@Video_Game_King: VGK I expected better of you. I never said video games teach me to stereotype asians, just how to stereotype in general. If you see a goomba while playing Mario what do you do/think? If I jump on his head he will die. <----stereotype. Doesn't have to be good, or bad, or a person, or a thing, just an assumption about anything for any reason.
@AngelN7: See above^^.
@Hellstrom: I wouldn't think she is asian unless she told me so. Sadly, I would probably believe her.
@PeasantAbuse: She sounds fantastic.
@FunExplosions: I'll be searching for her for my whole life.
@Tim_the_Corsair: Our "study session" is next week.
@dudeglove: Since International Business and requiring a second language happened.
@TaliciaDragonsong: It is an absolutely fair point.
@I_smell: Just saying not many girls seem to open up a conversation these days, and from the experience I've had with asian girls is that they wouldn't even more than girls that are not asian. I live under a rock that is a place that hasn't given me the chance to experience interactions with many asian girls. I don't understand why this is so infuriating to you. Maybe it is my fault, that I would expect and want her to break the stereotype that I have set in on all asian girls I meet and that is why it was disappointing to me. Or maybe it is her fault, for following the stereotype. I wasn't complaining or blaming anyone really.
Asian girls are the most exotic things on the planet to me.
For a solid 2 weeks a certain girl named Lily in my Mandarin class was opening my eyes. I was sitting in a study room just hanging out before class when she walked in. I recognized her from the first class and gave a slight "hello" smile to her, which she returned and instantly started up a conversation with me. I was shocked at first that any girl would have the balls to start up a conversation in general but even more by the fact that she was apparently asian and starting this conversation. Anyways, slightly attracted by act of forwardness we chatted for a bit and headed to class.
I was pretty excited at the end of the day after sitting next to her and flirting for most of the class, that she was going to be this awesome exotic asian girl that I didn't know I had been searching for my whole life. Now I'm not going to say why, but we'll say that I've been continually turned off of her more and more since that day. Not because of repulsiveness or anything like that. But more just the disappointment of what I was expecting compared to what had been presented.
Doesn't actually exist.
All my preconceived notions about asian girls had finally been confirmed: Super conservative introvert intellectuals that excel in things like calculus and tai-chi, and don't wear anything that shows more than their wrist bone.
Girls in movies such as Tokyo Drift obviously do not actually exist. They are either white girls painted yellow, or just the aforementioned asian girls who've been paid enough to shed the extreme values their fathers have pressured in to them long enough to get a semi-seductive 5 second film clip.
Backing this up is my following interaction with Lily:
3:20pm: *I walk in to Chinese class noticing Lily is wearing a red bow in her hair and she has cut her hair short.*
fwylo: Hey Lily
Lily: Hiii
fwylo: Nice red bow.
Lily: Thanks! I cut my hair too.
fwylo: Ya, you did! Looks good.
Lily: Thanks, it was taking so long to dry in the morning so I had to cut it because I've been so tired.
fwylo: Haha oh, so you cut your hair for time usage efficiency?
Lily: Uh, ya I guess so.
fwylo: Makes sense.
Now don't get me wrong. A non-superficial girl who is smart and likes to laugh and blah blah is fantastic and all, but I'll be damned if that was what I was expecting. Though she has definitely shed the "introvert" part of my stereotype, she has reinforced every other part of it.
All in all, I blame video games for this. Maybe not racism, or even discrimination. But definitely stereotypes of all sorts and here's my reasoning.
In a majority of video games, you are a given a situation or enemy to defeat/conquer. You see the presented opposition and evaluate how to defeat it. Once a solution has be found, either through trial and error or because jumping on an enemy's head is obvious as fuck unless it has a hat with spikes on its head. You are trained to put an instant stereotype on how to react or how to view that situation. A skill which is probably subconsciously brought in to real life situations or something. I'm not saying this is the only thing determining how I treat one asian from the next; I'm sure the fact of how much a minority asians are where I live and the fact that almost all of the ones I care to recall have fit in to the stereotype I have created for them helps quite a lot. But my point still stands that it has become easier to accept stereotypes because video games train my mind to specifically look for stereotypes in order to obtain success. Good or bad, stereotypes rule people. If you think you act the same way to absolutely everyone you meet you're probably lying to them, or yourself.
Stereotypes: providing success since 1902.
Apparently I just need to find myself a white bred asian girl with low self-esteem and balls.
@HandsomeDead: I wish I was as opinionated as you. Seriously though.
@dudeglove: I was at the school pub/bar sitting on the patio waiting for some friend's to show up on Friday while writing. Figured I'd take a picture for it. Those friend's never did show up :(.
