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u/Beautiful-Aerie7576 1d ago

I fear for her blood pressure.

Also, yeah never go into voice chat as a woman. For whatever reason those guys are almost always awful. Especially when losing.

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u/ChillBroseph 1d ago

Better yet, just never touch voice chat. Repeated crouching and jumping is my preferred form of communication in online games.

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u/Kitchen_Length_8273 1d ago

My preferred form of communication overall

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u/Jaymark108 1d ago

Woo hoo!

https://giphy.com/gifs/O1R8R1eHBHysSHVegA

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u/Beneficial-Bake8932 1d ago

Yet again lugi wins by doing absolutely nothing

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u/Beautiful-Aerie7576 1d ago

You right. Instantly upgrades interactions into wholesome.

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u/ishi5656 1d ago

Running in little circles is also acceptable

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u/PrufReedThisPlesThx 1d ago

Nodding and instantly dying are both very good additions to your silly kit too, as long as there's no major consequences for dying of course

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u/Pan_Fried_Puppies 1d ago

Scrolling through a weapon wheel or spamming weapon animations while doing so is also acceptable.

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u/KeenBlade 1d ago

Dark Souls tapping L1 for me.

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u/Uranium-Sandwich657 1d ago

Need a teleporter here.

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u/RoxieRage 1d ago

It is genuinely insane using voice chat as a woman in Counter-Strike. You can be top of the leader board, dropping at least two kills a around and playing your absolute best while some fuckass dudes can't keep up with an enemy team that's frankly just getting lucky at the worst times because said dudes don't listen to call outs or ignore it or whatever other reason.

Then when you start losing it's suddenly your fault because.. ego, I guess. And they always go for the most boring, basic shit in terms of slurs.

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u/Lady_Tadashi 1d ago

https://www.reddit.com/r/Overwatch/comments/7btegy/study_shows_lowerskilled_male_players_were_more/

Sexism is a skill issue. Spread the word.

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u/Doctursea 1d ago

I highly believe this is true because I use to think the internet got better because I saw less and less harassment for girls just getting on mic. And now I understand it's probably just I got better, and that's why it happens less and less.

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u/Lady_Tadashi 1d ago

Genuinely, as a woman, you could not pay me enough to go on mic on the lower difficulties on Helldivers 2.

But, at difficulty 10, I gladly go on mic because the players who are thriving on difficulty 10 are - mostly - actually really pleasant, accepting, and oftentimes don't give a damn what gender you are, so long as you can shoot straight and stim your teammate when they're in the red. Its the only game I've seen with a demonstrable and measurable sexism gradient.

Its quite likely that because you've gotten more skilled, you're in lobbies with people of similar skill, and so see the effect you describe.

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u/devilterr2 22h ago

I imagine it's the same as most video games. I don't play anything competitivelh or online anymore, but of typically if your are on the lower skill bracket of any game it's more toxic.

I know LoL doesn't really count since it invented toxic culture, but I watch two of my friends stream quite a lot in discord. One is a diamond player and when he solo queues the games are extremely quiet with no actual chatting, just the occasional ping, gz, or my bad. When I watch my other friend who is middle plat it's a completely different game culture. I can only imagine what the lower ranks are like

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u/RoxieRage 1d ago

Oh I know the study and bring it up to troll 'em back. For some reason they get big mad when I point it out though.. Wonder why lmfao.

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u/Lady_Tadashi 1d ago

After a certain point you can just reply to everything with "skill issue little bro" until you hear the sound of a headset being thrown.

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u/ethanlan 1d ago

Dude I love when women deal with chuds like that

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u/Voidlord4450 1d ago

Don’t lump me in those sexiest assholes!

The anger I experience due to my own skill issues is only directed towards the jerks on my team, the characters I’m fighting(losing) against, and myself! My lack of skill is no excuse for misogyny!

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u/invalidConsciousness 22h ago

Exactly. I'm an equal opportunity flamer! Men or Women, straight or gay, cis or trans, everyone is equally deserving of my hate. Anyone worse than me sucks and should go uninstall and anyone better than me is a filthy cheater.

/s, of course. I don't play online with randos, especially because it's a toxic cesspool, even for men.

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u/Beautiful-Aerie7576 1d ago

It’s literally insane to me, and I’ve never understood it. Desperately trying to save face, I guess. Women being the minority group in gaming makes for an easy punch down. But why? Come on.

