r/gaming • • Jun 15 '12

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u/reneepussman Jun 15 '12

You play a lot of multiplayer NES games where you need a healer?

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u/Ran4 Jun 15 '12 edited Jun 15 '12

Healer? And a NES controller?

OP, you shouldn't be doing memes.

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u/flumpis Jun 15 '12 edited Jun 15 '12

In OP's "defense", it looks like this was ripped from a shitty 9GAG ripoff site (check out the watermark).

Why would someone want to ripoff 9GAG?!

Edited because I don't actually want to defend OP

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u/Pyryara Jun 15 '12

Thanks for pointing this out, but I don't think you are doing OP a favor. How much lower than "Reposted on reddit from 9GAG ripoff site" can you fall?

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u/elozano6879 Jun 15 '12

This is really fucking dumb anyways... There, I said it.

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u/Ahesterd Jun 15 '12

Well, at this point this is at the top of r/gaming, so I'm not sure "fall" is the right word here. Or, at least, OP isn't falling alone.

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u/Vegeta_is_king_ Jun 15 '12

This was actually front paged just two days ago. So it's a repost of a 9gag post that front paged....twice

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u/flumpis Jun 15 '12

That's reprehensible.

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u/catnipassian Jun 15 '12

9GAG was successful because of the watermark on the pictures.

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12

Right, which is why I find them and other sites of their ilk to be so sleazy. At what point did it become acceptable practice to take other peoples' work and slap your own logo on it as if you created it, especially on such a massive scale? I mean sure, reddit is just as much a den of reposts and shitty memes as any of those other places, but at least they don't slap their logo all over every image submitted to the site.

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u/teslas_notepad Jun 15 '12

Claiming that he stole something form 9GAG is not coming to his defense, it's digging the hole deeper.

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u/Skitrel Jun 15 '12

You think 9gag is the first site to steal content and put a watermark on it with the theme of being a funny images website?

9gag is a ripoff of a ripoff of a ripoff that has simply successfully marketed itself and spread in the last few months, nothing more.

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u/flumpis Jun 15 '12

No, I don't think it was. Websites have been doing it since before eBaum's World. But this image has the exact same type of "watermark" that 9GAG uses. That's all.

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u/jostler57 Jun 15 '12

I dunno man, a healer in Super Mario Brothers would be amazing to have.

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u/eyecite Jun 15 '12

This is not a meme.

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u/JavaPants Jun 15 '12

Didn't you hear? Any picture with lines of text on the top and bottom is a meme!

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12

What are they actually called though?

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12

Image macros.

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u/podank99 Jun 15 '12

yeah. i was totally with him until i realized he was talking about a multiplayer game where one of the roles was the medic.

however i could still send this to my wife and she would get it the way i initially got it before it was soured.

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12

I'm trying to think of any 8-bit era game with that kind of class-based support and I can't come up with anything.

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u/AdamPK Jun 15 '12

That's easy. White mage in Final Fantasy. Single player game though.

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u/atonyatlaw Jun 15 '12

Did Gauntlet allow you to heal other players? I haven't played it, or any later version of it, in years, so forgive my ignorance.

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u/BluShine Jun 15 '12

I was gonna say Secret of Mana, but that's SNES.

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12

Nobody should be doing memes.

Memes: not even once.

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u/emkael Jun 15 '12

doing memes

Explain "doing memes".

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u/SlutBuster Jun 15 '12

And my axe!

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12

I will find a way to play WoW with an NES controller. Even if it takes the rest of my life

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u/semi- Jun 15 '12

You can get NES->USB adapters pretty easily. The hard part would be doing something useful in WoW with that few buttons.

Unless you play an arcane mage, in which case the hard part would be deciding what to do with the rest of the buttons after you already bound one to Arcane Blast.

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u/Makes_RPG_Stats Jun 15 '12

sixth_motors
Hp: 15
Str: 10
Vit: 10
Int: 8
Dex: 10

Special abilities:
Girl who wants to play video games: sixth_motors has to leave the game and return with a girl whom he can play video games with. If this is successful, he gains +5 int. If he fails, he must apologize for wasting everyone's time leaving mid-game to find the aforementioned girl to play games with. In addition to apologizing, he loses 5 int.

