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I am a gamer

Kacho

Kacho

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Moses85

Moses85

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what, or how should I say it. From 6-21 I was just a video gamer and I lived it. From 21-32 I was a passionate editor, went to trade fairs, received invitations from various publishers and developers and, as I thought, had arrived where I always wanted to be. met and interviewed industry veterans like hideo kojoma, david doak, suda 51, doug lombardi, phil spencer... but the tide had completely turned. NDAs, deadline pressure and psychological pressure exerted by publishers and developers destroyed my passion for video games. I never thought I would ever lose my devotion to video games, but that's what happened in 2020, I threw in the towel and no longer feel that devotion. There are still games or brands that I'm passionate about, but there's not much left of the passion I lived. The love for video games died with the job, i always wanted.
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simpatico

simpatico

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I’ve gamed my whole life and never fit the stereotype. I played basketball and football all through high school. Quality GF. I touched grass 7 days a week. But when I got home at night, I got on the games. Serious games too. Every Final Fantasy at launch (starting with VI). Skies of Arcadia, Grandia, Parasite Eve, Metal Gear fanatic etc. real nerd shit. What sucked though was the gamer ultra nerds at school wouldn’t talk to me about games! They thought I was trying to make fun of them maybe? I don’t know, but I just wanted other IRL humans to talk about Vagrant Story with. 🤷‍♂️ I did have one other buddy who gamed almost as hard as me. Remember playing SNES on launch night and thinking no technology would ever come close to what I was seeing in Ultra-Man and F-Zero. He quit gaming in high school though. Loser shit.
 
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TheInfamousKira

TheInfamousKira

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They told me I had to grow up. I became a Kokiri. They called me a fairy. I befriended a fairy. My best friend was a danger hair, AND she wanted to let me hit. I journeyed into the twisted oak and beat spiders until their hearts came out. Some save the environment. I used my own two hands and ruined a forest ecosystem and murdered trees.

Go out and get a girlfriend? Thanks to Nintendo, I got to sneak into my main bitch's house by stealing my side pieces' eggs. You guys learned about foreign cultures, I was taught enchanting regional tunes on a flute by a gypsy lesbian so that I could hype up hairy naked men of the mountain and become their savior by feeding them all.

Go out and get a girlfriend? Fucking reeee weeb gtfo I went noodling Hannah Baron style with Moby fucking Dick to get my whale wet on a merbitch with daddy issues.

Gain a lucrative career? Gary Coleman, sit your ass down and listen to some old folk music while I tell you about the back to the future song I learned from the magic purple flute I found in the estuary. Homes, grow up? I pulled a big ass sword out a stone like anime fucking King Arthur and got so swole random ass old white dude was handing me ice.

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TexMex

TexMex

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DaciaJC said:
I don't know whether to be disappointed or relieved that so many people didn't realize what the OP was referencing.
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This is fair and honestly, I’m ashamed of being immediately aware of what this was. Especially for a video with 100k views over 6 years.
 
FoxMcChief

FoxMcChief

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I’m a gamer when I’m on a break from work, and when the rest of my family is asleep.

Right now my wife is about to fall asleep on the couch as we are watching Married at First Sight. Then I will play Helldivers II for a few matches, then FFVII Rebirth.

So for me it’s:

Father > Husband > Employee > Gamer
 
Mr Reasonable

Mr Reasonable

Completely Unreasonable
TheMan said:
they told me I need to get a grip on reality. And to them to them a grip on a reality means the American dream, working nine to five crammed up in a tiny cubicle having two-point-five kids, a two story suburban house and a white picket fence. I divorce once, and I'd have debt into my early thirties because I took some bullshit university degree that's suppose to help me in the end.
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StueyDuck

StueyDuck

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I do not subscribe to be being a gamer. I just enjoy games (use to, ive been slowly falling out of that too).

I enjoy movies too but I dont lump myself in with film officianados or what ever film culture exists.

