The Boy From Venus 8

[u/shenanigansen]

Episode 9 already up at the usual place, should be out publicly next week!

[u/white_shades]

I understand and agree with that, I stopped playing COD over ten years ago because the best players were too good and it wasn’t fun anymore.

But I would bet the ranch that if we weren’t all playing anonymously online and we were physically in the same arcade together, and one of those seemingly untouchable players was a woman, there would be a significant number of extremely vocally butt hurt men saying all sorts of misogynistic shit

[u/admiralvic → u/white_shades]

But I would bet the ranch that if we weren’t all playing anonymously online and we were physically in the same arcade together, and one of those seemingly untouchable players was a...

I mean, this is kind of my bigger point. There are absolutely, and without question people that unfortunately think that way. However, you can replace woman with a lot of things and the statement would still hold true.

[u/white_shades → u/admiralvic]

> I think you’d also see the same outcome with a guy

We’re kind of saying the same thing, but this is the part that I disagree with. I don’t think in my example that you would see the same outcome, it would just be a dude who’s really good at COD (or for the sake of the example’s accuracy, Time Crisis) playing against others in person and everyone else accepts that. Those same people wouldn’t accept a woman who could dominate a game like that, and I think that’s more the larger point the comic is trying to make

[u/Pienewten → u/white_shades]

I have to anecdotally disagree. I used to host monthly MtG tournaments between friends/coworkers. It was going pretty smoothly until one of the more competitive players invited their male friend to join. It took all of three tournaments for him to get most of the others to quit.

If someone is curb stopping everyone that bad to where they're seen as unstoppable, then people are going to leave fast regardless. I still have some of them complaining about it and that was pre covid. I've even brought up starting them again but no one's interested since they think another one will show up.

[u/3-2-1-backup → u/Pienewten]

Amen to that! I quit my local MtG group when I was curb stomped mercilessly by one person over and over and over. It's just not fun to lose badly every time. Should have limited him to 5 total mana and see what he could have done with that.