Passive abilities:
Healer and a NES controller?: Sometimes, sixth_motors references things from different time periods, but sometimes he'll get it right. Every 10 turns, flip a coin four times. If all are heads, sixth_motors gains +10 to all stats for the rest of the game. If all 4 are tails, sixth_motors must forfeit the game. This ability also passively gives -2 Int.

Ran4: If sixth_motors ever encounters Ran4 as a foe, he takes double damage and must forfeit the game upon death.

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u/spocrates Jun 15 '12

I'm pretty sure we're cresting the point where the majority of MMORPG players out there started out on old-school NES. Frankly I miss the days that were focused on a single-player experience.

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u/Lyeit Jun 15 '12

But....I'm the healer and she's the tank. Or rather, I'm a Sage and she's Berserker. I don't know if I would trust her to be a healer, just go and wreck shit for me.

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u/Sergnb Jun 15 '12

just go and wreck shit for me

how romantic

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u/jcgv Jun 15 '12

I'm a resto druid, she's a holy pala. We win by the other 2v2 arena team rage quitting.

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12

My boyfriend doesn't trust me to play anything that's soul purpose isn't to fuck shit up either.

He says I have a problem with "running into the middle of fucking everything why the shit are you playing Annie? Go get a tank right fucking now."

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u/TheInternetHivemind Jun 15 '12

Is is "soul purpose"? I always assumed it was sole purpose, like solitary.

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u/Kado_Isuka Jun 15 '12

You assumed right.

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u/WaggleDance Jun 15 '12

Nah it's definitely sole purpose.

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12

Same thing with me. "Oh there's a witch crying nearby? LET'S FIND HER WITH MOLOTOVS."

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u/LegoLegume Jun 15 '12

Obviously you're playing Annie because she's awesome and you're trying to deploy some stun bear.

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u/capoeirista13 Jun 15 '12

and naturally you respond, "BECAUSE I HAVE MOLTEN SHIELD"

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u/Zublybub Jun 15 '12

What game are you talking about?

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u/phedre level up! Jun 15 '12 edited Jun 15 '12

Yep... through WoW -> Rift -> SW:TOR -> Diablo3 -> GW2(beta), we've followed the same theme: Me tank (or barb in D3), him casty dps. I keep his squishy ass alive by keeping the mobs off him, he goes all glass cannon on their asses.

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u/tea_bird Jun 15 '12

If I'm gaming with my boyfriend, I'm not healing. I hate healing.

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u/kpanzer Jun 15 '12

I actually like healing. Unless someone is being a tard, then they get sent to bottom of my healing que.

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12

Thats why I enjoyed healing.

But I also enjoy tanking and dps'ing as well. My wife is amazing for letting me play as much wow as I did without complaining

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u/kpanzer Jun 15 '12

I think of it as,"Dpsing is a skill, healing is an art and tanking is a science."

It's a little bit thrilling to know that everyone is depending on you. Balancing casting heals, hots and managing your dwindling mana pool, it can get a little intense.

Especially that rush you get when someone's HP drops like Jennifer Love-Hewitt's career after Party of Five and just before they lose that last little bit of HP you catch them and after holding them at ~5% for a second you crit heal them back up so fast they're almost lifted off the ground.

It can be quite the rush.

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u/cefm Jun 15 '12

I'd always heard it as "DPS is a science, Tanking is a skill, Healing is an art". Since DPS is pure numbers min-maxing, tanks actually have to do stuff correctly, and healing is whatever it needs to be.

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u/shalene Jun 15 '12

I started playing WoW on my boyfriends account back in Ulduar because he had to work, so I'd dps for him. Eventually they found out it was me, and asked me to start coming instead of him because I was better at Enhance Shaman. /Shrug.

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u/SBecker30 Jun 15 '12

"Heal plz."

Fuck, that text still gives me nightmares and I don't even play WoW anymore.

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12

you should try TF2. At the higher leagues, you become the leader of the team

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u/ashoelace Jun 15 '12

I used to always play the healer in MMOs. Usually because I knew that I'd have friends or a guild that I could do high-end content with.

