Tag: dismantle nerd culture

rain-wander:

strawberrymentats:

It’s sad that toxic game culture is so prevalent cuz like. As someone who has ended up in random matches with kids before, I can attest to how fucking easy it is to reverse and un-teach shitty attitudes in kids.

Example: I downloaded Friday the 13th because it’s free on psn. I dunno how to play, so I just enter quick play and I’m matched with 3-4 kids on mic. Immediately on mic they’re shitty and disparaging to each other. They laugh at each others deaths, they actively work against team mates and self sabotage, they call each other “fags”, etc. From the sounds of the voices they cannot be older than 13-14.

I put on my mic and just decide I ain’t havin it. I am nice. I thank them for barricading doors or leaving me items. When they break free from Jason’s grasp I say “good job!” or I try to help them. One kid survived for most of the match by himself. When he dies, I tell him he did a fantastic job.

The mood shift is practically INSTANT. These kids almost immediately stop being dick heads. They start encouraging each other and being kind. After the match all of them try to friend request me. Which should tell you a couple of things:

A) kids want to be kind, and they want to have a nice time playing games. But encounters with adults like me or so rare that they’ve trained themselves to instantly put on a toxic, shitty, defensive veneer when encountering any new person online. It’s literally just THAT EASY to not groom a horrible gaming community, it’s just that NO ONE does it.

B) the speed of which they all tried to friend me was cute, but paints for me such a sad picture? Like these kids are SO desperate to find people to play with who aren’t crappy jerks. They played with me for 10 minutes TOPS and all instantly tried to reach out to me.

tl;dr: The kids are alright. Adults are shit heads.

I cant agree with this post more

Not against women in media or anything, but why are there so few “male” legendary creatures printed lately? This is an earnest, sincere question. No malice intended by it.

markrosewater:

Here’s what’s going on. Putting the genderless creatures aside, the creative team works hard to make sure that of all the remaining creatures pictured on cards in sets half are male and half are female, just as occurs in real life.

That includes legendary creatures. They are half male/half female, but people are so used to seeing males taking up a larger portion of space in pop culture that half female feels like a larger portion than it is.

For example, there was a big issue last year about how “all” the Pirates in Ixalan block were female. If you went back and counted though you’d find that it was half and half.

This is yet another reason proper representation in entertainment matters. When women are half of a group in the real world, we don’t want it to feel “off”.