Ep.116 Thoughts

[Lloyd]

I don't know. Mabybe it's just me, but while listening to ep.116 I kinda got the feeling that one of the ladies there (I don't remember which) was trying to make the point that female gamers or gamers that are females shouldn't try to single themselves out by podcast or website because all it does is go against what their message is. It seems as though she was saying that a lot of female gamers are as good as the males and that they shouldn't be singled out and viewed any differently when it comes to games, but create social "cliques" focused on just the opposite. She then goes on to mention that social networks should be created where people can come to be, meet, and congregate with gamers and not gender-focused/based gamers.

I noticed she (and maybe the other as well) sort of touched on this a bit at different points throughout the show.

Also, about .Hack: I agree with how the game is overwhelming. I watched all of the anime and went through all of the games, except the last set. By the time I got to the last set of the game series, my mind was blown and I didn't know what was what and who was who.

You guys were right about the game making me want to play an MMO. Almost everytime I watched the anime and played the game, I wanted to log into one of my MMo's and just play. I did some research and turns out there is (maybe was) a .Hack MMO that was released in Japan a while ago called .hack//Fragment I would have loved to play this game.

One more thing. Towards the end of the show, a comment was made kind of like, people may think that ESH is a girl gamer rally but it's not. "The majority of our staff (writers) are males." Then I think Panda might have said, "We speak, they write." Then Ninja says "That's how we like it." That made me think of when someone says "I have nothing against (insert race here). I have three of them doing work on my house and in my yard."

Made me LOL on that one.

Good episode. I like the on location aspect of it and Panda Triforce comment was hilarious.

[Vichus Smith]

I think that before women can just fit in as part of the crowd, they first have to make it known that they are not stereotypically ignorant of games or are not "hardcore." So far, people like ESH have been doing a good job of that. Then, after the guy folk and the mainstream realize that girls just don't casually play the sims alone, then they can comfortably wear that gamer hat without the stigma of being "just a girl gamer"

It's sad what I'm saying, I know, but trying to be included in an exclusive world isn't easy. Also, people say that you're being "exclusionary" when you have a girl gaming site, an African-American site or a gay site. Just the irony of it all.