Gamer Stereotypes
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Fat- No. I'm about 6 foot, weigh 80 kilograms(ok, so maybe i am a little flabby and my shape isn't the best, but i'm trying to fix that)
Lazy- Now thisis one of my more peculiar traits . either i have extreme amounts of energy or none o.o well..sometimes i've got moderate amounts..but that's rare
Live in a basement- I'm 17 and live with my dad, but my room is on the top floor <.<
Has foam swords and a castle- I collect pointy and sharp stuffs, yes, but i only have 2-3 sowrds..a set containing a katana, a wakizashi and a tanto, though i bought it in sweden just because it looked nice
Always end up embarrassing myself- Another strange thing about me: either i'm very suave and bla bla bla, or i'm a complete retard socially (depends on when, where and who is around)
Lazy- Now thisis one of my more peculiar traits . either i have extreme amounts of energy or none o.o well..sometimes i've got moderate amounts..but that's rare
Live in a basement- I'm 17 and live with my dad, but my room is on the top floor <.<
Has foam swords and a castle- I collect pointy and sharp stuffs, yes, but i only have 2-3 sowrds..a set containing a katana, a wakizashi and a tanto, though i bought it in sweden just because it looked nice
Always end up embarrassing myself- Another strange thing about me: either i'm very suave and bla bla bla, or i'm a complete retard socially (depends on when, where and who is around)
yeah, a little bit on the overweight side, but that shall soon be solved with technology- exercise bike! no-longer will I have to venture outside to lose weight.
Oooh, hygiene! I love a good bath, me.
Personally, I don't live in a basement. Maybe the basement of morality. But my room is a hideous pale green with pine furniture from Ikea. mmm, smell the mass market. Then my PC nestles in the corner, like a shrine to technology.
Socially stunted and nervous around the opposite sex, huh? I'm sure girls would like me, if I didn't mention my boyfriend. Girls seem to have this idea that I'm "nice". Weirdos.
I also seem to have a social life, which I'm totally separate from. I keep getting invited to places by this group who I hang out with, but that didn't last long. And I have other friends, but I keep arguing with them. Not about pointless stuff, more "stop touching each other! ahhh!" (which relates to my boyfriend and a little thing called "being hundreds of miles apart at the moment")
foam swords? nah, not really.
Oooh, hygiene! I love a good bath, me.
Personally, I don't live in a basement. Maybe the basement of morality. But my room is a hideous pale green with pine furniture from Ikea. mmm, smell the mass market. Then my PC nestles in the corner, like a shrine to technology.
Socially stunted and nervous around the opposite sex, huh? I'm sure girls would like me, if I didn't mention my boyfriend. Girls seem to have this idea that I'm "nice". Weirdos.
I also seem to have a social life, which I'm totally separate from. I keep getting invited to places by this group who I hang out with, but that didn't last long. And I have other friends, but I keep arguing with them. Not about pointless stuff, more "stop touching each other! ahhh!" (which relates to my boyfriend and a little thing called "being hundreds of miles apart at the moment")
foam swords? nah, not really.
some gamers are a bit chunky. I'm not, but then i go running. Of course that might be cancelled out by the amount i drink. Mind you i'm not really the sterotypical gamer aside from the fact i'm not exactlly overflowing with friends
Fat - No, i'm too skinny actuallyFreakout456 said:
Lazy - Only when sleep is involved, (I sleep way too much) but while i'm awake i'm active
Live in a basement - Nope, and I don't know anyone who does
Foam swords and a castle??? - What????
End up embarassing myself - sometimes like everyone does, no more than everyone else.
Stereotypes suck. There's a reason they exist, but they are exagerrated and don't have any relevance to the majority of people in the group.
I love games, I play them, I make them, I talk about them. But I also play Football, I go out twice a week, my room used to be in the basement though.. But I had a lot of people round and didnt have a castle 
But that would have been amazing.
The stereotype just reminds me of the midget from benchwarmers xD
But that would have been amazing.The stereotype just reminds me of the midget from benchwarmers xD
yep there is a reason stereo types exist and thats because at one point they were true.Aegwadar said:
I hate clichés, there is nothing about them that makes sense.
I'm not fat, I'm a little lazy. But my house doesn't even have a basement, so it's hard to live up to that stereotype. There is no room in my house to even build a foam castle or of anything else. That and foam swords is a little over the top.
But it's still a cliché nonetheless.
I'm not fat, I'm a little lazy. But my house doesn't even have a basement, so it's hard to live up to that stereotype. There is no room in my house to even build a foam castle or of anything else. That and foam swords is a little over the top.
But it's still a cliché nonetheless.
