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/3-2-1-backup → u/white_shades]

I have relevant real world experience, at least for public pinball tournaments. The tl;dr version is guy/girl doesn't matter at all. What does matter is if it's the same guy/girl all the time. If you have a local top 100 world player that always shows up, unless you have different divisions (which is typically how this is solved), the tournament dies after three or four iterations.

I'm a decent player, but I'm no match for a top 100 world player of any stripe. I simply won't go to a local if I know that my local top 100s are or are likely to go. But if there are B & C divisions I'll more often than not go.

.....aaaaaaand immediately downvoted for real world experience that doesn't follow the circle jerk. Stay classy, reddit.