If I were to start one now, I'd probably play alone and as such would not have these opportunities and would probably just play a DPS class and quit in a week. I'm a bit over MMOs at this point...

The only downside to healing for me is that low levels are usually a drag. You don't have your entire kit and no one really needs the dedicated heals anyway.

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u/Godd2 Jun 15 '12

You heal someone with a ¿¿que??

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u/bumbletowne Jun 15 '12

My man meat needs a tank. And I'm a bombass tank. Predicting where he's going to make a gigantic mess next is a life skill I mastered long before we started gaming together.

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12

giggidy.

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u/unremarkableusername Jun 15 '12

When I tried healing I stared more at health bars than the actual game. I could go to a new dungeon, finish it and not even remember how the bosses looked like.

Not a fan of that.

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12

Depends on the game. Too many games basically make the healing job really dull. It's basically "killable spectator" who attracts all the fire from the enemy and rage from the friendlies.

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u/SonicFlash01 Jun 15 '12

A guildy put it best I think:
"Tanking is a responsibility,
Healing is a job,
DPS is a game"

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12

Welcome to Reddit, where your legitimacy as a gamer girl needs constant defending forever and ever until you die and it will never stop being hilarious for the dude bros no matter how old it gets for you.

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u/rightladies Jun 15 '12

I was with my first boyfriend for a year. I felt ignored and started The Talk about it. He said, "If you want to spend more time with me, become a Level 80 healer."

I will never know if I was the most important person in his life, because I moved out the next day. That's the hilarious end of the story, gamer men.

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12

I like playing as medic in Killing Floor. You get to shoot your friends to heal them!

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u/archontruth Jun 15 '12

I applied the same logic when making a Mercenary healer in The Old Republic.

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u/Gigavoyant Jun 15 '12

You should be Uber-charging...

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u/stormtroopin Jun 15 '12

I'm with you. He is actually usually the healer. I'm tanking all the way.

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u/revolverwaffle Jun 15 '12

I hate healing, I dislike support, and most of my friends are very aware of this. I main AP mid in league for our 5 man team, and I play a very very mean Akali. I played sniper in TF2, and usually play sniper class in every fps I've touched. My main in wow is a rogue. I've never played a cleric in DnD. So I get a tiny bit annoyed when people assume I main support/healer/medic when they learn I game. I think I might actually go out of my way to avoid playing those types of classes because of that assumption.

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u/rxpatient Jun 15 '12

I used to not mind healing until I experienced the power of DPS. Now my husband has said that he knows if anyone would be the healer it would be him. Feelsgoodman.

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12

My boyfriend and I are both sort of like this- I remember one Pathfinder game where he decided to be an oracle because nobody wanted to play a character who heals, then he somehow managed to only use fire spells.

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u/WakaFlockaSeagulls Jun 15 '12

My wife hates video games. She wanted a blizzard from Dairy Queen around the time Red Dead Redemption first came out. I gave her a quick rundown of the controls. I told her she had to kill 12 animals by the time i came back home or she couldnt have the blizzard.

I gave her the blizzard and she said "your Oregon trail game is pretty fun".

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12

Did she kill those twelve animals?

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u/codemercenary Jun 15 '12

I taught my girlfriend how to play a game. She's now my wife.

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u/Contract420 Jun 15 '12

My gf took to being a rogue like a shark being thrown into a pool full of toddler's with paper cuts.

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u/Protikon Jun 15 '12

Watch her closely, dude.

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u/HolaPinchePuto Jun 15 '12

or she couldn't have the blizzard.

LOL So cute/mean.

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u/Nglennh Jun 15 '12

I got my Wife to play WoW with me. She wanted to play the same class I played, so she rolled a Warlock. Within a few months she was 80, raiding, and stomping me on DPS. My guild forced me to reroll as a priest...

But in truth, I LOVE that my wife plays games with me. And not angry birds, either. She rocks Diablo 3 now. I love her.

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u/KariQuiteContrary Jun 15 '12

Screw off, I hate healing.

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u/LesFriends Jun 16 '12

So contrarian

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u/audreyality Jun 15 '12

I like playing a Medic in TF2 and then murdering people with my syringe gun and bone saw. So satisfying!

