Maxim gamer girl competition. - Page 45

On April 10 2012 23:29 HotShizz wrote:


In short because of the "he he." If Flower were to have said "I wish I could vote for Scarlett to show that as a community we are very mature and believe that Scarlett is qualified to be a spokes person for this community, despite being transgendered," that is a mature response, instead the "he he" means, I am not at all mature and am making a joke about someone. Furthermore, said person was enough of a hot button topic that they but a warning in the IPL LR thread to say stop talking about it, which means that it had already caused moderation problems. I can't say that I agree with Scarlett's gender decisions, but that is her decision and hers alone, so no one has any right to poke fun at her because her decision isn't "normal."

Lastly, a low post count and troll statement usually results in harsher disciplinary action than someone who has been around a long time. There is also a ban list thread somewhere you can check out to see why decisions were made as well, if you have any more questions. :D

On April 10 2012 12:08 Xyik wrote:
As absurd of a contest this is, I don't like how TL is going out of its way to vote hot_bid ... TL would not take it against them if another site was disrupting our polls, so why should the girls who actually care? Glad they've finally removed him.

On April 10 2012 23:21 sc4k wrote:
why doesn't this girl win, she has dat boobies, also played loads of games and has played old skool including stacraft

http://maximgamergirl.com/TaraBabcock

On April 10 2012 23:21 sc4k wrote:
why doesn't this girl win, she has dat boobies, also played loads of games and has played old skool including stacraft

http://maximgamergirl.com/TaraBabcock

On April 11 2012 01:16 abominare wrote:


Too bad she doesn't. It doesn't take a genius to point out all the prefab work done on her articles. If she plays, she certainly doesn't write her articles or has much input on them. More than likely she casually games and some one else is writing her persona.

On April 11 2012 01:56 Euronyme wrote:
What happened to Hot_Bid? I spent the easter with my family, and all of a sudden the winner has left the tournament? O__O

On April 11 2012 01:16 abominare wrote:


Too bad she doesn't. It doesn't take a genius to point out all the prefab work done on her articles. If she plays, she certainly doesn't write her articles or has much input on them. More than likely she casually games and some one else is writing her persona.

On April 11 2012 02:04 trollbone wrote:


i think ure wrong i just read some of her articles and its quite interesting ^^

http://www.impulsegamer.com/tarababcock10reasonstodateastarcraftplayer.html

barcraft with incontrol !!!

On April 11 2012 01:40 Skilledblob wrote:


and she's a silicon doll

On April 11 2012 05:22 abominare wrote:


The obvious sign is in most of her articles, not that one actually more on that later, is that there's an excessive use of exclamation points. While one or two might be used to spice up some writing, the average person uses them extremely infrequently. Professional writers use them to create a persona. In this case its look at me I'm a girl I'm so exited about this topic! Im totally one of you! I'm so cute with how excited I get over mundane things in games! Mario is sooooooo COOL!

Then when articles completely switch writing styles, you are given another clue that she doesn't write her own stuff. Compound this with the fact that her articles are above and beyond the atrocious writing that appears in the rest of the website it becomes obvious that a professional editor and or writer was brought in to doctor her articles.

I'm not discounting that she may actually play a few games, when you consider that socially games are becoming more prevalent it is silly not to. What I'm discounting is that shes truly a hardcore gamer like she says she is. Another example comes in an article where she is defending her self as a gamer, saying that clearly if she wasn't she wouldn't be going after such a niche market. Which is entirely a false sentiment, she adult models who main demographic is males 18-35, who happens to nearly universally play games, in a cultural trend that's highlighting the 'nerd or geek' culture. Shes being completely mainstream, and her writer is trying to be coy and convince you that what you're doing is totally the unique or underground hip thing to do. This is marketing 101 people.

Most of her gaming repertoire is focused on big name titles, when she does reference a lesser known game to attempt to develop gaming street cred, there's an enormous amount of explanation that a normal gamer wouldn't take the time to explain.

There are plenty of girls who play games, and with that there's certainly a lot of hot girls who do so. What the culture should be aware of is that this is one of the many marketing fronts being sold to us. She is selling a product with her sex appeal, one that isn't genuine. Just like the booth babes at gaming conventions rarely could care less about the games they are promoting. Just like the enormous amount of girls brought in to cosplay venues at game conventions and comic cons, most of them are getting paid for their looks, their passion or lack thereof is irrelevant. Obviously there are some true home grown cosplayers, but you should understand that many of them aren't.

On April 11 2012 05:36 Hot_Bid wrote:
It appears that my profile has now been removed. It's okay though, it wasn't a serious entry and I'm glad I helped some people vent about the ridiculousness of the gamer girl term and the contest in general. If you're still interested in it please vote for Anna, she's a good representative of our community.

On April 11 2012 07:57 dAPhREAk wrote:

sex discrimination lawsuit? maxim has deep pockets.

On April 11 2012 08:00 jinorazi wrote:


it was invalid entry to begin with and would have not passed the judges as it says on the rules.

2. ELIGIBILITY: This Contest is only open to residents legally residing and permitted to work within the fifty (50) United States and the District of Columbia, who are twenty-one (21) years of age or older as of April 2, 2012. Employees of Sponsor, Gotcast, LLC (“Gotcast”), and Intertaintech Corporation DBA Virgin Gaming ("Virgin Gaming"), any event sponsors, and their respective parent companies, affiliates, subsidiaries, and related companies, agencies, the judging panel (collectively, the “Promotion Parties”) and immediate families (defined as parents, children, siblings and spouse and their respective spouses, regardless of where they reside) and those living in the same household, whether or not related, are not eligible to enter, win or vote. Void in Puerto Rico, all U.S. territories and possessions and overseas military installations and where prohibited or restricted by law.

On April 11 2012 08:04 dAPhREAk wrote:

au contraire mon ami. nothing prevents guys from participating. =D