[–] NewsGuy2020 0 points 15 points 15 points (+15|-0) ago
Why can't girls play video games? It's not like IRL sports where generally men are physically superior. You'd think e-sports would make things more even.
[–] we_kill_creativity 0 points 12 points 12 points (+12|-0) ago
Same thing with motorsports, and yet we have the W racing series. Women just aren't as aggressive and risk taking as men, which is fine, and not even a criticism of them, but we can't have truth in modern society, so we have to punish men for the natural differences between men and women.
"!!But this is just an isolated-!! Shut up. You can apply everything I just said to modern society at large.
[–] TwoNiggersandaHonky 0 points 3 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago
Formula 1 teams would've loved women drivers back when weight limits were even tighter, having a lighter driver = more adjustable ballast. For whatever reason though you just don't get women at that level of motorsports and the ones in the feeder series are hardly setting the world on fire either.
[–] DontBeRacist 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
I wouldn't be surprised to find a lack of visual-spatial reasoning being a hindrance to them as well.
[–] dirt_reynolds 0 points 8 points 8 points (+8|-0) ago
It's bizarre. We play videogames in our house, wife and female children included. The kids only play with us or family & friends we actually know irl. They just don't have that killer instinct. Which is good for character but bad for competition. I can jump into some kind of death match with my wife, on a game she plays all the time and one that I rarely play and just shit all over her & her friends. Like it's not even fun for me. Their brains just don't operate on the same frequency as a normal male's brain. They can't apply strategy on the fly, there is no effort to analyze what the opposition is doing and modify their behavior to overcome that.
[–] we_kill_creativity 0 points 5 points 5 points (+5|-0) ago
^Everyone knew this not that long ago and it was fine. None of that is a criticism of women, it's just an observation. There are things women are better at than men, and that's fine too. #1? Being a mom, which is super important job for society.
Before career women were common, the accepted norm was that, once the children grew up, their moms would then run charities and generally "help the poor", visit the elderly, operate soup kitchens, the list goes on...
Personally, I think our society and culture is in desperate need of women returning to that very important role, and soooooo much shit would fix itself if they did.
[–] Well_Deserved_Brew 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
There are lots of boys/men who play video games for 80 hours a week even without being pro. Very few girls. People can say what they want but guys just overall like games better. So there is a much smaller pool to pick from when you go all female.
[–] smoss 0 points 7 points 7 points (+7|-0) ago
I went over to check out the thread on reddit, and man of course it was already locked down. Funny thing is they say it was due to 'mUh sExISM'. Give me a break, the team itself was sexist, with a legit 0% win rate, and ridiculous amount of deaths. This reminds me so much of team Siren, first time someone tried this all female stupid shit in league, that time they didnt even make it to the LCS lmao
[–] SpreeFeech 0 points 5 points 5 points (+5|-0) ago
What is LCL?
[–] GuyIDisagreeWith 2 points 2 points 4 points (+4|-2) ago
League of Legends E-Sports bullshit.
[–] PeacefulAssassin 0 points 4 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago
Heard that 4 put of the 5 play support characters.
So no wonder they got destroyed
[–] 22578870? 0 points 6 points 6 points (+6|-0) ago
Read elsewhere that they were also none of them at a level to be involved in this league anyway. They were chastised from the start for being out of their depth no matter what sex they were. But some called it sexist to talk about them not being good enough when it was easy to see from their individual rankings. The sexism was including them at all.
[–] FormerBaltimoreRes 0 points 7 points 7 points (+7|-0) ago
I don't know why I went down this rabbit hole but it's even stupider than that. This team turned down far superior female players because they weren't pretty enough.
The idea was to make a cutie pie team that they could market to thirsty gamers. If the team was just passable the sponsors could train them 10+ hours a day to be actually decent. From a pure sheckles standpoint it wasn't a bad idea, they just didn't anticipate such a historically bad team.
In this game there are 8 ELO tiers you can be in, these players were from tier 5 (aka diamond). And To put this in perspective, it would be like putting the state champions from your high school baseball team up against the Yankees. Now that they look stupid the only thing left to do is cry sexism.
[–] HeavyBrain 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Ok so they didn't talk they showed, yet somehow I have a feeling all of this will be spun somhow of how great they actually were and those stupid white bois totally wall hacked wit their aim bots to win this high.
[–] Humansized 0 points 3 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago (edited ago)
i remember when their team got announced. literally a bunch of support mains who were all low ranks. pure marketing gimmick. there was a big cry about them because some other team trolled them by banning 5 supports instead of actual ban picks
[–] AZ_PATRIOT3 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
I find that hilarious...the women naturally pick the support characters. They cant escape the stereotype no matter what they do
[–] we_kill_creativity 0 points 3 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago
the women naturally pick the support characters.
That's actually a positive trait in women...I wouldn't denigrate it.
[–] PeacefulAssassin 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago (edited ago)
Funny how nature do that.
But for real, back when I ran a Halo 3 clan some of the support/defense players where girls.
It's that mind set of this is my home, this is my protector, I must help them.
[–] xenoPsychologist 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
is there anything they can do right?
[–] CulturalImperialist 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Regional league for League of Legends. League has a lower ceiling on the usefulness on actions per minute, so it seems possible that a single exceptional female could make it to the top level, especially as support.
Full female team is of course as suicidal as it sounds. Years ago there was a Team Siren which was brought together by corporate sponsors and sold as grrrrrrl power claiming they were going to qualify for the proleague. To me, the funniest element was that looking individual rankings of the players they weren't even the best female team. That honor would go to Kitchen Bandits a for fun team of female streamers and the sisters and girlfriends of pros.
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[–] CulturalImperialist ago (edited ago)
Ceiling - as in skill ceiling. The game's mechanics don't have enough going on simultaneously to make an apm 350 player blow out a 300 apm everytime as they could in something like Starcraft.
[–] Reddit_traitor 1 point 23 points 24 points (+24|-1) ago
i have no idea what the fuck they are talking about.
[–] boxofcrackers 1 point 10 points 11 points (+11|-1) ago
neither does the "journalist"
[–] NamelessCrewmember 0 points 7 points 7 points (+7|-0) ago
Neither does anyone else.
[–] 22585944? 0 points 3 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago
Professional competitive video games.
"Meta" just means "strong given the way the game is balanced and currently played". The "meta" changes when a player develops a new strategy, and if a strategy is too strong sometimes the game is changed to prevent it. Same thing happens in physical sports, look up the "flying wedge" from early days american football. TL;DR: It was so strong they changed the rules so you couldn't do it.
It's kinda disappointing that it appears women may be worse at video games than men too. One would imagine it might narrow the field since it isn't physical labour, it's arguably dexterity (the first typists were women, because it was assumed they'd be better at it). And streaming or playing a nightly scrim for the occasional competition is a good sort of work for a mum. It's stuff you can do while staying at home, and where the world doesn't end if you break to take care of your child.
[–] Phantom42 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
League of Legends professional play, most likely. LoL is a pretty big competitive MMO, arguably the biggest comp scene in gaming right now.
I don't know how those whores got to pro play with that performance though... Jesus.
[–] Luis_Sphincta 0 points 3 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago
Tits?
[–] blumen4alles 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
My only clue was the Cooler Master logo on their jackets, figured it had to do with something about video games.
[–] Reddit_traitor 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
At first I thought/hoped it was roller derby