When I had originally started the giveaway, I imagined very little attention and mainly only the ladies entering, with the guys happy waiting for their own giveaway. It seems my original theory was not very accurate. Luckily many of the ladies have identified themselves and listed what prize they are in for, so it should not be too hard tallying them all up at the end. I was hoping for some more entrants, but they probably prefer to remain anonymous, or were scared off by all the drama on the thread. But there are enough for the purpose of the giveaway, and I got a better understanding of what my fellow gamer girls like.

Well, statistically speaking...

Indeed, it has been really fascinating to read about the various interests of the girls of GOG be it video game genres or anime as well as everything else that was talked about. The giveaway has been really great so far in terms of the good natured and fun spirit it was intended in. Thanks again for hosting this and for your continued generosity in general on countless occasions to the community ddickinson, more +rep to you.

Also if you like emotional and real stories in anime like the Grave of the fireflies then do check out Tokyo Godfatthers if you haven't already seen it, a really wonderful anime movie with a heartwarming and touching story. :)

Hopefully the guys giveaway will have some lovely on-topics and off-topic discussions as well. I enjoyed most of the off topic discussion on this thread. I have seen Tokyo Godfather, but it was quite some time ago so I can't remember it perfectly.

Do you mean Crab People? :-)

Your giveaway also managed to draw out a long time lurker to participate in the game/anime discussion. ;)

Been enjoying reading about the various interest of fellow gamers in this thread and i'll probably lurk in the other one too, to watch the discussion there (if i'll remember and can find it among the other GoG threads in general discussion forum; i find gog's layout a little difficult to look though for a casual forumer lurker. So many threads!).

I'm glad people are enjoying the giveaway and finding the topics interesting. When I start the guys giveaway, I will put a link to the new giveaway in this thread, so people can easily find it. It will also have a similar name, so it shouldn't be too hard to spot.

That is a really good suggestion, stg83!
Tokyo Godfathers is one of the very few films that manage to be both extremely funny and very deep!
To be sincere, I would warmly recommend every work signed by Satoshi Kon. It is really sad that such a brilliant mind had to leave us so soon...

Indeed, all of Satoshi Kon's work is incredibly amazing and it is extremely sad that a genius like him is no more. I have only seen Perfect Blue and Tokyo Godfathers so far but the rest of his quality output including Millennium Actress, Paprika and Paranoia Agent is definitely on my to watch list.

That joke is as tasteless as mashed potatoes salad. And that's not even statistically speaking. #rekt B|

Awww... did I step on a nerve?!

I hadn't seen it yet, so thanks to you both I have something to look for that I will probably enjoy. Thanks! :)

I don't know. Better lift your foot and look.

Now you invite even more males into this thread. ~_^

It would be quite interesting to compare, however in order to do that I'd probably have to approach the whole thing more scientifically and sift through this thread and take into account all the female members who did -not- mention strategy games as one of their top 3 favorite genres. As mentioned earlier, I only counted the ones directly answering to the question and also the ones that show up when you use the search function and enter the keyword "strategy".
It's positively too much work to go through the entire thread and do a more accurate count and when the giveaway for male members starts there will surely be a lot of posts there as well - making it rather hard to keep up with any sort of halfway accurate statistics.

So while these pseudo scientific statistics are fun, I'm not sure how representative they are. But of course we can count the M.A.S. Index as well (Male Appreciation of Strategy Index) and see what kind of results show up.

What interests me more than numbers though is the reason why people prefer this or that genre or specific game, so just counting how many woman like strategy games compared to how many men like strategy games doesn't really say all that much, motivations behind choices are more interesting than the choices themselves.

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