Jimquisition: Gamer Guys
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The issue with Jonathan Holmes, star of the hit program "Soda Baby" is that he seems to want to bring up video games at the most inappropriate times just to try to show off. It's like, you're listening to a wonderful bout of life advice or some brilliant plan for a film and he just HAS to bring up video games because he runs around playing them in a tight shirt. It's just obnoxious and offends me personally.Andy Shandy said:
I really don't get the whole "we're all gamers, everyone hold hands and sing" mentality. This isn't a Dr. Seuss book, it seems like we should be allowed to make distinctions between people who clearly have different interests from one another, it's not a bad thing. It just seems like the person who actually enjoys the medium, blogs about it and/or (at least) goes to the escapist to talk about it is a much different person then the individual who only plays Angry Birds on their phone to pass time in waiting rooms, or the guy who only plays the newest CoD because "Fuck yur Amurrrrrica" is going through his head 24/7. It just seems like the term "gamer" should denote some sort of genuine interest in games? It's not like it's hard, or this is an exclusive club or something. It's something everyone is fully capable of doing and being part of, they just choose not to.thebakedpotato said:
Gamers are outcasts, or were, they built an enclaveSonicWaffle said:
Now Cute Girl comes along, I mean does her her, lipstick absolute pinnacle of trendy cute.
This is Not An OutCast, what the hell is she doing here and why?
Its the same thing as Samus Aran a player avatar getting all this attention because she's a female with a gun while simultaneous we have this thing about gamers misrepresenting strong independent women.
Not only is she not an Outcast but she can leave at any time. Maybe she's just looking good AND nerdy. So you ask just to be safe/sure.
Only this keeps happening And there have been big women in fandom for YEARS. Its insulting and prejudiced.
I could do all that... Or I could... Ya know... Play video games. Something that I enjoy doing.xPixelatedx said:
Personally, I think if you give the performance of a lfetime that he gave in V For Vendetta 2: D For Deep Dicking, you're allowed to talk a tiny little bit about video games, every now and again.itsausernamewhatofit said:
I mean, this poster is beautiful but it doesn't convey even an iota of the sort of performance that they man who would be Freaky Constantina gave.
The trailer only helps a little more
Jim has trancended your puny concepts of "gender norms" and has become a god of sensuality.Jandau said:
Something I think bears quoting. I do believe that the over saturation of such things has led to people believing it is a far more common issue than it actually is. Much in the same way that Western media so frequently portrays Muslims in a bad light that many cannot seem to understand that most Muslims are not in fact terrorists.Smilomaniac said:
When your input on a particular subject is always the same thing it starts to seem common because there is no alternative discussion. We hear about the idiots who make sexist comments on a regular basis, but nobody mentions the tens of millions of gamers who don't make them. The millions who are perfectly normal people who are pleasant to game with. Much like the general media, we only ever hear about the bad news, because it stands out.
That doesn't mean that it doesn't happen and that it isn't a problem, but I think some people need to take a step back and gain a more realistic perspective of it all. The way some people on here talk about it, you'd think we are back in the time of the suffragettes and slavery in America.
I laughed a lot when I originally read that, serves the idiot right.Windknight said:
You are welcome.FizzyIzze said:
I'm more of a Brotherhood of Steel guy, myself.Darmani said:
Correct me if I'm wrong, but it's probably to play videogames. What I don't get is the logical leap from "that is an attractive girl" to "that is an attractive girl, she must be here because she thrives on the attention of self-designated outcasts, what a fake". It doesn't really follow - I just can't see why the next step is to assume that this hot girl can only be bothering with the hobby for attention when there are probably easier ways.Darmani said:
I don't follow you...Darmani said:
Anyone can leave at any time. Playing video games isn't something inherent to our DNA that we can't stop doing in case it kills us.Darmani said:
But again I ask: is that any excuse to treat people who have done nothing wrong poorly? If you have psychological baggage, then you should either deal with it, or at least accept responsibility for what happens. If someone has a bad experience with a black person, that doesn't make them becoming a flaming racist "okay." They're still going to be responsible for what they say and do, and being racist is still not acceptable. If they can't bring themselves to treat people with respect, then the only responsible course of action is to get help and separate themselves from those situations as much as possible.uanime5 said:
So if a person's baggage regarding women is really so great that it's preventing them from treating them with a certain level of respect and decorum, then they need to isolate themselves until they've got it under control. You can't just run around for your entire life being a total asshole and hiding behind "Oh, but I have issues with my past!" every time someone calls you out on it.
And I certainly believe you do, the one calorie of energy it took to type something on the escapist is evidence enough of that. That fact that you are even willing to debate this shows you like video games. There are people out there who wouldn't even expend that much effort, they just don't care. Even I am that way with other things.thebakedpotato said:
I have seen some football games in my life, but I don't really give a damn about it. I only watched them because I was at a friends house and that's what everyone was doing. I couldn't tell you anything about football, because I didn't care to find out about any of it, still don't. I'm not a football fan. My friends - on the other hand - just can't stop talking about it, they even have fantasy football leagues. They're football fans. I could easily be if I wanted to be, but I don't. I just don't care enough.
Your profile says you're from America, and if that's the case then I'm afraid you really need to work on how you write. Because if you reread this word for word, exactly as you punctuated it, it doesn't make a lot of sense.Darmani said:
What are you trying to say here? That it's alright to check to see if someone is a "real" nerd because they aren't fat? I'm fat, but I'm also running 2.5 miles four times per week. Will my nerd credentials expire when my pant size drops below a certain number? Will I then be subjected to these "checks" because I'm just "too cute" to be accepted on face value?
I've only seen this kind of attitude online, because in person, no one seems to care if you're a guy or girl who just got into the hobby, or if you've been playing games for the past 20 years. None of that matters, what matters is that everyone is enjoying something in common.
I always found the whole "I PLAY GAMES HARDER BETTER FASTER STRONGER THAN YOU" mentality laughable. You play games on superhardcoreextreeeeme, I play them on easiest. So what? You're better than me at pressing buttons.
I always found the whole "I PLAY GAMES HARDER BETTER FASTER STRONGER THAN YOU" mentality laughable. You play games on superhardcoreextreeeeme, I play them on easiest. So what? You're better than me at pressing buttons.