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[–] papalonian@kbin.social 21 points 1 year ago (12 children)

But 50% of PC gaming? I know a lot of women hide the fact that they're women to avoid sexists, but I just don't see that figure being accurate, especially if there's no reporting on how they came to that number

[–] Action_Bastid@lemmy.world 58 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Brother, pretty much every single woman I know under the age of 40 plays, at the very minimum, Stardew Valley, Minecraft, and Terraria. Most of them also play other big games, like Dark Souls, Elden Ring, etc.

The genre that the mostly don't play though are modern "arena" style shooters like Call of Duty, Halo, CSGO, Rainbow Six, etc. They're far more likely to play something like Fortnite or Hunt or something where you can have a small squad to roll with. Typically because it means they don't have to deal with anywhere near the same number of toxic random assholes.

[–] Lemmylaugh@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Nah they likely included mobile brainless games which everyone male or female downloads to pass the time

[–] Misconduct@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

We don't only exist in cute little spaces like mobile gaming. We're all over the place. If you haven't met many of us online it's 100% because we didn't like your vibe and never spoke or divulged that we were female to you specifically. There can't even be an article about female gamers existing without you dweebs writing women off as probably just mobile game players ffs. Grow as a person. Please.

[–] MartyFarty@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

A lot of dudes in here accidentally revealing themselves to be fucking losers.

"Girls don't play real games. Only mouth breathing, basement dwelling neckbeards like me play real games!"

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