"Gamer Girl"

A 20-something female looking to show the world of gaming what women can really do!

[estramor-deactivated20231029]

[gamingforgirls]

dear, dear hunter mine…

[thecomplaintionist]

you weren't so pro feminism when i met you

[thecomplaintionist]

[femhype]

The Dreaded Hardcore Gamer Test: Do You Use Default or Inverted Controls?

Recently, Kayla had an interesting idea to conduct a little FemHype survey with both our writers and friends in the community. Her question: just how many people use default or inverted controls and why? When researching this topic (which I’d previously thought was fairly innocuous), the results prove that, yet again, gatekeeping culture seems to affirm that using inverted controls is “a huge annoyance” to the default crowd and that you should “never, ever [use] it when other people are around.” Cool. Because we absolutely need more reasons to divide the gaming community, especially when it comes to basic accessibility, right? Ugh.

So I turned to our lovely community on Tumblr first, putting the question to them in an informal poll just to get a sense of where everyone felt comfortable. As always, you had quite a few interesting responses to share!

meganeburhapsody: I think that inverted can be really good for people who need a different scheme, but I tend to stick to Default personally.

rainbows-lets-plays-personal: Default. I look like a drunk monkey when I attempt inverted controls lol

supercellcomic: I feel like developers can’t agree on what “inverted” means tho

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[gamingforgirls]

I personally use the default controls, and so does my brother, who really is the one who got me into gaming -- he had the consoles, not me, so I just played on his. It never occurred to me to change the controls, especially since I didn’t want to do anything that might piss off my brother and get me banned from using his stuff.

My friend, however, cannot function without inverted controls. She’s mainly played on a PS2, so when she played Portal 2 co-op with me on my Xbox 360, she had to deal with my default controls AND a new controller. We quickly realized she was having trouble just functioning and so I switched her over to inverted controls (only y-axis was available) and she did much better. She wasn’t happy that x-axis wasn’t available -- she’d turn around full circle because it was easier for her than getting used to it not being inverted. Apparently, there was a game that she played a ton on the PS2 that had fully inverted controls and now that’s just how she plays.

[pokephrases]

Well… bye.

[once-a-traya]

The Lost Jedi discuss taking on Kreia

[once-a-traya]

not pictured:

- the dawning realization that the guy with the most combat experience and the longest acquaintance with kreia wasn’t talking out of his ass 

- mical saying “i’ve made a huge mistake”

- atton answering every question with ‘I TOLD YOU SO’ the whole way home

[gamingforgirls]

I was never able to get this cutscene. Is there anything special you have to do?

[themarysue]

Survey Shows Even Teenage Boys Think Women Are Over-Sexualized in Video Games

Dubious game developers and Twitter trolls will now have to look elsewhere for backup when it comes to telling us "SJWs" that there's nothing wrong with the portrayal of women in video games.

A survey has found that most teenage boys—despite common wisdom to the contrary—don’t want women to be over-sexualized in their video games.

[gamingforgirls]

when i use a health potion: nice

when my enemy uses a health potion: FUCKING CHEATER

[geekymerch]

Birthday giveaway - 17 prizes, 3 winners

To celebrate our fourth birthday we’re throwing a huge giveaway for our amazing followers! Some of the best geeky creators have come together to provide an array of amazing prizes just for you - and like all our other giveaways it’s completely legit!

THREE lucky winners will each have the opportunity to pick 4 prize bundles!

Prize bundles available:

A 12 Month Subscription to Loot Crate

Okay? Okay. Wooden Earrings from PartialToJam

Iron Man Ladies T-shirt from What Heroes Wear

Captain America Choker and Necklace from April’s Daughter

Two Star Trek Pillow Cases from ToBoldlyHold

Anatomical Heart and Pi Necklaces from Boutique Academia

Bioshock Trilogy for Steam provided by Geeky Merch

Doctor Who Magnets from TheArtofFlying

Platform 9 & ¾ Tank Top from The Colorful Geek

Glow in the Dark Moon Necklace from Lost in Space Jewelry

The Hobbit Hand Painted Shoes from WhiskeyFoxtrot

Adventure Time Sticker Set from amylynnamylynn

3D Printed Kylo Ren Lightsaber from My Mini Factory

Set of 3 Supernatural Nail Varnishes from IncidentalTwin

1 of 2 Celebi T-Shirts from Daniel Bevis

Attack on Titan Shoulder Bag from BlueRobotto

Signed copy of Strange Biology from Kristen Hugo  

To enter, follow geekymerch and reblog this post. Click here for further rules and information.

[marvelicious-livejournal-blog]

[gamingforgirls]

When the heck is this game coming out? Square Enix didn’t say anything about it at their E3 press conference.

[keldornfirecam-archive]

[hardcoregamer]

Journey Will Release on PlayStation 4 July 21, Sony Confirms

Additionally, the release of Journey will support Cross buy. If players have digitally purchased the game already for PlayStation 3, players can download it for free for PlayStation 4.

Check it!

http://www.hardcoregamer.com/2015/07/07/journey-will-release-on-playstation-4-july-21-sony-confirms/157646/

[lcp0110]

when ur friend is stuck in a video game and u know u could do it but u dont want to be rude but it physically pains u to watch

when they finally get fed up and hand u the controller

[gamingforgirls]

Oh man, this happened in Portal when my friend for some reason could not get her timing on platform-jumping right.

And she played with an inverted controller so I was ALL messed up, but still nailed it.

[purple-yoshi]

[theomeganerd]

Star Wars Battlefront Closed Alpha Hoth & Tatooine Screens

[34283493280498324-deactivated20]

It’s like he went through another puberty and finally got enough sleep!!

[geekremix]

Josie and Lilly gave him a makeover and you know it. 

[gamingforgirls]

Inspiration that you will get through those awkward younger years and turn into a mane-wearing commander.

[thelifeandtimesofvictoria]

Late night drawing. I’ve never really been very good at drawing before, but I’ve been wanting to try again. There’s no way I could draw this without a reference, but I figure it’s a pretty good start.

I’m proud of it!

[gamingforgirls]

I’ve been watching a lot of anime lately, y’all. It’s made me want to try out drawing.

[dindril]

They are really loud. [Source] -Please Support the Artist-