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Post by Passerby on Jul 22, 2011 7:19:36 GMT -5
I find the girl gamers sound significantly less like girls over the headset than the average male online gamer, particularly the griefers like DON INFAMOUS and that one guy in every match who never shuts the hell up.
Do they huff helium and spend half their time listening to Alvin and the Chipmunks or something? It is unreal, I'm hard pressed to find 6 year olds who sound like that and these idiots are in their late teens.
Props to Femme Fatales of Fragging.
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Post by Shane for Wax on Jul 22, 2011 7:20:59 GMT -5
I find the girl gamers sound significantly less like girls over the headset than the average male online gamer, particularly the griefers like DON INFAMOUS and that one guy in every match who never shuts the hell up. Do they huff helium and spend half their time listening to Alvin and the Chipmunks or something? It is unreal, I'm hard pressed to find 6 year olds who sound like that and these idiots are in their late teens. Props to Femme Fatales of Fragging. I blame the microphones. They're magical or something to make the women sound less like women unless you have an epic mic.
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Post by Amaranth on Jul 22, 2011 7:39:44 GMT -5
Came across the site Fat, Ugly or Slutty via Pharyngula, like FSTDT and failbook it's a repository of internet stupidity. This time from male gamers who are reacting in a sportsmanlike, non assholish, misogynistic, creepy, bawling sore loser-ish way to merely having to share space with folks whose genitals are a different shape to theirs. This from a guy who lost at BlackOps: Read and facepalm if you dare! To be fair, he probably didn't know she was a chick. I'm pretty sure half the messages sent from COD players read like that. The other half say "faggot" and "AIDS."
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Post by Amaranth on Jul 22, 2011 7:42:30 GMT -5
I blame the microphones. They're magical or something to make the women sound less like women unless you have an epic mic. And yet they make the prepubescent shits sound even whinier and squeakier.... (Though truth be told, I've never had a problem telling the boys from the girls on Live or my PC....)
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Post by Shane for Wax on Jul 22, 2011 7:45:33 GMT -5
I just know my friends have told me my voice doesn't sound like it does over the phone. However, I am also told that new voice codexes that were pushed out in the last update caused my voice to 'change'. I don't know. I think my friends are nuts.
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Post by tgrwulf on Jul 22, 2011 8:21:08 GMT -5
Came across the site Fat, Ugly or Slutty via Pharyngula, like FSTDT and failbook it's a repository of internet stupidity. This time from male gamers who are reacting in a sportsmanlike, non assholish, misogynistic, creepy, bawling sore loser-ish way to merely having to share space with folks whose genitals are a different shape to theirs. This from a guy who lost at BlackOps: Read and facepalm if you dare! To be fair, he probably didn't know she was a chick. I'm pretty sure half the messages sent from COD players read like that. The other half say "faggot" and "AIDS." This. THough I like the game, half the people who use chat are idiot douchebags.
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Post by Shane for Wax on Jul 22, 2011 8:22:12 GMT -5
That doesn't exactly explain ALL of the posts on the website though...
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Post by Doctor Fishcake on Jul 22, 2011 8:26:29 GMT -5
I have found out first hand that you don't even actually have to be female to piss these types off. I play Tekken 6 on XBL every now and then and if I play as one of the female fighters and win it's almost guaranteed that I - despite clearly being male, my XBL avatar has a beard for chrissakes! - will get all sorts of misogynistic abuse...
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Post by Mantorok on Jul 22, 2011 8:28:34 GMT -5
That doesn't exactly explain ALL of the posts on the website though... This does:
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Post by Shane for Wax on Jul 22, 2011 8:52:33 GMT -5
That doesn't exactly explain ALL of the posts on the website though... This does: Well, yeah.
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Post by Passerby on Jul 22, 2011 9:13:00 GMT -5
I don't know. There seems to be an almost selective quality to it. The women I play with do sound like women. The guys I play with who aren't griefers sound more or less like you expect a young man to. But the leading causes of furious cursing fits? Squawking trash-talkers that attack their own teams and try to exploit glitches to make games unplayable? They sound like Betty Boop on a bender. It's comedic how similar their voices are to a particularly foul-mouthed cartoon stereotype of a 4 year old girl.
It's like there's smart technology that identifies them and warns every other player that these guys are dicks by modulating their voices to a high pitched warning cry.
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Post by tgrwulf on Jul 22, 2011 9:24:20 GMT -5
I don't know. There seems to be an almost selective quality to it. The women I play with do sound like women. The guys I play with who aren't griefers sound more or less like you expect a young man to. But the leading causes of furious cursing fits? Squawking trash-talkers that attack their own teams and try to exploit glitches to make games unplayable? They sound like Betty Boop on a bender. It's comedic how similar their voices are to a particularly foul-mouthed cartoon stereotype of a 4 year old girl. It's like there's smart technology that identifies them and warns every other player that these guys are dicks by modulating their voices to a high pitched warning cry. That post just made my day.
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Post by Shane for Wax on Jul 22, 2011 9:58:00 GMT -5
I don't know. There seems to be an almost selective quality to it. The women I play with do sound like women. The guys I play with who aren't griefers sound more or less like you expect a young man to. But the leading causes of furious cursing fits? Squawking trash-talkers that attack their own teams and try to exploit glitches to make games unplayable? They sound like Betty Boop on a bender. It's comedic how similar their voices are to a particularly foul-mouthed cartoon stereotype of a 4 year old girl. It's like there's smart technology that identifies them and warns every other player that these guys are dicks by modulating their voices to a high pitched warning cry. I guess it's people who don't know what a real woman sounds like that tells me I don't sound like I'm female.
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Post by Amaranth on Jul 22, 2011 11:08:48 GMT -5
I just know my friends have told me my voice doesn't sound like it does over the phone. However, I am also told that new voice codexes that were pushed out in the last update caused my voice to 'change'. I don't know. I think my friends are nuts. The new voice codecs made people sound (to me) like they were aboard submarines or speaking int tin tubes. I sound pretty much exactly like I do on the phone. Like I'm slightly drunk, stoned, or retarded. >.<
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Post by Amaranth on Jul 22, 2011 11:19:47 GMT -5
Also, every guy I have on Live seems to lithp.
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