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[-] osaerisxero@kbin.melroy.org 137 points 6 months ago

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[-] Balinares@pawb.social 32 points 6 months ago

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

[-] osaerisxero@kbin.melroy.org 17 points 6 months ago

Damon's Gatsby, his glass raised

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[-] CosmicCleric@lemmy.world 13 points 6 months ago

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I get the meme, but I don't know how to apply it to this post.

Could someone elaborate?

~This~ ~comment~ ~is~ ~licensed~ ~under~ ~CC~ ~BY-NC-SA~ ~4.0~

[-] osaerisxero@kbin.melroy.org 58 points 6 months ago

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

"Noted. misogyny is a skill issue"

always has been

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[-] Inf_V@kbin.earth 88 points 6 months ago

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

[-] thelasttoot@lemmy.world 93 points 6 months ago

They were less confrontational and more likely to accept direction

[-] Arbiter@lemmy.world 30 points 6 months ago

They got into some freaky shit in those lobbies.

[-] blockheadjt@sh.itjust.works 25 points 6 months ago

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

[-] JustAnotherKay@lemmy.world 20 points 6 months ago

Same way you're "submissive" to your boss

[-] squirrel 78 points 6 months ago

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

[-] taiyang@lemmy.world 21 points 6 months 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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[-] Baggie@lemmy.zip 69 points 6 months ago

Well then the obvious conclusion is that respecting women makes you better at video games.

[-] TwanHE@lemmy.world 15 points 6 months ago

More likely higher ranked players finally figured out that keeping harmony within your team does wonders for your chance at winning. The amount of infighting I've had to stop just to save my elo is insane, why would i start something just because of someone's gender.

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[-] MoreFPSmorebetter@lemmy.zip 69 points 6 months ago

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.

[-] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 21 points 6 months ago

Especially if one of the top fraggers pointed out they were being beaten by a girl.

Not really a gold star by the top player’s name for this, either. The comment alone leaves plenty of room to be interpreted as “girls should be easy to beat/poor gamers because they’re girls.”

[-] MoreFPSmorebetter@lemmy.zip 17 points 6 months ago

They wouldn't say "you're getting beaten by a girl" as much as they would respond to the guys losing their minds who happened to be below them on the scoreboard by saying things like "Why are you yelling at her she's playing better than you are shut up". Kinda way.

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[-] theangryseal@lemmy.world 16 points 6 months ago

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

I want to go back.

[-] CarnivorousCouch@lemmy.world 24 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Counter Strike was way better when this was the vibe. I am so tired of competitive this and gun case that. I've never been interested in 5v5 scrimming in any serious way, but that's all CS2 wants me to do.

I want gun game, I want wc3, I want ZM. I want quirky custom maps (glass!) and quake sounds and !bet ct all. I want to fuck around with new friends on a server for an evening, not to sweat my balls off throwing practiced smokes on dust2.

[-] theangryseal@lemmy.world 14 points 6 months ago

I’m right there with you. I haaaaaate the direction of modern gaming.

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[-] drmoose@lemmy.world 51 points 6 months ago

I have noticed that all of these misogynists are incredibly insecure alpha-pretending males. Can't imagine how tiring this constant fear must be.

[-] ZeroHora@lemmy.ml 31 points 6 months ago

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 19 points 6 months ago

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

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[-] FlapJackFlapper@lemm.ee 31 points 6 months ago

Hate is often just a reflection of insecurities and a product of attempting to alleviate cognitive dissonance. Someone feels scared, doesn't like feeling that way, and so converts their fear into anger -- misdirected at someone else.

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[-] Shou@lemmy.world 30 points 6 months ago

Reminds me of this: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0361684319871913

In short. The higher the social status of the woman compared to the man, the more likely the man is to sexually objectify her. Wheras women aren't more likely to do this based on relative status.

Objectification is defined as reducing a person to solely looks and sexual function.

Similar stuff is seen in primates. Females are easier targets to assert dominance over. Since they are physically weaker. Male long tail maqacues losing their status, would seek out younger/weaker targets to establish dominance over. Something that was interesting too, is that female maqacues with more masculine facial features, were less often subjected to dominance seeking behaviour (from both males and females if I recall correctly) than females with more feminine faces.

It seems to boil down to "who can I dominate with little risk?" Female? Easy. Big male? Stupid idea. Young male? No problem. Male of equal size? Potentially.

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[-] umbraroze@lemmy.world 28 points 6 months ago

I remember the last time I got messaged by some misogynist dipshit, way back in Halo 5, blaming me for losing the game. ...When he was the worst performing player in the team. I just stared at the post game report and wondered how the heck the dude even managed to get a ranking as low as he did.

[-] the_riviera_kid@lemmy.world 26 points 6 months ago

My daughter wanted to wear my headset when I was playing battlefield once. It was so funny listening to those losers rage because they Were getting stomped by a 5 yr old girl. Now days she still puts it on from time to time and it's still hilarious.

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[-] catloaf@lemm.ee 63 points 6 months ago

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 6 months ago

Who actually needs an excuse to play Halo though?

[-] qarbone@lemmy.world 40 points 6 months ago

People with jobs that aren't playing video games.

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[-] Draegur@lemm.ee 21 points 6 months ago

This is part of why confidence is attractive.

It isn't that confident humans of the male reproductive caste treat women more flippantly; it's that actual competency correlates with not being as much of an insufferable whiny piece of shit.

[-] ABetterTomorrow@lemm.ee 21 points 6 months ago

Playing online since dialup/Internet cafe days, can confirm. Also it’s just more fun to get along.

[-] orins@lemmings.world 15 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

That’s an interesting study. It makes sense that dominance-seeking behavior follows a ‘low-risk, high-reward’ strategy across species. The connection between status, objectification, and primate behavior is fascinating Morse Code Translator—wonder if similar patterns appear in different cultural contexts.

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[-] PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world 11 points 6 months ago

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

[-] 7355608@lemmy.world 17 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

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 6 months 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.

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[-] HalfSalesman@lemm.ee 11 points 6 months ago

I was a Halo 3 try hard and if anything I was nicer to female voices because I stupidly wanted to woo them. IDK exactly what the logistics of that would have been thinking back.

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