Gamer Girls

 https://twitter.com/ErinPlays_Games/status/1474197233000226819

Trying to decide what to do on stream tonight. Getting a late start and Christmas came WAY too fast. Holidays seem extra stressful this year for me, but then again, everything has felt extra stressful for me this year so what’s new?

What is she doing that’s so stressful?  She has no job, no family.  It’s not like she has to cook a big meal.  She doesn’t have to buy a lot of presents.  And she has all the time in the world to do whatever she has to do.  Where does the stress come in?

Mike said that Erin’s favourite activity is taking naps.  I believe that Erin sleeps a lot during the day.  It’s a common thing that depressed people do.

Erin has also suggested that she cries in the bathtub.  So I suspect that Erin takes a lot of baths (something that people with a lot of time on their hands can do) and cries there.

This is her life.  Napping; crying in the bathtub; getting fucked in the ass; and playing games, poorly, on stream, for money, for the entertainment of the mentally retarded.

It’s a sad existence but it doesn’t sound like a stressful one.  

She decided to play some Castlevania game yet again, as her Christmas stream.  She said, “I’m feeling like playing the game so I think I’ve settled it, ha!”.  She could have just played offline, but as we all know, Erin does not play games in her spare time.  Everything is on stream, for money.

Last year, we actually got a proper Christmas stream.  Erin made a Mario gingerbread house that her mother inexplicably sent her.  Erin did a half-assed job with it, as usual.  Here’s my review:

https://gamergrrlsofficial.blogspot.com/2020/12/erins-pathetic-christmas-stream.html

How much longer can she possibly do these videos?  She’s putting less and less effort into them and she put remarkably little effort into them to begin with.  A fucking Castlevania stream for Christmas.  A boring as fuck game that she’s not remotely interested in, has never played before, but claims that these are her favourite games.  She’s played numerous games in this series, on stream, for money, horribly, a hundred fucking times.  Is nobody else bored of this?  And this is her fucking Christmas stream.

What a complete disaster of a life.  

Years ago, I took my girlfriend to see It’s a Wonderful Life.  She never saw it before, it’s not as ubiquitous in the UK as it it in the US.  I like it, though.  I’m a James Stewart enthusiast.  I’ve seen a lot of his films.  

So we’re watching the movie, and there’s some slightly racist parts like the black porter on the train and the mammy character.  But whatever, it’s a movie from the 1940s.  My girlfriend didn’t raise any complaints about it.  We saw the movie, I asked her how she liked it, she said, “It was okay” or something, and then we got something to eat.

Next year, I took her to see it again.  We went to a different cinema.  For all of the London enthusiasts out there, we initially went to the Prince Charles Cinema, which is in Leicester Square.  Leicester Square is kind of shady, there are bunch of Russian and Asian “massage parlours” and people literally doing 3 card monte scams and whatnot.  The cinema is in an alley next to Chinatown and their business model is to sell cheap tickets (about £5) to see movies that are already a few weeks old.  They also showed really old movies.  I enjoyed going there.  It was my main cinema.

But the second time, I classed it up and took her to the British Film Institute, which is on Southbank.  We got the £25 tickets or whatever and then we saw the movie.  

We get out and it’s a nice day.  The air is crisp.  We’re right on the River Thames.  Book vendors are selling their wares in the outdoor market.  Crowds of people are enjoying a walk on the promenade.  I was really pumped up.  Wow.  I’m in London, with my girlfriend, on Christmas, this is great.

Then she says, “Why did you choose this film?  We saw this last year.  Don’t you remember?”

I trued to explain to her that people see this movie every year, it’s a classic, but she wasn’t getting it.

Years later, I had moved out of London, and she came to visit me for Christmas.  We’re checking out the sights of Scotland.  Different towns and whatnot.

So we went to a small town.  I planned to see some castle but it was closed.  We saw like a tourist bureau so stopped in and asked if there’s anything going on in town.  He said, “No, everything is closed for the winter.”  So we left.

I was familiar with the town so I suggested that we go to the cinema.  She just wanted to leave.  It took us fucking three hours to get here, by public transportation, and she just wanted to go back.  I say, “Let’s just go see what’s playing.”  So she agreed.  

It’s a Wonderful Life.  Two tickets, please.  

Nobody else is there.  So the woman who works there comes in and says, “Do you want to see it in black and white or in colour?”  My girlfriend says, “Ooh, colour, please.”  So we went with colour.

I think that this was just like a DVD.  Because the movie started with the DVD menu and then you can see the person choosing the colour version.  I don’t know anything about cinemas.  I guess that it’s all digital now.  They don’t use those big old tyme film projectors any more.

Anyway, it was good.  I’m not big on colourisation but whatever.  It’s something different.  It was kind of interesting.  And my girlfriend doesn’t appreciate the older films as much as I do.  And it was nice to see the film in a small town cinema.  

So we leave and I say, “They show this every year.  It’s a tradition.  I don’t know why you don’t get it.”  She said, “No, I understand.  It’s a feel good movie about appreciating your life.”  Then we walked around.  We saw one other black person so she was happy about that.  We got something to eat in a little cafe.  We looked at prices of properties in the area in an estate agent’s window and it was all pretty affordable. 

Where would Erin be if she wouldn’t have gone full bore into this gamer grrl scam?  Maybe she’d have a respectable job.  Maybe a husband.  Maybe some children.  But instead, as a result of her monstrously poor choices in life, she’s doing what she does for the little amount of money that she’s doing it for.

It’s basically the opposite of the movie.  Erin is living in Pottersville.  Mike Matei is the surly barkeep, the one person whose life actually improved as a result of George Bailey never having existed.

I suppose that it’s not too late to turn it around.  Just go back to California and get a job like a normal person.  It’s not so bad.  This gamer grrl scam is never going to be a success.  It’s preposterous.  Do something better with your life.  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcB4XXGr1us