Wait . You can pull Omni units ? Isn ' t that like pulling a 6 unit in BE ? <| sep |> Haha . I wish i ' d known the date when the party had first been announced she ' s been planning it for almost a year , and i hadn ' t actually even watched GG originally back then . I ' d have just said no out right if that was the case too ! <| sep |> Call of Duty might be more traditional to you particularly . But not to video games . Snake for Nokia , solitaire and minesweeper are just as traditional as video games go and contemporary smartphone video games , if something can be argued to be more traditional since they are much more closely related in concept and gameplay to the original generations of video games that came form platforms like the Ataris or the commodore . Yes I flat out deny that there have been any barriers for females ever to play any video games . Also playing games does not make you part of a gaming subculture . There ' s no more of a gaming subculture with video games than of ' watching ' with cinema . Trends are not shifting . We have been playing games for decades now . Just largely not the same games . You can ' t blame call of duty for bending targeted at teenager boys more than you can blame chick flicks to be targeted at females . There has always been plenty of gender neutral games to pick from and also many targeted at females . I have been playing games since 1990 and it was my older brother who introduced me and my girlfriends to it . I never felt any aggression or unwelcoming in their ' club of people who play games ' lolHe however was bullied and marginalised in school which is both cause and effect of games being his main hobby . That is also the case for all of those nerdy kids that suffered so much throughout their schooling . And they were bullied by both girls and boys . Now i don ' t know the dynamics of your school but the ones I attended to , the only bullying girls experienced was by other girls . Nobody prevented me to join a college course in game development and when I decided to change subjects , it was only me finding coding too dull to bear . I was in the minority ' s of girls in my class and we were always treated as friends , colleagues and potential mates just like in any other college classroom across the world . Eventually I graduated in graphic design but kept strongest friendships with the girls and boys of game development now men and woman Truth is , less girls find the thick of it attractive , but the ones that do and are dedicated enough can be just as successful . Yes I followed gamer gate for a while more as a curiosity than anything else . From an outsider perspective , it looked like yet another embarrassing episode of the sorry millennial cultural civil wars between entitled brats of the right and entitled brats of the left of the Anglosphere . The only good thing that came out of it was the # notyourshield moment . I do not partake in group thinking or identity politics . But I do partake in playing video games and have so for 26 years in 3 different countries so I trust my judgement in the issue .