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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.
You just put up a link for a 75 meg file you're hosting? 8| *watches as the server sizzles and burns*
Steve Erwin to narrate. An' now we sae the dangerous gamah in his naturahl habitat...who weel he frag next?
Your next project should be to interview some Slashdotters to get rid of some misconceptions about us, like beeing anti-social and stuff.
Err. Wait a minute... Nevermind.
First, I though, hey I want to be his distributor.
Then, I thought, hey it is already distributed on Slashdot.
Then, I realized, the poor guy is probably no longer having a working server...
Heck, I thought, someone else can just as well be his distributor...
Step 1: Shoot documentary with Smell-o-vision Step 2: Rent gas masks out during showing Step 3: ??? Step 4: Profit!
I cannot but wonder what ESReality.com looks like... is it a place full of geeks bearing guns and where free market economic theory works?
Prescriptive grammar:linguistics
"Is it anti-social?"
Definitely.... Gamers almost never use the phone while playing. Compare this to people driving cars, shopping, watching movies in the theater, or catching the newest reality TV show. This communications void, combined with the ineffectiveness of internet advertising, results in many gamers out of the loop when it comes to pop culture media. BSA researchers compared estimated demand of the final episode of the second season of "The Bachelor" to the actual number of viewers calculated by Neilsen, and determined that 54 million gamers watched it on PVR recorders, thus skipping all advertising contained in the program. The effect gamers are having on the national economy is devastating.
They kept self-justifying their obvious addiction to games by comparing playing games to watching TV. They claimed that because it's interacting, it's therefore better for you. I found that claim faulty. That's like saying eating candy all day is good for you -- because hey, it's better than smoking crack all day. While that statement is true, it doesn't make eating candy all day a good thing.
Also, am I the only one that thought those pansy Europeans yelped like little girls?
Get Firefox!
"...we're asking them to download this 75mb DivX file."
What's wrong with this picture?
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Dude, its a proven fact that LAN parties are honey traps for the ladies. Bloody hell, they are drawn to the bright lights like bugs to lamps. The amount of lubrication secreted by the sacred fruit is relative to the output of radiation by the LCD screens. "Once...while at LAN camp...."
look at Asia Carerra. She's no geek (well, not the stereotypical geek, at any rate.)
Gaming can use a few more hotties like her to alter the image of geekdom.
- If you're not primarily into computers and you play too much, that'll teach you nothing at all. I doubt Einstein could have published anything worthwhile if he was a keen Duke Nukem addict for example.
Probably would have been renamed "Theory of relativity, you alien bastards."
Fun "alternative" things to do at a lan party.
:)
1) License pool. Have everyone bet on what percentage of the games/operating system is licensed. Then check. Hint: it's usually best to guess low. Especially where microsoft is concerned
2) "My other system". Go around, and have each person tell about their "other system", that's taken apart/broken/being upgraded/too big to bring. "My other system has a 1TB raid 0 array - 2 4x100GB arrays, and a 2x100, all Software raided into a 1TB array. I'd bring it, but it's too big, what with it's 3 power supplies and all...".
3) Hammer Time - Take a hammer, and a despised/useless item (AOL cds), and have fun. First one to lose an eye wins.
4) Burn In - Everyone overclocks their systems as fast as they can stabily do so, then removes their fans. Last PC to catch fire wins. It's kind of like russian roulette.
Contact Me (got tired of viruses emailing me).
I'm sending the gaming documentary to a friend of mine via WASTE right now. :)
You never meet hot chicks at the LAN party, get them drunk, go home with them and have sex. Is that wrong?
...if sitting in front of a TV and drinking beer makes you happy, all the power to you.
It's probably a good idea to keep some of the power for people who aren't hammered and lazy.