13 October 2010

Girls are different from Boys

“How did you feel the first time you pwned a n00b?” my group member asked his cousin.  We were about to start interviewing students on camera for a group project on gaming addiction, so we were excited to have a dry run of our questions on a girl from the Computer Science department.  We continued to press her by displaying a printout of several video game characters.  “Can you name these characters?” we asked her.  She had no idea.  This was a surprise to me because I thought gaming was a hobby everyone in the CS department shared.  Later, when I expressed my amazement to the same group member, he replied “Yeah man, she’s a girl.”  I guess gender still matters when it comes to gaming, even within the CS department.

Oh, and it felt awesome the first time I pwned a n00b.

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