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Gamers Aren't (Always) Geeks
wo1verin3 writes "CNN is reporting that not all gamers are the anti-social folk they are hyped to be by parents and the media. Roughly two-thirds of college students play video games, but the image of a nerdy guy who spends all day in a dimly lit room blowing up computer-generated bad guys is off base, according to a new study. Full story here."
Actually a lot of people I know are occasional gamers. They arent obsessed with them and associate with "normal" people... The problem is when you become addicted and sit in front of your computer all day.
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exactly. College football games and NFL were played CONSTANTLY by the members of the football team. I hung out with a few in college and there was always a house full of guys playing PS2 and N64 games.
I was a Quaker at the time but quickly picked up on Madden. Quake was great but too much garbage was beginning (botting, 12 year olds spamming the messsages, etc). Consoles brought a group of guys together in one location and was quite a bit more fun than sitting in my dorm room huddled over my computer watching a moron axe a lagged player to death.
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Of those surveyed, 60 percent of women said they played online and computer software-based games, compared with 40 percent of men. About the same number of men and women said they played video games on PlayStation, Xbox and other systems.
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In my findings, at least in the tech field, hardcore gamers tend to fair better than non gamers. Hardcore gamers tend to know something about hardware and how to get the most out of it. Even when it's not strictly hardware, the hardcore gamers I've known have known enough to fix a multitude of network and other issues. You can't overclock and case mod sucessfully if you don't know your hardware.
That was the tech field. In other fields I find that casual gamers fair better in many cases than non-gamers or hardcore gamers (yes, hardcore gamers have their place). Face it. Gaming requires large amounts of abstract, or at least alternative thinking. I've found myself implementing the types of strategies I've used in video games to organize my work habbits. Item placements, order of operations, that sort of thing, all honed from video games. Hardcore gamers in other-than computer fields can do well, but based on what I've seen they don't work in other fields, and when they do it's usually flipping burgers or something until they can get another techie job.
I don't think I've worked with a single person on a job simular basis who wasn't at least a casual gamer since I've been in the tech field. I've only seen non-gamers in other fields, usually the ones that hired me to take care of their computers.
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