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This Just In - Gamers Are Human
A new study by the Entertainment Software Association reveals that, amazingly, gamers are regular human beings. The study shows that avid game players are just as religious, artistic, and social as anyone else. From the article: "Gamers are everywhere and they're everyone. They are your friends, neighbors, co-workers, relatives, and kids, they lead responsible and caring lives, balancing their enjoyment of interactive entertainment with many other activities important to a well-rounded lifestyle...Indeed, those who continue to portray the game population as single-minded loafers are living in their own fantasy world."
I am human? Jesus why didn't someone tell me? Next thing I know they will tell me I'm white.
I mod down so you can mod up. Your welcome.
Now if only someone could convince my wife...
Seven puppies were harmed during the making of this post.
In other news: 1) Slashdot.com is a Website! 2) Apple makes computers! 3) Chickens are just birds! 4) Microsoft is a company! 5) Water is wet!
DAMN YOU OCTODOG! DAMN YOU TO HELL!
So... Gamers are normal and non-gamers are the exception?
...given your username I would have thought you liked to wear a green tunic and cap, carrying a sword...
Gibble: Descriptive of an emotional state in which one's mind is scrabbling for some purchase on reality
"Are you now, or have you ever been, a member of a gaming clan?!"
It's 10 PM. Do you know if you're un-American?
"Gamers Are Human Beings!"--announces Industry Group
"People with money are people"--reveals Las Vegas Visitors Bureau
"Bill O'Riley isn't an evil git"--proclaims his mum
"Gays aren't people, too!"--admits Karl Rove
"Moderators are nearly human"--slashdot
"first posters are fairly human"--slashdot
"A sufficiently patched hack-job is indistinguishable from actual security until later notice"--Microsoft rolling out any new release
"Will Eisner, still dead."--everyone BUT slashdot
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
We get a story like this ("Many Gamers Not Psychopaths!" or "Games Good For A Small Part Of Your Brain!") twice a week, always with this triumphant spin as though something significant has been rebutted.
It's to accompany the "senile politician/lawyer attempts to ban videogames" stories we also get twice a week.
You can't take the sky from me...
Yeah, that one's pretty gruesome. Your goal is to repel the desperate hordes who are trying to board your ark as the water rises. You get a decent assortment of weapons: broadswords, pots of molten lead, crossbows, barrels of Greek fire, a trebuchet, and big 25-foot long oars. You can either hack them to death on deck, knock them off the sides and let them drown below, or try to sink their lifeboats.
What about the guys who started with Atari's Adventure and Intellivision's Utopia?
Ahh, Adventure. Played that one all the time, I did. And I tied and onion to my pants, which was the fashion at the time...
*snore*
"When it rains, it pours." --Morton's Salt
"you were a nerd if you chatted with your friends via text".
When I was a kid, if you wanted to chat via text, you had to put it on a 5 1/2" floppy written in Basic and pass it to your friend. Sure there was IRC, but you had to hook up your 9600 baud modem to make it work.
I have been a gamer though throughout. Back then it was Brickout and Lode Runner. For me today it is SOCOM II (I am biased against Halo) and Doom and various RTS computer games. In my experience, the most successful games are 'social'. There is a community or clan that hangs out as much to be around other people like you and to be social, as anything else. Everquest works because of the group dynamic. The advent of voice communication makes that even more powerful, and makes computer games more like a fun phone call or chat line.
I guess that means I lose my +1 INT, DEX and WIS. On the upside, the -2 STR was getting rather annoying.
paintball
Could this work?
[prompt]
>north
The Troll Room
This is a small room with passages to the east and south and a forbidding hole leading west. Bloodstains and deep scratches (perhaps made by an axe) mar the walls.
A nasty-looking troll, brandishing a bloody axe, blocks all passages out of the room.
>moderate troll -1
The troll vanish, humiliated by your geekdom superpowers.
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[/prompt]
Yahh, hiii haaaaa! -Major Kong, from Dr. Strangelove