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Originally Posted by Luminous  Well, since we all seem to be on the same side, perhaps we should discuss the various possible reasons this hypothetical old man would think this way, then systematically shoot down the arguements?. EX:
- Gamers would rather game than spend time with their family!
- Games are mindless, children waste their youth and teenage years on them to no gain!
- Games are new fangled technology, and all new fangled technology is the devil!
- Games these days are making this generaton slaves to electricity!
- Gamers, they're all arrogant jerks! I met one once, and you should always judge people based off one encounter!
- Gamers are lazy! Rather than learn an instrument, they are content to play their new Guitar Hero. Rather than learn to dance, they step on oversized direction buttons in DDR.
People who think gamers are bad people probably have a reason they think that way. For example, maybe the bad gamers are just the loudest and most apparent, despite being a minority. |
Luminious:
-People probably want to escape their parents especially if they bring them down or argue a lot. That's what I do. I want nothing to do with my mum because we don't see eye to eye. Plain and simple. I can get along with my dad..
-That's a comment overly religious, ignorant, and most Southern people who don't like change would say. Trust me my dad's an engineer he has to deal with it everyday.
-So we should go back to oil-lamps?
-DDR is hard. You try playing "Drop the Bomb" on Challenge Mode in DDR Extreme. You will lose more pounds doing that than playing the Wii.
Anyways I don't think gamers are bad people. I think people should stop whinning about gaming. Its doing a lot better than the movie industry. Don't complain about something that is profitable. There are people who work hard on these games and will make more money than you could ever make doing an office job. The gamers I know actually want to work for companies like Square Enix. Its a job they will love and enjoy. What's wrong with that? I'm a gamer and I had dreams of being a game designer. (I'm bad at coding and looking at what my dad has to do, I don't want to do it.) But I could be a character designer and come up with sketches of characters and what not.