Chicks who play video games: zomg sho us ur titz

[Josephus]

So what is her bra size?

[dps]

Over six days of competition, though, her team’s coach, Aris Bakhtanians, interrogated her on camera about her bra size, said “take off your shirt” and focused the team’s webcam on her chest, feet and legs.  He leaned in over her shoulder and smelled her.

Marti?

[garbon]

Here are the individuals in question. I'd take no shit from that tub of lard.

[Eddie Teach]

Some women have nice feet. One can recognize this without being a fetishist.

[garbon]

Anyway, this happened back in February. Maybe the NYT could be a little more timely with its "news"?

[Neil]

Gaming is one of the few redoubts remaining for maleness, so that's not really that surprising.

[Iormlund]

The last thing that would jump to mind seeing that guy is 'coach'. Reminds me of an orthodox monk, actually.

[grumbler]

The chick was hanging out with MMO types; of course they bare going to act like assholes because that's what MMO types are.

[Neil]

The last thing that would jump to mind seeing that guy is 'coach'. Reminds me of an orthodox monk, actually.

That's one thing I've always found a bit unappealing around certain types of hardcore gamers:  Overdoing it on facial hair.

[Neil]

The chick was hanging out with MMO types; of course they bare going to act like assholes because that's what MMO types are.

Oh, was this some kind of MMO thing?  If so the case is closed and grumbler wins the thread.

[lustindarkness]

So, did she show the goods?

BTW, the online gaming community is full of filth and annoying kids, that is why I try to play with a clan of grown ups (30UP) and if I play alone I mute everyone.

[garbon]

The last thing that would jump to mind seeing that guy is 'coach'. Reminds me of an orthodox monk, actually.

That's one thing I've always found a bit unappealing around certain types of hardcore gamers:  Overdoing it on facial hair.

No time to shave!

[garbon]

I mute everyone.

[Josephus]

Playing MP is like going to a frat house and yelling "hey you guys wanna come over to my place for a while."

[FunkMonk]

Here are the individuals in question. I'd take no shit from that tub of lard.

This Aris guy sounds (and looks) like a complete sack of shit.

From an interview he did when this thing sparked off:

Tensions were immediately raised over Rea's suggestion the fighting game community, once insular and limited but now steadily growing year-over-year, was potentially alienating outsiders from becoming fans of fighting games or the competitive scene because of inappropriate sexual language. Bakhtanians took issue with Rea's criticism.

Here's a lengthy transcript of their exchange:

Rea: You know what it is, to be honest with you? We're getting older. Do you really want to keep hanging around with a bunch of [guys in their] early 20s who don't know how to treat one another with respect? That's what it is.

Bakhtanians: Alright, man. The thing is...if you don't like the scene, how it is right now, it just seems like you're trying to create...turn it into something that it's not, and it's never going to be. You know what I mean?

Rea: That's really unfortunate [inaudible]...the way it is right now, they want to enjoy fighting games, but they're so incredibly turned off by [the language].

Bakhtanians: This doesn't involve me, Jared, I don't know if you can hear me--this is Aris. This doesn't really involve me, but if you don't like onions, you get your sandwich without onions, man. I mean, this is the fighting game community.

Rea: Can I get my Street Fighter without sexual harassment?

Bakhtanians: You can't. You can't because they're one and the same thing. This is a community that's, you know, 15 or 20 years old, and the sexual harassment is part of a culture, and if you remove that from the fighting game community, it's not the fighting game community--it's StarCraft. There's nothing wrong with StarCraft if you enjoy it, and there's nothing wrong with anything about eSports, but why would you want just one flavor of ice cream, you know? There's eSports for people who like eSports, and there's fighting games for people who like spicy food and like to have fun. There's no reason to turn them into the same thing, you know?

You can't go to the NBA and say "hey, I like basketball, but I don't want them to play with a basketball, I want them to play with a football." It just doesn't...it doesn't make sense to have that attitude, you know? These things are established for years. That would be like someone from the fighting game community going over to StarCraft and trying to say "hey, StarCraft, you guys are too soft, let's start making sexual harassment jokes to each other on StarCraft." That's not cool, people wouldn't like that. StarCraft isn't like that. People would get defensive, and that's what you're trying to do the fighting game community, and it's not right. It's ethically wrong.

I know that you're thinking "what do you know about ethics? You say racial stuff and sexist stuff." But those are jokes and if you were really a member of the fighting game community, you would know that. You would know that these are jokes.

Rea: So, ensuring that we alienate any and all female viewers...that's the ethical thing to do?

Bakhtanians: Well, you know, there are layers here, if you think about this. There are layers of ethics. There are people who are racist and commit hate crimes, right? And then there are people who are racist but they have tons of friends of all colors and they have deep love for those friends. Do you think those people are one and the same? Absolutely not.

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