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[etiolate]

I am a bit sick of game companies portraying gamers as grimacing 'dudes' doing 'extreme' things.

For example this gamefly ad:

What exactly is going on here? A man opens his mailbox with some pained expression on his face. Why? Is that happiness? Was he ramroded from behind by a wayward walrus? Seriously America, our vocabulary consists of more than "woah" and "dude".

 

[Grizzlyjin]

Whoa...that dude is totally Xtreme.

They have to, the EA crowd demands it.

 

[Joe]

who's buying the most games? men 18-34

what kind of music do most of those buyers? nu-metal, rock, "punk" rock, etc...

and you can just take it from there. they're going for a certain gaming audience, not every single gamer.

 

[fennec fox]

They don't show the lower half of the man's body; he's naked and his genitals are getting bitten off by a pit bull.

 

[Saint Cornelius]

I don't see what "smokey mcpot" has to do with anything

 

[GDJustin]

I don't see what "smokey mcpot" has to do with anything

Yeah no kidding. Why did you have to bring him into this? He's a friend of mine...

 

[Sysgen]

They don't show the lower half of the man's body; he's naked and his genitals are getting bitten off by a pit bull.

http://www.nbc17.com/news/3696491/detail.html

Someone had to do it.

 

[Senretsu]

Would you rather they portray us as we really are? i.e. scrawny, pale geeks.

 

[xsarien]

Would you rather they portray us as we really are? i.e. scrawny, pale geeks.

I'm not pale, thankyouverymuch.

 

[TekunoRobby]

NONE OF YOU KNOW OF JASON HALL?

http://pc.gamespy.com/pc/the-matrix-online/540817p1.html?fromint=1

Also, his girlfriend:

http://hypothermia.gamershardware.com/lisa/Lisa_Dixon.htm

Scrawny pale geeks? HAH

 

[enjoy bell woods]

http://www.somethingawful.com/jeffk//computarfunnys/comic-5.htm

 

[wipeout364]

Hey who the hell put that camera in my mailbox?

 

[Deg]

Whoa...that dude is totally Xtreme.

They have to, the EA crowd demands it.

Wrong. EA crowd demands everything to be licensed.

 

[etiolate]

Would you rather they portray us as we really are? i.e. scrawny, pale geeks.

Yes, I suppose. Though I see all sorts of different type of people who play videogames.

 

[Senretsu]

NONE OF YOU KNOW OF JASON HALL?

http://pc.gamespy.com/pc/the-matrix-online/540817p1.html?fromint=1

Also, his girlfriend:

http://hypothermia.gamershardware.com/lisa/Lisa_Dixon.htm

Scrawny pale geeks? HAH

thats awesome!

 

[kaching]

I am a bit sick of game companies portraying gamers as grimacing 'dudes' doing 'extreme' things.

It's a smile. The fact that you can't read a facial expression and consider the act of opening one's mailbox to be "extreme" says more about yourself than the rest of America.

 

[Joe]

id say its more than a smile. i mean they fit a lot into that small picture. hes got an earring in each ear, the spiked hair, the orange shirt, and the "dude, gamefly rocks!" smile.

 

[etiolate]

It's a smile. The fact that you can't read a facial expression and consider the act of opening one's mailbox to be "extreme" says more about yourself than the rest of America.

Do you look like that when you smile or open your mailbox?

 

[kaching]

Are you suggesting they put a camera in the back of my mailbox to capture my candid response, a la Reality TV? You're right, that *would* be more in keeping with contemporary American tastes

And, yeah, I DO get excited when I receive something in the mail I genuinely want, rather than just junk mail and bills.

 

[Grey Fox]

Looks like he has lockjaw or just got a botox injection.

Either that or a very large stick is being jammed up his ass.

 

[TekunoRobby]

I don't know about you guys but if I see a camera inside my mailbox I'd have a look of horror and confusion not constapation and horror.

 

[ohamsie]

That dude looks like Brock from Pokemon.

 

[LakeEarth]

That dude looks like Brock from Pokemon.

Holy crap he does!

 

[Funky Papa]

What the crap. I swear I remember Hall looking a little chubby some time ago (OK, maybe a few years) There is some hard work here.

 

[Duckhuntdog]

Lisa's got a buttah face...