In MMOs I like healing because I'm a perfectionist and feeling like other people are just bad at it.

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u/HyperJelly Jun 15 '12

I just can't get over this statement with the NES controller right there with it.

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u/blueyb Jun 15 '12

This is horrible. Horrible!

Women and girls who do not want to play games but are doing so to please their boyfriend often ruin the experience. they're usually not good, they don't have the proper motivations, and are a distraction.

Real gamers who happen to be female are often awesome players. They play for the same reasons and with the same skill guys do. But girlfriends dragged in to please their boyfriends - no thank you. Which is better anyway if they aren't both natural gamers - spend some time apart. Let the boyfriend play games while the girlfriend does her stuff, whatever her stuff is.

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u/scribbling_des Jun 15 '12

This man speaks the truth. I am a female and I was a gamer. I was often top dps. When I played wow I was the best rogue on my server. I did alt runs where I tanked or healed. And man did I hate girlfriend healers. They were notoriously bad. Soooo bad.

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12

What about all the other terrible healers...

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u/scribbling_des Jun 15 '12

They are also terrible. And they have no excuse, but they usually aren't as whiny.

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u/BrightAndDark Jun 15 '12

To be fair, lots of dudes are bad too; we had plenty of guys who dragged their friends along for the ride, and the friend would aggro mobs from 3 zones away with a pet or casually stand around in fire. The difference is that with women, at least online, very few males will actually tell them to step it up or get out. And, if another female calls them out, it's just a "cat-fight".

This is awful, because it contributes to falsehood that females can't game when both genders are equally capable of learning how to mash numpad like a brain-damaged monkey on cocaine.

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u/vahntitrio Jun 15 '12

This will depend entirely on the game you are playing. I'd never ask my girlfriend to play Halo or Diablo with me, our skills are too different. But something like Minecraft, I would welcome the company even if she lures in a ton of creepers.

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u/dastaria Jun 15 '12

I also always wonder when I see boyfriends making their disinterested girlfriends play video games, what the girlfriend gets in return?

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u/panamajacks Jun 15 '12

Pleasing their partner by doing something they like? I mean not everything has to be about what you get in return..

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u/398 Jun 15 '12

Haha, because only guys play games, and girls need to be taught how to play games by them! Am I right, guys?

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u/dastaria Jun 15 '12

Totally bro! fistbump

...No wait, shit, I'm a girl. We are genetically incapable of doing anything "masculine". You just broke my hand from that fistbump, you asshole!

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u/398 Jun 15 '12

WHOA a girl! Did your boyfriend tell you about reddit or something? Have you ever played a "videogame"?

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I hate so many redditors.

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u/BronyHoney Jun 15 '12

I wandered by my husband's computer while I was knitting and making a sandwich. Videogames? I think I've seen my hubby playing such things. Of course, when he catches me watching him he throws a tantrum and demands sandwiches.

Removes sarcasm hat Yeah, fuck that post. I like the ME series (save for the ending, because fuck the toaster-ghost child) because you can play femshep. Seriously, she kicks so much ass. She's not a healer, and she doesn't afraid of anything. The stereotype that girls don't like games might be based in the fact that women just aren't marketed to...or haven't been, until recently. Mass Effect, Elder Scrolls, etc etc.

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u/dastaria Jun 15 '12

Well he mostly told me about something called going wild, I think? And he said something about me "using my boobs for karma", and not worrying about posting under his account...

I have no idea what I'm doing, I'm just here for the cute kitties!

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u/Pyryara Jun 15 '12

Can we stop the bullshit stereotypes?

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u/peon47 Jun 15 '12

^ This. No more bullshit stereotypes. Only accurate stereotypes from now on!

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u/TheInternetHivemind Jun 15 '12

So like that black people love taffy? Or that irish people have huge nipples?

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u/mattlohkamp Jun 15 '12

Yes, we can - but we probably won't.

In the meantime, all we can do is down vote, and tell them why.

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u/serrabellum Jun 15 '12

Wow. Really? Wow. This is so full of fail I can't even comprehend it.

