Podtacular: The Unofficial Halo Universe Podcast

Podtacular Episode 101 Girls in Gaming Round Table
for the week of February 19th, 2007

(hosts Foo Mo Jive, JVB, TheDonWan…)


introductions


How did you all get into gaming? Love you Kari. lol

i have a question for the girls on halo 2. Do they trash talk like us guys
do? What do they do to show that they can compete with the guys, like to
earn there respect?

Why is it that every time I get matched with a girl in MM I get pwned?

How do you think the female voice in Halo 3 will turn out? Positive?
Negative? Why?

Well, me, with one of my best friends as a girl who plays halo, i know what
to do. Don’t call her a ho, cuz she’ll probaly beat you 1v1. Also, make
alot of jokes. Just act like you would if you were around a real girl, or
if your rude to real girls, dont talk. Girls are really fun to play with
in Halo 2, as long as your on there side. Also, make jokes that
you-yourself has PMS. That makes them laugh

First off I want to give a around of applause to all the Women of Halo.
They have to put up with so much of the little Timmy’s crap, even before
the game starts.

I am glad that women are playing games more and more. Its also great that
there are female centric Clans like the Cavegirls, and P.M.S. I know a few
Cavegirls and they can put up one hell of a fight. Some even make tasty
S’mores. (I am looking at you Angel) I am always happy to be paired up
with the ladies and know that we will come out winning.

So what kinds of things can us guys do to help with the trash mouthed
Timmy’s? I know there are times when said Timmy will follow you ladies
around the level trash talking you. I try to help out and focus my fire on
that person, but it can be difficult do to the game type.

I know labeling isn’t the best, but do you consider yourself Girl Gamers,
or just a Gamers?

Again thanks for putting up with the Timmy’s on Live. There will always be
a spot open on my team for the ladies.

I would also like to give a shout out to ChickaChicka, Jennos, BS Angel,
and rest of the Cavegirls.

If you could only say one nasty insult to a guy who insults you while
playing a game, what would it be? (Note: This is “anything goes” so if
you want to say a penis joke, I wouldn’t mind.)

so how do you Girls do it, deal with all those pigs, unfair sexists, and
just weird people looking for a GF on XBL, I ran into a guy who thought I
was a girl and he hit on me, on XBL, so how do you do it
also shoutout to well all of podtacular and JVB and Foomojive, you guys
complete me and my life
Babam The Cricket Grunt, Master of Pidgeons out!
BaCrikoo

Hey, this is PurpleDemon666 himself. I have a few questions for the Gamer
Girls out there on Xbox Live.

1. What do you usually say when the morons out there start trash talking
you becasue you are girls?

2. What do you say when I pwn their trash talking buts?

And finnaly

3. What would you want us nice guys to do when your in this situation?

it’s embarassing to be a guy sometimes when you get into a match with a
girl and then everyone else start in with the profain trash talking before
the match starts. then after the match all they do is try to hit on them
or call them sluts/lesbians for playing really well. I’ve lost a bunch of
rounds due to some real bad ass girls, only for them to leave immediately
because of the harrassment. There needs to be a larger place in gaming
for girls, especially because they have mad skills. Online is the whole
reason my girlfriend stopped playing Halo, so now I find myself like FooMo
trying any game i can think of to get her to play again. It’s terrible
that some guys have to ruin a great game for some girls.

Thank you Podtacular and friends for doing this episode, it was well past
due.

Hey guys ForgorenAERO here. Now when you enter a game with girls your
bound to hear the 12 year olds act like idiots. Just tell them “Respect
that player like I almost respect your Mom.” Remember the gaming community
is growing past the main stream, I mean everyone knows playing games gets
you laid. So girls play games too, just maybe not for that reason. As such
treat them with respect cause they will own you.

Sorry for the long submission keep up the good work.

how does it feel to be in an enviornment with the majority of the community
being male and if you find another girl or group of girls like the Frag
Dolls, what do you do? do you team up on the guys?

