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Endorph posted:its kind of insane to think about how insanely hosed up literally all mainstream game press was just 15 years ago
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https://twitter.com/misterbrilliant/status/483224360418041856
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Sep 24, 2018 21:07
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Endorph posted:its kind of insane to think about how insanely hosed up literally all mainstream game press was just 15 years ago Lol yeah. And I think it didn't really change out of any purposeful shift all those companies just went out of business like 90% of the entire print based industry did
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Sep 24, 2018 21:08
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Accordion Man posted:I'd say its one of the major reasons "gamer culture" became so toxic, the misogyny and sheer sense of entitlement was all laid out in the open all the way back then. yeah. thinking about kids growing up with that as their barometer for normal i can kind of get why things ended up where they are now. i wonder if any of the editors of those magazines look back and go 'what the gently caress' In Training posted:Lol yeah. And I think it didn't really change out of any purposeful shift all those companies just went out of business like 90% of the entire print based industry did
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Sep 24, 2018 21:11
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I agree but also lol at thinking EA would send you the special preview goodie bags anymore after it
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Sep 24, 2018 21:12
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As a kid I definitely came away with the 'only boys like games' attitude for a while and these magazines, which I had an assload of, sure didn't help. Of all things AOL chatrooms actually were the first place to start setting me straight
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Sep 24, 2018 21:13
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Companies being massive pissy babies about game scores gave us Giant Bomb at least.
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Sep 24, 2018 21:13
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 the most hosed up part of this is saying that fear effect looks good
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Sep 24, 2018 21:15
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Relax Or DIE posted:As a kid I definitely came away with the 'only boys like games' attitude for a while and these magazines, which I had an assload of, sure didn't help.
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Sep 24, 2018 21:15
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grieving for Gandalf posted:I agree but also lol at thinking EA would send you the special preview goodie bags anymore after it The next review of a Stuff pack was literally a list of what was in it and nothing else.
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Sep 24, 2018 21:15
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Relax Or DIE posted:As a kid I definitely came away with the 'only boys like games' attitude for a while and these magazines, which I had an assload of, sure didn't help. Having a little sister who played games kinda had me puzzled why some people considered it a "boys only" thing
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Sep 24, 2018 21:17
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Relax Or DIE posted:As a kid I definitely came away with the 'only boys like games' attitude for a while and these magazines, which I had an assload of, sure didn't help. My mom was obsessed with Dr. Mario and Tetris when she was on maternity leave with my sister, it’s the only thing she would do when the baby was asleep. I credit all my obsessive habits to her.
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Sep 24, 2018 21:17
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my mom is still playing donkey kong country
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Sep 24, 2018 21:20
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The girls and their moms I knew growing up all loved Animal Crossing.
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Sep 24, 2018 21:21
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my mom also liked the PS1 Tetris game with the little archaeologist
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Sep 24, 2018 21:23
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my mom loves soul calibur. she still has our old gamecube plugged in for sc2's single player. i should tell her about 6.
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Sep 24, 2018 21:25
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my mom loves crack. we don't talk to my mom
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Sep 24, 2018 21:26
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My mom played SMB when I got an NES, and then would eventually buy a DS for herself. She mostly played Rhythm Heaven and card and casino game collections. I gave her my copy of Animal Crossing, but she didn't like it because it was too slow.
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Sep 24, 2018 21:28
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My mom hates dead space 2
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Sep 24, 2018 21:29
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haveblue posted:My mom hates dead space 2 This. I call it Dad Space 2
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Sep 24, 2018 21:31
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My wife never played videogames until Yakuza and now she loves running around fighting random goons in Yakuza more than anything
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Sep 24, 2018 21:37
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Endorph posted:its kind of insane to think about how insanely hosed up literally all mainstream game press was just 15 years ago Somewhere in this external hard drive of porn I've got a folder of scans that's like "Did you know Birdo is a guy who thinks he's a girl???"
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Sep 24, 2018 21:38
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grieving for Gandalf posted:my mom also liked the PS1 Tetris game with the little archaeologist Tetris Worlds It rules.
