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Gaming As Image Statement

Posted by Zonk on from the looking-good-there-dork dept.

In an editorial entitled Will Anybody Care That You Liked Gaming Before It Was Cool?, GameGirlAdvance editor ClockworkGrue discusses aspects of PSP Glamour, and what it means when gaming devices become sex symbols. From the article: "It's great that gaming can be trendy, and that the 300 pound guy on the train the other day and Paris Hilton are both PSP owners. Maybe now there'll be some demand for game-related clothing that breaks the basement-casual standard?" Update: 04/15 11:13 GMT by Z : To fix broken link.

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  1. Guess what! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    The 300 lb nocturnal trap door spider that preys on 2L bottles of Moutain Dew and snacky-cakes, he's not going to become a metrosexual no matter what. Not for a PSP pocket, not for a Paris Hilton sex video, and probably not for sex with Paris Hilton. The chic gamers will be the freaks they were before last week when they started bedazzeling their PSP.

    The gamers that look like gamers look the way they do, not because they game, but because personal appearence isn't important. Tommy Hilfiger isn't changing that.

  2. Huh? by NemesisBubu · · Score: 5, Funny

    Let me get this straight. Fat guys are losers and Paris Hilton is cool?

    *Moves to Mars*

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    The great sig in the sky!
  3. Paris is soooo much like me... by 88NoSoup4U88 · · Score: 3, Funny
    Wait...

    Because... Paris "cumslut" Hilton has a PSP, -I- want one too ?
    Where's the link in that ?

    The only thing I -want- now I know she has a PSP, is for it to get hacked.

  4. So... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...the 300 pound guy on the train the other day and Paris Hilton are both PSP owners.

    Is there any better reason not to be a gamer?