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<blockquote data-quote="Angcuru" data-source="post: 788091" data-attributes="member: 10948"><p>In all honesty, I don't parade around the fact that I'm a gamer, nor do I hide it. If they ask I answer, if they don't, I don't bring it up unless it would add to the conversation. I honestly think that being a gamer gives you an edge over the average joe. Gaming is intellectually, emotionally, and socially stimulating, and much better than butting heads and tossing a ball back and forth...just for the hell of it. </p><p></p><p>I'd also like for people to drop the stereotype that all gamers are short, pimply, snivveling, cowardly momma's-boys. I have only met a single gamer like that in my life, and that was just seeing him in a hobby-shop at the same time I was there. It is this sort of image that causes non-gamers to try to shrink away from and criticize anyone who games. </p><p></p><p>Just look at it this way. Actors are not criticised, they are applauded. Authors are not criticised, they are praised. So when you have a combination of the two, I.E. gaming, you get something better, well worth praise.</p><p></p><p>And besides all that, if anyone tried to pick a fight with me, thinking that because I game, I am a snivelling weakling, they have another thing coming. I haul heavy buckets and beat things with a hammer for a living(part-time), and I know more than a dozen ways with which to kill a man bare-handed. <strong>BRING IT!</strong></p><p></p><p>Let me give a final word. I know a guy who is in the top ten of the President's One Hundred, (which is a list of the top 100 Snipers in the United States Armed Forces, for who don't know). This guy has gone through everything from Vietnam to Desert Storm, has seven purple hearts, and is the most critical hard-ass whom you will ever meet in your life(nice guy, by the way). If you have a fault, he will drill it into your skull with endless rhetoric to make you never forget it, etc. And guess what? He actually PRAISED me for being a gamer. Said that he even knew a few of the other guys on the list who gamed. </p><p></p><p>Something to be ashamed of? <strong>I THINK NOT!</strong></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Angcuru, post: 788091, member: 10948"] In all honesty, I don't parade around the fact that I'm a gamer, nor do I hide it. If they ask I answer, if they don't, I don't bring it up unless it would add to the conversation. I honestly think that being a gamer gives you an edge over the average joe. Gaming is intellectually, emotionally, and socially stimulating, and much better than butting heads and tossing a ball back and forth...just for the hell of it. I'd also like for people to drop the stereotype that all gamers are short, pimply, snivveling, cowardly momma's-boys. I have only met a single gamer like that in my life, and that was just seeing him in a hobby-shop at the same time I was there. It is this sort of image that causes non-gamers to try to shrink away from and criticize anyone who games. Just look at it this way. Actors are not criticised, they are applauded. Authors are not criticised, they are praised. So when you have a combination of the two, I.E. gaming, you get something better, well worth praise. And besides all that, if anyone tried to pick a fight with me, thinking that because I game, I am a snivelling weakling, they have another thing coming. I haul heavy buckets and beat things with a hammer for a living(part-time), and I know more than a dozen ways with which to kill a man bare-handed. [b]BRING IT![/b] Let me give a final word. I know a guy who is in the top ten of the President's One Hundred, (which is a list of the top 100 Snipers in the United States Armed Forces, for who don't know). This guy has gone through everything from Vietnam to Desert Storm, has seven purple hearts, and is the most critical hard-ass whom you will ever meet in your life(nice guy, by the way). If you have a fault, he will drill it into your skull with endless rhetoric to make you never forget it, etc. And guess what? He actually PRAISED me for being a gamer. Said that he even knew a few of the other guys on the list who gamed. Something to be ashamed of? [b]I THINK NOT![/b] [/QUOTE]
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