Stereotyping is fun

• It’s annoying when they tell us what to do. I’m 20, you’re 10. Get lost.
• It’s annoying when they’re loads better than you
• It’s annoying when they’re mic spamming in the middle of the day. Shouldn’t you be at school?
• It’s annoying when their brain hasn’t developed enough to understand words like ‘strategy’ ‘rules’ and ‘shut up and go away’.

 
The Griefer
Sometimes it seems like people exist in gaming worlds only to make your life hell… and this is probably true. Some people have nothing better to do with their time than hop online and ruin your gaming fun. Whether it’s de-buffing you every chance they get, having way too much fun with friendly fire or just plain getting in your way, these people like nothing more than ruining your day. These are griefers, they are like the plague, and they must be stopped.
 
 Why don’t we like them?

• We become way too familiar with the Kick/Ban/Report button
• Friendly fire loses all its humour and just becomes annoying
• They’re aggravating, but losing your temper with them only means they’re succeeding
• They’re douchebags. And nobody likes a douchebag

 
The Girl Gamer- Type 1
In my eyes, there are three different types of girl gamers. One of them is good; two of them suck like an anorexic at an eating contest. The first type of girl gamer is the one that practically gags for online attention. She’ll make her name SxcChick694eva or something equally ridiculous and make her avatar or character some super skinny, incredibly pretty girl. ATTENTION GIRLS WHO DO THAT: Nobody believes you. Everybody knows you’re probably a massive fat chick who comes home to family size microwave pizza and your cat Bootsy. You’re not fooling anyone. But nothing is more entertaining than delusion, so keep it up.
Why don’t we like them?

• They’re annoying, plain and simple
• They’re liars
• They spend too much time looking for sexy avatars than getting good at the game they’re playing

 
The Girl Gamer- Type 2
This type of girl gamer is much more annoying than the last. This is the girl gamer who needs everybody to know that she’s a girl, and demands that she not be treated differently because of it. News flash: You’re stupid. Why not just keep your big mouth shut in the first place? 50% of the people online don’t give a crap about whether you’re a girl or not and the other 50% don’t believe you anyway.
 
Why don’t we like them?
Watching someone try and convince a group of people they’re a girl is pathetic. It’s like watching a fat kid convince his parents he didn’t eat the last cookie from the cookie jar as he dusts crumbs from his hands.

• She’ll say ‘don’t treat me different’ and then get shitty when you shoot her in the face.
• She’s tarnishing the names of GOOD girl gamers everywhere

• If you have a social life, you’re pretty much the worst traitorous scum in the world to these people
• They’re always online, which means playing a game without them is pretty much impossible
• Because they play games 24 hours a day, their view of reality becomes warped and weird.
• They’re unhealthy, and there’s a good chance they’ll have a heart attack in the middle of a raid. Not cool.

 
The ones we DO like
The Closet Gamer
This is the guy who makes his uber gaming skills his best kept secret. Being called a nerd or a geek is pretty much the worst thing that could ever happen to this guy. However, more often than not, the closet gamer kicks ass. The quiet ones normally do. The only flaw is that if his friends find out about his gaming habits you’ll never see him again.
 
Why we like them?

• They’re awesome skilled.
• They’re quiet, and they don’t bother people
• They’re happy to just play the game

 
The Girl Gamer- Type 3
The last type of girl gamer is the one that kicks your ass. All of us have got a certain type of game we’re really good at. For some girl gamers, FPS’s are as easy to win as getting up in the morning. For me, racing games are what I’m good at. I suck at shooting games, and my temper is too short for fighting games, but there’s no way I’m going to lose a race to anybody. (Except for the people who are better than me.)
 
Why we like them?

• They’re really really good
• They don’t pester you with useless girl crap
• It’s nice when a game isn’t a total sausage fest

 
The Pro
In everything you do, there’s going to be someone who’s better at it than you are. In the gaming world, this is the pro. No matter what game he plays, he’s gonna own you at it. He can’t play sport to save his life, and if you ask him to add up some numbers he’ll probably draw a blank, but when it comes to games, he’s the king.
 