I just really don't stay awake till 5am drinking prime and shouting at people online, I don't have all the LEDs all over all my shit, I don't find "nerd" humor all that funny, and most of all I like to socialise in real life more than be online.

While me and many others feel about gaming the way we use to when younger, mates over at your house, schoolground chat, trading games, sharing mags etc, that's just not what being a gamer is today.
 
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Bernardougf

Bernardougf

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TheMan said:
I can honestly say that I've been asked a million times why I play games. And I normally just shrug and say "It's a hobby.", but that's a lie. Because when I'm in game, I'm at home. From the flames of cataclysm to the icy mountains of Tamriel, anywhere I venture, is a place I love and know. My entire life people preach that I could be anything that I wanted to be. But when I told them I wanted to be the captain of a ship, a spaceship, the spaceship that saves humanity. That I wanted to be Commander Shepard they told me I need to get a grip on reality. And to them to them a grip on a reality means the American dream, working nine to five crammed up in a tiny cubicle having two-point-five kids, a two story suburban house and a white picket fence. I divorce once, and I'd have debt into my early thirties because I took some bullshit university degree that's suppose to help me in the end.

This isn't reality, this is just a dull outlook on it. Now I understand it's human nature to achieve greatness, but I can do this as Commander Shepard, I don't need a degree. And if I want to go on an adventure I don't ever have to leave the comfort of my home. Yet, people spend an entire salary to travel and I can't help but laugh. I've single-handedly stopped a reign of ancient wyverns from destroying a nation, but before I could do that do I had to: • Learn their language • Become a master in Swordsmanship, Smithing, Archery, Defense, Magic, Speech, Hunting and Thieving! Not to mention I had to take down an entire fleet of assassins along with a brigade of smugglers before I could even start my lessons in Dragon's Speak.

I've always enjoyed an adventure, but I hated pawning my limbs to afford an eighteen-hour car ride. And aside from being told that I can enjoy a white-picket fence at the end of my career, all my years as a student was balance between Fractal Formulas and believing I never be able to love which is literal INSANITY. I've saved Princess Peach. I wanted to be the guy, and I became the guy. I saved Bandage Girl. And I've been Link for generations just to save Princess Zelda. But yet, I'm the eternal virgin, I'm the guy that's never going to love.

And sometimes this shit doesn't make sense to me, why people assume that I need to be out doing something and away from home to have fun when I have my own reality grasped between my hands. I have my own world at my fingertips, if I screw something up I can rewind time. I can't do that in real life, but when I'm in game I'm free to what I please, when I please, I'm free to enjoy things the way I want to. I can build my own Kingdom and lead my people to freedom because I'm the mind behind the game. I'm the one who enjoys these games.

I am a gamer. And I always will be.
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Im a gamer bro .. trough and trough.. but traveling is so fucking good. You should try it. And not in the smoking way.
 
ultrazilla

ultrazilla

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TheMan said:
I can honestly say that I've been asked a million times why I play games. And I normally just shrug and say "It's a hobby.", but that's a lie. Because when I'm in game, I'm at home. From the flames of cataclysm to the icy mountains of Tamriel, anywhere I venture, is a place I love and know. My entire life people preach that I could be anything that I wanted to be. But when I told them I wanted to be the captain of a ship, a spaceship, the spaceship that saves humanity. That I wanted to be Commander Shepard they told me I need to get a grip on reality. And to them to them a grip on a reality means the American dream, working nine to five crammed up in a tiny cubicle having two-point-five kids, a two story suburban house and a white picket fence. I divorce once, and I'd have debt into my early thirties because I took some bullshit university degree that's suppose to help me in the end.

This isn't reality, this is just a dull outlook on it. Now I understand it's human nature to achieve greatness, but I can do this as Commander Shepard, I don't need a degree. And if I want to go on an adventure I don't ever have to leave the comfort of my home. Yet, people spend an entire salary to travel and I can't help but laugh. I've single-handedly stopped a reign of ancient wyverns from destroying a nation, but before I could do that do I had to: • Learn their language • Become a master in Swordsmanship, Smithing, Archery, Defense, Magic, Speech, Hunting and Thieving! Not to mention I had to take down an entire fleet of assassins along with a brigade of smugglers before I could even start my lessons in Dragon's Speak.

