Proof That Girls Do Play Video Games Other Than The Sims  

So there I am, kicking ass and taking names, jacking ‘Hogs and pimp slapping fools left and right in Halo 3. Business as usual, right? So we finish the round and the server hooks us up with a bunch of new players. It’s the standard mix of people you don’t know, but wait! What’s this? One of them’s called... Well, I don’t want to direct unwanted traffic her way, but suffice to say the name was leaning towards the feminine side. So I mention it, laugh, and the person tells me to eff. So I’m like, no, YOU eff off! Then Balbailey (who I only just met a couple of rounds earlier and that might not be the actual name because I don’t remember it very well) says nah, she’s not a girl, she’s some creep. Then the girl says no, I am a girl! And then he’s like, well you don’t sound like a girl, and I’m like It Doesn’t Matter! (just like the song!). She gets all grumpy, and I tell both of them, look: it doesn’t matter if you’ve got boobs or not, as long as you help us carry the win. Sensible, right?

Wrong. The match starts and Balbailey won’t quit, and she won’t shut up about being a girl. (as an aside, she sounds like she’s either a girl or a 12yr old kid (of either gender). She’s all like I’m 17! And he’s cracking up, and I’m getting pissed off because at this point she is absolutely dominating the game (Team Slayer on Guardian), and he’s distracting her. Eventually, he gives up, and we lose. The only reason we don’t lose catastrophically is because of this girl, with 18 kills. Balbailey and I both bag 11 kills, and the other guy gets something like 3 kills (there’s always one, you know?) we come up to 43 kills, in a game that we should have won. The girl gets pissed off, tells us we suck, and leaves. Basically she came, she saw, she kicked our asses

The moral of the story is this. Do not piss off the girl in your squad, because she just might be the Rambo with an itchy trigger finger.


As an aside (a fairly big one), does anyone know why all the Xbox 360’s accessories are in white? Seriously, what’s the deal? You’ve got a black console. You want to customise it with an all star cast of peripherals, to match your stereo, TV, and DVD player, but you hit a brick wall because everything is in white. Of course, some people will point out that the control pads come in colours from teal to pink, but what about the remote? Or the headset? Or the wireless bridge? Or the vision camera? Or the charging cradle for the wireless pad batteries? Come on Microsoft. Everybody knows it’s the little details that sweeten the deal. I know it’s not exactly deal breaking to have everything in white, and you’ve got bigger problems (what with Apple trying to steal the pc users away and Sony trying to steal the Xbox users), but still.