Elly Plays Games

Did I mention I was building Thedas?  Maybe I forgot.  :P

Hello.  Welcome to my stream and blog.  To answer your question:

Because saying sir OR Madam is so difficult. (Sarcasm)

Or picking a gender neutral term like viewer, friend, or even for us DA folks, Serah is too PC. (Sarcasm)

For all the dudes out there who call everyone sir. (Because it is so hard to discern from a name). 

Being a lady is a great thing.

This is part of the reason why I have a problem when people say ‘guys and girls,’ instead of ‘boys and girls’ or ‘guys and gals.’  

These are the titles Lego Worlds decided to give their starting space explorer characters, because obviously they needed some form of distinction.

I don’t specifically have a problem with a young lady wanting to explore the galaxy with a bright pink spacesuit.  What bothers me is the phony made up title they had to give a woman to travel through space.

Now, I give slight applause to the guy I was watching during his let’s play.  He actually added “boy” to the end of the Astronaut title.  It did level the field for me as a woman watching a dude near her same middle age play video games.

The problem, of course, is that Lego did this in the first place.  

Reminder that when Lego started they were about leveling the sexism playing field.  They kept to primary colors so that society and their mixed up ideas wouldn’t carry over to children just trying to play with a toy.  Of course, it didn’t work.  Sexism runs rampant in the toy aisles with the Lego aisle being one of the worst offenders.  They had to create a line specifically for girls...

Anyway, now the thing is you know what dudes are thinking.  They are thinking either: 

A. That’s nice. They have a lady option. 

B. Look at Lego bow to feminist pressure, blah blah blah

If you thought b, please remove yourself from my planet.

Of course, if they thought b, they probably have no idea about how Lego set out in the first place, they usually don’t.   They are usually the same dudes that think the whole planet was created for and by white men, and everyone else is just trying to steal a share now.

As a lady whose eyebrow jumped at the names of our planet wondering heroes, I guess my question is, what happened Lego?  Why didn’t that weird title trip your sexism triggers?  Why wasn’t it Astronaut 1 or Astronaut B?  Astronaut Man and Astronaut Lady if you want to get all gender specific for weird reasons people try to justify.

And how do I keep a little tick like that from creeping into my daughter’s head or my son’s when they go to play it?  Because back to the little applause I gave earlier, that same dude gave a male voice to a female pirate, and that is the whole point.  

Virtual Gifts

Happy Holidays, everyone!

People always complain about the nickle and diming of micro-purchases, but they forget an important place they get you as well.  

Think back to your console. 

When I grew up the only way to play multiplayer games was sitting next to each to each.  One console, one game, family fun.  I believe the success of the Wii recaptured that for a time, families and friends coming and playing together. Sure the games were mostly campy, but not the point of this post.

Now, trying to find a game where I can play with my son is nuts, scouring the information of just what their multiplayer consists of and usually that requires reading the comments.

Usually to play multiplayer you need to buy the game twice.  A lot of them require you to have server space.  My son is not old enough for the MMOs that you actually adventure in and that’s what we want to do.