I've always enjoyed an adventure, but I hated pawning my limbs to afford an eighteen-hour car ride. And aside from being told that I can enjoy a white-picket fence at the end of my career, all my years as a student was balance between Fractal Formulas and believing I never be able to love which is literal INSANITY. I've saved Princess Peach. I wanted to be the guy, and I became the guy. I saved Bandage Girl. And I've been Link for generations just to save Princess Zelda. But yet, I'm the eternal virgin, I'm the guy that's never going to love.

And sometimes this shit doesn't make sense to me, why people assume that I need to be out doing something and away from home to have fun when I have my own reality grasped between my hands. I have my own world at my fingertips, if I screw something up I can rewind time. I can't do that in real life, but when I'm in game I'm free to what I please, when I please, I'm free to enjoy things the way I want to. I can build my own Kingdom and lead my people to freedom because I'm the mind behind the game. I'm the one who enjoys these games.

I am a gamer. And I always will be.
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shoegaze

shoegaze

Member
TheMan said:
I can honestly say that I've been asked a million times why I play games. And I normally just shrug and say "It's a hobby.", but that's a lie. Because when I'm in game, I'm at home. From the flames of cataclysm to the icy mountains of Tamriel, anywhere I venture, is a place I love and know. My entire life people preach that I could be anything that I wanted to be. But when I told them I wanted to be the captain of a ship, a spaceship, the spaceship that saves humanity. That I wanted to be Commander Shepard they told me I need to get a grip on reality. And to them to them a grip on a reality means the American dream, working nine to five crammed up in a tiny cubicle having two-point-five kids, a two story suburban house and a white picket fence. I divorce once, and I'd have debt into my early thirties because I took some bullshit university degree that's suppose to help me in the end.

This isn't reality, this is just a dull outlook on it. Now I understand it's human nature to achieve greatness, but I can do this as Commander Shepard, I don't need a degree. And if I want to go on an adventure I don't ever have to leave the comfort of my home. Yet, people spend an entire salary to travel and I can't help but laugh. I've single-handedly stopped a reign of ancient wyverns from destroying a nation, but before I could do that do I had to: • Learn their language • Become a master in Swordsmanship, Smithing, Archery, Defense, Magic, Speech, Hunting and Thieving! Not to mention I had to take down an entire fleet of assassins along with a brigade of smugglers before I could even start my lessons in Dragon's Speak.

I've always enjoyed an adventure, but I hated pawning my limbs to afford an eighteen-hour car ride. And aside from being told that I can enjoy a white-picket fence at the end of my career, all my years as a student was balance between Fractal Formulas and believing I never be able to love which is literal INSANITY. I've saved Princess Peach. I wanted to be the guy, and I became the guy. I saved Bandage Girl. And I've been Link for generations just to save Princess Zelda. But yet, I'm the eternal virgin, I'm the guy that's never going to love.

And sometimes this shit doesn't make sense to me, why people assume that I need to be out doing something and away from home to have fun when I have my own reality grasped between my hands. I have my own world at my fingertips, if I screw something up I can rewind time. I can't do that in real life, but when I'm in game I'm free to what I please, when I please, I'm free to enjoy things the way I want to. I can build my own Kingdom and lead my people to freedom because I'm the mind behind the game. I'm the one who enjoys these games.

I am a gamer. And I always will be.
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It's ok to live a life on your own terms - you're here for a limited time, so do everything in your power to have life's flashback that you're comfortable with - during the last few breaths that you'll take.

It's also understandable to be intimidated by the worlds challenges. The stakes are high, and the competition is ruthless - it's almost impossible to become somebody of significance in a world stage. And it's a lifelong endeavour to become respected in your own circle of influence.

Just play your games man. It's ok.
 
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