Hey guys, I have a few friends who are girls that i play halo with and i’d
just like to say it’s sad how much people swear and cuss at them just
because they are girls. Or you get the PERVERTS that just try to ask them
out the whole game. Well all i’d like to say is let it go treat them like
you want to be treated.

I think its not a big deal when girls play games. Just yesterday when i was
playing PSU, i had a girl in my party and then a guy join and went crazy
just becaus there was a girl in the party. GIRLS ARE JUST PEOPLE TOO, THEY
CAN PLAY GAMES, EAT ROCKY ROAD AND RED BULL, AND THEY CAN PWN. If anf girls
want to play halo, or anygame, we here a podtac will gladly accept thier
ownage.

I don’t have X-Box Live myself and all I would like to say is that if
your’e one of the many people that is fortunate enough to have X-Box Live
DON’T BE A POMPOUS ASS! I play on X-Box Live when I go to my freinds
house and I get on his case whenever he’s a jerk on Live. I don’t enjoy
people being poor sports on live and I really think the biggest flaw in
Live is the players. That is all. By the way it’s been a while since
I’ve heard the podacast since we just got a new computer and I’m still
reconfiguring my iPod to it and I’ve gotta say I really miss you
guys.[Cheesy Music Playing in the background]

Hey guys its Ghost Rider aka. Lancelot59. I really think it’s a good thing
that we have girls playing Halo. It adds a lot of variety into the game
play, as well as some interesting plans that no one had really thought of
before. The whole sexist stereotype that girls shouldn’t play video games
is pile of BS. A lot of the girls that I’ve played against were pretty
good, except this one who kept whining that getting run over isn’t and
acceptable way to kill a person. So how to deal with the morons:

1. Tell them to shove it
2. Kill them to shut them up
3. Get them banned
4. Taunt them back

Usually in servers theres at least one or more guys that share my point of
view and will usually help you out. It’d be great too see more females
playing Halo as well as other games. Thats my blarg, what do you guys
think?
Keep on fragging trucks, Ghost Rider

hey podtacular this is sgo lone warrior I the fact that girls are getting
into gaming is awesome. I think it would bring a lot of competition for us
guys because we may have the muscles and the balls to do just about
anything but there’s nothing worse than a woman’s wrath. like if fou
forget to call your girl friend on valintines day or you don’t take her
out to a nice place once and a while or somtimes if you don’t give her a
gift on her birth day the end result is pretty bad. so aside from some
women having short tempers i think that there should be more girls
involved in gaming im for it because then my friend won’t feel all alone
any more. & JVB if you could explain how to play team bubble bath in depth
that would be cool because i would like to play it with my friend.

KEEP ON FRAGIN TRUCKS GUYS!!! peace.

I find s in halo to be a sweet way to say to the opposing team “you got
pwned by a .” I have a few s that play halo 2 on my friends list,
and they are some of the nicest people to play with. I have never heard
harrassment from another player to a playing halo, but I think that
one of the common misconceptions of s and halo are their voices can be
commonly mistaken for a 12 year old’s voice sometimes. This mistake has
happenened to me a couple times, and I can say that the outcome wasn’t
well. I think that s can either make a game more or less fun,
depending on how other players react.

I think it is really cool that girls are getting into halo. They
almost always have a good atitude, and are usually really strong players.
I think that people should stop stero typing girls, and saying that they
cant play video games. I hope the more girls play video games in the
future.
Good jop Podtacular, keep on fragging trucks.

From watching the MLG segment and from personal experience it seems that
girl gamers have better teamwork than guy gamers, but is it more of a
result of sticking together to combat the critics or is it more of a
natural female ideology to share and exchange information as well as tips
and also to pass up kills so that someone else with a full shield can
finish killing the opponent?


Wrap up

Until next time I’m Foo Mo Jive (and this is)