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Computer games are for geeks.

  • 24-07-2001 5:42am
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    Reading the topics posted on the boards such as “Are games an art form”, “Are computer games a sport”, “Will playing computer games help me score”, etc It has struck me that reason for these topics, which seem to exist just to try to add prestige or respectability to computer games is that deep down we’re all just a bit embarrassed to say we play computer games, and that we think its great. Now don’t get me wrong I love computer games, and as those of you who know me know I’m old enough to ‘know better’. I mean now many of you would if asked what are your major past times say ‘Ohh, I play computer games’, or would put it down as an interest on your CV?
    It seems to me that main stigma associated with this pastime is the participant’s own lack of self-esteem.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,967 ✭✭✭adnans


    i actually feel proud to play videogames, even though im getting old i still have time to relax, think and simply let off steam whilst playing games, whether they are on a pc, ps or any other format. its much better then staring at the TV screen all the time, watching adverts for the g'zilliont time or whatever clap is on.

    games make you think and teach you stuff like formula 1 driving, street fighting, flying a dragoon, bass fishing or just simple terrorist tactics including bomb defusal. smile.gif

    to answer your question, I freely admit to anyone that i play videogames and to put it on the CV, well, why ruin a good streak run smile.gif

    adnans


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,446 ✭✭✭✭amp


    Lack of self-esteem me bollix. Lots of so called "cool" people play games all the time.

    But then there are the extremists that spend virtually all their time playing one game about which their entire world revolves.

    I don't understand why you'd think that people get emabarressed to say they play computer games when a huge proportion of Irelands households have at least one PSX. The freaks these days are the people who have never played a computer game.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,641 ✭✭✭Canaboid


    Interesting article in the Sunday Times - Cyber-games make children brighter

    http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/2001/07/22/stinwenws03005.html

    I have no problem with the fact that computer games are starting to claw back some of the wasted hours that people spend in front of that most vacuous of entertainments, television.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,468 ✭✭✭Lex_Diamonds


    There's playing videogames and then there is "playing playstation/2"

    Number one is seen as geeky and sad while number two is seen as cool and acceptable "after the pub".

    Typical PS2 user:
    "yeah that FIFA game is wickid! Yeah and Gran Turisimo 3 is amazing, like being in a movie....yeah."


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,621 ✭✭✭GreenHell


    pfff there only games so who really cares


    /me gets out his kevlar


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,275 ✭✭✭Shinji


    I'm a gamer. I've been a gamer since I was eight years old and an 8 bit computer made its appearance in my household. I own most consoles manufactured in the past ten years, I play games pretty much every day, be they competitive ones with friends online, single-player RPGs, beat'em'ups or racing games against my housemate, or even stuff like Samba de Amigo or F-Zero X or Chu Chu Rocket when folk come around at weekends to drink beer, watch DVDs and play games.

    It's on my CV, and nine months ago I chucked in the whole being-a-developer lark and came to work in gaming full-time.

    I'm not "proud" of being a mad gamer any more than I'd be "proud" of playing football or whatever. It's a pastime that I enjoy, and that I've made great friends through (just as you might make friends on a football team or whatever...), and that I've been lucky enough to make a career out of. I don't feel the need to justify this to anyone - why should I? Nor do I feel any need to try and make it look "legitimate" by calling it an art, or a sport... It's gaming and I love it that way. Take your art and your sport and shove it. That isn't what I signed up for.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 607 ✭✭✭Kenjd


    We have the highest use of Playstations per head of capita after Japan. I'd say Irish peoples attitudes have changed greatly in the last few years, maybe it has to do with the fact that nearly everyone has (or has access to) a PC. If anyone says "computer games are for kids" ,tell them about the money to be made in the industry and that usually shuts them up!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,698 ✭✭✭✭BlitzKrieg


    I am 16 years old,

    I am in a boarding school

    I am a member of the school video drama group

    I have a psx dreamcast mega drive game gear saturn and p600 ( ihave had 3 pcs)

    I play rugby

    I like anime

    I like comics

    I like girls.


    Hence if i said this to someone in my school i will be classed as geek/nerd u name it.


    But if u take one of the more "popular" people in the school he plays counter-strike as much as i do. He just doesnt admit it. The head of my house (area of boys dorm) Collects japanese comics and anime yet he's considered the soundest.

