A Look Back at Social Qualifications of Gamers

I don't know bout y'all, but my fuzzy Grey balls remember back in the day when gamers were deemed nerds. Put into a class which was shunned by the popular kids. Usually cause they smelled and didn't attempt proper hygiene in any sense of fashion. Yet when you look at things these days, it is not the case. Even the cool kid is rocking a game in one sense or another.

I grew up in the 80's. An era of complete awesomeness. Don't lie, you all miss it. It was the era where video games really took off. Nintendo hit the stands, and either the nerds or the spoiled kids had them. Fast forward to the SNES. I remember my buddy had the cartridge that would allow him to play snes online... with all 5 other people. Wait, I'm totally getting off topic with nostalgia.

Back to the topic at hand. Now a days it is perfectly acceptable to sit in front of a TV with a controller in hand. Its cool to chat at the lunch table in front of girls about getting 12 head shots in a row. I guess I should enlighten you all as to why I felt I should write about this topic. Well now that I graduated from college, I don't live 5 mins away from my friends on foot. I live 15 mins away if I'm lucky. And as I do not like driving myself to the bars, I usually go out with my older brother. A person who has a lot of friends that I know none of. Now the last 4 times I have gone out with him, Every time I have spent at least 3 hours talking about gaming. The kicker, only one person has been annoyed about this, my older brother.

Now fast forward to 1990 ish times. This wouldn't be the case. It would be that only you and your friends could connect on this level. Now with the advent of XBOX live, you can play with people with people across the globe. I guess the purpose of why I am writing, is because I can at least say I am grateful that gaming is where it is. Now I don't have to raise an awkward kid who reeks of anti social behaviors. So remember, if you are at a party and dont think you have anything to talk about with others. Shut the fuck up and talk about nerdary.

Love and Kisses
CH

It's Not Violent Video Games We Should Be Keeping From Children, It's Headsets

First Off before I start I will state that my stance on using demeaning slurs in my book is not OK.

With that being said you probably have a good idea about what I am planning on writing about from the title. Every gamer knows about this epidemic that has been a problem for years. Its the young kids on headsets that use every vulgarity known to man. I will give you an example to refresh you minds. During the first week I had Halo 3 I was playing online a lot. Things were going great for a while. The other players were usually civil, if there was trash talk it never escalated past the word fuck. Then it happened. The pre-teen crowd hit the game. There was this kid with the name Daniel in his gamer tag who in the beginning went down the list and called every player in the room a derogatory term. usually stringing them together in nonsensical terms. To which I do my normal reply. I'm sorry that your testicles haven't dropped sweetheart, but because you know other terms for homosexuals, does not make you A. good at a game, or B. any cooler then your mom thinks you are. Well he wasn't too happy about this. Especially since me and my pink armor and unicorn emblem handed his ass to him.

The point I am getting at is parents think that violent games corrupt children, when I believe its handing them headsets for these video games. I have never heard such racist people as these 10 year olds. What does it make them feel empowered. Are they suppressing inhibitions that they wish to explore themselves? I believe that much like with violent video games being bought by ignorant parents, if they knew what their children were saying online to others, they would take away that headset away ASAP. Probably slap the child in the mouth.

Now on the nerd side of things, These kids are always horrible at the game. They have some skill but they never follow through, and get even more enraged post match. These are also the kids who call HAXXOR after a match because they do not have the hand eye coordination to find there penis to get the manly release, let alone play a video game. I remember watching a video on you tube during a rainbow six match where this child was demanding chocolate milk and calling his mother a bitch. Listen sparky, I'm damn sure it is not you whose paying that internet bill.

But speaking about parents, where the hell do these children find these terms. You all know that these aren't the normal cuss words that you drop in middle school let alone elementary school. When I have kids you better believe they playing their VG games in the living room where I can hear em. So please if you have children, make sure they are 16 before letting em chat online with audio, and even then they are probably still to stupid to talk.

