Life as a gamer, a forum goer, a nerd?

Puddingfork · Posted: Sat Oct 27, 2007 11:17 pm�� Post subject:

Jesta, I dunno where you live but I know where I live society is hardly like that at all, only the odd old person or so
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jesta · Posted: Sat Oct 27, 2007 11:42 pm�� Post subject:

Im in Brisbane. Other the odd few people that I know that do play video games, the rest that I've spoken too view them as a waste of time, and enjoy making jokes out of it.

Puddingfork · Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2007 12:16 am�� Post subject:

Well I am not too far from you
I guess it is just the people you are around in every day life
Also I don't know how old you are but I am guessing your in your 20's atleast right?
Well being in school everyone plays video games in some form or another
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Jim Dash · Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2007 1:57 am�� Post subject:

^ exactly puddingfork, and this topic is here for people to express their personal 'situation' in regards to gaming, foruming, etc.

Please don't tell someone they aren't correct in a topic like this. You set a bad example.

FeralOni · Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2007 1:57 am�� Post subject:

I'm loud and proud to say i'm a reasonably hardcore gamer, mainly cos it's the least geeky(and probably most socially accepted) of all my hobbies (gaming, anime, warhammer, warhammer 40k, d&d[not so much lately], and M:TG)
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drunknmonkey_au · Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2007 10:33 am�� Post subject:

I can understand where people like jesta are coming from. I remember when I was in high school I use to cope a bit for my gaming and other geeky tendencies. While I had a lot of mates that were into games/anime/40K there were just as many that weren't and always a few of them that just didn't "get" videogames and would feel the need to voice there dislike for them. Comment on how games are a waste of time and anti social. I'd try and explain that games are no more a waste of time then any other form of entertainment; like movies or TV, and that they could be a social thing; nothing beats having some mates round to hang out ,play games and talk trash, yet they'd never listen. In the end I gave up, these people are never going to get it so why should I waste my time on them.

To this days I don't waste my time on those people, I'm a geek and I'm god damn proud of it and if people want to give me grief for it they can go ahead cause I couldn't give a s***
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Puddingfork · Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2007 11:41 am�� Post subject:

I started watching Anime a few weeks ago, only watched 3 shows though (Black Cat, FMA and Loveless, but Loveless sucked so I stopped watching it, I only started watching it because a friend was like "Me wuvs loveless watch or die")
Anyway, already I have had heaps of people be call it crap or say they hate it, all people whom I am sure have never given it a serious watch themselves apart from Pokemon, DBZ as a child.
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Juztin · Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2007 3:50 pm�� Post subject:

RAMPAGE · Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2007 4:16 pm�� Post subject:

Im pretty much the only person that is into games and superheroes. Most of my friends and family arnt really into that stuff, so coming into fourms is a nice place for me to talk to people about stuff i dont get to do at work or with friends. Iv pretty much seen my self as abit of a outsider. I guess i just a big nerd, but hey im happy with that. I dont hide it expecially my interests in stuff superman/smallville. I always have something with a superman logo on it with me. Most people i work with just call me superman now as they know how much im into it.

cosmoh · Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2007 5:38 pm�� Post subject:

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Puddingfork · Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2007 7:36 pm�� Post subject:

I have only known my parents and my brother longer than I have known video games, and I don't expect to be adding anyone to that list until I suffer from amnesia
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ittekimasu · Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2007 8:53 am�� Post subject:

Most of my friends and family are into gaming apart from my grandmother. I'm a pretty open person when it comes to what I do but I don't go spouting I'm a gamer unless it's either braught up in conversation or asked about it. Though most people who don't know me are surprised to find out that I'm a gamer
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Karai Pantsu · Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2007 9:21 am�� Post subject:

Most of my friends and family aren't much into gaming - running from a few that play games often but don't get much into the news/industry side, to those that know what games *are* but don't own any themselves. The only problem with that is that one of the only topics I can speak about with any kind of passion or authority is gaming, and if prompted (usually accidentally) by one of them I usually rattle on until I notice their eyes glazed over and come grinding to a halt...

I'd quite like it if more of my friends were as interested in gaming as I am, but at the same time I'm very happy that I have a few that enjoy playing games.

You shouldn't need to surround yourself in gaming friends, or hide that part of you completely from them either - just find other common ground with people. The section of my friends that aren't much for gaming, I share a love for music with. My family? Well, they don't need to be interested because they're family

(But they get in on the Wii action none-the-less)

So, yeah - I voted a 'yes'.
I don't talk about forums (well, not directly... much) to people, but I don't hide the fact that I post on them either. As for gaming? I couldn't hide it if I tried, I've been playing games since I had control over my thumbs more or less - and everyone I know knows that already

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MIkes · Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2007 1:17 pm�� Post subject:

TheAnswer · Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2007 2:01 pm�� Post subject:

My family and friends all know I belong to online gaming forums and I tell them about it. Gaming is big these days and people who don't understand just need to get a clue.

I have been called a Geek or Nerd by some but I wear this tag with pride as I'm proud to be a Geek or Nerd

Though the good thing is a number of my friends are into games too and one them even owns a 360 gaming lounge and as such it's a good place to socialise.

I was out with some friends who I went to high school with on saturday night and the conversation turned to games out of no where and it was good to see that 3 out of the 4 of us play games and one of those guys I wouldn't have picked to be a gamer but turned out he brought a 360 a few months back so I'm going to add him on Live as he's hooked on Halo 3.