    The three people who are most against games. 1 is hated because he acts like a jerk all day and talks about nothing but rugby.
    The second is another sports freak who comes from Kenya and his closest thign to gaems is solitaaire. And the last is strange he h8s games but he luvs editing and programming.

    Everyone is different and everyone reacts differently to games and sports. I could be considered the biggest geek on the games issue if u look at my topics on the art and port issue. But i aint insecure about it. This is because i well know wha i like wha i am good at and wha i intend to do with my life. I may not make it but heck i'm gonna try.


    And on another note if u enjoy it who cares biggrin.gif I mean my kenyan friend who h8's games his form of enjoyment is playing sports then getting p1ssed sure a normal routine but i'll never understand the fact he will get p1ssed just for BEING p1ssed its common in my school and i guess its common everywhere its just something i'll never understand. I can see being ****ed for celebration (i.e 2000) or something but just for the fact that your drunk confuses me. So the end result everyone has names for someone with different likings and the result is u can call them wha they want and if they really are into "games" they wont care and brush it off.

    -Taalking about Games as a artform or sport is not really a sign of insecure more of a confusion to the fact games are the most different media and being a mixture of activity and entertainment its hard to see wha they are. A activity which can be a sport? or a entertainment media which is like moving art? The answer is just they are games and u can like em, luv m, h8 em or just think they are pretty alright


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,592 ✭✭✭✭Dont be at yourself


    I agree with Hellfire to an extent.

    When studies come out showing that computer games help your co-ordination or improve your mental ability or make your penis grow, gamers latch onto them for justification for what they're doing.

    That said, almost everybody now-a-days plays computer games. But, as was said, few people admit to it. When I talk to people in school, gaming is almost never the topic, but when it does come up it turns out everybody takes an interest in them.

    As for putting them on your CV, it would depend on the job. If I was applying for a job to do with computers, animation, entertainment etc I would, but not for anything else.

    Even though I was their captive, the Indians allowed me quite a bit of freedom. I could walk freely, make my own meals, and even hurl large rocks at their heads. It was only later that I discovered that they were not Indians at all but only dirty-clothes hampers.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,657 ✭✭✭OSiriS


    Hello

    My name is Phill ...

    ... and I'm a Nerd.

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 599 ✭✭✭ThunderingMike


    The simple fact is, it seems to me, that nerds are 'normal' people, who have gotten a bit... how could I put it... carried away.

    Look at it this way:

    Most of us love Transformers

    Most of us play too many video games

    Most of us are socially inept and/or immature

    Most of us love comics or cartoons

    Most of us have physical defects brought on from too much Internet or gaming (Myopia biggrin.gif, bad backs, pale skin etc)

    Now the casual gamer has none of these features, because he strikes an equilibrium. Games are one of his pass times. Nothing more. As for a nerd, he buys magazines, he reads the news sites, he plays online.

    My name is Brian, and I am a nerd and yes, I am ashamed to admit that I play video games. So I never do.

    That said, I know a few nerds who are not really ashamed to talk about their pastime in public. They of course, get a hard time for it. As for me, I keep it to myself and that ensures that I sure as **** do not have to answer for it. Which is fine for me. It might sound spineless, but it's better then the un-enlightened few giving me **** for my pass-time. Call me shallow, but I would not want it getting around that I was a nerd.

    ThunderingMike Thus conscience does make cowards of us all, And thus the native hue of resolution is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought, And enterprises of great pitch and moment, With this regard their current turns away, And lose the name of action... Nows that's a sig.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,698 ✭✭✭✭BlitzKrieg


    I have a excuse for my excessive gamings anyway: I play a total of 6 hours of gaming from september to december etc etc cause of boarding school. So when i do get home i try and make back aall the time lost and my l33t skillz.


    But tha is just kiddding myself.

    -nothing wrong buying the magazines if someone slags u for it point out tha there has to be aalot of us for a magazine to exist let alone about 20.


    Serious they are so many gamers tha are somewhere between relitive casual to dedicaton tha we have magazines for every console and the P.C so go figure

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    and before u ask how cunning

    just trust me its cunning

    oooo thats cunning


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,046 ✭✭✭Dustaz


    Hmm, this is worrying.
    I dont accept i am immature or socially inept. I just like games as well as everything else i like.
    Im not ashamed to admit i like playing games, I have just learned not to bother explaining why i do.
    I dont see the topics of games as a sport and an art form as justification in any way. They are simply a discussion of something that i am interested in (in a forum called 'games' i might add)
    In work (Im a film/video editor) we talk about video kit a lot*. theres a few guys who live and breathe this stuff and they would be considered 'video nerds' for want of a better word. If all you talk about/do/think about is games, then even from my point of view, your a nerd. When it comes to on line gaming tho, even mentioning quake or counter strike is enough to label you a geek by the general public. That doesnt actually make you a geek, its just public perception.