Love
CH

Scammers

It is late atm, so spelling errors will probably be here till tomorrow. I'm pissed of because yet again (only twice this has happened.) I fell pray to a scam that is worse the the poor Nigerian king. This is the crap computer programs that claim to speed your comp up. I fell prey to Uniblue. The reason I fell prey to this as I normally don't buy one of these programs without researching em is because these lying shit bags state on their site that they gamed high scores from CNET and other reputable sites. Upon later research i found that these are not the real scores, and in fact most of the users said all the programs were crap. The Uniblue page also states that it is Microsoft certified and I bet you that it isn't. Any who I will make this post short as I am tired, and have work early on in the morning. The point of this mini rant is that these shit bags who scam people like this should be drowned in their own fecal matter. this is pure shit. At least with the e-mail scams, you have to have been through a lobotomy to fall from them. These new ones look legit, and are programmed to make it look like its scanning your comp for problems. Remember check out any and all programs before you pay for em. even mIRC.

love,
CH

An Intellegent Look at Fanboys

So as I sit here drinking 7up and Jim Beam, I keep thinking about a discussion I was engaged in the other day on mIRC. The discussion was about the competency of fan boys. And as I was trying to think of a topic to tackle on my first blog entry here, I thought I might point out the stupidity of all fan boys. Yes thats right, I feel all fan boys are stupid. Well first I will break them down. You have silly people in forums arguing about there system as if it was the bloody crusades. They argue over their system as if it was the shield and crest of their own name. It is ok to like a system, but you clown shoes have petty arguments to prove That one system is the best at anything. Thats why there is free market. A chance to have competition. And as I am not going to go over every nit picky topic i will point out at least one pro and con for EVERY system.

PS3:
pro- Amazing graphics on this system. Why? Because unlike the 360, the PS3 is utilizing the hardware and software it has put into its system to a high potential. I am no engineer, but if the PS3 can push its system even further in fluidity I will be astounded. If you see Heavenly sword you will see what I am saying. The rub here is it looks astonishing on a standard def. I know they "claim" that the 360 isn't even using its full potential, but why bother holding out on the consumer.

con- The price. Why is it so expensive you ask? It has a built in Blu-Ray player. And the funny thing is, the majority of people who own a PS3 don't even know they have a Blu-Ray player, and yet are still counted as Blu-Ray player sales. Microsoft did me a huge favor by separating the HD player. I don't care for a player that has very little number of titles, and I don't want to pay it. Also do the consumer a favor and release games.

XBOX 360

Pro- They hit the ground running with the release and haven't stopped running. With he most titles out of all the systems so far it's doing a good job. Also the Xbox Live is great, and not just for games and demos. TV shows can be bought and downloaded as well as movies, (in HD mind you.) Plus in my eyes the main menu for the system is the most cheery. (sorry wii, your too blue.)

Con- Too many glitchy games. Half the games you buy have massive glitches in them. two worlds, overlord, the darkness just to name a few. I'm sorry I realize your trying to top the market in your system, but do the consumer a favor and test them some more, cause a lot of these glitches are very apparent and you guys are crap on releasing patches on time.

Wii
Pro- Its teaching many lazy fat nerds to get off their ass and exercise.

Con- When are you going to come out with a new stock character. I mean honestly, Mario is fun and all, but we been staring at that goofy mustache for what, almost 20 years now. Give the masses some variety. And I know that there are other games by Nintendo, I mean games that people rave about. Why can;t you make a bad ass zombie game that is wii specific. That would be tight. Also I do kinda agree with some on the effect on children who will play manhunt 2 on this system, as there are stupid parents who don't look at the games ratings or look to see what they are buying for there children. (Jack Thompson PWNED!)


I realize my wii con is a little weak, but for me the monotony of a system is a huge downer for me. Though Metroid is still fun. But I digress. My point is, is that there are things wrong with every system, and there are things that are right. But its better having multiple systems on the market as opposed to one insanely jacked up system with a huge price tacked on. But for the most part, fan boys enjoy your games and systems, but stop telling others they are wrong in their choices. These are what intelligent arguments look like. There are valid points constructed here, not "This game sucks even though, I Haven't played it, but it is not on my console which obviously means I am right and you are wrong."


LOVE,
Crazyhaze