#gamers™

[astral-the-space-traveler]

Something I've noticed is that I really like video games but I absolutely despise the overall discussion about them online. I don't mean to generalize but there's a certain type of folks, I'll call them Gamers™, that just ruin everything about the medium.

The kind of people who will act like a bad game killed their family and made them watch, or spit just awful and hurtful things at people who have even the slightest difference in opinion about a game or character they like. I'm aware that it's not as cut and dry as that, but it's an ever present pattern.

#gaming #fandom #video games #gamers™

[mary-kasexual]

what if she was fucked up and evil actually

#total drama #td jasmine #pahkitew reverse au #my art #her whole thing is that shes really lazy and antisocial. she only really contributes whenever she absolutely has to & its always begrudging #also shes one of THOSE gamers. she'd 100% quote the “you're not a real gamer” copypasta word for word she is awful <3 #part of an antag alliance w sammy (who i plan on making a ref for later on along with amy) and frequently causes problems on purpose #love jasmine btw i need to post about her more because shes Awesomesauce™

[majimasleftasscheek]

kazumaji week 2023 day 5: domestic bliss 🥺

#gamers™ hate it when you give two quirky dudes married vibes and a sense of whimsy #yakuza #ryu ga gotoku #kiryu kazuma #majima goro #my art

[fullmoonfireball]

just got a vision of a world where Pikmin 4 was released over a decade earlier and Collin was one of those widely-performatively-overhated video characters like Navi or Omochao and i think i might throw up

#Rambles Into The Void #like you KNOW people in the 2010s would be drawing gratuitous art of him being killed to prove theyre Gamers™ #absolutely sickening i need to lay down

[junimo-hexed]

What video games do the Batfamily play? Part Tim Drake.

Alrighty. Let's start with the biggest gamer of the bunch.

To begin the games I will die on a hill to defend that he plays

Myst: it’s a classic puzzle game. Tim stands by it for being revolutionary for the time and helping to build the industry.

HOI4: Listen I cannot stress enough how much of a HOI4 fan Tim is. Obviously he falls into the bi socialist side of the venn diagram and avoids the other players at all costs, but damn does he love this game. It’s easily his most played game, he’s installed so many mods for it (yes included the mlp one), he typically goes socialist, but sometimes does anarchism, syndicalism, or communism just to change things up.

WoW: it's either this or League. Pick your poison. I don't know enough about either to say what he plays in them.

Other games

COD, listen y’all thought Jason would be the COD player. No it’s Tim.

TF2: I as a medic main cannot properly give an assessment of who Tim would play, but my picks are Spy, Demoknight, and Engineer.

That said he had also tried Overwatch, but he couldn't get into it as much.

Pathologic: again he's into niche games with a cult following and games that are known to be hard.

Inscryption

Pony Island

System Shock

Portal

Half-life

Quake

Doom

And much much more

Gamer preferences

Grand strategy, war games, mmorpgs, honestly any game that is widely known in gamer communities. He's not into cozy games and finds them boring and underestimating. Also not one for rhythm games, he doesn't have anything specific about them, just not for him.

PC gamer, Tim likes to mod and the freedom that being a PC gamer allows. He emulates anything not available and that he can’t find. He also owns just about every console and collects physical copies of games.

Tim uses Steam and has the highest level of everyone. He has the most games in his library by far and most of them he doesn't touch.

He's a completionist. He will 100% that game and he will get all of the achievements.

#tim drake #red robin #video games #batfam #Batfamily #batman #dc characters #dc comics #dc headcanon #hoi4 #myst #tf2 #overwatch slander #dc fanon #his preferences are very much based off my older brother #batman hc #gamer #gamer™

[mykocalico]

one of my sonas as a wyrm. just for fun... :3

i kind of want to update the ref sometime cuz it’s old but. i’m mostly just posting this silly doodle bc i might try taking a proper break from art for a bit so like. i wanted to post SOMETHING lol... but then maybe i won’t actually do that, the nd brain works in mysterious ways i might get bored of videogame in 5 seconds <3 cheers

#i dont feel like tagging this at all this post is for ppl already following me only i guess lol #i feel like i say this every time i post anything but i got a headache rn <3 i might honestly have a problem LMAO !!! #ive been playing rain world btw its realy good. fucking superb you funky little slug #ive been playin w cheats n cheat-y mods n its so epic i love when Gamers™ complain that thats RUINING the BALANCE or whatever grr grr #like yeah its a mod <3 im having more fun like this so i dont care bestie #anyway rain world good. hrhgh the creature

