Movieblob

[Kugelfisch]

It's obvious what he meant. I think he seriously buys into the 'most gamers are girls'' idea that the SJWs keep pushing.

It's beyond clear to me why he would say that trash. But outside of a fucked up mindset I ask: Why?
It can't be the GameBOY in [current year +2] why? Because it says "boy"? Who thinks of boys when they hear "Gameboy"? That's just the name for it. It's a term that trancends the parts it's made of. My parents know what a Gameboy is. My grandparents knew. Everyone knows what a Gameboy is. Nobody is asking where the screwdriver is driving the screws to. Nobody who isn't mentally damaged even registers the word "boy" in the name "Gameboy". That's true for native English speakers and even more true for those who aren't.

The other reason I'm asking is that he directly implies it should be called something different. Not just anything different, though. But he stops at the >implication. Because we all know it would be fucking retarded to call it Gamegirl, which is why he's not spelling it out.
The way most languages are, the male is the de facto neutral. Calling something a male version is the norm and not even perceived as "male". Every single job description in German is, technically speaking, written in the male form. Every item is technically in the male form. Military titles and such are male form only in almost all languages. It's "detective" no matter the sex of the person. "Gameboy" nobody bats an eyelash at. "Gamegirl" people would think "What the fuck?". The first is just a name, the second is named that way for a specific reason.
I don't know if Blob ever noticed, likely not, but people don't like companies pushing agendas. Nintendo doesn't want to look like having one. In fact, they make a point out of being as apolitical as possible. He still didn't get that agendas are marketing poison. It's a hill many have died on and many more will in the future. It's not worth it if you just want to sell something.

[rabidtictac]

"Man" in "human" is short for "mannus" or some shit, and means humanity, not someone with a penis. Just because you use a term like "mankind" does not mean you are leaving women out or you aren't referring to women. One could refer to a group of women as "mankind" and be correct.

WoMEN even have MEN in the name. WoMAN, WoMEN, as in MANkind and huMANity.

It doesn't mean penis is good and vagina is bad. It's just language. Besides which how retarded is it to cry about English rules, when English is a copypasta mishmash of like 3 other languages?

Does this nigga Blob Chipman even know that middle english sounds completely fucking different from normal english?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_En ... ld_English

Oh sure, you can look at this and "sound" it out (which btw is wrong because the pronunciation of middle english is different from modern) and figure out what is being said. But if you're going to bitch about English conventions like "mankind" then you're going to need to take your complaints back several centuries at least.

http://www.public.asu.edu/~gelderen/hel/cant-pro.html

Whan that aprill with his shoures soote
The droghte of march hath perced to the roote,
And bathed every veyne in swich licour
Of which vertu engendred is the flour;
Whan zephirus eek with his sweete breeth
Inspired hath in every holt and heeth
Tendre croppes, and the yonge sonne
Hath in the ram his halve cours yronne,
And smale foweles maken melodye,
That slepen al the nyght with open ye
(so priketh hem nature in hir corages);
Thanne longen folk to goon on pilgrimages,
And palmeres for to seken straunge strondes,
To ferne halwes, kowthe in sondry londes;
And specially from every shires ende
Of engelond to caunterbury they wende,
The hooly blisful martir for to seke,
That hem hath holpen whan that they were seeke.
Bifil that in that seson on a day,
In southwerk at the tabard as I lay
Redy to wenden on my pilgrymage
To caunterbury with ful devout corage,
At nyght was come into that hostelrye
Wel nyne and twenty in a compaignye,
Of sondry folk, by aventure yfalle
In felaweshipe, and pilgrimes were they alle,
That toward caunterbury wolden ryde.
The chambres and the stables weren wyde,
And wel we weren esed atte beste.
And shortly, whan the sonne was to reste,
So hadde I spoken with hem everichon
That I was of hir felaweshipe anon,
And made forward erly for to ryse,
To take oure wey ther as I yow devyse.
But nathelees, whil I have tyme and space,
Er that I ferther in this tale pace,
Me thynketh it acordaunt to resoun
To telle yow al the condicioun
Of ech of hem, so as it semed me,
And whiche they weren, and of what degree,
And eek in what array that they were inne;
And at a knyght than wol I first bigynne.

If you never bothered, listen to someone recite this with proper pronunciation. English used to be a much more lyrical language.

[dumb guest poster]

It's time for videogames to grow up. From now on it's the Gameman.

[Liar Revealed]

They don't care. The SJW have no respect or interest in real history. The feminazis at my campus back in the day would spell it "womyn" to eliminate the hated "man" from the word.
There's a mural in a stairwell at the Evergreen campus with an old poem written on the wall. The feminazis continually vandalize it because it has the word man in it. They cross it out and write something else there. I really should go get a picture of it sometime.

[TheProgressive]

The thing is that games are already made for women/girls. Plenty of them. And they already play them. Mobile games, Zelda, Pokemon, The Sims, lots of the simulation games in general (especially life sims). It isn't as though the female market is ignored by the industry, the market just knows what women buy and it just happens that it isn't the majority of AAA titles. And female gamers who do don't give a shit about "representation".