Why we like them?

• There’s nothing better than having someone really ridiculously good on your team
• Their skills are the same across any genre of game
• They’re usually very helpful. They’ve done the levels you’ve done a million times before and aced them every time, so they’re quite willing to show you how to do it.
  

The Temper Tantrum
These are the people that have no patience, or tolerance for losing. If they or their team isn’t winning, they will throw a fit. And usually, this is hilarious. Sure you’ll probably cop an earful of obscenities, and somehow it’s going to be all your fault that they didn’t win, but really, when somebody gets that angry over losing a game or dying, there’s nothing you can do but laugh.

• Losing sucks, we all know that. But what will make you feel better is listening to this guy scream until he’s blue in the face and telling yourself ‘well at least I’m not that guy’.
• They come up with the most creative insults. Nothings gets the creativity flowing like white hot anger
• It’s hilarious. There’s just no denying it. And sometimes after 3 hours of playing a game and losing, you need something to make you laugh.

So there you go. Placing all your online friends into one of these categories will probaby make your gaming life a whole lot easier.

 
Have I forgotten one? Let me know!
   

There are so many different types of gamers in this world. Some we’d kill to have on our team, others we try as hard as we can to stay away from. Either way, there’s no escaping the various types of people we find online. But at least after reading this, you’ll be able to identify them, and pick which to add to your friends list and which to block every single way you can.

The ones we DON’T like
The Kid
The kid is usually about 10-13 years old. He hasn’t hit puberty yet, and his high pitched voice destroys our ear drums. Instead of playing something age appropriate like ‘My Little Pony, the video game’ he’s on TF2 mic spamming and doing things wrong. Notably, the kid is probably a lot better at TF2 than I am, but that’s beside the point.

• It’s annoying when they tell us what to do. I’m 20, you’re 10. Get lost.
• It’s annoying when they’re loads better than you
• It’s annoying when they’re mic spamming in the middle of the day. Shouldn’t you be at school?
• It’s annoying when their brain hasn’t developed enough to understand words like ‘strategy’ ‘rules’ and ‘shut up and go away’.

 
The Griefer
Sometimes it seems like people exist in gaming worlds only to make your life hell… and this is probably true. Some people have nothing better to do with their time than hop online and ruin your gaming fun. Whether it’s de-buffing you every chance they get, having way too much fun with friendly fire or just plain getting in your way, these people like nothing more than ruining your day. These are griefers, they are like the plague, and they must be stopped.
 
 Why don’t we like them?

• We become way too familiar with the Kick/Ban/Report button
• Friendly fire loses all its humour and just becomes annoying
• They’re aggravating, but losing your temper with them only means they’re succeeding
• They’re douchebags. And nobody likes a douchebag

 
The Girl Gamer- Type 1
In my eyes, there are three different types of girl gamers. One of them is good; two of them suck like an anorexic at an eating contest. The first type of girl gamer is the one that practically gags for online attention. She’ll make her name SxcChick694eva or something equally ridiculous and make her avatar or character some super skinny, incredibly pretty girl. ATTENTION GIRLS WHO DO THAT: Nobody believes you. Everybody knows you’re probably a massive fat chick who comes home to family size microwave pizza and your cat Bootsy. You’re not fooling anyone. But nothing is more entertaining than delusion, so keep it up.
Why don’t we like them?

• They’re annoying, plain and simple
• They’re liars
• They spend too much time looking for sexy avatars than getting good at the game they’re playing

 
The Girl Gamer- Type 2
This type of girl gamer is much more annoying than the last. This is the girl gamer who needs everybody to know that she’s a girl, and demands that she not be treated differently because of it. News flash: You’re stupid. Why not just keep your big mouth shut in the first place? 50% of the people online don’t give a crap about whether you’re a girl or not and the other 50% don’t believe you anyway.
 
