Girls Vs. Boys : Indian gaming

[Xeaon]

http://www.gamersindia.com/Features/Ind ... mbination/

"I was stuck at this tentacle mission in half-Life for two days. On the third day I asked my brother to un-install the stupid game", saying this she starts giggling while looking at me in a sheepish way and says, "I know it's a great game man, but that's a tough mission, which makes it stupid" and starts laughing again. If it had happened to a boy (well it must have happened to a thousand), he would have gone to the internet, would have downloaded the walkthrough and wouldn't have slept until he had finished the game. But, if it was a boy!! So why don't girls do the same. "Doing that would be cheating", says Amisha with a grim look, "What's the use of doing that… naah even if that makes me finish the game in half the time, I wouldn't do it. That's not winning". Seriously I couldn't understand this point. It’s all in the game I say, but even after half an hour I couldn't convince her.

Trust me when I say that you guys enjoy the fact that girls don't play games". This statement got me thinking that somehow there was some truth in what she said. We guys always like to say that girls are dumb when it comes to computers and somehow we enjoy saying that, don't we? Imagine if they start ruling us in this field and we face a major competition in gaming from girls. It will definitely become an ego issue for a major fraction of us. "I don't go to gaming parlours anymore, know why? Cause no one plays against me. I’m a hard opponent and I mostly win and the ones who get defeated by me feel ashamed. It's a different thing to be defeated by a boy for the. It's the male ego that hinders them. So now I play single player games". She is right, wonder how a boy would feel if he loses to a girl in front of dozen bystanders. "Well I’m ready to lose to you", I said and we went to a gaming café and played Counter Strike, and needless to say ‘my team lost to hers’.

We need to understand that it’s we guys only who are trying to undermine the growth of girls in games by telling them that they are not good enough and are dumb at computers. A fear of being left with no belonging and no area of superiority lies in our unconsciousness. Girls are to triumph this field of games one day, and I have a feeling that it’s coming sooner then we expect. Either we can welcome them, or we can be our typical male images with ego projecting at our faces. We have already lost education to girls and now we are losing jobs to them and very soon we are going to lose our favourite area of command and fun to them. It’s our choice if we want to lose it to them or offer a truce and welcome them in this field to be our better halves. Whatever may be the case its best we compete amicably, rather than displaying our individual egos…coz at the end of it all ‘let the best man win’ , oops… I’d go ahead and say the ‘let the best female win’.

I loved it muhahahaha, now i understand why i was hated , u noobs.

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[Cursedblader]

U say we hav lost in education. here i see no girl comin overtop of us boys.Even if we welcome them.REMEMBER BOYS ALWAYS RULE!!!

[Xeaon]

Small correction, i dont say it, its written there in the link and that too by a guy probably, by the way author is writing i can say its a guy.

[Cursedblader]

How do you want me to write?like the ones in the Shakesphere poems?Let me tell thee that thy game needs quick action sentences . Lets thy eyes fall upon this post.First of all are thee a girl?(see i can be poetic too) SPEAKING OF POETIC WASNT SHAKESPHERE A BOY?

[Eos]

SPEAKING OF POETIC WASNT SHAKESPHERE A BOY?

Not when he started writing his plays! He'd grown up by then!

[dredisback]

I loved it muhahahaha, now i understand why i was hated , u noobs.

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HATED?? THAT GAL WAS HATED COZ SHE PWNED MOST OF DA OTHERS, BUT WEREN'T YOU HATED AND PWNED BY EVERYONE???:shock:

SPEAKING OF FACTS, IF YOU WISH TO SEARCH OUT SITES TO MAJOR EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTES IN AND OUT OF THIS COUNTRY, YOU WILL FIND THAT FEMALE STUDENTS ARE A RARE MATERIAL IN ALL INSTITUES WHICH EMPLOY INTELLIGENCE OVER MONEY!

SEARCH OUT THE MIT, HARVARD, IIT....................

