Matthew on 26/7/2011 at 19:23
I found it pretty interesting. I found the comments revealing, too.
lost_soul on 26/7/2011 at 22:51
Well, back in middle school there was a girl whom I got into Wolfenstein 3D because I loaded the shareware episode on one of the schools computers and she saw me playing it. Does that count?
catbarf on 27/7/2011 at 00:44
Demographic information suggests that more women than you'd think play online FPSes, but only a tiny minority use headsets because of all the shit they get from male gamers.
On another note, watching my fellow game design students awkwardly hit on the two or three females in each class is amusing in a pathetic sort of way.
Pyrian on 27/7/2011 at 01:18
Quote Posted by catbarf
On another note, watching my fellow game design students awkwardly hit on the two or three females in each class is amusing in a pathetic sort of way.
Nerd courtship is rife for amusement. Way too many guys hitting on way too few women, none of them (of either gender) possessing anything close to the overall median level of social skills.
Renzatic on 27/7/2011 at 02:19
Quote Posted by lost_soul
Well, back in middle school there was a girl whom I got into Wolfenstein 3D because I loaded the shareware episode on one of the schools computers and she saw me playing it. Does that count?
"...which lead the arguing the finer points of the FOSS movement and the general practices of those that adhered to the GNU license agreement. The discussion was rife with heated debate. I was pro. She? Con. Of course. People are rarely ever perfect in all regards. I'd throw my well worded argument upon the table. She would counter with her usual brilliantly worded, yer horribly scathing remarks (wrong though they were). It was a fight to the bitter end, no side willing to bend. My God, it was truly a beautiful situation. Those in attendance were in awe.
So, long story short, I ended up touching a boob. THAT'S RIGHT GUYS! I TOUCHED A BOOB!
...and that, yes, that is why I prefer free open source software."
lost_soul on 27/7/2011 at 02:44
That same girl also caught us having a DooM deathmatch in the computer lab and she wanted to join in. It still makes me laugh to this day, because I ambushed the blue character with the chainsaw and then I heard a voice squeaking across the room... lol
She never got into Quake though, probably because she never saw it.
june gloom on 27/7/2011 at 02:50
so was that the closest you ever got to sex
EvaUnit02 on 27/7/2011 at 13:06
Quote Posted by lost_soul
Never been to any kind of LAN party myself. Sure I wished I could go when I was playing Quake on a Pentium 1 with a dial-up connection in order to shake the terrible ping, but ever since I got access to broadband in 2000, it just seemed pointless. I can ping under 50 anyway now.
Christ you're clueless, LAN parties are largely about the social experience (and sharing files). They don't begin and end with gaming. It's a similar sort of thing to having say a movie or poker night at a friend's place.
FTFY
Yakoob on 27/7/2011 at 19:36
Quote Posted by EvaUnit02
Christ you're clueless, LAN parties are largely about the social experience (and sharing files). They don't begin and end with gaming. It's a similar sort of thing to having say a movie or poker night at a friend's place.
That is true. Back at the first two years of my uni I was the total LameNerd™ and founded the computer club. Over the first year we hosted 3 lan parties, having some 25 gamers at once at its peak (out of 400 student body). Of course, sodas and snacks provided as well. Good times have been had by all and it was definitely a good starcraft / halo / hl / combat arms shootfest with angry yelling across the room, semi-strategic gameplay and of course mid-game nickname changes like "johnny's mom."
And then a few others were just 2-3 friends getting together in our room and hooking up our laptops to the router / school network for a 5 hour session of serious sam / operation flashpoint / neverwinter nights / combat arms etc. More randomness, inside jokes, and moody. And everyone teaming against our lighthouse-tower-camping-sniper-whore of a friend...
Then there were also the times me and my old friend in Poland (on an 10 hour time difference) would chat it up on skype while we gamed together on Day of Defeat and Counter Strike. The enemy team called wallhacks whenever the first one to die helped the other in spectate, hehe...
Lets also not forget my last month at my university, senior year, when I was basically done and graduated and didnt give a crap about obligations anymore. We would borrow the x360 of our lighthouse-tower-camping-sniper-whore of a friend and play Gears of War 2 for like 14 hours a day for a good week. The invasion/horde mode level 7 on highest difficulty... literally spent the whole day just to crack it; learned all the repawn times and map quirks to beat it. And some of the grunts like "ADVANCING" or "REVIVE ME" had entered our daily usage of the meme dictionary.
All very different experiences, but very awesome in their own right.
