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Modern Day Gamer Documentary
Simon Bysshe writes "I'm a UK film student, and have recently released a freely downloadable video documentary called 'Modern Day Gamer'. In it, I use interviews from a LAN party I went to in Brighton to try to address the main pre-conceptions people have about gamers, ie: is it really anti-social? is it only for geeks? is it a non-productive use of time?" We've also rustled up a BitTorrent link at Gametab and another BitTorrent link courtesy Jamuraa for this 75mb DivX file.
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"Modern Day Gamers" are both anti-social and geeks.
I mean, the first thing you hear is him having a huge sniff!!!
You also see boys screaming like girls, people sitting around staring at the screen and hardly talking, and interviews with women in their lives who think they are anti-social.
And seriously....did he have to pick people who look like the stereotypical geek?
I'm not sure what he was actually attempting to achieve...but if it was to strengthen stereotypes, he has achieved it!