Dear Companies, We are not Smokey McPot

etiolate

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

For example this gamefly ad:
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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".
 
Whoa...that dude is totally Xtreme. :p

They have to, the EA crowd demands it.
 
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.
 
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 said:
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...
 
etiolate said:
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.
 
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.
 
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?
 
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 :P

And, yeah, I DO get excited when I receive something in the mail I genuinely want, rather than just junk mail and bills.
 
Looks like he has lockjaw or just got a botox injection.

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