There are so many different types of gamers in this world. Some we’d kill to have on our team, others we try as hard as we can to stay away from. Either way, there’s no escaping the various types of people we find online. But at least after reading this, you’ll be able to identify them, and pick which to add to your friends list and which to block every single way you can.
The ones we DON’T like
The Kid
The kid is usually about 10-13 years old. He hasn’t hit puberty yet, and his high pitched voice destroys our ear drums. Instead of playing something age appropriate like ‘My Little Pony, the video game’ he’s on TF2 mic spamming and doing things wrong. Notably, the kid is probably a lot better at TF2 than I am, but that’s beside the point.
Why don’t we like them?
It’s annoying when they tell us what to do. I’m 20, you’re 10. Get lost.
It’s annoying when they’re loads better than you
It’s annoying when they’re mic spamming in the middle of the day. Shouldn’t you be at school?
It’s annoying when their brain hasn’t developed enough to understand words like ‘strategy’ ‘rules’ and ‘shut up and go away’.
The Griefer
Sometimes it seems like people exist in gaming worlds only to make your life hell… and this is probably true. Some people have nothing better to do with their time than hop online and ruin your gaming fun. Whether it’s de-buffing you every chance they get, having way too much fun with friendly fire or just plain getting in your way, these people like nothing more than ruining your day. These are griefers, they are like the plague, and they must be stopped.
Why don’t we like them?
We become way too familiar with the Kick/Ban/Report button
Friendly fire loses all its humour and just becomes annoying
They’re aggravating, but losing your temper with them only means they’re succeeding
They’re douchebags. And nobody likes a douchebag
The Girl Gamer- Type 1
In my eyes, there are three different types of girl gamers. One of them is good; two of them suck like an anorexic at an eating contest. The first type of girl gamer is the one that practically gags for online attention. She’ll make her name SxcChick694eva or something equally ridiculous and make her avatar or character some super skinny, incredibly pretty girl. ATTENTION GIRLS WHO DO THAT: Nobody believes you. Everybody knows you’re probably a massive fat chick who comes home to family size microwave pizza and your cat Bootsy. You’re not fooling anyone. But nothing is more entertaining than delusion, so keep it up.
Why don’t we like them?
They’re annoying, plain and simple
They’re liars
They spend too much time looking for sexy avatars than getting good at the game they’re playing
The Girl Gamer- Type 2
This type of girl gamer is much more annoying than the last. This is the girl gamer who needs everybody to know that she’s a girl, and demands that she not be treated differently because of it. News flash: You’re stupid. Why not just keep your big mouth shut in the first place? 50% of the people online don’t give a crap about whether you’re a girl or not and the other 50% don’t believe you anyway.
Why don’t we like them?
Watching someone try and convince a group of people they’re a girl is pathetic. It’s like watching a fat kid convince his parents he didn’t eat the last cookie from the cookie jar as he dusts crumbs from his hands.
She’ll say ‘don’t treat me different’ and then get shitty when you shoot her in the face.
She’s tarnishing the names of GOOD girl gamers everywhere
The Basement Dwelling Neck Beard
These are the gamers who are reaching their 40’s and consider freedom moving from their bedroom to their mother’s basement. They haven’t moved out of home, and probably never will until they meet a basement dwelling troll woman. These guys find it incredibly rude and inconsiderate when you can’t make every single raid time, no matter how extreme they get. FYI neckbeards, not all of us have issues with leaving the house. Some of us even like it. Maybe when you’re thin enough to get through your doorway, you’ll realise that you like it too.
Why don’t we like them?
If you have a social life, you’re pretty much the worst traitorous scum in the world to these people
They’re always online, which means playing a game without them is pretty much impossible
Because they play games 24 hours a day, their view of reality becomes warped and weird.
They’re unhealthy, and there’s a good chance they’ll have a heart attack in the middle of a raid. Not cool.
