Girls/Women and video games

[Mad Dog McMutt]

Originally Posted by Prowler

You mean the guy who LARPs as Shredder? The funny thing is, he's apparently older than me and closer to your age.

I love that guy. How long has he been a member on here for?

[Coola Yagami]

Originally Posted by Prowler

You mean the guy who LARPs as Shredder? The funny thing is, he's apparently older than me and closer to your age.

Yeah, I remember sometime ago he was talking about setting up something or building a PC or something or other and he was posting as himself, not as Shredder. He seldomly drops the act, Cubed never does.

[sdp]

Oroku Saki is the real Shredder, I've never seen him break character.
CyberSai on the other hand has broken character a couple of times in his decades long career. Granted I know this because our fates have intertwined through different forms, ToonZone, Serebii, IGN, Neogaf, ResetEra, The Technodrome, twitter, reddit, /vp/, /v/ I'm guessing as well though hard to tell there since it's anonymous but his style is too recognizable. Although his powers are beyond mine as he also has quite a legacy in GameFAQs which I never posted in and I'm sure there's tons of other forums I never joined where he is a legend in. His style is to be studied as he has even gotten me to take the bait a couple of times.

[Prowler]

Originally Posted by Mad Dog McMutt

I love that guy. How long has he been a member on here for?

I dunno, man. But I'm pretty sure he's been around here for nearly a decade by now.

He is funny and harmless, indeed. But someone who's like 40 years old LARPing as Shredder in a TMNT forum in every single thread... that's something.

Originally Posted by Coola Yagami

Yeah, I remember sometime ago he was talking about setting up something or building a PC or something or other and he was posting as himself, not as Shredder. He seldomly drops the act, Cubed never does.

I knew Cubed from IGN since 2004 or so. I was 14 at the time and he was 19. I saw him in the TMNT board which wasn't very active since it was dedicated to TMNT games, except for a thread or two where people discussed the latest 2k3 series episode. I remember him being quite popular among other users there.

He was the first user to reach 100k posts on IGN back in 2006. Then created a new account and would occasionally go on The Vestibule to troll iirc. He also had a Samus avatar at some point.

He also was a big user on Serebii and wrote +18 Pokémon fanfics. I remember reading the infamous A Day Inside May around 2006 or so. And I also vaguely recall him claiming to be a popular guy at university and even a jock at some point

[FredWolfLeonardo]

Someone should draw Fanart of Cubed as his Pfp FW Shredder with May from Pokemon at his side.

Heck, AI could probably do it pretty well.

[Prowler]

Originally Posted by FredWolfLeonardo

Someone should draw Fanart of Cubed as his Pfp FW Shredder with May from Pokemon at his side.

Heck, AI could probably do it pretty well.

Jesus, mate, don't give people ideas

[FredWolfLeonardo]

Originally Posted by Prowler

Jesus, mate, don't give people ideas

I asked Chatgpt to create a "picture or CyberCubed's profile picture from the technodrome forums alongside May from Pokemon. The result was... interesting to say the least.

I'm posting the link rather than the image because its too large otherwise.

https://imgur.com/a/vA5P0vh

I wonder why it imagined CyberCubed as what it did rather than FW Shredder. Maybe ChatGPT knows something we don't.

[Barkworm]

Honestly, I don't know any women my age in real life who played video games at any point in their lives. Maybe something like Donkey Konga or Guitar hero at a party here and there but that's it. My wife might have played some Super Mario Kart on SNES in the 90s. Maybe?

[sdp]

[Mad Dog McMutt]

None of my ex-girlfriends played video games before hanging out with me. Luckily, I turned them all onto Mario Party. However, my sister is really into games. She likes to play Final Fantasy 14 or 15.

[IMJ]

Originally Posted by Barkworm

Honestly, I don't know any women my age in real life who played video games at any point in their lives. Maybe something like Donkey Konga or Guitar hero at a party here and there but that's it. My wife might have played some Super Mario Kart on SNES in the 90s. Maybe?

I don't either. The only girls I know who were remotely into video games were basically kids when the Wii was out and they all played Mario Party. And after that we had the occasional "Fortnite Party" of screaming tweens going on, but that's it.

Less about "video games" and more about "culture of the moment" I'd say.

[Prowler]

Originally Posted by Barkworm

Honestly, I don't know any women my age in real life who played video games at any point in their lives. Maybe something like Donkey Konga or Guitar hero at a party here and there but that's it. My wife might have played some Super Mario Kart on SNES in the 90s. Maybe?

