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That’s an interesting study. It makes sense that dominance-seeking behavior follows a ‘low-risk, high-reward’ strategy across species. The connection between status, objectification, and primate behavior is fascinating—wonder if similar patterns appear in different cultural contexts.
Just remember that evolutionary biology is largely considered quack science, often by evolutionary biologists themselves (at least in terms of how ev-bio is used to write papers and books about how horny men and women act in bars, and why your Tinder profile isn't working and what it "means" when she texts you a certain way.)
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Counter Strike was way better when this was the vibe. I am so tired of competitive this and gun case that. I've never been interested in 5v5 scrimming in any serious way, but that's all CS2 wants me to do.
I want gun game, I want wc3, I want ZM. I want quirky custom maps (glass!) and quake sounds and !bet ct all. I want to fuck around with new friends on a server for an evening, not to sweat my balls off throwing practiced smokes on dust2.
And the old WCFAN (We Couldn't Find A Name) servers, what was it called again, I think hillbreak? That was fun!
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I was a Halo 3 try hard and if anything I was nicer to female voices because I stupidly wanted to woo them. IDK exactly what the logistics of that would have been thinking back.
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I'm glad, because you're talking nonsense.
what you're referring to is a time when you were a kid and didn't realize the politics. now you're aware of it and are acting like it's new. this is just illiteracy.
Ugh. Thank you, I was just about to say it myself. There's been politics in games for forever. Even the simplest shit like, "environmental destruction bad, so Sonic fight Eggman"
People are just too dumb to realize that they were kids back then...
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Incel in a nutshell:
Weird Al, take that one with my blessing and run for the hills...
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Hate is often just a reflection of insecurities and a product of attempting to alleviate cognitive dissonance. Someone feels scared, doesn't like feeling that way, and so converts their fear into anger -- misdirected at someone else.
Balance is the key. True that fear leads to anger and anger to hatred and a path of the dark side, but the Jedi were also guilty of dealing in absolutes until they were fighting outright fascism via space capitalism and clone contracts they built killed them all.
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Ugh. Thank you, I was just about to say it myself. There's been politics in games for forever. Even the simplest shit like, "environmental destruction bad, so Sonic fight Eggman"
People are just too dumb to realize that they were kids back then...
even mechanics can be unintentionally political. there was a really cool errant signal video years ago talking about civilization games. it was mostly about what the games idea of a "civilization" is and how the win conditions reinforced the idea that one civilization has to be the superior one to rule them all...
but also these ideas were further reinforced by the way barbarians were depicted. that word already has baggage but the interesting thing is that in civ4 they share a banner with wildlife. like, they're almost like animals or natural disasters and not people at all.
what conservatives don't understand is that you can think about things like this and acknowledge what they mean and still enjoy the game and or understand why these choices were made. they're not necessarily political choices as much as they're mechanical, but that doesn't mean we can't think about what mechanical choices might mean to the player, or what messages they send. if video games are art, they can—and I would say must—be critiqued.
fear of change is at the core of conservatism, and that drives their utter aversion to introspection, and also to criticism of things and people they like. and vice versa, they can't bring themselves to appreciate any part of anything they don't like. if they like a person they can do no wrong. if they like a game it must be perfect. if they dislike a song it's the harbinger of the fall of civilization (ooh look at me bringing it full circle).
in a world of absolutes, there can be no discussion. don't ask me to think about things please. leave your thoughts and opinions out of my fun time, lest my views get challenged. this is what's funny about the likes of ben shapiro pretending that they have the facts while liberals are too emotional. their entire world view is based on their feels, and their arguments follow those as justification.
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Nobody ever claimed pubstompers were good people. We pubstomp precisely because we're not
I’m hoping this is sarcasm, otherwise that is an interesting thing to be proud of.
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I’m hoping this is sarcasm, otherwise that is an interesting thing to be proud of.
I'm not a misogynist but anybody who consistently scores top on a public server pretty much is a pubstomper asshole by definition. And I have certainly been that. You don't do it for the challenge, or you'd be doing league and more competitive modes.
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Of course not. Especially with supportive people like you
Just seen your edit. Before I answer this question, are you seriously asking to be judged fairly after judging others unfairly?
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Why did you comment this? Seems like a waste of time.
Why did you reply to my comment? Seems like a waste of time.
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So my transition from cringe lord to become a better individual overall is actually just me getting better at video game? Fair enough
Absolutely.
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Of course not. Especially with supportive people like you
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This is part of why confidence is attractive.
It isn't that confident humans of the male reproductive caste treat women more flippantly; it's that actual competency correlates with not being as much of an insufferable whiny piece of shit.
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Reminds me of this: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0361684319871913
In short. The higher the social status of the woman compared to the man, the more likely the man is to sexually objectify her. Wheras women aren't more likely to do this based on relative status.
Objectification is defined as reducing a person to solely looks and sexual function.
Similar stuff is seen in primates. Females are easier targets to assert dominance over. Since they are physically weaker. Male long tail maqacues losing their status, would seek out younger/weaker targets to establish dominance over. Something that was interesting too, is that female maqacues with more masculine facial features, were less often subjected to dominance seeking behaviour (from both males and females if I recall correctly) than females with more feminine faces.
It seems to boil down to "who can I dominate with little risk?" Female? Easy. Big male? Stupid idea. Young male? No problem. Male of equal size? Potentially.
That thing about macaques reminds me of a conversation I had as a kid, about this one deep-voiced female politician who child me was confused by. Photo here - the woman on the right.
After ages of talking about fashion choices and personal preferences my mother finally snapped and said something along the lines of "she's like that so the men in Parliament will treat her like a man because they don't treat women as well as men and they won't let her have a good job in the Government unless she's like a man".
Couple of decades later, that same woman became the first elected female Prime Minister of New Zealand.
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Men get shat on as well but, I guess we are n9t going to address that huh, if you're going to virtue-signal as an Egalitarian, then act the part
& ah the incel slur, what are you ??
A sex-obsessed creep ?Should I be worried about your mental well-being ?
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I got hit on a couple times in Starcraft 2 of all games just because I had a feminine-sounding username. I literally got "damn girl, look at that MMR" once and it's so funny.
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That summary may also explain why some men are so insecure about women earning more money than them too.
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work to improve the skill gap or draw 20
acknowledge that one singular woman is currently better than you at this one particular skill or draw 20
man it's like there are options that don't involve aggression towards another person for… not being bad at a video game
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Men get shat on as well but, I guess we are n9t going to address that huh, if you're going to virtue-signal as an Egalitarian, then act the part
& ah the incel slur, what are you ??
A sex-obsessed creep ?Should I be worried about your mental well-being ?
Take your mask off and see what happens, incel. It's always the same fucking formula, go and whine about your own tiny little insecurities every single time anything about women's experience is highlighted.
You'd find something between your ribs irl real quick if you took off your mask around the people in your life and they found out how incapable you are of even reading about half the population of the Earth's perspective without self inserting your pathetic insecurities.
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