[b4kuch1n]

Your swsh art always makes me want to replay the game because i love it and its my favorite pokemon game and every time i play another pokemon game i think of it how i miss certain elements from swsh. Then i boot up the game and im once again caught in the 1 hour 40 minutes hand held intro and im like ah- now i remember why i have been playing other pokemon games instead of this one. Happy (late?) birthday!

you don't want to listen to hop? you don't want to hear him teach you about type matchups? you don't wanna let him cheer u on...? 🥺 waa....?

#ask #bakuspeech #I am joking to be clear lmao #thank u happy bday to me !! #tbh I got real used to pokemon overexpositioning since sumo lol. it's kind of a boon for me #cause I'm not a Gamer™ and my brain takes stuff on Very slowly #so the tutorial stuff and the cutscenes give me time to catch up. also it's still fun to see these guys run around #I am in fact here for these guys lol. weird thing to say about the game built on and with an essential focus on the pokemon I know #I just like humans! I just like watching hop running circles around my player character all excited #and leon being a dick to his hometown people when they're expecting 'leon' back and they get the champion instead #and you get to see sonia used to dealing with it but the frustration never fully fades and how close she is to hop and that picture's bleak #listen this is my bread&butter lol. leon really doesn't show up That much himself around the game he's a shadow casted over the story #it's always interesting to me! does Not mean it's not sluggish to other people who want to play the game lmao #but I like it. also the tutorial at least the first time around was necessary to me bc the difficulty scales way up later on lol #it's a very good first pokemon game I maintain this. sumo never managed to teach me the same way swsh did #I still care drampa tho thank u drampa for being real I love u #lmao it feels like saying I'm not a Gamer™ violates some tenets of having adhd somehow. but its just the case here #the main genres I play are 'itch games tangential to the haunted ps1 people' and 'popcap-style casual games' #my sport's figuring out shapes n movin my stylus sadly. well not sadly why would that be sad

[sally-mun]

OH BOY MY FIRST RAMBLE SINCE MY RETURN, now I'm really getting back in the swing of things

SO!

I noticed something about myself today

I have a history of getting to the very end of a video game and then just inexplicably just not finishing it. Like, literally I've made it to the final boss, this is THE LAST thing left to do, and I just... wander away and never return. I always attributed this to the weird amount of stress/anxiety I get while fighting bosses, as though I'm -actually- in danger in real life.

HOWEVER, it occurred to me today that it has nothing to do with that, and everything to do with another side of myself that I've known about for years: I fucking HATE having to do combat in video games. I know a lot of you guys live for it, but for me, it is just the fucking WORST. It's a shitty chore I have to do in order to get back to the things I actually like, such as the storytelling and puzzles and exploration. Low-level fights with average goons or minions don't particularly bother me, but anything that's meant to be a 'challenge' can fuck right off in my book. I'm not here for that, and I've often lamented that I wish boss fights could be skipped the way so many games give you the option to skip the story. Lots of players don't care about story and just see it as a delay to get back to fighting monsters, and I simply want the reverse. I want a button that'll let me bypass the bosses and skip straight to the next cut scene before turning me loose in the world again.

Anyway, I realized today that this... approach? Philosophy? POV? whatever it is, it's probably the real root of why I get to the end of a game and then fuck off. I only tolerate boss fights because I want to get back to the good stuff, but once you get to the end? There is no more good stuff. After the final boss you get one more cut scene and NO MORE GAME TO PLAY. Why would I want to bookend my experience with a game I've otherwise enjoyed with a chore that I hate?? I can just look the final cut scene up on Youtube and be just as satisfied.

The only time I'd really have significant motivation to do it is if the game actually does offer a post-game reward of some kind. For example, in Arkham City, you go back out into the overworld and can finish up any side quests you hadn't completed yet + get a couple extra quests that ONLY unlock after you've finished the main campaign. That's good shit, that's worth putting up with the final fight! Arkham City is also the type of game to offer a second quest/new game + scenario, where you get to replay the main campaign with different challenges and you start out already having all your equipment. That's also very cool, I'll put up with an annoying boss fight for that!

