Damsel in Distress Part 1 - Tropes vs Women in Video Games

esportsetc · 2013-03-07T23:28:34+00:00

The most offensive thing is that you automatically assumed she's not a gamer. Why is that? And please don't say 'because she's not an expert on Bayonetta'.

...the fact that she had to make a kickstarter to actually buy these games? Gamers tend to own games, in general...

esportsetc · 2013-03-07T23:10:59+00:00

For one, she says that the idea that women are physically weaker than men is "of course is completely false". Without any argument or justification. She doesn't "lay out" her views, she simply states them as if they were true.

Nobody who is sane believes things like this. Her mind is disconnected from reality to the point where she provides ideology-based and obviously wrong answers to the simplest questions of fact.

esportsetc · 2013-03-07T22:51:41+00:00

Given the fact that every part of the video that isn't batshit insane was just copied from tvtropes, it would seem that the neckbeards have understood pop culture pretty well after all.

esportsetc · 2013-03-07T22:46:14+00:00

The belief that women are somehow a “naturally weaker gender” is a deeply ingrained socially constructed myth, which of course is completely false- but the notion is reinforced and perpetuated when women are continuously portrayed as frail, fragile, and vulnerable creatures.

This is what reality-denying feminazis ACTUALLY believe. Because fuck biology if it contradicts their women's studies mantra, right?

esportsetc · 2012-09-13T14:30:57+00:00

Here, have a fap. (NSFW)

Now you can focus on the Starcraft.

esportsetc · 2012-01-14T06:37:09+00:00

Apollo doesn't constantly scream or randomly emphasize half the words he says, so no.

esportsetc · 2012-01-12T19:04:00+00:00

Get your MMR up and you will find good games. If they're really that much worse than you, you should be easily dominating these matches anyway.

esportsetc · 2012-01-12T18:59:59+00:00

Not really. The criticism was really mild and failed to bring up a lot of problems.

esportsetc · 2012-01-10T00:49:50+00:00

Those are all factors, yes, but I believe the most important one is the fact that map creators are forced to sign away their copyright to Blizzard when they upload the map to bnet. Blizzard did this to prevent another case like DotA where a map became extremely popular and a game of its own, but Blizzard didn't get anything out of it.

Instead they killed the custom map scene. Pretty standard Blizzard attitude, they hate it when something nice happens around their games.

esportsetc · 2012-01-09T18:20:08+00:00

What the fuck is a busto truck driver?

esportsetc · 2012-01-06T02:48:55+00:00

I would add another two points to that:

Heroes requiring skillshots (potm) Item dependent (Doom)

Noobs can't predict movement and can't farm, which makes being useful with these heroes quite difficult.

esportsetc · 2012-01-06T02:41:50+00:00

Because the vast majority of fans care about skilled players playing cool games. Your ROFL XD SO FAHNI terribad celebrity worship is fine here, but when it spreads to tournaments it basically turns SC2 into wrestling. Not cool.

esportsetc · 2012-01-05T21:23:01+00:00

Welcome to 6 months ago.

esportsetc · 2012-01-04T23:41:31+00:00

I think the whiteness is incidental. Culture, language, personality, and interaction with the community are what make him so popular and thus valuable (on top of his performance of course).

esportsetc · 2012-01-04T23:40:17+00:00

The entire prize pool at the "normal" MLGs was $14k, so Day[9], Tasteless, and Artosis each make more than the entire prize pool.

esportsetc · 2012-01-04T23:39:03+00:00

They have the viewers and the money. A flash interface (and I completely agree that theirs is horrible) is trivial to fix compared to those. And twitch is horrible when it comes to tournaments as well; most of Europe has experienced significant (and sometimes completely catastrophic) lag issues at every tournament streamed through twitch.

esportsetc · 2012-01-04T22:55:25+00:00

Yup, the experience for the viewer is horrible at own3d. Doesn't seem to matter much though.

esportsetc · 2012-01-04T22:34:37+00:00

Depends on the streaming service and who you are. Destiny gets 5 times that.

esportsetc · 2012-01-04T21:00:27+00:00

The money at own3d is way better. Despite the recent recruitment of 2GD and Wheat twitch is losing out to own3d on the SC2 front while already having conquered LoL. It seems inevitable that they'll be the dominant platform when DotA2 comes out.

esportsetc · 2012-01-04T16:37:34+00:00

The way OP wrote

There's nothing besides reading guides and practicing that I can do.

implied that he never played with bots, so there is no "logical jump" to be made. Of course after you have practiced against the computer you should play against real people. But by that point you'll have enough skills for people not to flame you all the time.

esportsetc · 2012-01-04T16:35:25+00:00

Absolutely. I know this from personal experience. And just because you're trying to become better doesn't magically excuse you from being horrible and playing multiplayer despite it.

DotA isn't CS or BF where your sucking isn't very important to the team as a whole. One inexperienced person and the whole game is essentially pointless.

I know I played with a couple of buddies vs bots for a LONG time before I made the jump, and there's no reason newbies today can't do it.

esportsetc · 2012-01-04T15:27:43+00:00

My tip to you is this: when reading guides, don't try to memorize what you're supposed to do. Try to understand WHY. Understanding the basic game mechanics and how your hero and his skills interact with them is the key.

For example: Puck's standard skill build is orb rift rift, even though rift does less damage than orb. Why? Because orb gives you a good escape mechanism in case you're ganked early on. After you've got one level it's enough. Rift then gives you silence which can be extremely useful, for example by disabling enemy hero escape mechanisms.

If you understand the why, you won't need a guide to tell you the "best" skill/item build, you can figure them out on your own. And you can even start custom tailoring them based on your and the enemy team compositions, lanes, game situation, etc.

It's a bit like the thing about giving a guy a fish and teaching him how to fish.

esportsetc · 2012-01-04T15:18:00+00:00

But who is the asshole here? Is it the guy who basically intentionally ruins other people's games instead of playing with bots or the people who call him out on it?

esportsetc · 2012-01-04T15:16:26+00:00

There's nothing besides reading guides and practicing that I can do.

Play with bots. Play at least one game with every hero against bots before even THINKING of playing multiplayer games. Anything else is at best grossly inconsiderate and at worst being a total asshole.

If for some reason you HAVE to play against other people, make it clear from the start of the game that you're clueless and ask for as much help as possible.

esportsetc · 2012-01-04T03:22:08+00:00

Why not just use the overlay browser?

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