Why don’t we like them?
Watching someone try and convince a group of people they’re a girl is pathetic. It’s like watching a fat kid convince his parents he didn’t eat the last cookie from the cookie jar as he dusts crumbs from his hands.

• She’ll say ‘don’t treat me different’ and then get shitty when you shoot her in the face.
• She’s tarnishing the names of GOOD girl gamers everywhere

 
The Basement Dwelling Neck Beard
These are the gamers who are reaching their 40’s and consider freedom moving from their bedroom to their mother’s basement. They haven’t moved out of home, and probably never will until they meet a basement dwelling troll woman. These guys find it incredibly rude and inconsiderate when you can’t make every single raid time, no matter how extreme they get. FYI neckbeards, not all of us have issues with leaving the house. Some of us even like it. Maybe when you’re thin enough to get through your doorway, you’ll realise that you like it too.
Why don’t we like them?

• If you have a social life, you’re pretty much the worst traitorous scum in the world to these people
• They’re always online, which means playing a game without them is pretty much impossible
• Because they play games 24 hours a day, their view of reality becomes warped and weird.
• They’re unhealthy, and there’s a good chance they’ll have a heart attack in the middle of a raid. Not cool.

 
The ones we DO like
The Closet Gamer
This is the guy who makes his uber gaming skills his best kept secret. Being called a nerd or a geek is pretty much the worst thing that could ever happen to this guy. However, more often than not, the closet gamer kicks ass. The quiet ones normally do. The only flaw is that if his friends find out about his gaming habits you’ll never see him again.
 
Why we like them?

• They’re awesome skilled.
• They’re quiet, and they don’t bother people
• They’re happy to just play the game

 
The Girl Gamer- Type 3
The last type of girl gamer is the one that kicks your ass. All of us have got a certain type of game we’re really good at. For some girl gamers, FPS’s are as easy to win as getting up in the morning. For me, racing games are what I’m good at. I suck at shooting games, and my temper is too short for fighting games, but there’s no way I’m going to lose a race to anybody. (Except for the people who are better than me.)
 
Why we like them?

• They’re really really good
• They don’t pester you with useless girl crap
• It’s nice when a game isn’t a total sausage fest

 
The Pro
In everything you do, there’s going to be someone who’s better at it than you are. In the gaming world, this is the pro. No matter what game he plays, he’s gonna own you at it. He can’t play sport to save his life, and if you ask him to add up some numbers he’ll probably draw a blank, but when it comes to games, he’s the king.
 
Why we like them?

• There’s nothing better than having someone really ridiculously good on your team
• Their skills are the same across any genre of game
• They’re usually very helpful. They’ve done the levels you’ve done a million times before and aced them every time, so they’re quite willing to show you how to do it.
  

The Temper Tantrum
These are the people that have no patience, or tolerance for losing. If they or their team isn’t winning, they will throw a fit. And usually, this is hilarious. Sure you’ll probably cop an earful of obscenities, and somehow it’s going to be all your fault that they didn’t win, but really, when somebody gets that angry over losing a game or dying, there’s nothing you can do but laugh.

• Losing sucks, we all know that. But what will make you feel better is listening to this guy scream until he’s blue in the face and telling yourself ‘well at least I’m not that guy’.
• They come up with the most creative insults. Nothings gets the creativity flowing like white hot anger
• It’s hilarious. There’s just no denying it. And sometimes after 3 hours of playing a game and losing, you need something to make you laugh.

So there you go. Placing all your online friends into one of these categories will probaby make your gaming life a whole lot easier.

 
Have I forgotten one? Let me know!
   

Yo dawg, people are people and should be judged the same way as people you go to college with or work with.

How about the douchebags who think they're better than everyone else and just troll with their friends in the same game.

All people from Sydney are self-loving glittery wankers... hey, you're right! Stereotyping is fun. Oh, I kid - I'm from Melbourne and I'm just as much a self-loving wanker as anyone.
 
