EPTStop being such a victim and thinking you are hated only because you are a girl. It's not like every single male that has a bit of e-fame is universally loved. Have you read the shit guys like husky or TB get?
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Sotamursu
Finland612 Posts
Stop being such a victim and thinking you are hated only because you are a girl. It's not like every single male that has a bit of e-fame is universally loved. Have you read the shit guys like husky or TB get? | ||
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Servius_Fulvius
United States947 Posts
Right there with you when it came to chat room addictions! The AOL teen only rooms and the teen relationship forums. Good times! Though, I did get our AOL account suspended a number of times (I would troll people who wanted cyber sex by role playing their scenario and then burning them to death with a flamethrower), and in retrospect that all happened about the time online predator awareness started increasing. The stuff you do when you're a a teenager, right? | ||
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krndandaman
Mozambique16569 Posts
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Zidane
United States1692 Posts
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Gummy
United States2180 Posts
I guess you can only blame society or just ignore the dickbags. Obviously it's pretty hard on the internet when you first realize 70% of "people" you encounter on the internet will give you flames. When you realize 80% of those "people" are just gongryong, you feel better. | ||
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novabossa
United States350 Posts
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Kurr
Canada2338 Posts
On July 15 2011 02:02 Riku wrote: Haha, a very interesting article. It made me smile. Yeah, I have an knack for overestimating the kindness I'll be treated with (like with that WoW forum post... *shudder*). Geez, maybe that has to do with the incredibly condescending tone of your posts. Someone asks a perfectly legitimate question about you posting that picture when you said you hated the response, and you respond that he has no integrity? Get off your high horse. You clearly expect special treatment (and certain posters are glad to oblige as always) when you insult an entire community because they aren't agreeing with everything you say. | ||
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Torenhire
United States11681 Posts
On July 15 2011 01:53 Gann1 wrote: that's a mistake a lot of people make. don't worry about it Doesn't really have to be on TL, either. I found out today one of my coworkers was right behind a big accident, where a lady rolled her SUV over trying to dodge a guy running a red light. His first reaction? Take pictures with his Ipad of course! I wanted to punch him in the face. Haha. I find that if you generally assume that people are going to be assholes, it lets you pick out the nice people easier, instead of assuming everyone is going to be nice and finding out that they're mostly assholes. Kind of how I work it out. | ||
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Gann1
United States1575 Posts
On July 15 2011 02:04 Fireflies wrote: Not a Flash or Jaedong... she wasn't even a Backho or Iron. Anyway, well done Riku for making one of the most boastful and egotistical posts I have ever seen on TL. my dream girl beat effort once sure it was one game in bo3 but don't insult her she is the love of my life | ||
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StorkHwaiting
United States3465 Posts
On July 15 2011 01:19 Chill wrote: http://bookblog.net/gender/genie.php http://www.hackerfactor.com/GenderGuesser.php That is the strangest analysis I've ever seen for gender-based writing. Anything referring to gender or subject is female. Anything related to positional or object is male? That sounds nonsensical to me. Almost any first-person sample of writing would automatically be considered female in that case. | ||
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KeksX
Germany3634 Posts
This is pretty much everything I can say about this. Not everyone will act weird, and if they do, they're probably weirdos anyway. | ||
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Gummy
United States2180 Posts
On July 15 2011 02:07 Torenhire wrote: Doesn't really have to be on TL, either. I found out today one of my coworkers was right behind a big accident, where a lady rolled her SUV over trying to dodge a guy running a red light. His first reaction? Take pictures with his Ipad of course! I wanted to punch him in the face. Haha. I find that if you generally assume that people are going to be assholes, it lets you pick out the nice people easier, instead of assuming everyone is going to be nice and finding out that they're mostly assholes. Kind of how I work it out. I find myself oftentimes forgetting gender on the internet (unless voicechat is involved), which is probably why I used so many masculine pronouns in your last work blog, even though I had read your blogs before and knew somewhere in the back of my head that you were female. I think most people on TL have what you might consider "integrity" but integrity really only falls on intention. How people implement that intention might be wildly different, and there will certainly be sections of that spectrum of implementation that might make you feel uncomfortable. There are probably those that genuinely might not guess you are female upon first reading of your other blogs (your work blog for example, was as legitimately gender neutral as one might expect), yet in response to that you got a huge variety of responses from (mostly) good-intentioned people. They varied from a white-knighters to gender-ignorant idiots(like me). There will be people who will, in jest, tell you to make them sandwiches or that women belong in the kitchen, etc... There will be people who will say "omg she is sooooo hawt! I think I'm in love!" and there will be people who will say." Most of them are probably not persons of low integrity, but simply people who get carried away by the popular humor and potentially sexist memes of the internet. Or people who genuinely think you are pretty and are creepy secret admirers. | ||