AND TO TOP IT THESE INSTITUES ARE NOT THOSE WHICH CHARGE HIGH FEES OR ANYTHING, IF YOU WANNA GET INTO THAT PLACE YOU GOTTA HAVE BRAINS!

[Xeaon]

Whats your definition of "pawned"? And whats your definition of "ALL"? It was not pwned nor all if u see the neutral public's opinion excluding those nameless creatures (i cant call them humans) who posted crap without reasons. Yes ofcourse u can feel good by saying whatever u feel . For neutral opinion, see this thread which was posted by rexdude-u cant say hes not neutral . I did not wanted to get this sad old matter here, but u compelled me to do it. Not 1 so called Big, Decent, Pker of IC, Pawner of IC, came ahead to answer rexdude's question. U still wanna know why i was hated, read on,

Rexdude wrote
Here's my view on the thing:
1)-Jealousy: They have largely kept to themselves and leveled up on their own, so that everyone was 100+ when this whole controversy started.
2) Personal quarrel with individual members-so now the whole group is targeted.
3) 'How could they "betray" Quanato by moving to Temoz? Let's pk the hell out of them!" (It's the ultimate sacrilege you see, like cheering for pakistan in a cricket match or supporting kashmiri terrorism)
4) 'How dare IC expose the hatrel hackers? Why can't she mind her own business, and allow us to lvl up in hatrel and then go after noobs in C1? Let's get revenge by pking them!'
5) 'How dare they buy Lifey (see above), which was one of the most powerful chars in the game, ESPECIALLY after the char was used to hack hatrel? After all the sins of the original owner are carried forward.'
Do u all mean to say if you had the money to buy Lifestealer, you wouldn't have done so??
6) 'They share their chars between themselves.' As if nobody else does. Every damn char over 100 in the game is played by atleast a dozen different people and you can never know who you're talking to unless they identify themselves. Which every protectors member I've spoken to has done, regardless of what char they were playing.
To top it all, we have a loser sneaking up on lifey during a bosshunt, pking and then bragging here with a screenshot on the forums.
Like I said before, post a PvP screenshot of winning and we'll see.
To end it all-show me at least one act of wanton aggression that they did from BEFORE being chased out of Quanato, be it pking others or anything else, that should invite such reactions.
And on top of it no1- not a single person came to reply it. That shows how logical they were in hating me.

Neways so far as harward or iit is concerned, its just pure low rate of oppurtunities that girls get for higher education. And if u forget year on years , girls get top ranks in any degree course across any states in india. Only things that prevents them to go beyond is family and social pressure of not studying further.

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PWNING REFERS TO FRAGGING OR OWNING IN SLANG TERMS, OR PURELY DEFEATING! I DON'T THINK I NEED TO DEFINE ALL! IN THE NEUTRAL PUBLIC'S OPINION, WE ARE NOT TO RELATE TO THAT UNLESS A MEDIATOR COMES ALONG. BUT DIDN'T YOU GUYS LEAVE A3 COZ YOU WERE PKED NON-STOP? DIDN'T YOU CHANGE TOWNS FOR THE VERY SAME REASON? FEEL GOOD? WAT'S THE REASON TO FEEL GOOD?

AS FOR HARVARD AND IIT'S FEMALE STUDENT'S GET LOADS OF CONCESSIONS AND QUOTA! EVEN AFTER ALL SUCH BENEFITS, THEY DO NOT SEEM TO GATHER UP ENOUGH STRENGTH IN TERMS OF NUMBER. AS FOR THESE INSTITUES, THEY ONLY ALLOW YOU BASED UPON YOUR APTITUDE[READ BRAINS, UNDERSTANDING AND APPLICATION] AND NOT ON MUGGING SKILLS! AND DEGREE COURSES, GIRLS DO RANK HIGH, BUT WHEN IT COMES TO THE ENTRANCE EXAMS THAT ADMIT YOU TO SUCH COURSES, GIRLS HAPPEN TO TAKE THE BACK-SEAT MAJORITY OF THE TIME!