Originally Posted by IMJ

I don't either. The only girls I know who were remotely into video games were basically kids when the Wii was out and they all played Mario Party. And after that we had the occasional "Fortnite Party" of screaming tweens going on, but that's it.

Less about "video games" and more about "culture of the moment" I'd say.

Interesting and not suprising, honestly. Both you guys are some years older than me iirc. I think a lot of people forget that video games were heavily marketed towards boys and men for a long time.

Plus, there's also plenty of guys who complain about their gfs/wives nagging on them for playing video games too often or gfs/wives complaining their man prefers games to them.

Sadly, pointing this historic gender gap in gaming out makes people wag their fingers at you and accusing you of sexism and such. No one is saying women don't play games or anything like that. We're just pointing out that they play less than men do on average and that such a gap used to be wider back in when we were kids/teenagers.

I remember being in 7th grade or so and one of my teachers, a young woman in her late 20s asking us about music and when my turn came I told her I wasn't into bands and that I preferred video game music and she scoffed at me and nearly puked "VIDEO GAME MUSIC?! UGH!"

As for boys who didn't like video games back then? The only ones I knew who weren't into games at all, to be perfectly blunt, were the more effeminate and gay ones. The kind who only had female friends and such...

[sdp]

You guys should get a Gen Z gf, they now come in the mid 20s range and they're all either gamers or familiar with gaming/online/otaku culture. It's not like millenial hags that are now ugly and the few "real geeks" were seen as unicorns and treated as if they were more attractive than they actually were since they were so scarce. Now they are abundant.

[Coola Yagami]

Originally Posted by Prowler

I remember being in 7th grade or so and one of my teachers, a young woman in her late 20s asking us about music and when my turn came I told her I wasn't into bands and that I preferred video game music and she scoffed at me and nearly puked "VIDEO GAME MUSIC?! UGH!"

As for boys who didn't like video games back then? The only ones I knew who weren't into games at all, to be perfectly blunt, were the more effeminate and gay ones. The kind who only had female friends and such...

I was still in that 'video games are for nerds and losers' era, so most of the guys I knew that were not into games were either more into sports or the 'too busy getting laid' types. Of course whether or not they actually were getting laid or it was all talk was another matter altogether.

[Prowler]

Originally Posted by Coola Yagami

I was still in that 'video games are for nerds and losers' era, so most of the guys I knew that were not into games were either more into sports or the 'too busy getting laid' types. Of course whether or not they actually were getting laid or it was all talk was another matter altogether.

There was never such a phase in the schools I've attended. Of course the more popular and social guys also claimed to be only casual gamers by the time they were teenagers, but I never heard something like that from them.

You would only get looked down upon if you spent your whole weekend gaming or on the internet. That meant not going out with your friends or going out clubbing and making out with hot girls and even possibly getting laid.

[Coola Yagami]

Originally Posted by Prowler

There was never such a phase in the schools I've attended. Of course the more popular and social guys also claimed to be only casual gamers by the time they were teenagers, but I never heard something like that from them.

You would only get looked down upon if you spent your whole weekend gaming or on the internet. That meant not going out with your friends or going out clubbing and making out with hot girls and even possibly getting laid.

Ah yeah. My day was pre-internet, the NES era.

[Prowler]

Originally Posted by Coola Yagami

Ah yeah. My day was pre-internet, the NES era.

I forgot that you're about a decade older than me or close to it.

Anyway, my brother is from 1983 and he didn't go through that either. Although I did have a chat with him over a decade ago where he told me that most people he knew around his age in real life at the time (mid-late 20s) no longer cared much about games. The running theme was that they "outgrew" gaming after the N64/PS1 days or maybe the PS2 days at latest when they became young adults. Their love for games was mostly nostalgia for the Super Nintendo or the Sega Mega Drive due to those systems being part of their childhood, but those were just memories at that point. None of them probably had those systems anymore, let alone boot them up to play Mario, Zelda, Sonic or Golden Axe.

But maybe that's just the crowd/social circle he was hanging out with at the time. After all, gamers from the 80s are very common these days.

However, it is not uncommon at all for people to stop gaming for good after they reach a certain age. It's not even a "lack of time" thing, per se. But more like, people just lose interest in games and would rather have other hobbies instead.

[ToTheNines]

I’m surprised no one in here is using the word “foid”.

[sdp]

I won't rest until other tmnt communities just refer to this place as the Inceldrome.

[Prowler]

Originally Posted by ToTheNines

I’m surprised no one in here is using the word “foid”.

Remember how CyberCubed doesn't know what a "queef" is?