These people are literally making their own propaganda, acting like its real , circlejerking about it and getting angry at the made up "demon figure" they created in their head. https://invidious.kavin.rocks/watch?v=dBw0eTkQ5IU
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WTF? That was the worst After School Special I ever did see, even more unrealistic than usual. I didn't watch the whole thing, just skipped around.
Game console? From Santa, to The Family. That's how big-ticket items that everyone would like come at Christmas. That sort of thing is exactly what "Santa" is for, when it comes to kids that age.
No mother ever said "girls CAN'T play video games". In fact, I don't think anyone ever said that (not being good, or not interested, are other different things. And I know I never liked pre-NES arcade games much, outside of Tempest, Galaga and the original Mario Bros with a friend. Oh, and maybe that other co-op game with the elevators, because those were just fun to dick around in.)
Dumb fucker is projecting his own sexist glip-glop culture onto the West. And probably doesn't have kids (beyond baby mommas he doesn't care about) and doesn't do Christmas.
And on the flip side, not all guys like video games. Granted, the ones I know are all around my age or older, but still (gearheads and rich old farmers, mostly.)
My husband mostly just watches me play. I let him handle my characters a few times in the past, he keeps walking them off cliffs by accident. It was really trippy when he did in ESO, in that main quest segment - the second one - where you can't even die, you just walk around following the old dude and getting the whole backstory/setup. Thought I lost my character for a moment (this was just after launch ..) Also walked me off Thunder Bluff once or twice. Didn't realize I was up high. Total computer virgin.
Well yeah there are always exceptions
Oddballs in every bunch, yep.
And frankly, gaming just wasn't attractive to most people beyond teens and kids until it diversified. Our parents and grandparents didn't show much interest in them at all, beyond maybe trying once or twice and losing interest. Which was why you had to go to a teen-filled arcade to play them (unless your parents had serious money) and not, say, adult bars and pool halls (I started being able to get into bars (sometimes) around 1985 or 6.)
There is also something to be said about how they may like different kinds of games. For instance, both me and my fiance are into games, but very few of them are the same games. She generally prefers games that are on the silly or cute side. Stuff like West of Loathing, Slime Rancher, Undertale, and Huniepop as the "doesnt really fit in" one. I prefer strategy (usually of the tactical variety), economic sims, racing, and roguelikes in general.
Even then, the games we DO share a like for (Elder Scrolls, Fallout, Hades, Bioshock), we play VERY differently. I prefer a challenge, and will play the games as intended with certain difficulty tweaks as I feel the need to put in a harder time. And to that end, the gameplay is what I care the most about, with the story being important, but not the end all be all. She cares far more about lore, and as such her default mode when playing is to turn on God Mode, give herself all the best gear and infinite money, and then go around to experience the story with little to no issue.
And neither one of us is playing it the wrong way, we enjoy our own ways, and we will sometimes watch each other play. She likes watching me pull of some insane moves that she could never do in a million years, while I laugh at her mods where she has a minigun that shoots nukes for no other reason than "its funny."
As I said, diversification, which came with evolution of technology. Hell, the same generation that dismissed Atari-style games were the same folks (more or less) enjoying bowling and tennis on the Wii in the old-age homes. Kind of a shame to see the passing of that style of controller, but I guess the current and future generation of old-age-home residents will be more familiar with the gamepads (I'm rubbish with them, still stuck on kb+mouse too heavily to really train myself on the X-box controller that sits gathering dust).
The games that first turned me on were Darksun and Diablo, and I kind of went from there (special mention to Dungeon Hack.) Basically, stuff that you started to get with the 286 era (Eye of the Beholder ...)
And yeah, I'm a lot like your fiancee. Though I kind of prefer "immortal mode" (Skyrim and Fallout 4's "tim" command), and just kind of use it as a crutch. And honestly, is why the mako pisses me off, it's barring me from seeing the rest of Mass Effect 1.
It should be interesting to see what, if anything, my husband does with a ps5 whenever I can get my hands on one. Oh, I am so sticking a VR helmet on that man. (I've been to an arcade. He won't go. I don't even natively see in 3D, but VR kicked my ass. How the rest of you people function actually seeing the space between things, is beyond me, I find it terrifying.)