A RECENT EXAMPLE AS CITIED BY MY BIOLOGY PROFESSOR!
' THERE WAS A GIRL WHO PASSED OUT IN 2003 IN HIGHER SECONDARY EXAMS FROM MUMBAI, THE BOARD PAPER THAT YEAR WAS THE TOUGHEST EVER AND SHE HAPPENED TO BE ONE OF THE FEW WHO SCORED 100/100 IN THAT EXAM. SHE WAS ALSO THE MERIT RANKER 2 OR 3 I GUESS. BUT THEN CAME THE ENTRANCE EXAM WHICH REQUIRES YOUR UNDERSTANDING ABOUT THE SUBJECT. GUESS WHAT RANK SHE ACHIEVED?.............
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THE PERSON WHO RANKED FIRST WAS A MALE STUDENT WHO NEVER WAS CONSIDERED BRIGHT OR EXHUBERANT. A TIMID LIL FELLOW!

ALL TEACHERS WERE DAMN CONFUSED AS TO HOW THAT HAPPENED? SHE WAS DESCRIBED AS ONE OF THE BRIGHTEST STUDENTS. THERE WAS NO PROBLEMS BEFORE SHE APPEARED FOR THE EXAM, NO DISEASES OR ANYTHING.

[Xeaon]

Reasons why we left A3 :
1.Ateaz and silly used to lag a lot, could not play in higher maps. This should not be construed as we needed them for leeching, coz she was anyway hunting alone since we were 9x and she was 12x. That period was about a month. During that time either ic or tanish used to lead party to s1 taking peace/dkm/samdego to s1.
2.We as a kh had done almost evrything that a3 episode -1 had to offer, all except red boss. What else will u call killing 100 bosses evryday.
3.Our friend danito was already playing KOL when we started. Infact Tanish was also playing kol, had left it only coz me and ateaz compelled her to leave kol and rejoin a3 way back in november.
And lastly if ateaz comes back today to a3, i dont care about anyone else, i will still start playing a3 again. If u dont know i never played here for lev ups, i played here coz few dear ppl were here. So far as pking is concerned, we had taken yanaa nuisance long back. And oh yea didnt we had Life and whole temoz to back us up? Well we Never needed them, coz tanish was enuf (if u dont know she had soloed xplode and dawn both together with life id, and at time we left a3 there was nonefrom quanato, i repeat none from quanato, who was able to kick life or ateaz toon)
Hope this satisfies ur doubt why we left A3. (Pking my foot. As if i ever cared)
And btw, any mmorpg have two types of gameplay,
1.PVP
2.PVE
If someone likes/prefers pvp gameplay or likes to pk, it simply does not mean that he is a better mmorpg player. All it means is he is better PVP player. And so far liking is concerned, number of persons preferring both type of gameplays are divived, each saying other type of players suks.

[Eos]

Ok time for a little perspective...

First of all-ability to gain admission into IIT/Harvard is no indication of how smarter girls are than guys or vice versa. If you're going on about numbers-look at how many female applicants are for these places compared to the guys! It's still less by a significant number!
The reasons for this may vary-societal pressure as IC mentioned, conformance to stereotyping about girls not being suited to technical careers. What about the fact that women may not be interested in pursuing such careers? Millions of studies and even common experience will show how differently men and women think.
Compared to engg, look at how many women get into creative fields like advertising or media or journalism. In these same US universities look at the liberal arts courses and the like. They definitely take up those courses-it has more to do with how people are wired!
Where does the question of being smarter or better come in?


As for your example about the girl scoring more in board exam than entrance-don't u know what a huge difference there is between preparing for IIT (I'm assuming it was the IIT entrance being talked abt in ur example) and for class 12th?
Heck, if board toppers could get into IIT that easily, there'd be no need for all those coaching centers that ppl go to! The way u prepare for both is entirely different. Besides, how many IIT AIR 1 holders also simultaneously topped their 12th?

Oh and one more thing-CBSE results in the Chennai region have CONSISTENTLY shown girls scoring more marks than boys (if it means anything).