Living in your Mom's basement?

[Steelhead]

If the typical gamer stereotypes offend you, go ahead and let this guy know about it.

http://www.punkplanet.com/sideshow/blog/hooray_for_the_pepsi_generation

You heard it here first: Now you can sit around in your mom's basement all day, more often than not by yourself, eating junk food and playing what is essentially a $50 advertisment for the US Armed Forces, possibly developing weight, vision, and psycological problems, and not creating or even having to imagine anything. And it will have cultural context. That was a close one.

There have already been some really good responses posted by gamers, but there's always room for more :)

[PerpetualHeaven]

I'm going to take a stab at this. "Fiercely independent" hahaha. Oh man.

[Xterm1n8or]

I'm going to take a stab at this. "Fiercely independent" hahaha. Oh man.

Haha nice one Perpetual, you certainly told them!

[iskoot]

I like how he says that playing video games is anti-social because you don't look at other people, and it makes you talk only about video games, and blah blah blah. But if you look at it in that light, I would think people who read books are even more anti-social then people who plays games, because they don't even talk to people while they read, and they only talk about the book that they have read and blah blah blah...whatever, what a dipshit.

[Maka]

My letter to the writer:

You heard it here first: Now you can sit around in your mom's basement all day, more often than not by yourself, eating junk food and writing non-sense and making little to no money doing it, possibly developing weight, vision, and psycological problems. All you have to do is stereotype, and make up as much bullshit as you can. You can bash people you dont understand, and make fun of them.

Writing is so much more of a "social' activity isnt it? You can talk to yourself, and write letters! At least gamers have online friends, who even though we do not see, we still talk to, and develop a friendship.

The writer probably get's ass-rapped on a daily basis at anything including Hand-Eye co-ordination like video games or sports. Therefore turning to things like poetry and writing, which dont include use of the body.

[HiddenPandas]

My letter to the writer:

You heard it here first: Now you can sit around in your mom's basement all day, more often than not by yourself, eating junk food and writing non-sense and making little to no money doing it, possibly developing weight, vision, and psycological problems. All you have to do is stereotype, and make up as much bullshit as you can. You can bash people you dont understand, and make fun of them.

Writing is so much more of a "social' activity isnt it? You can talk to yourself, and write letters! At least gamers have online friends, who even though we do not see, we still talk to, and develop a friendship.

The writer probably get's ass-rapped on a daily basis at anything including Hand-Eye co-ordination like video games or sports. Therefore turning to things like poetry and writing, which dont include use of the body.

True, so very true.

[Bluntman428]

Well, there's always some truth to stereotypes. A lot of black people do like fried chicken, white people taste like crackers, and all muslims are terrists. :p

Seriously though, who really gives a shit about some anonymous prick from "Punk Planet". He's probably loving all the attention he's getting from this stupid article, sitting there in his girls' jeans being all angsty and whatnot.

[TheLazyWolf]

Am i the only one who would love to quit working and paying rent, move into my parents basement, and enjoy the hell out of some of the great games coming out?:p

[Magooush]

This is very offensive to me. My room isn't in the basement. Its upstairs..

What a racist.

[Skillet]

I have a rather large room in the upstaris of our house. I actually have too much room, I don't have enough stuff to fill it. That's why 1/4th of my room is used for storage and very large and ugly boxes clutter the corner.

Other than that, I fit into most nerd steriotypes. I love Star Wars, I love video games and I play Halo a lot. I also enjoy doritos and playing StarCraft for six hours straight in the middle of the night.

Pretty much the only steriotype I don't fit into is the fat and inactive one... that one just pisses me off because I have four other friends who are just like me and also aren't fat...one of them runs track and another plays basketball and football when he isn't playing America's Army.

Anyway, enough ranting. Gaming can be considered an art form and if you care about it enough to write comments about how it's hurting today's youth, making people fat or go the Jack Thompson route and try to ban any game that has a gun in it...you need to get a life. Seriousely, at least we have a hobby.

[iskoot]

Anyway, enough ranting. Gaming can be considered an art form and if you care about it enough to write comments about how it's hurting today's youth, making people fat or go the Jack Thompson route and try to ban any game that has a gun in it...you need to get a life. Seriousely, at least we have a hobby.
Amen to that...I seriously don't understand how video games get such a bad rap! What I really think is funny is that I grew up playing video games, my dad has been into games as well, but now is like 40 and hasn't played games since he was about 38-39ish, but because I still like to play games at 22, I'm immature and need to get a different more productive hobby :confused: I'm honestly confused on that one, lol.

[Skillet]

Video games have generally been considered a "children only" hobby. As in, people that lack the motor skills to do things like, build level 3 models... something that I enjoy quite a bit

For some reason, that view has stuck with games all this time and when a game like Hitman or gears of war comes out, it's viewed as corrupting those 8 year olds that don't have responsible parents. Sure, it's a bad thing but it's also given video games as a whole a bad rap.

People just need to realize that gamers aren't 8 years old anymore and the games need to evolve with the gamers. Until they do, games won't be a hobby, they'll be a drug.

[J eVeRy DaY 514]

that has to be one of the stupidest articles I've ever read.