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Mortality
United States4790 Posts
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mdb
Bulgaria4059 Posts
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Gann1
United States1575 Posts
-she posts a lot of blogs that generate many comments - i like to read things - i like Riku blogs because they provide a lot of reading material | ||
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Skyze
Canada2324 Posts
On July 15 2011 01:56 Louuster wrote: Idra also made tossgirl cry. Hopefully that doesnt happen to eve. And Tossgirl beating Reach made him retire, or something like that?? Look at it from Tossgirl's eyes; everytime she reads a forum like this one she reads thru 100s of pages of "why is she even playing SC, shes only here because of her looks, etc etc" and she really looked at IdrA like he was the worst player in Korea being the only foreigner.. So she cracked under the pressure and lost to him (anyone can lose one game), to her that was like confirming the doubt from reading all the bashing posts, to lose to someone who had no business being in korea, She was probably thinking "maybe they are right".. That was probably her thought-process at the time. Girls are more open to their emotions, and she cried. Big deal. Whats the difference between crying or saying "Fuck you" like IdrA did in a streamed match? both are rage, cept one is highly unprofessional and the other is just a sad side-story. Players cry all the time after losing games. The pressure on girl progamers is so massive, you will never understand. Every single game she lost, every forum was posting "OMG shes the worst ever" and every single game she won, such as beating Reach, [NC]Yellow or FreeMura, she was met with "wow she got lucky".. It was totally unfair for her everytime, even though she put up results that ANYONE would be proud of, something that only a handful of foreigners have done (not idra in bw) Really.. How many of the Tossgirl bashers can say they beat Reach and Yellow in a televised event in BW?? The fact shes even there should get respect regardless of what sex she is. | ||
Jibba
United States22883 Posts
For instance, to me it sounds like you used to be a shit druid. Do you think your guild was above what you deserved? Obviously it's a two-way relationship between player and guild and they can do whatever the fuck they want, but if I were an outsider pugging with you, I would probably call you out for being a shit druid. Teslyn, a well known priest from the guild Gentleman's Club, was fucking terrible yet she had her spot and gear guaranteed because the guild had half naked pictures of her (she later moved onto a porn career.) Assuming you've graduated into a good WoW player, you can see how infuriating someone like her would be and even though the blame should be entirely placed on the idiot guildleaders for feeding her, sometimes the rage just slips out of frustration. On account of her vagina, she'll attract more fans than anti-fans no matter how terribly she plays. Now why don't I think that applies to you on these forums? Put simply, you're a good writer and your stories are compelling. I don't look at most of the pics, but I do honestly wish more people on TL could write as well as you do. The 'attention whore' label is basically unavoidable on the internet at this point in society, and of course that's unfortunate, but take solace in the fact that most of the people using that term haven't put enough thought into it to actually create meaning behind their words. The casual insults and 1 star ratings will keep coming, but you're not likely to face a very compelling argument against your behavior. And when those people (Kiante) venture out into the world and meet real women, they'll find that all women (and really all people) seek attention. And then they'll get married (Serejai) and almost immediately, their significant other will stop caring about their attention, and they'll go back to hating the people who seek it. It's a cruel circle of love. As for the slutty almost-beef lips Alexstraza, I mean yeah, but that's how Blizzard designed her. Gamers love it when developers give them midriffs and cleavage, but as soon as a real girl displays them they go haywire and start attacking? That's a bit of a non-sequitur. Yes it's unfair that if you say you're a women some nerds will jump all over you, but at the same time, you're playing an online game; there's no need to reveal your personal information to random people. Letting everyone know you're a girl won't make killing things more fun. If no one asks, don't say you're a girl. If someone does ask, say you are. If they make a big deal out of it put them on ignore and call them out for being lame fucks. This line of thought is terribad. I'm glad there's so many supporters of Don't Ask/Don't Tell on TL. | ||
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Riku
United States1064 Posts