If anything in the above list I'm the closet gamer, although my non-gaming friends (which is most of 'em) are very much aware of my much-adored hobby. While I'd never try to sit down and earnestly tell them why Portal is so goddamn amazing, I never shy from making regular geeky references, either.

The Basement Dwelling Neck Beard is me..
I-I meant the Closet Gamer! Yeah..
 
Anyway- why isn't there a normal gamer gamer on that list?
A person that is not shy to tell everyone about their gaming, and is pretty good at kicking asses online?
Well, I guess stereotypes are never the true face of what they seem to portray..

MustacheHero: That's probably the coolest username I've ever seen.

Everyone else: (Hahaha sorry, you guys don't get singled out :P) Yeah, after I wrote it I realised I'd left off a whole bunch of people. Like normal gamers, and those guys that play the same game every day for ten years just to troll people.

But nobody is perfect :P So, oops

Are you a girl? I'm really trying to stop my habit of "hey you're using a lot of smileys, you must be a lady". I like telling people to go easy on me because I'm a girl, very fun. 
 
Anyway, yourscenesucks is better.

Hmm... I am most definitely the closet gamer... without the whole being "awesome skilled" part

"

The Closet Gamer
This is the guy who makes his uber gaming skills his best kept secret. Being called a nerd or a geek is pretty much the worst thing that could ever happen to this guy. However, more often than not, the closet gamer kicks ass. The quiet ones normally do. The only flaw is that if his friends find out about his gaming habits you’ll never see him again.
 
Why we like them?

• They’re awesome skilled.
• They’re quiet, and they don’t bother people
• They’re happy to just play the game

"

I'm the closet gamer, I'm mostly this because I don't talk up anything before a match and always sound surprised by getting a good score. I'm not the quietest of people, but when other people start up a conversation I talk, if I can't hear anyone I shut up most of the game or I'll be in a party.  
 
If you do find me on LIVE or Steam, you'll find I go way out of topic in games and don't include myself in "OMFG! THAT WAS MY KILL!!!!!!!", I do that when it lags and when people friendly fire before I kill someone.

" If anything in the above list I'm the closet gamer, although my non-gaming friends (which is most of 'em) are very much aware of my much-adored hobby. While I'd never try to sit down and earnestly tell them why Portal is so goddamn amazing, I never shy from making regular geeky references, either. "

" The Basement Dwelling Neck Beard is me.. I-I meant the Closet Gamer! Yeah..  "

"  

 (Hahaha sorry, you guys don't get singled out :P) Yeah, after I wrote it I realised I'd left off a whole bunch of people. Like normal gamers, and those guys that play the same game every day for ten years just to troll people.

 But nobody is perfect :P So, oops

"

" Are you a girl? I'm really trying to stop my habit of "hey you're using a lot of smileys, you must be a lady". I like telling people to go easy on me because I'm a girl, very fun.  "

Excellent article. Loving the amount of people who get super defensive about this.

what about people who blame everything on technology such as lag or controller not working.

What I took away from that was that you are apparently girl type 3, and we should like you. Alright done.

 
@GrandpaJelly said:

" Are you a girl? I'm really trying to stop my habit of "hey you're using a lot of smileys, you must be a lady". I like telling people to go easy on me because I'm a girl, very fun.  "

well, i assure you that im a dude, and i usually use smilies more than the average person. are you calling me a pussy ? "

" What I took away from that was that you are apparently girl type 3, and we should like you. Alright done. "

" @LiquidPrince said:

" What I took away from that was that you are apparently girl type 3, and we should like you. Alright done. "

Hah. Seeing as you are a hot chick you'd be type 3 also. "

" @GrandpaJelly said:

" @LiquidPrince said:

" What I took away from that was that you are apparently girl type 3, and we should like you. Alright done. "

Hah. Seeing as you are a hot chick you'd be type 3 also. "

liquidprince isnt a chick. he's a proud alpha alpha male  "

...That's a lot of comments to sift through.