Honestly if you have to hide the fact you visit online gaming forums, then for shame on you and you're not a real gamer, and really GTFO these forums already

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ps3_gamer · Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2007 11:44 pm�� Post subject:

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döppelgangbang · Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2007 2:42 pm�� Post subject:

My friends know I like games. I had a Wii party last year on the day it came out and I often peruse my collection of 70 odd Miis many of whom were created on that day. Its almost a rite of passage for entry into my home. I always try and draw noobs in with plastic instruments, Wii sports or a game of Pac Man vs.

I also take an avid interest in the industry, the technology and politics overlap with the worlds of advertising, marketing and home entertainment; areas in which many of my friends work. I often talk about how gaming is influencing the world at large or use gaming products as examples in everyday conversation.

Back in the glorious heyday of my game OBSESSED adolescence I developed the nutshell technique of game conversation. By keeping your discussion laconic you can actually talk about games in an interesting way. EG: "I've been playing NiGHTS: its inspired by German dream philosophy and explores the flying dream". If your quarry is really interested they'll ask.

I seldom discuss this forum unless a topic of conversation has produced some interesting response that warrants real world conversation. I don't hide it but for most, a forum is an alien thing... it seldom comes up. When I made the reveal last week my friend responded: "You know you are OFFICIALLY a nerd don't you?"

"I know" I said sighing

But finally, there's the nerd thing. I've met them and I don't really fit in with the clique either. Game/Anime conventions are largely filled with people who I assume are there to play games and watch anime. Despite being there for the same reason, and having something in common, we just don't get along. I cant really say how I'd go with a PALGN fest.

Being a gamer is a way of life all of its own. To live it is to love it. Anyone who can't see that and can't enjoy a game, at least for one round, has a closed mind... and that for me is the lyncher.

Game on.

MIkes · Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2007 3:21 pm�� Post subject:

Windburn · Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2007 4:08 pm�� Post subject:

My situation is similar to a few of you that have replied here. I didn't really hesitate to answer "No" to the question.

Reasons are pretty straightforward. Like gaming, being on a forum doesn't really play a huge part in the definition of who I am, it's just another pass-time (similar to reading books, I guess). I'm a bit of a social animal, as are my mates, and gaming and foruming is something I do when I've naught else to do (like when I'm supposed to be studying). But when with friends, we always talk about social things we do, like soccer, skiing, women, going out, working out, parties, etc. Whereas gaming is considered to be quite anti-social, which seems to be the major taboo surrounding it becoming an "in-thing".

I mean what does everyone say about people who go to the movies by themselves? The same goes for gaming (and unfortunately, spending alot of time on forums).

Granted, a few of my mates do share my interests in games, and we swap the occasional game here and there, but other than the frequent round of the latest FIFA at one or the other's places, we've never really gamed it up together, and definitely not online. To talk about a forum based on games would just never enter my mind, really.

Funny though, because if you asked me the same question 5 years ago, it would have been very different- I was into every online game and forum you could possibly get your hands on. Now that I have an amazing, steady girlfriend (who actually loves gaming), I'd rather be spending my game time on social titles, preferably ones you can play within proximity of each other.

But, the lawyer and debater in me can never be satiated, so I still try and keep up with 1 forum these days to express that side of me too. But like reading, it's me time, and not really something that comes up in conversation. And it'll likely lessen quite substantially once exams are up and everyone's demanding my time again.
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Spanca · Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2007 4:16 pm�� Post subject:

Crestfallen · Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2007 7:12 pm�� Post subject:

ditto to above.

Forum-going doesn't describe who I am....its just something I do to tide me over between the important stuff in my life.

I'm on a forum now, why you might ask? Because I was reading my lecture notes on the laptop for an upcoming exam, got bored out my brain and decided to hop on here.

What's good about forums is that its a way to kill off such small amounts of time so easily where nothing else is feasible. I mean I could avoid studying now by calling mates/gf, but then that'll take up 45 mins. I could watch some TV, but then 20 mins will flash by. I could go for a run, but that'll take an 1 hour that I just don't have. So instead I hop on here, laugh as admeister get 50 negs in the photoshop thread, check out some pics in the funny links thread, see what people have been spending up on recently and then BAM! my distraction has served its purpose in a perfect amount of time.

Not that I'll completely stop visiting when I'll have ample time to pursue activities I'm more interested in....but every logon will derive from boredom.

This isn't really a 'pursuit' for me and as such, I don't see the point of talking about it to people in real life. If someone asks me about the issue I won't lie, but at the same time I won't let it describe who I am either.
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That's forum-going. Gaming is a slightly different issue. I game because I thoroughly enjoy it, not purely to pass the time. So in esscense, gaming describes an aspect of me and as a result people know that I game.

But I'm very selective in my gaming and only play a few titles a year so you could say that gaming isn't a BIG part of me which is why I never actively talk about it.

I just don't care about it enough to project it on myself. I guess you could say the same thing goes for boxing and the gym. I box maybe once a fortnight but go to the gym 5 times a week, hence my friends know me as gym-junkie but not as a boxing enthusiast.
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So in summation, forums and gaming don't play a significant enough part in my to warrant me talking about it or using it as a descriptor of who I am.
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...BeAkEr... · Status: Offline Joined: 20 Oct 2007 Posts: 74 $poons: 5.60

I'm 27 and from Melbourne, I have loads of mates my age (or there abouts) who play games and its the norm in my circle of friends.

I don't consider myself a nerd, I'm married and a dad, I'm very active, I go to the gym 4-5 days a week, I play soccer twice a week, I own my own roofing company and I own my own console website and play on Live! around 10 hours a week.

The Brett · Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2007 9:47 pm�� Post subject:

Unfortunately this thing called reality exists.

I answered no.

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