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Old 07-30-2014, 09:55 AM
 
Location: Jacksonville
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Media pre-conditioning, which started in Kindergarten. You are suppose to waste you time watching television and learning to be good consumers. You are supposed to be hooked/addicted to some national sport and local team to keep you occupied, while you forget the actual misery that is your life. Don't worry though, soon enough, you will start seeing ads popping up in your favorite games. All the "Big Boy" publishers are signing up with advertising firms to increase their profits.

I didn't choose a Gamers life, it chose me!

Cheers
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Old 07-31-2014, 02:05 PM
 
Location: Enterprise, Nevada
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I never thought about the fact that you can't stick a commercial in the middle of my Fallout Games. Good point there WupTeeDo. If most of our society is conditioned to watch TV then most of our society will be in a position to see more advertisements. (Light Bulb For Me)
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Old 08-01-2014, 06:13 PM
 
Location: Richmond
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I am 47 by the end of this month, I have been playing games either computer or console since the Texas Instruments TRS80 system. But I also like other games, I love to play poker, and only in the last year or did I get a PC Poker game, otherwise it was real cards and real chips, and in most cases for real money, although not much money.

I have enjoyed board games like Monopoly, I enjoy Michigan Rummy with my family, I dealt Black Jack when I worked at a hotel for a few weeks, no money, just for charity.
I also enjoy watching movies, playing Golf and Target practicing for real.

I do enjoy First Person Shooting games, but aside from Call of Duty 4, I could not tell you what is out. I never play games online, only on the console or private game.

But if think you get flack for "Oh you like to play those kind of games" is bad, try open caring a firearm, you will defiantly get some cross looks, even though I only open carry when going to or from the range, otherwise I am carrying concealed. But the look is "OH MY G** YOU HAVE A GUN ON YOU"; and most often I would respond with Open Carry is legal hear in Virginia.

But it comes down to another other hobbys as well, if you love restoring old cars, people would ask you why do you waste so much time and money to restore that old clunker when you could be doing something else... The point is do what you enjoy doing, life is too short to worry about what other people think of you.
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Old 08-14-2014, 09:37 AM
 
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I have been currently reading the book The ten cent plauge: How it changed America. And a lot of the things said in that book are the same things or arguments many people make about video games of today. It's quite ironic how many parrellels there are between the two.
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Old 08-14-2014, 10:35 AM
 
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Hello all my fellow city data peoples. I hope that today is treating you well. I have a question that I am interested in your thoughts about. I know that people who play video games often catch a lot of flack from the general public b/c in their cultural views video games aren't something adults should do. However I notice at work a lot that I hear many of the guys talking about their players on their fantasy football teams. How does building a character in a game such as say Fallout 3 or NV differ from building a fantasy team out of sports players? Is it simply built into our culture that it's acceptable to be into sports as a hobby but not video games? How is everyone playing Candy Crush on a cell phone on their couch while the tv is on in the background relatively different than playing a game of Left 4 Dead on a console?
I've often heard the phrase that fantasy football is dungeons and dragons for jocks.
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Old 08-15-2014, 11:06 PM
 
Location: Chicago IL
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I am gamer and I really on see flack about online most people I talk to don't really seem all vitriol and hoity toity about it since I got out of high school. That or they are saying stuff in their head to which I say that is their views they can have it.

As for the stereotypes I have seen that even ones that fit the "ilook" have jobs and other ventures in their lives and those that fit it to the tee I don't bother them they don't bother me I can bring myself to be so judgmental about their lifestyle.

It is better to just ignore people who have a negative opinion will keep it and find various examples to support it despite evidence other wise so it better for the psyche to ignore unless really ignorant then have fun with that LOL.
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Old 08-17-2014, 07:54 PM
 
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People who plays cell phone games are not real game people...Unless they are from the far east.

The indusrty needs people to play and purchase the new games.

Videogames is no differnt then any other media.

bottom-line it is getting harder to milk money for media nowadays thanks to the internet and various technologies. People are cowardly embarrassed and will purchase the latest and greatest just for the sake of doing so.
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Old 08-17-2014, 08:58 PM
 
Location: TN/NC
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People who plays cell phone games are not real game people...Unless they are from the far east.

The indusrty needs people to play and purchase the new games.

Videogames is no differnt then any other media.

bottom-line it is getting harder to milk money for media nowadays thanks to the internet and various technologies. People are cowardly embarrassed and will purchase the latest and greatest just for the sake of doing so.
I think many of the cell phone games are lame, but that's because they are unsophisticated. Looking back, would you call Galaga or Pac-Man not a video game?
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Old 08-18-2014, 07:10 AM
 
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People who plays cell phone games are not real game people...Unless they are from the far east. .
For better or worse, "cell phone games" are the future of computer gaming. It's where the money is. Casual mobile gaming that people can play in 5 minute segments.
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Old 08-18-2014, 08:23 AM
 
Location: Charleston, SC metro
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Never understood the whole "real gamer" claim. There are so many other things I'd rather be called than a "gamer".
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