 
@Liquid Prince: I'm not girl gamer type 3. I'm the temper tantrum. I can't play anything competetive without losing my temper, mostly because I suck at most games :P

@Grandpa Jelly: Yeah, I am a girl. I enjoy smilies. I believe they add a certain pizazz to sentences you can't just get otherwise. :D:D:D:D

@everyone else, thankyou for reading :D Your comments are always appreciated

" @NekuSakuraba: But you are really actually Girl Gamer 1
 

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I might have to steal those pics from you, OK?

oh god I love using 2 keyboards at the same time as well, I feel like it gives what I'm writing more pizazz and pop.
             oh god I love using 2 keyboards at the same time as well, I feel like it gives what I'm writing more pizazz and pop.

@adoggz said:

"oh god I love using 2 keyboards at the same time as well, I feel like it gives what I'm writing more pizazz and pop.              oh god I love using 2 keyboards at the same time as well, I feel like it gives what I'm writing more pizazz and pop. "

LOL

girls don't exist on the internet, much less unobnoxious and normal ones, etc etc etc

This whole thing read like several articles written by Gamesradar editors...in fact, almost all of those pictures are from said articles.

Excellent writing. While I am normally not very fond or appreciative of stereotypes, this is on exception. In gaming culture, these different sub-groups stereotypes are normally held true. I'm probably closest to a closet gamer than anything~

Eh. I give everyone an equal opportunity for me to find a way to hate them. I don't need to be prejudice to a type of anything to find a reason to hate people, just interacting with them is usually more then enough.

The Girl Gamer- Type 1
In my eyes, there are three different types of girl gamers. One of them is good; two of them suck like an anorexic at an eating contest. The first type of girl gamer is the one that practically gags for online attention. She’ll make her name SxcChick694eva or something equally ridiculous and make her avatar or character some super skinny, incredibly pretty girl. ATTENTION GIRLS WHO DO THAT: Nobody believes you. Everybody knows you’re probably a massive fat chick who comes home to family size microwave pizza and your cat Bootsy. You’re not fooling anyone. But nothing is more entertaining than delusion, so keep it up.

It’s like you know my ex-girlfriend.

man, why could this thread not be "Game-Stereotypes is fun/funny" because my first thought that this would be about some of the funny steriotypes of ethnic groups or something, like there are polarbears in the street in Norway or something in that vain. Or have a huge EU vs Merica thing going on, which is always funny. 
But atleast I learned something if these facts are true.

@Bouz said:

Yo dawg, people are people and should be judged the same way as people you go to college with or work with.

I wonder if I am the only person in this thread that immediately started singing that Depeche Mode song after reading the first few words in your post.

@buzz_clik said:

All people from Sydney are self-loving glittery wankers... hey, you're right! Stereotyping is fun. Oh, I kid - I'm from Melbourne and I'm just as much a self-loving wanker as anyone. If anything in the above list I'm the closet gamer, although my non-gaming friends (which is most of 'em) are very much aware of my much-adored hobby. While I'd never try to sit down and earnestly tell them why Portal is so goddamn amazing, I never shy from making regular geeky references, either.

Yeah fuck those sky blues!

This is great, thanks Godly!

Where are all the people who aren't that good but enjoy playing the game?

@SexyToad said:

Where are all the people who aren't that good but enjoy playing the game?

Working for Giantbomb.

Where are all the people who aren't that good but enjoy playing the game?

@Scooper said:

@SexyToad said:

Where are all the people who aren't that good but enjoy playing the game?

Working for Giantbomb.

Boom.

I have 3 sisters and none of them can even hold a controller properly = girls can't play games.

The "black" tough guy who claims to be from the streets and says "Nigga" at the end of every sentence.

@krazy_kyle said:

The "black" tough guy who claims to be from the streets and says "Nigga" at the end of every sentence.

Are those present outside of EVO and fighting games ?

I reckon I'm girl gamer type 3. I loathe types 1 and 2.

... none of that fits me. I feel so alone ._.

I don't understand how you came up with 2 classes of girl gamers when girls don't play video games.