    *Interestingly enough, a while ago we were talking about 'is editing an artform', the jurys still out on that one too smile.gif


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,322 ✭✭✭phobos


    K,

    IMO I think that society has changed big time over the past couple of years (not decade). But there are also ppl that do not want to change because they like living in an old fashioned world, or else they simply don't like change. I see this everyday, and I can point the finger @ some of my closest friends. I on the other hand like most of you, started off with the 8-bit systems, and have made to way to PS 2 + PIII 700.

    What I'm talking about doesn't just cover games, but the whole area of technology playing a large role in our life. Some ppl are afraid of technology (take some of your older relatives for example). Any grandfather in the country would love to see his grandchild win the County Final. Could you imagine the same grandfather appreciating the other grandchild who is declare l33t @ CS or Q3. I think not!. That is because there can be a border line between the two types of ppl. The reason ppl would be afraid of putting Gaming down on their CV is because they don't know if the person reading it is on the same side that they are.

    My grandparents know that I'm going to be a programmer when I leave college, and they love the idea. I know they don't fully understand what a programmer does though. But if I told them that I was going to be programming games, I know they would be quickly dissapointed. Even though they don't know what a programmer does, they still think it's a wasters job, just because I said computer games (which is a form of entertainment, not something that would get you stressed over).

    So overall, it doesn't matter what kind of games or how much time you spend playing them. All that matters in todays society is that some ppl have adjusted to the idea of gaming being accepted as a passtime and others have not. Actually a job I saw on IrishJobs.ie a few months back was for a programmer who liked to play Q3. So you can see the idea is catching on. But as long as ppl are going to be narrow minded and be easily influenced by their peers, people who play games will be looked upon as Geeks

    ;-phobos-)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,346 ✭✭✭Rev Hellfire


    Maybe I should have specified PC Gaming as practised here, the I've got no life gaming rather than Console gaming. The later is more an after thought, PS/2 etc dont get quite so caught up in the whole thing. For example they'll not head off to a net cafe to met a load of other freaks to have a 'great' time playing games until the early hours of the morning. I dont know it just seems a bit embarassing really, something you wouldnt bring up in polite company.

    Did I say I love gaming, hell its almost true.

    I love playing games for the sake of a bit fun, but it just seems to serious these days.

    [This message has been edited by Rev Hellfire (edited 24-07-2001).]


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,199 ✭✭✭Jimi-Spandex


    wellity wellity wellity

    PC gaming is not just for geeks, you forget my friend the steaming pile of goat poo which is Championship Manager XX/XX. I've seen many casual gamers entranced by its spreadsheet-like aura and magnetism. (These are people whose more common phrases would be "waa You muppet" and the classic "State-a-you" and the infamous response "State-a-me?State-a-you". I do live in limerick btw


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,099 ✭✭✭✭WhiteWashMan



    anyone whos life revolves around playing games is prety sad. unless its part of their livelihood, ie, developers, reporters, testers.
    its a great past time, its good fun, but some people at too serious. anyone who spends hours bunnyhopping around a level so they can play online and beat everyone has far too much time on their hands, and is pretty boring to have nothing better to do.
    play for fun, but dont admit to it!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,046 ✭✭✭Dustaz


    OK, Ill come right out and say it. I love playing games, but I dont often tell people about it. The reason is not really one of low self esteem (because lets face it, im l33t wink.gif ) Its more that ive learned from experience that no matter how you spin it, 'civilians' view playing online games 'nerdy'.
    Since the advent of the playstation, most people seem ok with single player PC games. Throw the internet into the mix however and you become a walking dilbert. This doesnt bother me hugely, all my friends know that I play online and slag me about it endlessly. It only bothers me when every so often i try to find out WHY they find it nerdy.
    "Because your playing against other nerds on the internet"
    "Whats the difference between that and a two player game of FIFA"
    "Its on the internet against nerds"
    "But you sent me an email today with a web link in it"
    "Thats differnet, im not a nerd"
    etc etc

    Ive waffled a bit, but in short if we are to take the democratic view, Yes online computer games are for Geeks. deal with it smile.gif


