• pyre@lemmy.worldEnglish
      27·
      1 month ago

      because you think of “I never get laid” as a normal human need to connect with another person, which is what it is but they’re too deep in misogyny to realize it. instead to them getting laid is a quest to complete and it involves a quest item known as a woman, not a character. so I never get laid has less of an undertone of “why can’t I connect with a woman” and more of “when will we get our government mandated sex slaves”

    • Worx@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
      9·
      1 month ago

      I can buy a new toaster from the shop, why can’t I buy a woman too? Does this mean Gamers are pro sex-work? Or pro indentured servitude for women more likely…

    • andros_rex@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      1 month ago

      How does romance work in most video games? Select the correct dialogue options, memorize the correct answer to questions, give them the same gift every day?

      The other main way a lot of young men “interact” with women is through porn, which is always made with a mind to what a woman would enjoy during sex…/s

    • GladiusB@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 month ago

      I understand it, but I don’t think it applies.

      Gamers tend to think of things as quests. A box to check off. A completionist. Getting married and having kids is part of life’s quests for many people. It’s not seen as collaboration in many ways.

  • Inf_V@kbin.earth
    89·
    1 month ago

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

  • squirrel@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    78·
    1 month ago

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

    • taiyang@lemmy.worldEnglish
      20·
      1 month 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.

      • GalacticHero@lemmy.worldEnglish
        12·
        26 days ago

        Evolutionary psychology. I think there’s real research in the field, but it’s drowned out by charlatans who invoke its name to lend credence to their made-up bullshit without the burden of scientific rigour.

  • MoreFPSmorebetter@lemmy.zipEnglish
    71·
    1 month 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.

    • Naz@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      20·
      1 month ago

      You’re absolutely correct, I had a similar experience

      I played CS for roughly the same amount of time; my clan ranges from DMG to Global, but we had a rule that if you were in the clan, we’d 5-man with you regardless of your rank, so if you were Silver, you’d have a chance to rub elbows and learn strategies from the higher skilled players.

      Then we got a Global, a girl named Moon.

      Holy hell, it’s like people’s brains did a 180°, they were incredibly mean to her, for no reason, and eventually it came out that she was trans, and they bullied her even worse, out of the server.

      I kicked everyone who bullied/demonized Moon for being trans; because at the end of the day, it was about being a honest human being, and not just a CS player/gamer.

    • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.worldEnglish
      20·
      1 month 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.zipEnglish
        18·
        1 month 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.

    • theangryseal@lemmy.worldEnglish
      17·
      1 month ago

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

      I want to go back.

      • CarnivorousCouch@lemmy.worldEnglish
        24·
        1 month 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.

        • DaTingGoBrrr@lemm.eeEnglish
          5·
          1 month ago

          Same thing kinda happened to TF2. I mean, Competitive is dead but the server browser and community servers are not what they used to be. I miss when it was front and center. Today most people just play casual on Valve servers.

          After a quick search it seems like the CS2 in-game server browser has gone to complete shit. I hope Valve fixes it. It’s part of the Source Legacy.

        • Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
          2·
          30 days ago

          And the old WCFAN (We Couldn’t Find A Name) servers, what was it called again, I think hillbreak? That was fun!

    • ramenshaman@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      1 month ago

      I have ~10k hours in counterstrike

      Damn. There’s 8760 hours in a year btw. That’s impressive.

      • MoreFPSmorebetter@lemmy.zipEnglish
        5·
        1 month ago

        If it makes you feel any better those hours were spread out over the last 10 years or longer. I can’t even remember when I started. Just one of those ol’ reliable games for me.

          • MoreFPSmorebetter@lemmy.zipEnglish
            4·
            1 month ago

            And the worst part of it is that probably half of those hours happened within a few years in the middle there. I played like 6 hours a night every night with my friends. Good times but yeah…

            • spookex@lemmy.worldEnglish
              2·
              1 month ago

              Same feelings here, I used to average around 1k hours per year in my “active” years.

              All of the issues with CS2 kinda put the end to that, played the beta, then stopped for a year, and now I play few games every few days

              • MoreFPSmorebetter@lemmy.zipEnglish
                1·
                1 month ago

                My heavy CS days were early in csgo days. Back when the skin gambling scene and the pro scene were popping early on. My buddies and I would watch the pro games and then get all hyped to improve and we would jump into ranked only to get fucking pub stomped. Good times. Eventually we did start getting good. I only ever got to whatever rank was below global and only two of my buddies ever got to global.

                However my top fps bragging moment was actually in valorant when it was a closed beta still I absolutely shat all over pro csgo player at the time named JDM in a lobby. Top fragged and completely dominated him the entire match.

                That was when I peaked in my fps gaming lol. It’s all been downhill since. I’m still better than most people at fps games in general, but I am not as sharp and snappy as I was when I was a younger man with way more free time to practice and improve every night.

  • Baggie@lemmy.zipEnglish
    68·
    1 month ago

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

    • TwanHE@lemmy.worldEnglish
      15·
      1 month 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.

    • edgemaster72@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9·
      1 month ago

      I don’t think that’s right, I’m terrible at games but I still respect women (enough to spare them from interacting with me whenever possible. Same goes for all people really)

  • Dr. Moose@lemmy.worldEnglish
    51·
    1 month 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.mlEnglish
    33·
    1 month ago

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

  • Shou@lemmy.worldEnglish
    31·
    1 month 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.

  • FlapJackFlapper@lemm.eeEnglish
    30·
    30 days 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.

    • tacobellhop@midwest.socialEnglish
      5·
      30 days ago

      Balance is the key. True that fear leads to anger and anger to hatred and a path of the dark side, but the Jedi were also guilty of dealing in absolutes until they were fighting outright fascism via space capitalism and clone contracts they built killed them all.

  • Rose@lemmy.worldEnglish
    28·
    1 month 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.worldEnglish
    26·
    30 days 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.

  • ABetterTomorrow@lemm.eeEnglish
    22·
    1 month ago

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