat style to the witcher in that you deal with the enemy and problems as part of a team whereas in the Witcher as Geralt you only control Geralt you don't control or command a team as such. So although they both have a medieval fantasy type setting for me that's the only comparison you can make with either of  them. Personally of the 2 I prefer DAI but I think the Witcher games have their place as well.

[Ghost Gal]

Hindsight is 20/20. Whatever reasons they had for trying to include last gen as well as next one, it seemed they reconsidered by the DLC and dropped last gen entirely. Hopefully next game they keep the number of playable consoles to a minimum so they can spend more time on in-game mechNics, content, story, etc. AND FIX THOSE PC CONTROLS!!! >:[

[Heimdall]

Hindsight is 20/20. Whatever reasons they had for trying to include last gen as well as next one, it seemed they reconsidered by the DLC and dropped last gen entirely. Hopefully next game they keep the number of playable consoles to a minimum so they can spend more time on in-game mechNics, content, story, etc. AND FIX THOSE PC CONTROLS!!! >:[

Remember that the game was supposed to be released a year earlier. If I recall it was initially because of a fear that not enough people would have next gen consoles by then.

[Ghost Gal]

Remember that the game was supposed to be released a year earlier. If I recall it was initially because of a fear that not enough people would have next gen consoles by then.

 

Huh. Well, I'm glad they took their time, then. I'd much rather have race selection and Solas and Cullen romances (the three things that make this game worth playing, to me) than without them.

 

I still hope they don't release the next game with their PC controls being the way they were for DAI. That was a nightmare. 

[Giantdeathrobot]

I must have gone somwhere special, because damn near everyone at my elementary school played Pokemon, and in High School even some of the jocks were down for some Smash Brothers or Diablo 2. My best friend was one of those. Nowadays you can hardly meet someone near my age who hasn't at least played one popular game on console or mobile. And even the 70 years old lady I work with is a huge Netflix and Farmville fan.

 

Ha, I remember many of my downtimes in between courses at university where I played Smash (on N64) while getting sloshed with some friends. The ladies often joined in; most of them weren't the best, but there was this one girl who was murderous with Pikachu.

[Donk]

What is this thread even about again?

Oh, right, my fantasy merger between CDProjekt Red and Bioware on DA4, in which the grand world of Thedas and the mystery of the Evanuris are expertly manifested in top-notch coding, combat mechanics, and intricate level design, while also keeping dudebro essences in check.

nsfw fantasy merger btw/ bioware and cdprojektred: who is the subsidiary?

You could have fooled me. The crap I've been reading here is straight out of some spoilt rich kid turned emo's livejournal.

"Waaah, all da hawt ladies rejected me in skool cuz I read comics and play video games so now I h8 wimminz lolz."

[lynroy]

You could have fooled me. The crap I've been reading here is straight out of some spoilt rich kid turned emo's livejournal.

"Waaah, all da hawt ladies rejected me in skool cuz I read comics and play video games so now I h8 wimminz lolz."

DONK!

[Donk]

DONK!

ROY!

[vbibbi]

Huh. Well, I'm glad they took their time, then. I'd much rather have race selection and Solas and Cullen romances (the three things that make this game worth playing, to me) than without them.

 

I still hope they don't release the next game with their PC controls being the way they were for DAI. That was a nightmare. 

 

Whatever happens, they had better treat all platforms the game is released on the same. I am still mad at the poor treatment old gen consoles received, plus the complaints many PC users had about controls. It's all the more frustrating since it was billed as by PC players for PC players. I have to say the marketing was very dubious on the game in most areas.

[Rawgrim]

80 percent fetch quests vs 95 percent quests with stories....

 

The Witcher 3 wins by default.

[Illyria]

80 percent fetch quests vs 95 percent quests with stories....

 

The Witcher 3 wins by default.

 

That's subjective.

 

A choice of race and gender, with the option to romance a large variety of characters, several of whom have stories that meant to appeal to women (both straight and gay) rather than men?

 

Yeah, DAI wins.

 

(see, I can do it too!)

[bzombo]

Wait, I thought DAI bent over backwards for console-only players, rather than for one specific console version.

 

Origins was apparently awful on console, while the PC version was amazing, and I figure the same thing happened here, only reversed, relating to the players themselves.

 

BTW, how exactly does Coldplay come into this? Out of curiosity.

I played on the 360 and it sucked. I'm not talking graphics. I mean the gameplay. This game is so much better on the PC. It's not even close.

[Beren Von Ostwick]

 

DAI would never have beaten TW3, consoles or no consoles. TW3 is better than DAI in almost every single way.

 

Ok wow *tries to erase your face*

 

Addictress, I think I platonically love you.

[sjsharp2011]

That's subjective.

 

A choice of race and gender, with the option to romance a large variety of characters, several of whom have stories that meant to appeal to women (both straight and gay) rather than men?

 

Yeah, DAI wins.

 

(see, I can do it too!)

yeah that was exactly my point everyone has their fave but I think both games achieved what they set out to. Personally I prefer DA because it's combat system suits me more as I'm better working as a member of a team in the game rather than on my own and DA allows me to do that as you lead a squad of 4 throughout the games

[bzombo]

It was the original poster, Addictress who decided to compare TW3 and DAI, even though they are like apples and oranges. Somehow when she does that and she favors DAI, its okay but when I do this comparison, one that Addictress started, and say that TW3 > DAI, its somehow problematic ?

 

Ridiculous and preposterous.

I think it's your tone and attitude and not your opinion.