But for games where the game effectively never 'remembers' that you beat it? No thanks, I'm good, 99% is all I need.

#how many Gamers™ am I going to piss off with this post #OH WEEEEEEEELL #this came up because I've been replaying Twilight Princess and actually getting 100% #yet once I made it to Ganon's throne room I felt all my motivation evaporate in real time and I just suddenly turned the game off #this game ends in a FUCKING -FOUR- STAGE FINAL BATTLE ARE YOU SHITTING ME?? #thanks but no thanks couldn't care less #so long and thanks for all the fish

[jathun]

apparently?? there was a big babygirlification of simon "ghost" riley last year?? and a bunch of gamer-bros ™ got really goddamn mad?? and i just completely missed out on it??

#its funny how out of the loop i am sometimes #like to be fair #i am sometimes also a bit uncomfortable with how far some people online take the sexualisation of fictional characters #but at the same time #as someone who had a really shitty experience playing online when i was a kid #specifically because of THOSE types of gamer-bros ™ #its hilarious #cod #cod mw #terminally late to the party

[yournamekevi]

crying finally watching the rhythm heaven vod. chat's "um excuse me?!" reaction to dan fucking up at the tango practice but hitting perfects in the actual mini game is killing me

#rtgame #also the mini games where dan has a serious gamer™ face on but he's missing evey hit 👌🏾 love this man

[dimitrscu]

really need to get into bg3 so i can finally move on from elden ring. that game (fanbase) has been nothing but pain and suffering i actually feel like i’m starting to resent it now

#don’t get me wrong i love elden ring it’s just it’s whole online presence is awful #the fanbase is made up of primarily dudebros #it’s just… fucking terrible ngl #i have had to actively erase my yt history on the daily to remove anything er related because i end up seeing something- #-that will no doubt annoy me #reddit is.. well reddit #the sheer amount of r*pe comments i’ve seen about malenia over the past year and a bit is just insane #never going to forgive from for having her be naked in the game sorry i don’t care how artistic it’s supposed to be #or symbolic or whatever #gamers™ were always going to be weird about it let’s be honest #i think i just need something to take my mind off it at least till the dlc comes out #and then when the game becomes popular again and everything kicks off once more surely ppl will be normal right? …right?

[gallade-x-treme]

"as you can see i've knocked over many chairs because i get so tilted at the towers"

#Undead Unluck #Anno Un #Fuko Izumo #Andy #you see it's a Gamer™ pad

[bloodied-hunters]

Ah yes, falling off the edge and dying like a dumbass when fighting enemies. I can really feel the soulsborne in this game.

#lies of p #it happened twice now #and this is my fourth playthrough #i’m a great gamer ™

[miamigrandprix]

i got an xbox controller so i can play f122 properly uwu 🥰🥰

#i'm EXCITED #dylan r u proud of me im a real gamer girl™ now #she speaks #she plays f1 games

[dreadfulsanity]

Cyberpunk 2077: Celeb for Orion?

I have seen several discussion threads lately, asking what celeb people want to see in the next Cyberpunk 2077 game. And, surprise /s, most suggestions were white, male actors, with some PoC sprinkled in.

So, let's try to create a counter movement, shall we? Reblog with your female suggestion. And share for more visibility.

Michelle Rodriguez

Rooney Mara

Zazie Beetz

Uma Thurman

Danai Gurira

#cyberpunk 2077 #cyberpunk orion #which celeb should appear in the next cyberpunk game? #Well after keanu reeves and idris elba I think it's time for a badass woman to shine #even if the gamer boys™ will go completely nuts about it #fuck them anyway

[switchcase]

im an introject of a main character in a video game and i wanted to play the game so like i booted it up with the thought "okay! time to have some fun and play with myself" and i instantly got cut off by the host telling me to never word it like that again

which means im a comedy genius and i will always word it like that moving forward

Me when I blast you with the Learn How To Behave Around Strangers beam:

#But this was weird and you shouldn't talk like this to someone who does not know you and who you are not friends with #Since you are a Gamer™: I am an unromancable NPC who requires a secret mission and 500 hours of interaction to unlock One Friendship Point #I thought about just not answering this but since I have noticed a fair few of you getting over familiar in my inbox: Don't :) #ask #anonymous