This is what I brought up when people lost their marbles about female link: girls already buy Zelda, so why would Nintendo need to pander to the feminist crowd?

[VoiceOfReasonPast]

Words don't really have a "gender" or "sex" to speak of. Just because say the German chair uses male articles doesn't give it privilege. Leftists should come to term with this instead of trying to mutilate languages with weird gender-neutral constructs that sound artificial and awkward.

Sadly, we're still not complete. Lolki has yet to show up.

I hope he's doing ok and life's keeping him busy.

It's obvious what he meant. I think he seriously buys into the 'most gamers are girls'' idea that the SJWs keep pushing.

Wasn't there some research or something that showed how women were the biggest market for mobile shit, especially Candy Crash etc, to a disgusting degree? And then those scumfucks posted "modified versions" of the statistics aka showed simple graphs of which sex plays games more but never specified if it was consoles, pc or mobiles, to make their numbers fit their narratives. And neglected to say, that the study was national and didn't have any idea about Europe or Japan's numbers?

I would guess Japan actually has a lot of female gamers. I mean, someone has to play all of those fucking Visual Novels, and I don't see dudes doing it unless the game involves hentai.

[ban]

If you never bothered, listen to someone recite this with proper pronunciation. English used to be a much more lyrical language.

That's true for a lot of languages with ancient roots and yet nowadays they've lost that. Wouldn't be so bad if the educational system didn't decide to anihilate the study of old (native) tongues from the curicullum.

It's time for videogames to grow up. From now on it's the Gameman.

I know you are joking but the Game Man was actually a joke in Japan concerning Nintendium and the new consoles.

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The thing is that games are already made for women/girls. Plenty of them. And they already play them. Mobile games, Zelda, Pokemon, The Sims, lots of the simulation games in general (especially life sims). It isn't as though the female market is ignored by the industry, the market just knows what women buy and it just happens that it isn't the majority of AAA titles. And female gamers who do don't give a shit about "representation".

This is what I brought up when people lost their marbles about female link: girls already buy Zelda, so why would Nintendo need to pander to the feminist crowd?

If I had to hazard any guess, it's the way females are brought up in the west vs Japan. It affects their tastes heavily and they fall in groups easier. Over here, the lines between slut / bimbo / game girl / normie are way too blurred and the polidicks don't help the situation at all...while over there the slut gyaru has a very clear background and activities that never involve vidya while the normie lady is usually the one buying games to have fun after the office, while watching her soaps or something. And it's usually a Mario or some Zelda or more often than not, a Pokemon because they find the deisgns cute most of the time. That's all they care about.

I would guess Japan actually has a lot of female gamers. I mean, someone has to play all of those fucking Visual Novels, and I don't see dudes doing it unless the game involves hentai.

Yes, Japan has quite enough female gamers. But how naive you are my friend. Most VN "players" are men, if only because men fetishes are enough out there to destroy the industry while the occasional yaoi is far better read than played on a computer screen while some romance novel like...there was a Shinsengumi themed game where every member of the group was vying for the "Bella Swan" main character of the story so to say but the girl had to somewhat work to get one of the dudes or the whole harem deal. That's type of VNs ladies like to play there. Dudes on the other hand can play completely sexless VNs just for the fuck of it.

Otherwise, female gamers play things like Zelda, Mario, some Pokemon whenever they feel like it, some weird party games like From Software's Kuri Kuri Mix or The Adventures of Cookie & Cream or the more normie Mario Party. Or something that tingles their husbando urges, like an occasional Fire Emblem or something like Sengoku Basara(on easy of course). In general, their tastes are pretty tame and they often fare well in party situations aka they are mostly normie japanese.

But that's because gaming is different over there than in the west. In Japan, everyone plays something but they just never talk about it because it'd be like asking what kind of coffee you drank that morning and nobody really cares about that kind of mundane talk over there. The "core gamers" over there are the equivalent of our gaming / hardcore crowd but girls are very few there so whenever one comes along with enough skill, it's always noted(as always, brea toal and her old DMC4 combo vids).

[rabidtictac]

They don't care. The SJW have no respect or interest in real history. The feminazis at my campus back in the day would spell it "womyn" to eliminate the hated "man" from the word.
There's a mural in a stairwell at the Evergreen campus with an old poem written on the wall. The feminazis continually vandalize it because it has the word man in it. They cross it out and write something else there. I really should go get a picture of it sometime.

SJWs remind me more and more of Mao's cultural revolution. They're so brainwashed they can't enjoy anything unless it 100% conforms to the exact limitations of their brainwashing. I think people like that are sad, no matter what political side they're on.

[Kugelfisch]

That's what happens when you go out of your way to find shit to complain about.

[Guest]

They don't care. The SJW have no respect or interest in real history. The feminazis at my campus back in the day would spell it "womyn" to eliminate the hated "man" from the word.
There's a mural in a stairwell at the Evergreen campus with an old poem written on the wall. The feminazis continually vandalize it because it has the word man in it. They cross it out and write something else there. I really should go get a picture of it sometime.

Why are you hanging out at Evergreen?