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Sep 24, 2018 21:43
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Taintrunner posted:My wife never played videogames until Yakuza and now she loves running around fighting random goons in Yakuza more than anything drat that's awesome. I would rather my first video game had been Yakuza instead of Tony Hawk's Pro Skater for the Game Boy Color
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Sep 24, 2018 21:46
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codenameFANGIO posted:Tetris Worlds nah it was Tetris Plus
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Sep 24, 2018 21:51
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I was going to play video games this evening but then I ate too much spaghetti for dinner so instead I'm spending it conked out with a food coma. What a waste 
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Sep 24, 2018 21:53
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al-azad posted:Somewhere in this external hard drive of porn I've got a folder of scans that's like "Did you know Birdo is a guy who thinks he's a girl???" it was cool when everyone's understanding of vivian in ttyd was "in the jp version she's actually a guy!!!" because nobody would actually properly translate the relevant dialog and everybody was a dumbass
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Sep 24, 2018 21:53
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al-azad posted:Somewhere in this external hard drive of porn I've got a folder of scans that's like "Did you know Birdo is a guy who thinks he's a girl???" weird genre of porn imo but i won't judge
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Sep 24, 2018 21:58
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I remember when I was a kid my neighbor's parents would only ever buy her the most girly-girl licensed ~~GuRl GaMeS~~ ever. Like Barbie Horse Petter '95 or some poo poo. They were all just...so bad. Like not even attempting to be a game, here is a picture of a horse and you can click it to do a little combing animation and maybe it walks to the right and that will be $40 please. Thankfully I had real games and we could just play at my house. So I guess my view re: girls/gaming when I was little was that other girls had loving terrible taste in games if that was the stuff they go for. And then I grew up and found out no one of any gender liked any of that stuff and it was in fact just bad.
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Sep 24, 2018 22:10
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I suspect a decent portion of the origin of it is that when Toys R Us had to put NESes on their shelves, they had to put them on the boy shelves or the girl shelves, because the toy industry is hosed up.The Colonel posted:it was cool when everyone's understanding of vivian in ttyd was "in the jp version she's actually a guy!!!" because nobody would actually properly translate the relevant dialog and everybody was a dumbass Yeah this is what I heard all those years ago and I chalked it up to "boy Japan sure does like weirdly effeminate men haha!" because my basis of comparison was like, final fantasy I'm glad that it was something better than that
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Sep 24, 2018 22:19
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haveblue posted:But there is a rule saying a dog can't enter a smash tournament, it says very clearly fox only  (you can tell it's wip because if it was in engine it would have the cast-charge vfx swirling around the sprite lol)
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Sep 24, 2018 22:21
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the mother trilogy was made by itoi as a way to connect with his daughter when he didn't have time to be at home with her. that means mother is a trilogy of games for girls, and everyone who likes earthbound likes a girl game
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Sep 24, 2018 22:22
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Atelier has rapidly become my second favorite non-dead RPG series and I'm pretty sure those are ~girl games~
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Sep 24, 2018 22:23
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Moms are also important part of all three games.
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Sep 24, 2018 22:23
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Accordion Man posted:Moms are also important part of all games.
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Sep 24, 2018 22:23
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cheetah7071 posted:Atelier has rapidly become my second favorite non-dead RPG series and I'm pretty sure those are ~girl games~ literally every time gust has tried to make a game for boys the fanbase ended up being at least 60% women anyway
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Sep 24, 2018 22:24
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The Colonel posted:literally every time gust has tried to make a game for boys the fanbase ended up being at least 60% women anyway That can't be true for Ar Tonelico, can it?
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Sep 24, 2018 22:24
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cheetah7071 posted:That can't be true for Ar Tonelico, can it? they had to apologize for a bit in ar nosurge because it assumed the player was male and everyone in the audience at the fan event where it got brought up were women
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Sep 24, 2018 22:25
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We need more games with cool moms doing cool things. Just... in general.
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Sep 24, 2018 22:27
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In Fallout 4 you are a mom but I'm sad to report you aren't cool
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