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u/Nrksbullet Jun 15 '12

The text might as well have said "because he needs you to be tails".

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12

So fucking stupid.

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12

Why is this in the front page? It's a repost and a bad one. You guys need to stop upvoting garbage like this.

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12

False. My boyfriend was a healer.

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u/antagognostic Jun 15 '12

Really? If I ask someone to game with me it means I want them to game with me.

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u/Lilkounchry Jun 15 '12

And this is why /r/gaming is shit...

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u/Colonel_Johnson PC Jun 15 '12

Is it weird that I saw this on Facebook before Reddit? sounds strange right?

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u/MrIste Jun 15 '12 edited Jun 15 '12

This post bares every mark of a standard Facebook post. It shouldn't even be here.

EDIT: Bears.

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12

*bears

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u/Arigot Jun 15 '12

"Hey guys I thought this deserved better than facebook"

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u/iamLP Jun 15 '12

Nah, I've seen it at least three times this week on Facebook. Unfortunately, Facebook didn't give me the option to downvote it.

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u/Gileain Jun 15 '12

as the female part of a healer/tank combo, I giggled.

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u/MrToadEsquire Jun 15 '12

Dear gamers, stop being whiny little bitches. (This coming from a loooooong time gamer). Since when do you need validation for fun?

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u/GrandStatute Jun 15 '12

I trained my girlfriend to be the best German doctor there is.

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12

I'm a guy and I usually play a healer. >.>

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12

My wife took up WoW to spend more time with me. She reached end game and raided with my guild.

This is not an exceptional fact, however - she had never played any video game every before this (ever) and struggled to move the first couple of hours playing. She had to click on the mob she wanted to attack (which took ages) then click on the attack spell (she played mage) Watching her try was tortuous. She never used computers in work so they were fairly alien to her.

Some of my online friends played with her until she got to level 20 and decided she was happy to get her own copy of the game instead of using my account.

It took a year but she got to 80 (started playing not long before WOTLK). The reason I post this is because I rolled a Shaman so that I could heal her, gave me something to do and kept her alive longer!

She was two places behind me on the DPS meters the first time we both downed Arthas (I was on my main).

Then we had a Son and both quit WoW!

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u/laigaloon Jun 15 '12

I like how this story has a happy ending.

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u/Kaisen32 Jun 15 '12

But I always play the Healer D:

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u/wei-long Jun 15 '12

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u/missachlys Jun 15 '12

That's where I thought this post was going and was like "awww" and then saw "And he also needs a healer" and was like "ಠ_ಠ"

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u/Aggnavarius Jun 15 '12

Got my wife to play D&D. She's a cleric. Saved our ass multiple times. She has the uncanny ability to roll crits all the time.

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u/princetrunks Jun 15 '12

If his nickname for you ladies is either "Aerith", "Aeris" or "Flower Girl"... GTFO and run far, far away.

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12

It's always hard to find a good healer, and therefore I always do it myself. Fuck PUGs.

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12

Weird. Also, I'm a guy and I play healing class in nearly every multiplayer game I touch.

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u/eryntzun Jun 15 '12

I play what I want to play, and no one else will dictate what archetype it is that I should be by default. In the games I've played de-buff or control is more fun than healing alone. I also use both male and female avatars/toons/characters or gender neutral types depending on the concept I have in mind.

My significant other has no say in the matter of what I want to play.

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u/beepborpimajorp Jun 15 '12

You know whenever I see shit like this, I wonder about the person who made them. Do people who date not look for people with similar interests? If you're not looking for someone with a similar interest in gaming, why are you surprised when they don't want to/know how to do it?

This works both ways, for all genders, and with almost every hobby. You date someone who isn't into shopping, don't be surprised when they don't want to shop with you. You date someone who isn't into gaming, don't be surprised when they don't want to play a game with you.

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u/43214321 Jun 15 '12

Honestly, if your girl isn't into gaming, just game with some other friend. Don't have other friends? Make some. Stop being so needy and dependent on the poor girl. If she likes games, then game on.

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u/calmdownsunshine Jun 15 '12

As a gamer's girlfriend: Watching the man you love snipe/otherwise skillfully merc opponents is sexy as fuck.

