Straight Outta Iron {a tale of girl gaming}

Pebble's Gaming Diaries   26/10/2022 Hello everyone, I hope we’re all having a lovely week! As I shared at the end of my previous blog, today we will be discussing an article written by Claire Gregory (Sky News), regarding Chloe Grace Moretz’ views on being a girl in the gaming community, as well as Jack Reynor’s opinion on the rise of technological dependency. If anyone has any comments they would like to share, please feel free to comment below or even private message me on my social media – Twitter and Instagram . Moretz shares her frustrations with the Sky News team stating how there isn’t really any “respect” for female gamers, which I think a lot of us women can agree with. I think it goes without saying, a mutual pre-emptive fear of being verbally harassed by teammates is a clear sign that something is wrong in the community. A lot of female gamers are scared to speak, scared to play alone, and scared to lose, and this all stems from previous interactions with ce...

Pebble's Gaming Diaries   19/10/2022 Welcome back everyone! Since the end of last week, I have been moving and as of today I finally received my Wi-Fi router!!! Unfortunately, this does mean I’ve had no Wi-Fi and have had limited time to play Valorant. However, there’s still lots I’d love to talk about with you all. Well, where do we start… as the main title of my blog suggests, I am ‘Straight Outta Iron.’ At the end of last week, I finally managed to escape iron, yet again. Your girl is now back to bronze 🥉 ! So, this week I will be doing my utmost to keep climbing the ranks. Since I moved, I also decided when else best would it be to indulge in some of life’s finer things??? I bought my very first gaming chair and monitor! Gaming chair is the MATCHSPEL Gaming chair, in Bomstad black from IKEA (link below) and monitor is the HP X34 (34" ) WQHD IPS HDR Gaming Monitor from HP (link below).  My monitor won’t necessarily be used for gaming though, as I am just so used...