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Iam a gammer from the harsh uruguayan jungle (we dont even have a jungle down here, too cold, go and do some wikipedia of Uruguay). I used to do a podcast in spanish about videogames at Radio LevelUp but I dont do it anymore... anyway those guys are there still making it so you can give it a try if you understand spanish
And i can say "�aca �aca �aca" and i know how to pronoaunce it well since im a spanish speaker, so Im a superior race.
A couple of idiots may find funny that I dont have good english grammar, but again, they are probably idiots since they only speak/write one language...

Most of my time in the internet is because of games. I love videogames so much that i sleep with my girlfriend and my ds, at the same time... i call that a "threesome" and my humor doesnt get anything better than that.
Mostly im a PC gamer, i was going to buy a 360 but faulty crappy hardware told me not to since if it goes RRoD here I would have lost my money, and as a man Im entitled to the sweat of my brow. I want to fuck the Wii and I believe the PS3 is going to be the first console in space.

In the "real" life (come on, internet now is part of our lives anyway...), I study medicine (takes a lot of time and I cant spend enough of my time playing videogames). Is not what you would call a marriage made in heaven, if I wanted to game more I should have sutdy something related to pc�s, but I grown surrounded by computers and stuff so I chose the bio stuff instead. Anyway, little time to play video games if you dont want my biographical shit.

And the main reasson I play games for the story behind them. I love well written stories like Half Life series, of course Portal (kind of a Valve fan). Other great games include World Of Warcraft (not currently playing, actually I was never hardcore, but I enjoyed the experience a lot), and of course the classics like System Shock 2. Other great titles had stuck with me over the years, classics adventure games like Monkey Island, Indiana Jones and Grim Fandango.

So, best game experiences:
Half Life 2 (and the original Half Life of course).
System Shock 2
Grim Fandango
Indiana Jones and the Fate Of Atlantis
Monkey Island

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Finally, gamers are not so "nerd"

2:14 PM on 06.12.2008

I never had a problem with the word nerd, when they called me that at school it mean that I was actually more intelligent than they...
So lets jump striaght into a reuters article:

[i]"SYDNEY (Reuters) - Playing video games for hours on end may be bad for your health, but, according to an Australian study, it doesn't mean you are a lonely nerd and won't damage your social skills.
The study, by Australian psychology graduate Daniel Loton, found that 15 percent of 621 adult respondents to an online survey were identified as "problem gamers" who spend more than 50 hours a week playing games.

But only one percent of those gamers appeared to have poor social skills, specifically shyness, Loton said, contradicting the stereotype that video game fans tend to be lonely, geeky, and addicted to gaming because they are unable to socialize.

"Our findings strongly suggest that gaming doesn't cause social problems, and social problems are not driving people to gaming," Loton, from Victoria University, told Reuters.
"What is important to note is that even problem gamers did not exhibit significant signs of poor social skills or low self-esteem.""[/i]

[url=http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSGOR24088220080612]
Full Article.[/url]

It also talks about the clinical addiction, some people see the "addiction to videogames" as a whole, the fact is that those kind of people are into videogames but they could be doing heroin or cocaine as far as we know... hell, maybe we are throwing everyone in the same bag, internet addiction, blogging addiction, forum spam addiction and calling everything "videogame addiction".
Back to serious: an addiction is usually the sympton, thats what I see in my medical trainning, there are underlying causes for an addiction, any addiction, and the causes can be a lot at the same time. But videogames are still the new kid in the block, we all know they are a nice target for politicians and close minded idiots we call scientists.

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Yooree

Gamers = nerd
People who play games = normal humans

This will never change. Ever. No matter how many studies are done. I challenge the notion that gamers are not so 'nerd'.

Atlandis

If this was an article for elders i was about to give a much better answer... So if we are nerds for them...Normally because everything has to do with sexuallity. All for power and s..x. Is because they are t...s :) Thats the reall reason why they call us like that. But ok, after all its not an insult its an honour to be recognised for what you really are isnt it :). A small example in some countrys that video gaming is not such a big deal or they dont even know about it..just the basics. Gamers in this countrys are doomed more like g...s hahaha (i hope you got the point) And its not about racism or something equal. We love what we do and they love what they do as well.. I tried to be gentle and enigmatic on my message because many kids read this posts :)

blehman

@Yooree

Come to a NARP.

bbrigg1

what the hell did you just say?

Atlandis

@bbrigg1 me?

bbrigg1

yes

Atlandis

Instead of making research about if gamers are nerds or not, I should suggest them, to make the opposite research.

Example, why everybody who has nothing to do with video games or gamers... Or people who know gamers from their environment like family, friends or school, they always react like that against them.
Why they always try to make them feel bad especially if they are in a small age.

Try to imagine now the answers they may give you back...

Then you may get the point.

xdaytime

@ Yorree

Anyone on this site plays games too much. Quit trying to act like an e-badass

Rockvillian

@xdaytime

That's extremely not true. Most of us just talk about them too much.

DaedHead8

When people tell me I'm a nerd I tell them that I'm not smart enough to be a nerd and that they should hence forth refer to me as a geek.

siva

I am enjoying myself by playing games.I never quit.
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siva

<a href="http://www.addictionlink.org" rel="dofollow"> Addiction Treatment</a>

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