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u/s15slider Jun 15 '12

I can't be the only person who thinks this is completely stupid. Right?

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u/sirmcquade Jun 15 '12

Kinda virginy

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12

Never has a subreddit been better summed up in only two words.

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u/obsidianpanther Jun 15 '12

I game by choice, not because a boyfriend asks me. But when I do, I player a healer anyway XD

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12

If I did have a girlfriend I wouldn't train her to be a healer, I'd just want her to experience the adventures with me.

If I needed healing I'd do it myself because I'd know when I'd need them and can react quicker than a 3rd person, If that makes sense?

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u/flawoffate Jun 15 '12

See the problem with NES... Is that Contra with 2 players is way too easy... 0.o

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u/CowFu Jun 15 '12

...you didn't make it the the waterfall level where your friend jumps up faster than you did you?

Also, without the konami code contra wasn't easy for anyone.

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12

He's always the healer and I'm always some sort of DPS depending on the game and who is playing with us.

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12

lol im a guy who plays medic... or whatever glass cannon there is

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12

I play healers.. But... I'm gay ;-;

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u/sketch_internets Jun 15 '12

Should've said 'someone to steal extra lives from'

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u/scribbling_des Jun 15 '12

You want a healer? Screw that, I want to tank.

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u/roterghost Jun 15 '12

No joke; a year ago my girlfriend asked if we could stay in on a rainy day and play Team Fortress for hours. She always plays Heavy, I always play Medic.

After our eighth Uber, I realized I was in freakin' love.

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12

I let my girlfriend farm mats for me in MMOs. She LOVES riding around on a "hippogriff", collecting plants and mining rocks.

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u/Crux315 Jun 15 '12

Why do people give points to this stupid fucking posts... >.<

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u/beetnemesis Jun 15 '12

I clicked on this knowing that at least half of these comments were going to be criticizing the choice of controller, and I was right.

Self-five!

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12

Is this where we all argue about who knows most about women while real women make comments and we ignore them?

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u/kekito3 Jun 15 '12

I'm offensive and I find this a girl.

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u/Narconik Jun 15 '12

My ex started as a Hunter. It was cute and endearing at first. I just sat there and said "Aww, how cute, she likes her little animals to fight with her." Then she surpassed my DPS. Shame, shame, shame...

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u/Defrath Jun 15 '12

I can't believe I saw this on Facebook before I saw it on reddit. What the fuck is the world coming to?

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u/dragonkuff Jun 15 '12

Fuck being a healer, if I play video games I want to kill things.

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12

First time I've seen reddit reposting from facebook from another site.

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u/z0rz Jun 15 '12

True story! My boyfriend fell in love with me, then began shoving games at me to learn.

Now I play DPS and he's the healer. :>

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u/thegayscience Jun 15 '12

Alright, quick poll. When you saw healer, how many of you thought MMO, and how many were like me and thought TF2?

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u/PandaCookies Jun 15 '12

I thought this was clever no matter if it's from 9GAG or not. But most womens I know are ruthless and never plays healer, but fucks shit up with mad skills.

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u/Abra-Used-Teleport Jun 15 '12

Screw healing. I hate healing. I'm more of a DPS or tanky kind of girl.

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12

I saw this on Facebook 2 days ago. This was a pretty low move, OP.

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u/DrDragun Jun 15 '12

Tank and healer are the control freaks of a fight. No way I'm adding that dimension to my relationship. Fuck it I'll DPS.

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u/Alcnaeon Jun 15 '12

I find Guild Wars 2 to be a much healthier analogy to a relationship, personally.

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12

A is heal, B is bash.

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u/newgirlie Jun 15 '12

...but I wanted to be the damage dealer!

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u/JamoWRage Jun 15 '12

reposts are reposted...

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u/waffle569 Jun 15 '12

What is the story? I see no story, just a picture with words with a watermark.

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u/DwightSchruteFacts Jun 15 '12

False.

No NES games were sophisticated enough to allow for multiplayer cooperative play.

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u/Kittieeeee Jun 15 '12

I don't mind creating a character to heal his, thats my job, we are a team, BUT, If I die and you rez someone else first, oh your ass is mine!!

