Comments on: Editorial: Joe Q. Public Crits Gamers

By: SiliconNooB

SiliconNooB — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 07:33:07 +0000

I think to be a gamer one has to refer to themselves as being a gamer, else they’re just dabbling.

By: Lusipurr

Lusipurr — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 23:00:40 +0000

Lane raises a question that is one of the recurring debates here, and that is what it ‘is’ to be a gamer.

I think we probably all agree that occasionally playing Wii Sports Resort is not being a ‘gamer’, but I don’t think a ‘gamer’ has to be familiar with the vast history of gaming, either.

Of course, then this brings up casual gamers and hardcore gamers and so on.

At any rate, once we have some sort of gamer definition, the immediate result of this is to use it as a vehicle for exhortation, so maybe it is best to not have one after all.

By: SiliconNooB

SiliconNooB — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 03:15:05 +0000

It’s their own fault for making insipid standadized crap. Why waste your money on music or a movie when it’s essentially the same product they’ve been releasing for the last five years.

By: Lusipurr

Lusipurr — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 20:50:17 +0000

@SN I seriously cheer every time the RIAA or the MPAA suffer a setback, however minor. And sometimes, at my most conspiratorial, I suspect that videogame-based-movies are deliberately bad, in an effort to put people off games.

By: SiliconNooB

SiliconNooB — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 18:07:39 +0000

Lol the mainstream music industry is dying a dog’s death, and games are taking a chunk out of the film industry also. I’m well happy about both.

By: Ginia

Ginia — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 17:48:27 +0000

People do have a remarkable knack for being able to feel better about themselves by tearing other people down.

Or I could be cynical and say that other forms of competing media simply want to shame us into putting down the game controller and picking up a tv remote, magazine, etc.

By: SiliconNooB

SiliconNooB — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 16:38:47 +0000

I have an original Ngage ROFL, and a grand total of one game, which I played for half an hour this one time …

By: Lusipurr

Lusipurr — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 16:21:59 +0000

I know of one fat, 30s, depressed gamer in the Seattle-Tacoma area–indeed, the only person I know from that region. So, I declare the survey ACCURATE. I’m surprised there’s not a giant picture of a dragon somewhere. Maybe it’s just outside the picture’s angle of view.

Also, re. the picture of the systems, where is the guy’s NGage? I mean, come on, no collection is complete without an NGage!

And what, no Atari Lynx? Atari 5200? Atari 7800? Pong Console? TurboGrafx 16?

I also note many of his systems are later releases. This is clearly just a collector who got into games later on after trying to compensate for his midlife I’m-a-furry crisis. Where’s his original NES and his original PS1? I still have mine. This fat, rich bastard has no excuse. Especially when he probably doesn’t have to buy his games at all.