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,099 ✭✭✭✭WhiteWashMan


    <font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by ThunderingMike:

    Most of us love Transformers
    </font>

    er, nope.
    <font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by ThunderingMike:
    Most of us play too many video games
    </font>

    er, nope.
    <font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by ThunderingMike:
    Most of us are socially inept and/or immature
    </font>

    er, nope.
    <font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by ThunderingMike:
    Most of us love comics or cartoons
    </font>

    er, nope.
    <font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by ThunderingMike:
    =Most of us have physical defects brought on from too much Internet or gaming (Myopia biggrin.gif, bad backs, pale skin etc)
    =
    </font>

    er, nope.
    <font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by ThunderingMike:
    Nothing more. As for a nerd, he buys magazines, he reads the news sites, he plays online.
    </font>

    er, nope.
    <font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by ThunderingMike:
    My name is Brian, and I am a nerd </font>

    er, yep.
    <font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by ThunderingMike:

    That said, I know a few nerds who are not really ashamed to talk about their pastime in public. They of course, get a hard time for it. As for me, I keep it to myself and that ensures that I sure as **** do not have to answer for it. Which is fine for me. It might sound spineless, but it's better then the un-enlightened few giving me **** for my pass-time. Call me shallow, but I would not want it getting around that I was a nerd.

    </font>

    it depends on the company you keep.
    the saddest thing you could ever do is to drop your 'nerd' fiends so you can hang around other people so as to become sociably acceptable.

    Your Imps Demand Cable...


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,193 ✭✭✭Kix


    I'm with Dustaz on this one. I'm 31 and a developer by profession. I adore games and I play online* but I don't consider myself socially inept or even a geek (well certainly not a hardcore geek, more of a technophile). I'm not in the slightest bit ashamed of my hobby. I love technology and games for me often represent the cutting edge of PC tech, that's part of why I love them. Sheer entertainment value though has to be the most important one.

    I don't want to get into an argument, especially since I didn't contribute to the thread on this topic, but I do think that games are an emergent arts form and that parallels with gaming today and the early days of cinema are strong. Games are never going to appeal to everyone but as time goes on I do think that they'll lose their geeky image bit by bit.

    Until they're no nerdier than say, chess. wink.gif

    K

    * well, not at tbe moment 'cos I've given up on Tribes 2 but I'm looking to get DOD soon and give it a go.


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  • Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 28,633 Mod ✭✭✭✭Shiminay


    Gah!

    I've got Computer Gaming on my CV. And I quote:
    <font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Computer Gaming
    I love to play games on my PC at home, or even games over the Internet especially “Counter-Strike”, which I am a member of one of Ireland's many clans. Gaming over the Internet relies heavily on teamwork and communication with the rest of your team-mates because of bad connections causing “lag” which means some people’s game run’s more slowly than others (e.g. Modem versus DSL).</font>
    See - it's plugging the communication thing and the team player thing - employers like this.

    My friends give me a hard time about it - I've usually brushed them off and told them of the money to be earned, but next time it comes up and they start slagging, I'm going to ge them to explain to me why they find it funny.

    I firmly believe in computer gaming being a sport - not a main stream or tangable sport like rugby or soccer, but gaming is now at a level where people simply *watch* others playing for fun (be it live or by downloading demos). I really don't think it'll be too long before people are playing PC games in a more main stream environment and being accepted as "athletes" (I don't like using that word in this context).



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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 599 ✭✭✭ThunderingMike


    Did I mention the mental defects nerds suffer also? No? Here's a big one: Denial.

    ThunderingMike Thus conscience does make cowards of us all, And thus the native hue of resolution is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought, And enterprises of great pitch and moment, With this regard their current turns away, And lose the name of action... Nows that's a sig.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 137 ✭✭Raife


    I'm always truthfull about my pastimes, so if someone asks me i tell them, simple as that.

    Ltr!!
    Raife!! smile.gif


  • Users Awaiting Email Confirmation Posts: 729 ✭✭✭popinfresh


    I think youz have geeks and loosers mixed up.
    A geek is some1 who looks really pale and talks all squeeky,(eg-transformers), but a looser is some1 who is obsessed computers, and always plays them.
    However, the term looser does not just apply to computers. People who are obsessed with anything are loosers, (eg-football freaks, and wwf-loosers)
    In order to not be a looser, you just have to not do the same thing all the time, or in this case, get away from the computer every now and then....
    (no comments on my spelling, or vocabulary please..)

    i hate you guys......