I'm pretty lazy, but do try to get out and about, my room is on the 2nd floor, i keep my fencing saber next to my desk, (mostly decoration now, but it did almost win me a tournament) and certainly not fat... I have a bit of a gut, but my 6"3 frame carries it well xD
I have a gamer friend who is essentially addicted to final fantasy. well him and his brother. the difference between them(even though they look nothing alike) my friend is engaged thin, tall, and a general fun person and does martial arts/exercising. his brother is your stereotype gamer. He goes to work but apart from that........me, well i am an outdoors type person. i prefer being outside than inside. That being said, I don't like being away from my video games.Freakout456 said:
Edit: As far as embarrassing myself, i dont get embarrassed. I embarrass everyone else on purpose. I know what makes them tick and do it. But in a fun way. As in we laugh at ourselves afterwards
Yea, that stereotype is complete BS. I don't know one single gamer who fits it at all.
For example, I'm 5'11", 195lbs of pure muscle, have a corporate job, and own a rental business. In addition to gaming, I work out 5 days a week, play Bass, rock climb, hike, camp, play paintball and ride motorcycles. So, as you can see, I own my own place, and you could never call me fat, nor lazy... although 90% of my girlfriends would argue that when it comes to housework I'm a pretty serious gamer too, I don't only game on the PC and console, I've played just about every pen and paper RPG out there and only stopped because all my buddies who I played with moved away. Hell, I've owned just about every console that has come out since the atari 2600.
The only friend of mine who is both fat and lazy friend can barely be called a gamer. He does own a 360 but plays every single game on the easy setting and still gets his ass handed to him. My theory is that he is too lazy to challenge himself in anything, including gaming.
For example, I'm 5'11", 195lbs of pure muscle, have a corporate job, and own a rental business. In addition to gaming, I work out 5 days a week, play Bass, rock climb, hike, camp, play paintball and ride motorcycles. So, as you can see, I own my own place, and you could never call me fat, nor lazy... although 90% of my girlfriends would argue that when it comes to housework
I'm a pretty serious gamer too, I don't only game on the PC and console, I've played just about every pen and paper RPG out there and only stopped because all my buddies who I played with moved away. Hell, I've owned just about every console that has come out since the atari 2600.The only friend of mine who is both fat and lazy friend can barely be called a gamer. He does own a 360 but plays every single game on the easy setting and still gets his ass handed to him. My theory is that he is too lazy to challenge himself in anything, including gaming.
actually sad as this is going to be, that fits a couple of guys I know, they are avid D&D players and they also are really into the LARP game Ampgard.Freakout456 said:
As for myself, lets do the rundown
fat-nope, somewhere between 5'8 and 5'11 I would say and 155. I alternate between running 20-30 minutes and weight training for an hour every day.
Lazy-well there is the workout routine I just talked about, which I do completely of my own volition, I do a decent amount of yardwork, and I help my friends move furniture and other such stuff.
Basement-well other than the weights and the treadmill being in the basement (gets very cold around my area, even sometimes during the summer) I don't spend much time down there.
foam swords and castles-I would love to own a real sword, don't have any foam swords. Used to do ampgard, but stopped having fun with it and wasn't worth looking stupid if I wasn't enjoying the activity, quite about 2 years ago. Now I do SCA, which is with wooden ratan swords, or live blunted steel.
embarrassment-well I hardly ever talk much, and I am choose my words very carefully. I generally try to avoid situations were embarrassment could happen altogether.
I have a really fast metabolism so I've never been fat, I'm extremely lazy, the aquifer makes it impossible for me to have a basement, no foam swords, and a (presumably) cardboard box castle sounds awesome.
What the fuck did I just watch? I'm just going to assume that guy was acting.captainwillies said:
Note the "Just About"Fredrick2003 said:
Never had a Nomad, never had a Neo Geo either. Until the PS1 I had to afford all these systems on a part time job while going to school, so I definitely missed a few but I had enough that people used to walk in my room and stare with awe...mind you, part of that was the jury rigged stereo that was the size of a small fridge, tv tube out of the case put in a cage built from my old erector set, and the other salvaged electronics without cases laying around my room.
From memory (and just consoles, not computers nor handhelds) I've had, Atari 2600, Colecovision, NES, Sega (that's all it was called that I'm aware of, you either had a Nintendo or a Sega when I was a kid, I had both after mowing LOTS of lawns
), SNES, Genesis + CD + 32X, Saturn, Playstation, N64, Jaguar, Dreamcast, PS2, gamecube, Xbox, Wii (which I've since sold and vowed to never buy Nintendo kiddy crap again), Xbox360...Oddly, I don't have a PS3 yet. I've just been putting off getting one because 99% of games come out for both the 360 and PS3 but I'm going to get one soon, if only to play Blu-Ray disks.
It's actually the basement bit that confuses me the most. Storing £1000+ of computer equipment and assorted geek paraphernalia in the basement is an invitation to be £1000+ out of pocket the next time there's a flood. Edit: and that's without considering that some of the stuff might be irreplaceable or nearly so.