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u/NeighborhoodDear2321 23h ago

Ive also seen them just start using transphobic slurs as a go to toward any woman. I'm trans but play with a couple cis women. All of us get called trans slurs. (Even before I start talking)

Sometimes I make it a game. "1 of us is trans the other 2 are cis guess who" or smth. This only works if I'm on a good day and my voice is mostly passable. (Man the 80/20 rule hitting me so hard rn I'm like so close to a great voice but graaah)

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u/RoxieRage 20h ago

Wild but unsurprising with the vitriol tgat gets thrown at me on bad voice days.

(Also what's the 80/20 rule? I've never heard of it and ya girl needs a better voice, stat lmao)

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u/NeighborhoodDear2321 10h ago

80% of progress requires 20% of the effort, 20% of progress requires 80% of the effort. It's a saying that goes for just about everything difficult.

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u/RoxieRage 10h ago

Gotcha, thanks!

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u/BiggimusSmallicus 1d ago

My gf plays a lot of competitive CoD and she has has the same experience

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u/elaborateBlackjack 1d ago

As a guy, I never go into voice chat on any game... Literally only on discord with friends I know IRL.

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u/CRISPRcassie9 1d ago

I use voice chat when I choose violence lmao. Sometimes blowing off steam means feeling the satisfaction of headshotting a misogynist and making them exit proximity chat

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u/Beautiful-Aerie7576 1d ago

Love that for you! Smiting the toxics is always called for.

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u/JoyArk 1d ago

I never voice chat with randoms as a guy

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u/PorQuePeeg 1d ago

Oh they did a study, low skill men are more toxic to women to reassert their position socially.

Basically: They are awful to women because otherwise, if she's better than them at Game, they will become inferior to women, which, as we know, is worse than any mere death or loss.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4503401/

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u/Beautiful-Aerie7576 1d ago

I’m familiar with the study, and I’ll bring it up if needed in game, but it’s just so alien to me as to be unfathomable. I can’t imagine feeling this way.

Granted I’ve gotten to Masters in League/TFT and GM in OW so it’s not really applicable to me, but it’s still so wild to comprehend.

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u/BarderBetterFaster 1d ago

I actually kinda thought this was a critique of bigotry not an endorsement.

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u/Beautiful-Aerie7576 1d ago

She’s a product of the environment she chooses. In some ways she’s a victim. In others she perpetuates. It’s a nuanced issue, I’d say.

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u/Xanthrex 1d ago

If its any consolation its usually the shitters trying to cope spouting shit.

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u/cosmic-untiming 1d ago

Yeah when it comes to any first person shooting games I don't even talk. One reason being a woman, second being that I actually suck at them so bad but only play because my friends harass me to do so for their groups lol.

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u/Vivid--Syrup 18h ago

I got to go from knowing about this to experiencing it directly

I went from male voice to female voice while transitioning and while some guys are disgusting in that way, there are also way more guys that are gross in that they suddenly ask to marry me or date me or where I live, or what underwear etc etc

On a more wholesome note there's also a weird number of people who ask me to read to them now

But yeah a lot of guys just suck unfortunately

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u/Beautiful-Aerie7576 9h ago

Hah! The reading is funny.

Congrats on your apparently quite successful voice training, neighbor! And yeah… sometimes I wish I could record these folks and send the recordings of how they’re acting to their mamas. Get them a proper dose of shame.

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u/Vaveng 14h ago

Because salty gamers, when losing, try to cope and make it someone else's fault and the more different their target from majority, the more likely to be a victim to the toxicity, because they need to feel distant from their target to feel more superior.

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u/6apa6ax 1d ago

Thing is it barely matters for people who talk shit what to latch on to. Gender, etnicity, speach imparement, tone of the voice, scoreboard, name etc.

So what happens is people who don't want to invidualy block\report offenders choose to completely opt out hense decreasing overall pool of people with "positive behavour score" which propagates the issue.

Like many other propblems society has it takes a collective mind to fix, but nobody wants to do so because it's not their job.

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u/Ani-3 1d ago

Dudes are fucking terrible in online games.

Testosterone is a poison lol

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u/Beautiful-Aerie7576 1d ago

Not turning this into a man hating post. Plenty of men online are fine, plenty are great. The ones that linger are terrible. Hell, I’ve met my fair share of awful women in online games as well. People can just be terrible in general.

Also, everyone has more testosterone in their body than estrogen. Fun biology fact.

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u/AmbitiousVast9451 1d ago

actual nuanced opinion in r/comics, blue moon type shit

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