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 28 Jockey Spollix


    Anyone for pong?

    [This message has been edited by Jockey Spollix (edited 26-07-2001).]


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,658 ✭✭✭✭The Sweeper


    <font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by WhiteWashMan:

    anyone whos life revolves around playing games is prety sad. unless its part of their livelihood, ie, developers, reporters, testers.
    </font>

    ...said the Boards.ie Moderator with four thousand five hundred and fifty EIGHT posts. tongue.gif

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,446 ✭✭✭✭amp


    Eamos acursed post count strikes again wink.gif

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 115 ✭✭OConnor


    <font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Kharn:

    it's plugging the communication thing and the team player thing - employers like this.
    </font>

    Nice. biggrin.gif
    lets Just replace the word "nerd" with "Hardcore Gamer" shall we?
    Nerd is such a stupid American word...
    Well im a Hardcore Gamer, and i find that it doesnt bother my friends, and neither have i been troubled about it by my enemies, the people who give the most stick are my Family.
    We dont exactly have a Grand sporting tradition, and they dont give me any suggestions on what i should do with my time.
    Why cant i just sit inside with the curtains pulled and finish FF9 now that its Summer and the exams are over confused.gif ??
    I dont have much else to do, i dont want to be bored, cant i just keep myself happy quietly without bothering anyone?
    argghh*** confused.gif


  • Business & Finance Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 32,387 Mod ✭✭✭✭DeVore


    If you dont tell people you are into games because you are afraid they'll call you a geek, you should grow some backbone and join phylum vertebrae.

    I tell business people I meet if they ask what I do for kicks, (snowboarding and multiplayer gaming). I've made no secret of organising the Quake national team. I dont go out of my way to tell people and its not my entire life but I dont hide it either.

    I've been called a geek all my life, as long as I can remember. I recall guys in my school giving me a load of stick for being into BBSes and later for having an "email account" (this was back in '89).

    Now the very same guys are in industry and I've built websites for two of them. Todays geeky thing is tomorrows "wave of the future" and the day after's manditory technology.

    If people look at you strange because of what you do, look at them strange back smile.gif
    In a tired voice tell them you'd "hate to be noooormal".

    Favourite quote on the topic: "Poor is the man who's pleasure depend on the permission of another" [1]

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 670 ✭✭✭Sliotar


    brilliant quote, absolutely brilliant smile.gif

    i think the whole nerd thing comes down to the look. if you look like a nerd ppl will call you a nerd. i think thats representative of how shallow the whole nerd thing is.

    and as for playing games means you have low self esteem, thats a generalisation, and like all generalisations, its untrue. there are ppl who play games and have low self esteem. there are ppl who play games and have high self esteem. sometimes the 2 are connected, sometimes they are unconected.

    its a social stigma, that will hopefully be shaken over time.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,689 ✭✭✭orangerooster


    the whole nerd thing is really annoying mention games and youre interest in computer games and most people will immediatly call you a geek or a child or whatever and if you go to secondary or primary school a lot of kids are really badly bullied for having ineterests that arent soccer or wrestleing even though most of the kids do have these interests but apparantley to these "cool" kids games negate all this in there niave and childish minds

    dont open ... that door- resident evil 1


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,657 ✭✭✭OSiriS


    This really is starting to feel like geeks anonymous

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,067 ✭✭✭FunkyChicken


    I put Online Computer Games in my hobbies in my tesco application form biggrin.gif (i am only 15 and i can walk there , no im not a fool)
    as for physical defects from gaming , eh like wtf you'd have to play a heluva lot with a very bad posture to get stuff like that , also as for bneing socialy inept , like just because u play games doesnt mean you havent got a clue how to talk to people in "real life"(whatever that is) i play alot of games on the net but i still have time to go out with my friends to the cinema etc(well apart from last few days dueto CS practics :/ ) . i think playin so much games that you dont even go out with friends anywhere is sad . even going to a lan with people you know is sociable so i dont see how you think gamers are becoming socially inept?

