I'm 23. Graduated with a Masters, late last year.l3o2828 said:Hahahahaha...No.maninahat said:In answer to the OP, yes, I'm a geek and most people find me good looking. Was this thread just an excuse to get free photos of attractive nerds?
WELL, Apparently my sister agrees with you, and now she wants to know the Range of age of gamers who are not fat geeks.
While she is now somewhat more convinced that it's just an stereotype, she wants to know how many gamers are over 20 years, that apprently are either working or studying in collegue, what i understand from that is that she doent understand is how gamers over 20 years find time to be playing a considerable ammount of time...but i guess that material for another, dreary topic?
Well I'm 19 (under 20, I am well aware), but I'm a student at university studying English and Drama. Uni takes up a lot of my time, obviously, but I still spend a fair amount of time gaming. And even when I'm out with my somewhat nerdy drama mates, we're often talking about something-game related or game-induced orl3o2828 said:While she is now somewhat more convinced that it's just an stereotype, she wants to know how many gamers are over 20 years, that apprently are either working or studying in collegue, what i understand from that is that she doent understand is how gamers over 20 years find time to be playing a considerable ammount of time...but i guess that material for another, dreary topic?
and what not. Hell, we play Manhunt around uni at night (although this has a lot to do with being drama students too methinks) - and that's about 15 of us, males and females. My friend and I also have this game called "Make Girls Flinch KYAAHH!" which is where you have to make a girl flinch by pretending to 'karate strike' her, whilst making some sort of ninja sounds. Additionally, we play Assassins, which is where you sneak up on someone and assassinate them. If they see you, you lose, but if you assassinate them, you gain a point. A point to what? Who cares!Mackheath said:engage in nerdy debates
I don't quite believe she was being unreasonable.Break said:Better question: why are you humouring her? She's already proven that her opinion isn't actually based on any kind of evidence or rational thought process, having ignored perfectly good examples for no real reason. At that point, it's not just a matter of being wrong; everyone's wrong about some things, it's a fact of life. But once you've started ignoring basic facts in favour of clinging to your baseless preconceptions, then you've crossed the line from being misinformed, to being an idiot. You've already made a perfectly good case. Don't feel like you've failed to argue your point just because she's being unreasonable. That's her fault, not yours.
Right. I had assumed she was just saying "well they don't count" out of obstinance. I was wrong. I apologise.l3o2828 said:I don't quite believe she was being unreasonable.Break said:Better question: why are you humouring her? She's already proven that her opinion isn't actually based on any kind of evidence or rational thought process, having ignored perfectly good examples for no real reason. At that point, it's not just a matter of being wrong; everyone's wrong about some things, it's a fact of life. But once you've started ignoring basic facts in favour of clinging to your baseless preconceptions, then you've crossed the line from being misinformed, to being an idiot. You've already made a perfectly good case. Don't feel like you've failed to argue your point just because she's being unreasonable. That's her fault, not yours.
I do think Lisa Foiles is mostly a Model that plays games not a gamer that is pretty by default.
Besides, she wanted to know that the everyday person isn't geeky looking. That's why i wanted her to see Non-'famous' gamers out there to prove my point.
How old are you?l3o2828 said:My sister and i have been discussing the image of the usual gamer and basically how i believe that the usual image people have of gamers that is to say the normal geek of 'wearing glasses, chubby, etc' imagery,is absolutely wrong.
I placed myself as an example, but she says i don't count.
My sister disagrees, because while it's true she hasn't seen any true dedicated gamer looking any appealing (and neither did i, yet), i believe this is just a matter of perspective...sort of.
The thing is, she wants to see normal people , the everyday John and the everyday Mary gamers because, i showed her both Lisa Foiles and Ben Yahtzee (i was actually watching last weeks zero punctuation when this discussion happened), who i think are somewhat good looking people who are related to the gaming community, but she dissed them as example because in her opinion while Lisa Foiles is pretty, she thinks she is more close the model demographic and she said some things about her body that might get me banned for even quoting, and dissed Ben as good looking (wich is odd, because i think he looks so much better than me)and she said he looked like The guy with the glasses, but less appealing.
Things weren't looking pretty well for me, so thats why i think to prove her that normal people who are dedicated gamers do look different than the stereotype, i should just go into a gaming comunity and ask for help.
So, Escapists, do you want to help, as superficial as this is?
I don't consider her good looking!Dyme said:Okay
I am neither into Koreans nor men, but this guy leaves me breathless!
Of course you don't see his face, but why would you want to? His left hand is enough to know the beauty of this person.
Apart from that, I can't really judge mens looks, so I have to go by the looks of their girlfriends.
And InControl
has Miss Oregon 2011 as girlfriend
, so I suppose he is good looking?
Apart from that, I consider myself gamer-geekish, and I look like shit!