@McShank: You have to have a certain amount of wiki points, I'm not sure exactly how many anymore. 1000 and you can make instant edits, then however many to make wiki pages.
@EuanDewar:
@RedLycra: Glad you liked it, hope you read the next one!
@Bruce: I agree fully. Fuck games. But I can't not keep up with the news right?
@HS21: Always leashing blue?
@Claude: <3 I still have to come to your city and go out drinking with you and your wife.
@Bribo: It is a modern, free DOTA basically. I'll switch if DOTA 2 is good, but for now it is really good for what I need. Basically I'm good at it, I enjoy the persistent leveling so I some sense of accomplishment in it, and I have some friend who play it. What do you have against it?
Well I've never though I was much of a writer, and I would still assume I'm not but Sweep has a point with his Blog Initiative.
I don't know what that point is exactly, but it brought up a sudden urge to fill up some more of my time with completely mundane things. I'll chalk it up as good practice for my entry level English Essay course I'm required to take for this International Business Degree I'm attempting to finish. I've attempted a few blogs before, some that got off the ground and in to a few episodes (even gained me a few followers), and then some that remained as just ideas. Mind you at the time I was a part of the full-time work force and didn't really feel like coming home to do something which felt more like work than play.
But my life has changed a lot since then. So why not…
First, let me break me down for you: I am 23(on Monday!). I am a student. I am not socially awkward. I don't have a job. Some would call me pretty (Claude has even said it a couple times, and he knows his shit). This drunk possibly half-crazy guy sitting beside me at the bar just told me I have a "Yankee" accent. I am Canadian. I am half black. I like women. I love to party. I think I'm smart. I think I'm funny in person, though via text or over the internet probably not as much as I'd like to think. I could go on but I think that's enough to build a decent mental image of me.
UUNNNGGGHHH
TL:DR - What up I'm fwylo.
League of Legends owns my gaming time at the moment, though I finally sat down and hit 70 in Modern Warfare 2 to get the guilt of NOT doing it out of my head. I used to play a shit ton of DOTA, and was pretty good at it actually. Then this came out and stole my life FOR FREE. I'm not going to explain how the game works, but the online and time-wasting mechanic is most easily compared to Starcraft 2's online.
3:50pm Return from University
4:00pm *Maybe I have some time for a game of LoL before doing laundry and eating*
5:00pm *Fuck that game didn't go very well, I have time for another one no problem*
6:00pm *That was a good one, I'll get another quick one in*
6:30pm *Shit that was a bad team I can't go out on a bad note*
7:30pm *Oh fuck I'm hungry I'll make some food and play one more while I eat*
9:00pm *Well shit it's too late for laundry now, I won't even finish a load before I have to sleep*
10:00pm *It's not that late I can play one more*
11:00pm *God damn that was a good one I'm on a roll*
12:00am *Oh man, midnight?!!@ Well if I play one more I'll still get 5 hours of sleep*
1:00am *Alright… one mo- NO*
O.M.S. is a serious problem for me and I'm sure many other gamers out there. One More Syndrome kills time like my uncle clubs kittens. (Feel free to create a wiki page about that because it's probably unclaimed. Do give me recognition in the description though please).
It sucks being addicted to games that eat up time like that. That would have been 10 hours I could have put into something constructive like studying, or laundry, or BEATING the single player of some other game that I'm somewhat interested in but NOPE! Chuck Testa.
So anyways, when I'm not wasting my time with LoL, I'm either partying and bro-ing out, or at school, or talking to girls. (This is where the title of the blog comes in!!!)
Sunny as fuck.
I'm sitting in my English class on Thursday night, and this girl is beside me is pretty cute. The prof is talking about an essay we were supposed to read and it is taking way too long. Everyone is bored. I see her flip her notebook open to a blank page and start writing out a grocery list. Remember when I said I think I'm funny and smart? Well I write a mini grocery list in the following order: Captain Crunch, Bananas, Noodles, Condoms, KY Jelly, Strap-on. I was expecting maybe a smirk or giggle out of this when I slid my paper over to her. Apparently she thought it was hilarious and basically bursts out laughing in the middle of the completely silent room! Ha.
Obviously I pretended to have no idea what she was doing to let her look awkward as fuck. After everything calmed down I wrote again on the sheet of paper smooth move(!) and slid it over to her. We finished the class and went to my place and sexed like crazy.
Not actually but we had a nice little notepad conversation for the rest of class.
Now if you've made it this far I'm proud of you and myself. To be honest I won't talk about games all that much, because with the time I do have I play LoL, and I've already talked about that. So if you liked the rest of it, maybe you'll check it out again.
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