    Also yes tranformers does rock and it doesnt make you a nerd , although fraggle rock 0wned transformers and MASK was close after tranformers biggrin.gif


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 17 vacca


    i don't think being socially inept is related to gaming. i've met/known plenty of people you'd consider "social" that play PSX games (which apparantly is better than PC gaming? in what world I ask you), that I would consider scumbags/knackers. PC gamers are geeks sounds like a negative statement to me, and I can honestly say the smartest/funniest/nicest people I personally know are PC gamers too.

    there's a lot of people out there that have lives, that have outdoor actitivies, and girlfriends and boyfriends, and go drinking with their mates, and still go to lan parties or play CS, etc. Sure there's some that don't, but u can say that about PSX-heads or people that watch TV constantly too.

    vac


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,099 ✭✭✭✭WhiteWashMan


    <font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Minesajackdaniels:
    ...said the Boards.ie Moderator with four thousand five hundred and fifty EIGHT posts. tongue.gif

    </font>

    well, 98% of my posts have some from being bored in work. before when i worked 12 hour night shifts pressing buttons on a machine as a lowly factory operator, to working 11 hour shifts at night in ibm as tech support.
    now im just bored in work doing desktop support. smile.gif
    but posting on these boards is not the same as spending your free hours playing games.
    for start, only 25%ish of the forums here are for games. the rest is all kinds of subjects. using a computer to discuss different topics is not the same as spending 6 hours a day playing CS or q3 or UT online.
    i have no problem with people doing it. i meet people who do it. we talk rubbish about games and b1tch about the people who use these boards and have fun. ive evn helped in a few lans with DeV and co. i used to play all my free time away. i have been called a nerd and a geek and i dont care one way or the other. but i wont go out of my way to tell people i play games. its just not as important as other things i do.
    i get more stick for saying i play hockey anyway smile.gif
    sure hockey is a poofs game wwman.gif

    Your Imps Demand Cable...


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,099 ✭✭✭✭WhiteWashMan


    <font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by DeVore:


    If people look at you strange because of what you do, look at them strange back smile.gif
    In a tired voice tell them you'd "hate to be noooormal".

    </font>

    id agree with you on your points except this one tom.
    people look at you because you strange because you look funny smile.gif


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,730 ✭✭✭✭entropi


    i've also been called a geek because i know a bit about computers and i'm good at games in general. I like to play football{not to be confused with the GAA version}i like running and if i can, cycling. I used to love sports but don't have much time now as i'm either too tired to play from working in front of a pc all day or none of my mates want to. They also have a thing about pc's as being geeky, most of them don't even know what HTML is about or how you would use it.I don't care if they say "oh, you're a nerd" or " you big geek" . I couldn't care if they say it and i do say i play games if i am asked. I have been playing games since the sega master system came out...even before that my cousin had as atari 2600 i think it was and played syndicate wars on it with him.
    People call us gamers geeks because they feel they'll get the same labelling we do if they started to play also. And I used to call pc users geeks myself about a year ago but i use a pc every day for work, i play counter-strike,i play legend of mir and i don't mind if i am labelled by someone.I am an RPG fan and play final fantasy if i feel like it and will play till' the end every time i put it on. I say F**K all the labellers as they've got brown lips from talking too much sh*te.

    That island has freedom written all over it" Sir, that's Cuba. [url="HTTP://WWW.thesimpsons.com"]look at that smithers!![/url]


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,381 ✭✭✭klong


    I just thought i'd post my views and experiences on this thread as i think its a good one.

    In my class at school there are seven guys (including myself) and six of us play computer and/or console based games. I'm the only one called a geek because i've been on the school quiz teams for the past four years. Console gamers are not called nerds or whatever because they are so widespread and have gained, i suppose, acceptance as a "normal" thing- i'm not saying computer gamers are weirdos. I myself play computer games occasionally- flight sims and strategy games are my favourites. In fact, I think that computer gamers are a very dedicated, committed group of people- I can hardly say that of myself but rather those that play CS, Half-Life etc.

    I would rather describe those that are serious computer gamers as gaming enthusiasts or such like. On that point, one guy in my class virtually collects consoles, plays a lot- its his main hobby. Yet nobody would dare to call him a nerd- he'd just crack peoples skulls if he was called that.

    The Boss


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,660 ✭✭✭Baz_


    Right I would just like to say that syndicate wars most definitely was not released on the atari 2600.