The ones we DO like
The Closet Gamer
This is the guy who makes his uber gaming skills his best kept secret. Being called a nerd or a geek is pretty much the worst thing that could ever happen to this guy. However, more often than not, the closet gamer kicks ass. The quiet ones normally do. The only flaw is that if his friends find out about his gaming habits you’ll never see him again.
Why we like them?
They’re awesome skilled.
They’re quiet, and they don’t bother people
They’re happy to just play the game
The Girl Gamer- Type 3
The last type of girl gamer is the one that kicks your ass. All of us have got a certain type of game we’re really good at. For some girl gamers, FPS’s are as easy to win as getting up in the morning. For me, racing games are what I’m good at. I suck at shooting games, and my temper is too short for fighting games, but there’s no way I’m going to lose a race to anybody. (Except for the people who are better than me.)
Why we like them?
They’re really really good
They don’t pester you with useless girl crap
It’s nice when a game isn’t a total sausage fest
The Pro
In everything you do, there’s going to be someone who’s better at it than you are. In the gaming world, this is the pro. No matter what game he plays, he’s gonna own you at it. He can’t play sport to save his life, and if you ask him to add up some numbers he’ll probably draw a blank, but when it comes to games, he’s the king.
Why we like them?
There’s nothing better than having someone really ridiculously good on your team
Their skills are the same across any genre of game
They’re usually very helpful. They’ve done the levels you’ve done a million times before and aced them every time, so they’re quite willing to show you how to do it.
The Temper Tantrum
These are the people that have no patience, or tolerance for losing. If they or their team isn’t winning, they will throw a fit. And usually, this is hilarious. Sure you’ll probably cop an earful of obscenities, and somehow it’s going to be all your fault that they didn’t win, but really, when somebody gets that angry over losing a game or dying, there’s nothing you can do but laugh.
Why we like them?
Losing sucks, we all know that. But what will make you feel better is listening to this guy scream until he’s blue in the face and telling yourself ‘well at least I’m not that guy’.
They come up with the most creative insults. Nothings gets the creativity flowing like white hot anger
It’s hilarious. There’s just no denying it. And sometimes after 3 hours of playing a game and losing, you need something to make you laugh.
So there you go. Placing all your online friends into one of these categories will probaby make your gaming life a whole lot easier.
Have I forgotten one? Let me know!
Microsoft announced its financial results for Q3 of fiscal year 2026, including an update on its gaming Xbox business and more.
Not looking good. Hopefully Asha Sharma is able to turn Phil’s disaster around.
To me it's still quite remarkable how they can cash-in 5.3bn in revenue in a single quarter, since their hardware is basically dead.
The stock mark is what makes Microsoft remarkable, They have convinced every institutional and retail investor to just keep piling money into them. Like many big tech giants they are just a big growing pyramid scheme. As long as people keep dropping money into ETF's that cover the market Microsoft will always be liquid. At the same time it is completely stifling innovation and competition. People need to start being more discreet in how they invest their money as it's killing the system.
Riiiiight because people will just flock back to them for one or two games per year.
15+ years of bad performance is what they call irreparable in business. It is time for them to sell off the assets and get out of entertainment.
These declines are on the back of extra revenue received from releasing games like Forza horizon 5 on PlayStation. So I’m being sarcastic here when I said they should go back to exclusives. Killing off a revenue stream from Ps5 sales will only make things worse
The charity event will be streamed live from Gamescom in August.
Thanks to the slip-up of an artist working on the title, we now have more evidence that a new Injustice game is in the works.
The Average Gamer: They're not particularly great at games but enjoy playing them. They've got nothing to prove to anyone so they play on easy or normal because they just want to enjoy themselves. They'll go for trophies or achievements that are within their reach but don't care much beyond that. They've unconcerned with the console war and wish fanboys would shut up already.
I still haven't come across the type of girl gamers we don't like.
Theses are the people that when they get you know that it is going fun not matter what happens these people mite be half drunk or high out of there mind but they say some funny stuff or they just mite a little slow and say dumb thing all night not know that everyone is making fun of him yea the happy clueless ones there nice to have in your collection of people to play with on Friends list