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Hollywood's Depiction of Gamers Getting Better?
Wired is reporting on the Hollywood depiction of games and gamers, and how it has improved (or not) over the years. From the article: "... has Hollywood finally figured out how to realistically depict gaming culture? For years, they've been achingly bad at it. Gamers have long been accustomed to seeing incredibly weird, off-key portrayals in TV and movies. The trouble began with the first wave of TV ads for video games. They'd inevitably portray the player as a spastic in mid-seizure, flailing away on a joystick while jumping and twitching."
With the revolution wont people be holding their remote, jumping and flailing? ;p
Oh crap, I'm on fire again.
I absolutely loved that scene... in fact, the whole movie seemed to be embedded with references to video games and computer culture: they worked at an electronics store, played video games, stole CD-Rs, sold things on e-bay... And yeah, Andy does have a sweet video game chair. I want that chair.
Real_men_don't_need_spacebars.
They'd inevitably portray the player as a spastic in mid-seizure, flailing away on a joystick while jumping and twitching.
Wait wait wait....are the slashdot editors telling us that that isn't normal? Crap.
Death by snoo-snoo!
When an association is made in the media between two groups such as these, the real question is:
Who's more insulted?
None better gamers than Shaun and his buddy Ed!
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0365748/
Along with other great aspects about the writing and acting in "The O.C.", the various scenes in which the main characters are playing video games are pretty well done, very similar to what the author of this article described in "The 40-year old virgin".
Tangential mini-review: While the promos for "The O.C." make it out to be extremely shallow typical soap-opera drivel, the writing, acting, and characters are great. So is the show's self-deprecating sense of humor, as it pokes fun at the characters' obsession with a show called "The Valley", which is a parody of "The O.C." itself.
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someone with the name c0d3h4x0r is recommending the O.C. to slashdot.
god help us all@#%@#%$@# END^OF CARRIER
TV and movies don't portray anyone accurately. There is nothing special about "gamers" here.
I'd rather be lucky than good.
The O.C isn't great. The O.C is the equivalent of junk food at best. Acceptable from time to time but only a tasteless person wouldn't get tired of it very quickly.