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Let’s say I warmed up to it.

I felt like Call of Duty wasn’t for women.

Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 screenshot

Or, not for women like me, who are nervous, slow beginners with horrifyingly average aim.

Thus, my association with boys at lunch snorting dairy.

It’s appropriate, then, that my bedroom meet-ups with Black Ops 6 began with a boy.

A snow scene in Call Of Duty Black Ops 6 with soldiers moving forward, aircraft exploding in the background

Like, do I even know you anymore?

Are you going to spend $30on the bong gunand forget about me?

Play should be liberating, not indoctrinating, right?

A group of players fighting in the Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 beta

I started getting sleepy ideas around 3 AM.

Braggy Americana that’s what I hated about Call of Duty.

It’s actually reliably absurd, so I now think of it as a shortcut to dreaming.

A cropped screenshot from the pre-alpha gameplay footage shown in the �Introducing Battlefield Labs� video.

But I’ve realized it’s better to trivialize what scares me than let it win.

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A player wearing a gasmask and holding a gun during the shooter, Call of Duty: Black Ops 6.

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a gun that fires a metal ball attached to a chain for recall

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The Doom Slayer shooting the Skull Crusher at a demon during the Doom: The Dark Ages trailer.

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