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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Beowolf" data-source="post: 1732933" data-attributes="member: 18770">alot has been said here and a lot(most?) of it has been off topic. many very good and insightful ideas have been discussed.in regards to the causes of the social problems in our cultures, we should first look at the fact that our common society ( what it considers "normal" people involved in "normal" hobbies/activities) is entirly foucused on appearance and money whereas gamers focus on creativity and inteligence. because the common society is now the majority other scocial groups are automatically seen as inferior or lame. Most of us (gamers) have this preconception because it is shown to us everyday in all forms of media. so when we see a gamer who has social problems we assume the worst of the individual because of the hobby he is involved with even though we normaly accept people in the hobby because we are in it aswell. take said individual and place him in a common scocial group he would be seen as weird or unusual but accecpitbal because he is enthusiastic about sports or fashion.if we looked deeply in all of the common social groups we would find individals with the same problems as similar individuals in gaming but find also that the common scocial groups accept them but mabye see them as eccentric while if he was involved in gaming he would be seen as a freak even by fellow gamers.i have seen this frist hand. on my football team there are the typical jocks and skater punks but also some who would fall under the socialy mal-ajusted colum but because they are on the team and in the circle they are accepted for the most part(beyond additional ribbing or gossip slander)i could be considered one of the weirdos on the team because i don't socialise with many of them but outside of that most people would consider me normal aside from my gaming habit.looking at our over acceptance of these mal-ajustants in regards to what is stated in the GCF. although it maybe true at least we have a social group that can accept anybody regardless of race or culture and/or socual problems. think about it how many people in gaming society would not be accepted anywhere in the common scocial groups but are seen as normal to fellow gamersi know my ideas my have drifted a lot and i did not cover much but i will probably refine them and add more later. its late and i have three more days of hell week to get through!</blockquote>

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