Gamer Girls

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3emfD1mbI74

Whoa.  Some…sort of cosplay from Pam.  Well, she’s wearing a choker anyway.  And her usual black top.

She should have cosplayed as Rusalka.  Maybe not the sexy Rusalka who’s nude in that lake but I mean the zombie Rusalka after you’ve freed her from her spell.

This video is 18 minutes but this is one of the rare times where I’ve actually played the game that’s being discussed and enjoyed it.  The Quest for Glory series was my favourite game series for a long time as a kid.

1:00 – She’s talking about the three different characters you can play as.  She says that she usually plays as a thief but also puts point into magic.

This is one of her favourite games?  This is a game that she’s written slash fiction on?  

It’s been a long time since I’ve played the game but I know that these “hybrid” characters sort of fuck the game up.  

I used to play a thief and give them magic points as well, as a kid.  But in subsequent playthroughs, as an adult, I played the classes pure because that’s how you get the intended experience.  If you’re a thief but you have magic points assigned, the game sometimes thinks that you’re a magic user (as opposed to a thief) and this somehow changes what you can and can’t do in the game.  I can’t think of any examples but…let me look this up.

Yeah, here we go.

Hybrid characters do not always get full access to the puzzles available to both classes, particularly in Quest for Glory III: Wages of War and Quest for Glory IV: Shadows of Darkness.

For example, non-Wizard characters in QG4 cannot access the Resistance spell or gain access to a staff in QG4, since only a Wizard character will encounter Tatiana and this event will not occur for other classes, regardless of magic skill.

Wait…that’s not actually a problem.  I don’t know.  Anyway, I always played pure classes as an adult like a proper Quest for Glory aficionado.

2:45 – She inserts a Monty Python (or something) clip into the video.  Odd attempt at humour.

5:15 – Pathetic shout out to Rusalka.  Just go look at porn, Pam.  

6:45 – She pronounces Baba Yaga and Baba Yay-ga.  Long “a” sound in Yaga.  That can’t be right.

13:00 – She’s going to talk about “the one area of the game that really makes me cringe.”  Let’s see what non-woke bullshit she’s complaining about.

Oh.  You have to be fucking kidding me.  She’s complaining about “a long tirade about gypsies.”

“In 1993, I don’t think that we really recognised that this is a slur that we shouldn’t use but it’s not just the word, it’s the rant about the bad qualities of these people that were taken from real life prejudices that makes this all very uncomfortable.”

First of all, this game takes place in medieval times.  

Secondly, the game takes place in like Romania, which had and has a large gypsy population.

Thirdly, I don’t think that “roma” was a term that was in wide use, if at all, in medieval times.

Fourthly, the gypsies in the game are portrayed in a sympathetic fashion.  

Finally, the game is depicting actual apathy to gypsies, which is accurate to the time period and the setting.

What the fuck does Pam know about gypsies?  She lives in Canada.  No gypsies there.

You see them in Europe.  In the UK, most of the beggars you see are gypsies.  Gypsies are also grifters.  They’re scammers.  They go door to door doing home repair scams.  They’re generally a nuisance.  They engage in criminal behaviour.  There’s a reason why anti-gypsy sentiments exist.  They weren’t selected at random.  

They don’t work.  They refuse to get jobs.  They’re involved in organised crime.  This is the culture.  It’s a culture of not working and crime.    

It’s a problem throughout Europe.  It’s fairly negligible in the UK.  The further east you go, the worse it gets.  Anybody who lives in Europe knows about it.  It’s not because Europe is full of Nazis who have irrational contempt for non-white people, it’s because gypsies genuinely behave poorly.  To put it mildly.  

But Pam, who has never seen a “Roma” person in her life, thinks that she knows better.  Gypsies are just an abstract concept to her.  She doesn’t realise that these are real people and they do real things that cause real contempt by other real people.

It’s easy to say that gypsies should be treated like everybody else, in the abstract.  We can all agree with that.  But when you see how these people actually behave, things start to become clear.  It’s not that people don’t like gypsies.  What they don’t like are beggars, thieves, and all the other weird, often criminal stuff that people of the Roma community so commonly exhibit.  

So that’s the video.  It was thorough, I guess, but ruined by her bizarre rant against anti-gypsy sentiment in the game.