[General Discussion] Gaming bullshit...

Originally Posted by S_K

Lag: Because skill is irrelevant on the internets! All the button mashing in the world won't save your ass, high speed connection ftw every time.

No that's not true. It might be the case in a game with bad netcode, but in most cases having a really low ping didn't give me a edge over the slightly higher pinged people. I've had moments where I had a ping of 5 vs a bunch of 170s, it didn't mean I could walk all over them.

Originally Posted by S_K

MMORPGs: You're being stalked by a maxed out character who wants to pwn you, then teabag you and is 'strong' enough to kill you just by sneezing on you. What's that? You got no +10 gears or max levels? Then you're just as fucked as a lagger, and while we're on the subject of gaming bullshit killing the same monsters 100+ times for months is NOT gameplay.

It's happened to most people, some fucker thinks it's fun to kill low level players. I had moments like that myself when I leveled a second character in Astranaar, some 60 ganked everyone there, of course his fun was ruined when I got on my epic geared warrior and ganked him 10 times in a row, until he went offline. And have to disagree with killing mobs over and over, it can get repetetive, but it is gameplay, especially when you're talking about endgame raiding.

Originally Posted by S_K

Playing other genders online: Online gaming is 8+ years old now... so every one of you lonely fuckers thinking with your brain downstairs should all know by now, there is really no excuse for falling for this. All gamers should be assumed male until proven otherwise! Not to mention any 'girl' that begs is rarely a good person to be friends with, and yet a lot of people still fall for it!

I'll probably be the only one that backs you up on this. I can say from experience, that 80% of the females are guys who play female characters because, and I quote "I'd rather look at a female characters butt all day" Uh...yeah...ok. I can also say that a lot play them because they get special treatment if they roleplay a female character. I've met a few disturbing people like that. When they refuse to speak on ventrilo or teamspeak, that's usually a good indication. I was one of the few who insisted on the "guy until proven otherwise" rule on this one guy, and after 6 months it turned out he was a guy. The really funny thing is 2 of my friends were actually cybering with him, oh how humiliating that must have been.

Having said that...I can guarantee you that actual females who use their charm, knowing damn well that guys will fall for it, and do whatever she asks, is far more disturbing then anything a guy pretending can do. I could write a 20 page example of this one girl who was our guildleader in WoW. The shit that woman pulled...it's disgusting.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by Skexis

Well, there are perfectly normal people who might like the female model options, as well. Myself, for example. I play solo a lot, so I don't give a shit if somebody's trying to get a piece of virtual ass or not. I just don't want my char looking like a cro-magnon man, which is the usual trend. Sometimes the female models really are just more appealing to look at.

It can also make for some interesting background text depending on the game's story. Playing a female Captain in LOTRO is kind of interesting because originally captains were only going to be male. So, when I rolled that char, I made her backstory fit some of the subtextual stuff that was going on. Gender politics, and so on. To me, that makes the game more interesting than it would be normally.

Hey, don't get me wrong here, I don't mind if they play female characters because they want to be different or prefer females, it was more aimed towards the guys that do it to get special treatment, and trick guys.

I made a female Night Elf Priest myself, mainly because healers are usually females, so it fit more, and honestly, a male night elf priest just looks really stupid. I had one in the closed beta, and it just didn't fit. I always make it clear that I'm a guy to prevent confusion.

I'll give you a example of this guy I met. He joined our guild and was the new guy, so normally it would take a while for him to get into raids. Lets call him steve. We also had a officer who was literally a freak and was hitting on all the girls, (he was over 40) and was even hitting on this 14 year old girl. Lets call him John. Anyway, John talked to our Steve, who pretended to be this female hunter, and since John was a officer, he had influence on selections, and always gave Steve special treatment with selections, help get him gear, etc. Steve went along it just fine, knowing damn well he got special treatment. The guy was always sucking up to just the right people. Me and a close friend of mine were always suspicious of the guy. Its only after 1 year that I found out that I was right.

There's nowhere I can't reach.