    I also play game, although not as much as I would like, and I don't consider it nerdish, and I don't get any slagging from anyone. I play games because I like to, end of story.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 579 ✭✭✭Da_cOmRaDe_MiKe


    god damn!!! i livw in clonmel... full stop.... its fuccking boring ass hell!!! unless ur 18 and can drink... most ppl hang around at evening times bout 6 or 7 and during the day all there is to do putside is play soccer or sit around talking bout what u did last night!!!!! well fucck that i play my computer.. and play all different types of games.. im sure most of ye do the same unlesss ye work... like what the **** is theree to do on sunday bout 1 or 2pm? sit around and lick barney the dinasaurs fuccking pussy??? NO PLAY GAMES ON COMPUTERS!!!! who gives a fucck what other ppl say most likely they do the same!! most entertainment in the world comes from t.v ot computers... and i dont give a fucck what others say i play it all the time in school... keeps me from going insane!!!..


    - Da_cOmRaDe_MiKe
    <font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2"> Man causes all problems. No man, no problems. - Stalin </font>


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,689 ✭✭✭orangerooster


    yikes thats quite a temper there mike biggrin.gif but youre right no need to be ashamed of being a gamer its just doing what you like if ****ing up youre life with drugs and **** when youre 14 is what those dicks like let them on and do it and die whn there 17 or even younger so lets all play games and kill each other with rail guns and fusion rocket launchers on the net and then dream of doing it to the people who opress us so leyt us gamers tke it no more take youre weapons and lets frag the ass off those drugie *******s who insulted us in school and soon the world will be ours mick youre with me so lets all fight for our right ot game!!!!!!

    dont open ... that door- resident evil 1


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 579 ✭✭✭Da_cOmRaDe_MiKe


    yea ok.. what rooster said...

    - Da_cOmRaDe_MiKe
    <font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2"> Man causes all problems. No man, no problems. - Stalin </font>


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,136 ✭✭✭Pugsley


    im in the same state as mike...
    I live in a ghost town,every1 10years old and over smoke in my town there all wan|{ers and most will b dead b4 there 50 (no ofense)so i sit at home and play games,i have a m8 in school thats the same except hes in the countryside so he has a better excuse.
    We arent ashamed 2 talk about games in public every1 knows we do,we dont mind,we get a bit of slagging but were strong as hell and when some li'l git says somthin 2 us we grab him by the back of the neck and he usually runs like hell (quite funny smile.gif).
    And if playing games makes u a geek,y do so many people play them ??
    Its a good pass time,i play games about 6hours a day and intend 2 make a carrear out of it.When i play on-line i chat with my m8s and have a good time playing TF/CS etc.. (even tho i only have 6 or sofriends within 20miles (theres a lot of m0ngs in my area frown.gif)
    I also collect models and luv art..so what ??
    some people wander y i colect models,its another pas time,so what ??
    \Thats me,who gives a sh!t ??


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,672 ✭✭✭Wolf


    I play about 70 hours a week of counter strike.
    Am I a geek?
    Well im also on several soccer teams play rugby, i was vice president of the entertainments crew in the S.U last year in collage and I score nice birds most nites i go out. Also i have put computer games as a past time on CV's before but only for certain jobs. Computer games can be for geeks but doesnt have to be for geeks.
    Firstly get out excercise, socalize and make friend that arent just computer frinds and dont be a big fat nerd biggrin.gif


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,067 ✭✭✭FunkyChicken


    70 hours!?!! ****in hell , im not sure im even awake that long in a week ....


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,136 ✭✭✭Pugsley


    70hours ?!?!?! that all wink.gif


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 270 ✭✭Jabba_the_SLUT


    Topic: Computer games are for geeks.

    WELL MY MOM SEZ IM COOL!!!1111 frown.gif


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,136 ✭✭✭Pugsley


    yes, jabba ure cool wink.gif
    /me smiles and walks away wink.gif


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,672 ✭✭✭Wolf


    <font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Jabba_the_SLUT:
    Topic: Computer games are for geeks.

    WELL MY MOM SEZ IM COOL!!!1111 frown.gif
    </font>
    Your mom says im cool as well wink.gif



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,308 ✭✭✭✭.ak


    Geek.

    On a more serious note (HAH).
    I try to take my life as unseriously as possible... And I find it annoying when people take life seriously... Ofcourse, some can't help this. But I personally try to steer away from taking life seriously... er, so I'll shut up. biggrin.gif

    My point is: I hate people who take games seriously... They're games, thats what they are, games. So enjoy 'em. If you find yourself getting annoyed whilst playing CS, don't play it.

    -Dark-Geek-

    [This message has been edited by Dark-Angel (edited 31-08-2001).]


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