On July 15 2011 01:56 Louuster wrote: Idra also made tossgirl cry. Hopefully that doesnt happen to eve. Don't search "idra tossgirl cry" and go to the fourth link. Just don't. On July 15 2011 02:04 Fireflies wrote: Not a Flash or Jaedong... she wasn't even a Backho or Iron. Anyway, well done Riku for making one of the most boastful and egotistical posts I have ever seen on TL. ...what? O.o On July 15 2011 02:05 N3rV[Green] wrote: You were about a year and a half late for that side of TL, SC2 did a good job of messing that up. Either way, you've had a pretty sweet life, and we both played RO wayyyyy back in the day and had pretty much identical experiences cept I was a dude who flirted with the girls on the forum I used. Just keep on rockin it and doin what you do. Also these blogs have been a wonderful read every time, thank you so much for giving me so much to read! Haha, awesome! Did you play a sinx, too, or did you play a different class? I'm glad you enjoyed the blog and didn't mind that it is so damn long! On July 15 2011 02:05 Sotamursu wrote: Why exactly are you blogging? Because after reading the OP it sounds like you do it just for the possible positive feedback. Did you really start a blog on TL just because you thought it would give you more positive comments? Stop being such a victim and thinking you are hated only because you are a girl. It's not like every single male that has a bit of e-fame is universally loved. Have you read the shit guys like husky or TB get? I'm blogging for two reasons: 1) I want to see what it is like to try to come up with interesting things to write about on a regular basis so I can see about pursuing my dream of starting a gaming/geek/cosplayer news website. 2) I LIKE IT! Seriously, I used to keep a diary when I was younger, but didn't feel compelled to keep writing, though I know I really enjoy it when I do write. I've had 2 other blogs previously and really appreciated writing both of them. They are really good to reflect upon and they keep up my writing abilities when I am taking almost strictly technical classes at school. I don't think I'm only hated because I'm a girl. I think I'm hated because of my personality, the topics of my blogs and the way I treat certain subjects, but I'm not stupid enough to not think my gender plays a role. It obviously does. On July 15 2011 02:05 Servius_Fulvius wrote: Guy seriously ask you out over WoW?! That is quite awkward... Right there with you when it came to chat room addictions! The AOL teen only rooms and the teen relationship forums. Good times! Though, I did get our AOL account suspended a number of times (I would troll people who wanted cyber sex by role playing their scenario and then burning them to death with a flamethrower), and in retrospect that all happened about the time online predator awareness started increasing. The stuff you do when you're a a teenager, right? @.@ Seriously... On July 15 2011 02:07 Kurr wrote: Geez, maybe that has to do with the incredibly condescending tone of your posts. Someone asks a perfectly legitimate question about you posting that picture when you said you hated the response, and you respond that he has no integrity? Get off your high horse. You clearly expect special treatment (and certain posters are glad to oblige as always) when you insult an entire community because they aren't agreeing with everything you say. I think you seriously misinterpreted my reply. I clearly wasn't saying that he had no integrity, only the people who went ape-shit over my picture (which also isn't insulting the entire community, jesus, I think you just want to be mad at me). I would like absolutely no special treatment. In fact, I wish people would pay more attention to my game and food reviews than my personal blogs. But, alas, there are only so many games and foods I can write on. On July 15 2011 02:20 Mortality wrote: I'm surprised that you would feel sick to your stomach about comments people made over the internet when you were willing to wear such a, ehem, provocative outfit. Especially when said comments come from places like Something Awful. This is why guys don't understand girls. They also came from places like MMO-Champion. Alexstrasza was my favorite character of WotLK, should I really not cosplay her because she's wearing bikini bottoms? Admittedly, I thought my costume would fit a little differently, but I wasn't going to throw away three months of work because of it. | ||
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Gummy
United States2180 Posts
On July 15 2011 02:20 Mortality wrote: I'm surprised that you would feel sick to your stomach about comments people made over the internet when you were willing to wear such a, ehem, provocative outfit. Especially when said comments come from places like Something Awful. This is why guys don't understand girls. So imagine that you are an reasonably attractive engineering student who spent a lot of time crafting a cool costume (and probably spent a bit of time in the gym making sure your fat ass could do the costume justice). Imagine you got to showcase your effort in the perfect cosplay venue and that you are legitimately proud of what you have produced. Now imagine people calling you a slut or all kinds of unsavory things on the internet for putting due effort into your hobby. This is not hard to understand at all. | ||
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mdb
Bulgaria4059 Posts
On July 15 2011 02:23 Gann1 wrote: for me, its pretty obvious that Riku has a place in the teamliquid community. -she posts a lot of blogs that generate many comments - i like to read things - i like Riku blogs because they provide a lot of reading material Dude, be real. Its in the nature of every woman to be attention whore. Do you really think riku wants to teach us how to make cossplay costumes or she wants our attention by showing her naked body? I cant see how this fits here. User was temp banned for this post. | ||
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