I'll probably catch hell for saying this, but I don't think the Blindfold games are disregarded on this site because they are too easy. Rather, it's because of their restrictive nature. You need to make in-app purchases for just about every one of them to make them remotely enjoyable. While you can claim that this is just how things are nowadays, that most games have this requirement, I object to the title of the company in that case. I don't think enforcing strict limits on how many times a game can be played is kid friendly in the slightest.

In any case, I'm a woman, and I play audio games. I enjoy FPS's, side scrollers, and card games mostly, but I try to keep an open mind. However, gamer culture in general is often seen as male dominated, and I suppose this is no different. Then again, I've been told that some of my preferences, from listening to rock music to eating beef jerky, are things that only guys do, so I'm kind of used to being told that I'm not normal. So my opinion might be worth a grain of salt.

Yeah, Blindfold games is doing nothing but giving our community a black eye, or a black mark in every one else's book. The whole fuss they kicked up about organizing their games into one comprehensive app was just childish and immature, and apple caved. I hate the extreme leftist view of Silicon Valley. Just because we're blind, doesn't mean you have to cave to all of our demands, hello NFB/AFB. How much time would it have taken the dude, hundreds of thousands of hours, was he high when he wrote that? And if you think about it, Apple's position on that policy would actually help blind people by cutting down on clutter, let's say you put something in the search that somehow turned up blindfold games, you'd be flicking right hearing blind blind blindfold blindfold blindfold blindfold blindfold blindfold, etc. You'd probably have to go back and refine your search, whereas, in other circumstances, if the games were bundled in one app, that's just one thing you have to get past. But the liberals are so quote, accepting, end quote, that they just cave to any social injustice, or perceived instance of same. Oh, but you know what, you'd better say what they say, do what they do, or think how they think, or you'll not be accepted into their little club, and maybe in the future, you'll be charged with, "wrong thinking". Oh, and I'm not so sure I want to live in a large city where people take their dogs around in strollers, refer to them as, "My son", or "My daughter", take them where they have no business going, supermarkets, restaurants, movie theaters, etc. And by the way, I'm not referring to guide dogs or other service animals, I'm referring to pets. Look it up if you don't believe me, there's more of it than you want to see, believe me, its an epidemic of millennials getting dogs, treating them like children, and then not having any, well maybe that's a good thing because I'm not sure I'm wanting your genetic material disseminated any further than it has to be. Oh, and I swear to god if I ever lived in an apartment building where a dog pissed in the elevator, or I stepped in dog shit because people's dogs shat on the path or something, I'd shit in a god damned paper envelope and slide it under their door, fuck you.

Um, I'm a little bit passionate about this stuff, sorry, I got a little outta control.

I guess it doesn't.

One thing I see a lot is Twitch  streamers who are women and I'm like whoa, because they're like swearing worse than some of the guy streamers and its kinda weird to me. its really weird when the cute voiced ones do it, not so much the more boisterous ones with forceful personalities, that go together. It was always weird to me that a girl would pick up a game controller and start playing. I don't know why, but its not that way with all women for me at least, just certain ones. It's down to preconceived notions which are usually a bad thing and I'm working on trying to stop myself from doing that. Generally if a chick is acting more like a dude, like she is loud, swears a lot, drinks beer, eats chips, and stuff; like all of that goes together to form a general notion of that person. And I don't mean that this type of person never acts feminine, and being more feminine doesn't exclude you, its just certain types of people that play games that I really don't expect and its weird to me. Like you wouldn't expect the girly girls to pick up a controller and start playing COD, but they do, that's the crux of it for me. And they're streaming and they're all bubbly and cheerful and welcoming every new follower or sub and stuff like that and then they pop around a corner and start blasting and laughing, swearing etc. It's weird to me when people act outside the sort of personality profile I built for them.

I do that a lot actually, I sort of form a mental dossier of someone upon meeting them. Within 5 seconds, I know a lot about them, not obviously like personal things, but just general stuff. As I get to know them more, that dossier fills up, and a sort of picture forms, and yeah, if people act in a way that's not normal based on the information I have on them, that's weird. I wouldn't think its weird if a reckless person acts recklessly, but if a normally confident and decisive person seems downcast, insecure, and has trouble making decisions, I'd notice it right away. Maybe that's why I'm so socially inept, because I tend to see through a lot of people's bullshit.

Lol Ironcross, it sounds I'm afraid more that you are making assumptions based on preconceived notions which aren't' necessarily true. Maybe you grew up in a more gender polarised part of the world than I did (I do know the states generally tends to be a little more traditional in Gender rolls than the Uk particularly in some places).

For my part, I used  to do tabletop rp with three couples, I have a female friend who is a black belt in karate, does krav maga and discusses blood eagling over breakfast, I also have straight male friends who love children and animals and openly talk about their feelings, as well as friends who are singers and stage performers, as I am myself.

My lady is also a girl with a pretty voice who swears, has an occasionally earthy sense of humour (in some senses more earthy than mine), reads scifi, loves horror and has a morbid streak despite being tiny and very gentle, so hay.

Ironically, I've always found myself that people who rigidly adhere to stereotypes tend to get on my wick since as they have such a limited outlook its difficult for me to actually find much in common with them.

so as usual we come back to that famous old maxim, all generalisations are wrong ;D.

Well, in this case perhaps it is something to think about since it tends to be those generalisations and snap judgements people make based on often erroneous stereotypes that do a great deal of harm, heck if your a blind person you'll have certainly experienced this yourself and in gender terms there is a lot of harm done by both stereotypes.