League Leader Terry said:
Well, most gamers tend to be unattached, and rather desparate guys, especially when you get into the more "grown up" games like Magic and Legend of the Five Rings. Often times, these guys just don't know how to act around a female gamer because female gamers are so rare. I do wish there were more, though. It does get annoying playing with other guys most of the time.
Back on the original topic, I'd have to go with Jessie, Cassidy, and Lorelei. And I'll have to agree that I don't see how anyone could like Misty.
She's 12 for one thing. Maybe in a few years.
Gotta give confirmation on that: the majority of gamers just don't know how to act, or fail to behave properly, around gamers that are female and are "age appropriate". Note that I can't give a set range here: it varies based on both physical age and level of maturity of both indivivduals. Honestly, female gamers, unless they are unfortunate enough to have a severely unattractive appearance (meaning they honestly look undeniably male or suffer a severe deformity), automatically drop my skill down a notch due to pure, unadulterated
fear.
I am not sure why, but thats what happens. Perhaps being a 21 year-old dateless wonder?
Now, the mothers who play Pokemon (specifically, in this case, the 30+ crowd for me) give me no problems. The younger girls who play don't give me that problem. It's those around my age, give or take a few years, that either on heads, inflict Paralysis, and on tails, inflict Confusion... on me, not my Pokemon. Now, I do my best to make sure none of this shows, but it is tricky.
Three last things:
1. The whole "liking-Misty-is-disturbing-thing": It is, but as I out-lined above, not as much for the age thing... first, I am fairly certain that her official age is now 14. Even if it is not, a lot of players were first introduced to the character when they were very close to her age... and since its been 5 years (more if they started out as Japaense fans), that means a lot of disturbing "anime-crushes" for 15 to 20-something crowd. Now, what should be freaking you out is how they still have this fixation on Misty given her character development. Simply put, she has become Ash in drag. Ash's over-confidence (yes, it went beyon self-onfidence... "too much of a good thing" and all), Ash's
relative ignorance (given that Misty is a Gym Leader that has been traveling with him on their 5 (irl, sotrywise, i think its 2) year journey, and then a similar tendencey to over-react (her reaction or more noticeble when they are "rage" reactions, but her "Oh so cute" is like Ash's "Oh so cool" and Ash
does get the occaisional rage reaction himself, he just is normally the one making people mad). The only upside to all that is its what freed me of my "Misty fanboy" shtick.
2. Haymaker happened to also be an inexpensive deck (for the most part): Buy 4 Blackout decks, and you had a decent Haymaker. About another $20 gave you (at least in the Base Set only days) the "overall" best deck for Pokemon. Until neo Genesis, you needed maybe only another $40 to maintain that edge. Bear in mind, there was a lot of card turn-around. Base moving to base/Jungle: sell a 'Chan and 'Buzz or two and get a few Scythers and Mr. Mimes. Base/Jungleand pre-movie environemnt: run Chan/Buzz, Scyhter/Mr. Mime. After the movie: trade away/sell the Mimes and get 2 Movie Promo Mewtwo. So to start the game was about $1-per-card average for your deck. Compared to the other Pokemon archetypes, that was pretty sweet.
3. Sign me up for Nomékop! I get to be
average (not a gamer geek/fat freak) and be in an environment were girls will try to date me! Not ideal that they treat me as a perpetual "n00bie", but hey, after I build a Haymaker and crush them a few times, you get used to it (or begin enjying it for the sole reason of knowing you'll crush them soon).