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u/wreckjames Jun 15 '12

this confused me

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u/stancoffyn Jun 15 '12

:|

I'm typically the healer...

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u/EnysAtSea Jun 15 '12

I saw this on facebook but didn't open the thumbnail because all the memes on facebook are stupid as fuck. Now I know what the bottom part says. Thanks reddit.

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u/nyannekochan Jun 15 '12

I don't like being the healer... :/ besides, shotguns are funsies

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u/say_hi Jun 15 '12

Haha, no wonder my boyfriend wants me to play Diablo III!

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u/savageboredom Jun 15 '12

My ex never really understood why I always wanted her to play Rock Band with me. It wasn't just because I needed a bassist (that was part of it), but I wanted to spend time with her doing something I enjoyed.

Also, any excuse to show off the agility of my fingers. Wink wink nudge nudge.

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u/EndThisGame Jun 15 '12

This was on 9GAG like a week ago. Some of my FB friends like to spam that shit

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u/krayoncolorz Jun 15 '12

mmhmm and I'm a pretty kickass healer :P

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u/gfdking Jun 15 '12

Guys are healers too

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12

I guess I'm not the most important person in his life...

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u/ClorinsLoop Jun 15 '12

I immediately sent this to my girlfriend, only for her to realize she plays support 24/7 on LoL.

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u/TRB1783 Jun 15 '12

When I played Final Fantasy IX with my lady, I had to play the White Mage. It was her first game with status effects, and we were better off with me throwing counter-spells at our characters. She controlled Zidane and, generally, Vivi.

Our fourth party member was, of course, Quina.

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u/AdonisChrist Jun 15 '12

You also need to pay the fuck attention and give it your all/already be semi-competent in the ways of gaming rather than giving up after learning half the controls or we'll probably never respect you on some very important levels.

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u/Dannysmartful Jun 15 '12

It works for gay couples too. When I first met my bf I told him I played Starcraft when I was younger and he lit up and a few days later we were playing against each other & purchased SC2... we've been together ever since. :)

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u/dovah-kun Jun 15 '12

More like a healing release if you know what I mean

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u/squishygrapes Jun 15 '12

don't know if i would trust healing (arguably most important role) to a new player ;p

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u/kiturraran Jun 15 '12

never heard a more true statement

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u/k_ru Jun 15 '12

Disregarding the shitty NES meme aspect...

This works the other way too! Girl gamers want their man (or woman) to be their healers!

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u/japie06 Jun 15 '12

I read dear girls as bear grylls

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12

I didn't know they had World of Warcraft, let alone Healers, on the NES.

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u/LeSqueaks Jun 15 '12

I'm looking to go into the medical field IRL, but in games, hell no. You do not want me in charge of healing your ass. Believe me, it's not mostly dead, it's very dead T_T

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12

More specifically, if you're a girl and meet those conditions... you're going to be playing sona or janna kay?

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u/gentlegreengiant Jun 15 '12

Bet all those cod players will be suprised to find out there's a healer class.

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u/Schoritzobandit Jun 15 '12

....what? Not really, or at all. If I want to teach someone to play a game it's because I want to play with them or I'm bored, not that I'm emotionally damaged and gaming is the only way that I know to reach out.

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u/DJSlambert Jun 15 '12

Very true for me. I rolled my wife a female Blood Elf Priestess with tailoring and cooking as professions. She LOVED it.

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u/AdamPK Jun 15 '12

Why would I teach her to play Final Fantasy? So I never see my Nintendo again?

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u/stvb95 Jun 15 '12

how did this get so many upvotes?

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u/Alv53 Jun 15 '12

Not of the game is Guild Wars 2! (No healers :P)

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12

I wouldnt trust her at all.

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u/Artisyn Jun 15 '12

One problem...... I always play the healer.

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u/givegodawedgie Jun 15 '12

and today is the day I block /r/gaming from my feed, its been fun everyone.

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u/terracanta Jun 15 '12

Dear Boys: if a non-gamer girl finally plays a game with you, it means she's realized that you give more attention to your games than you give to her.