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[–] osaerisxero@kbin.melroy.org 135 points 1 week ago (2 children)

πŸŒπŸ‘¨β€πŸš€πŸ”«πŸ‘¨β€πŸš€

[–] Balinares@pawb.social 30 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I am in mad love with this Darmok-ass comment.

[–] osaerisxero@kbin.melroy.org 16 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Damon's Gatsby, his glass raised

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[–] CosmicCleric@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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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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[–] osaerisxero@kbin.melroy.org 60 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The line at the bottom, the reply to the wall of text

"Noted. misogyny is a skill issue"

always has been

[–] CosmicCleric@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago

Ahh, ok. Thanks. Was focusing on the body/paragraph of the text.

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[–] PunnyName@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

"Always has been"

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 115 points 1 week ago (13 children)

I never understood this mentality, myself.

Gamers: "I never get laid... 😩"

Also Gamers: "Women are just kitchen accessories."

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[–] Inf_V@kbin.earth 87 points 1 week ago (5 children)

"but behaved more submissively towards players with a male voice" I want to know what they mean by submissive

[–] thelasttoot@lemmy.world 91 points 1 week ago

They were less confrontational and more likely to accept direction

[–] Arbiter@lemmy.world 30 points 1 week ago

They got into some freaky shit in those lobbies.

[–] blockheadjt@sh.itjust.works 28 points 1 week ago

Appeal to authority. Higher-skilled male players got to call the shots, lead, delegate etc.

[–] JustAnotherKay@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Same way you're "submissive" to your boss

butt stuff, gotcha

[–] squirrel@lemmy.blahaj.zone 77 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Obligatory footnote: EvoPsych is mostly bunk, deeply intertwined with eugenics and riddled with homophobia, sexism and rape apologia.

[–] taiyang@lemmy.world 18 points 1 week ago

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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[–] MoreFPSmorebetter@lemmy.zip 70 points 1 week ago (16 children)

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.

[–] theangryseal@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Man. I miss when gungame was filled with people and all the fun addons. Warcraft 3 mods, vote for knife fight, β€œgotcha bitch” with every knife kill.

I want to go back.

[–] ksigley@lemm.ee 5 points 1 week ago

OG /gg and /surf maps.

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[–] ZeroHora@lemmy.ml 33 points 1 week ago (3 children)

So my transition from cringe lord to become a better individual overall is actually just me getting better at video game? Fair enough

[–] IndiBrony@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago

No, but it means you give less of a shit when you lose.

[–] catloaf@lemm.ee 3 points 1 week ago

Not necessarily.

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[–] vk6flab@lemmy.radio 22 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] catloaf@lemm.ee 62 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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.

[–] Zahille7@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Who actually needs an excuse to play Halo though?

[–] qarbone@lemmy.world 41 points 1 week ago (1 children)

People with jobs that aren't playing video games.

Invite your boss and coworkers to play Halo with you. Problem solved

[–] Hadriscus@lemm.ee 6 points 1 week ago
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[–] PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I didn’t even know people were still playing Halo 3 in 2015

[–] 7355608@lemmy.world 18 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

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.

[–] moakley@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago

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.

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 week ago

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).

[–] Genius@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 week ago

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.

[–] Zorque@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Master Chief Collection came out in late 2014.

It sucked so hard for the first 4 years that I didn’t start playing it again until 2018 when they sorta fixed it.

[–] Kyle_The_G@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

its the best one, I still go back to it from time to time

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Understandable - management has a natural affinity with dumbass.

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