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My first video game I ever played was SNAFU on the Intellivision at the age of 3. But I never really BECAME a gamer until I played Super Mario Bros for the NES at the age of 4. Ever since that moment I knew that this would be my fate. Eventually, I felt a necessity to discover who we were as a culture and medium.
Through out my whole life I've been a gamer, I'm 23 now.
I feel that it is necessary to really start to expand and install certain philosophies/standards from the whole gaming industry.
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Through out my whole life I've been a gamer, I'm 23 now.
I feel that it is necessary to really start to expand and install certain philosophies/standards from the whole gaming industry.
This is what I'm about-
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There are several things happening in my life simultaneously but for one reason or another, I have not been showing my presence on the site for quite some time. I’m trying to set up a video environment I am satisfied with- which is hard to do when I am in the process of moving back to Montreal, QC.
Currently, I’m also in the process of writing the blog “2010 Sucked: Kinect” in which I hope to explain how Kinect is the biggest embarrassment the decade could have possibly closed with. This topic however, is something that needs to be mentioned. While I can credit people with the ability to think about our relevant subject matter in the gaming space, it becomes painfully obvious, when see the voice of reason get shot down, so quick, that we’ve got a LONG way to go as gamers. Don’t let the ‘gamer’ title distract you though, when I speak of ‘gamers’, I mean to topically section out the general majority of our community. The truth is that we’ve tainted the concept of gamers because we’re losing the concept of being human. With that, we’ve been blinded with toys and a game, enough to be ignorant to what is actually important. They say “In the land of the blind, the one eyed man is king” that couldn’t be any more relevant in these times. When it comes to any sect of people out there, it is without a doubt, that we are the most ignorant of what is going on in the abstract. That’s why I am so enraged when most gamers start narrowing the range and simplifying the mold of who we are to be. We’ve been cursed by birth, dumb down by design, rationized effectively- most prominent in our interest group. Gamers are not alien to mainstream core believes. We all function by the same eternal interest and value of seeing our love ones succeed but our lifestyles are eclipsing the very foundation that holds our whole human existence together. The truth is, we are not in a position to play video games anymore when elitist have played them with all of us, while we were sleeping. This is what leads me to believe that we are the prime people to make a difference; playing this game better than them. Like I said before though, it would seem that no matter how many people try to bring up other real world issues, we would much rather keep that nonsense to people outside of gaming space, because it doesn’t encompass the light-hearted cute fun fluffy cotton candy coated world games have conditioned us to or has allowed us to escape our personal dilemmas. Don’t you see it? The drug correlation, don’t you see the concern? We are not kids anymore, some gamers are realizing that, but most are stuck blinded with console wars, game review score debates, online gaming, manga, anime, sequels, internet memes, 90s nostalgia, phony gamer score stature, franchise gossip, graphics, cinema, fantasy, game release date, cartoon characters, J-pop, violence and the debate over it. Can’t you see my concern? Do any of these topics of gaming enlighten us in the abstract once expanded on? No they don’t, and in consequence distract us from the real issues in life! It has come to the point that the damage behind the surface has been so uncontrollable that most media and medium outlets have had no choice but to center around it. We are still in the dark. So there are a minority sect of gamers that preach the voice of reason in our narrowed environment and what happens? They are cast aside because they don’t fit the molded view of what we consider to be relevant, but I will argue any day of the week that it’s not the ‘speaker’ of the information irrelevant to gaming that is the issue, it’s the ‘gaming culture’ irrelevant to the issue that is the problem. So what triggered this rant? Just a few days after giving some praise to the Destructoid (I was once disgusted over), I was casually reading past community blogs on the website, when I stumbled across a blog that gave me the impression of a gamer that has actually caught a glimpse of the truth, (not too topical mind you) and has decided to express his concern with the rest of the community, (whitewashed constitution, economic collapses, 9/11 truth) but then the popular cast of commenter then proceeded to moan and rage about something they clearly have not clued on to; All the mockery in the name of unpopular rhetoric in the so called ‘gaming’ medium. This was disgusting affirmation for me that the gaming population has a long way to go. I posted a similar post to his a while back and it was met with the same type of response. I doubt he’s going to come back to this community, and I can only imagine how many gamers have been discouraged to come back here after similar events. What bothers me the most about it, as a whole are the people using gaming as a platform to combat revolutionary speech when they have little concept themselves of what the fabric of gaming is in the first place. In addition, let me just say that around the same time somebody made a very small post about his favorite comic book character’s inclusion in a video game and last time I checked, it got over 23 approvals. Don’t you see the problem? This is the gaming equivalent to society’s focus on Jersey Shore versus the Nation Debt Crisis. Everyone, right now that visits this blog, doesn’t know what QE2 is. I can also assume that people who try to prove their worldly knowledge by researching will only benefit themselves in consequence of trying to prove my assumption wrong. So go ahead. There are a lot of arguments made to denounce 9/11 because of its false sense of past irrelevance. So surely gamers could stand on their own two feet and tell me what QE2 is right? Blow my mind with all your cultural understanding, and tell me about all your strategies and investments you’ve made for the future without clinging on to dear life to your child’s importance, when this gamer apathy for anything ‘gaming irrelevant’ is doing its part to undermine our children’s whole future. This is a piece of mind’s eye the runs through my mind like a montage. I can barely stand to look at children without a sense of doom. If we only allow comforting messages into our mind, gamers will be amongst the first to go when this truth unfolds. I could have never believed the social consequences, the pain, and limited scope in playing (at one time innocent) video games. Look at our legacy, look at our lifestyle’s- we could have never have imagined. How crippled are we conditioning children with the gaming belief system? Why are we undermining our thirst for critical thinking, with entertainment? I'll finish with this.
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I HAVE DISCOVERED THE TRUTH!
Also, have you heard the theory that the US government uses currency and grammar to mind-control us? It's true! I saw a video about it!
Arise, ye gamers, from your mind-dreamery! Release your abstract idealism into new-found realities of parallel goals, and reduce your thoughts to the purity of the transcendent paradigm!
He has been spouting political conspiricy since at least my time on this site - over a year now - often at a moment's notice. He has one of the most childish, condescending, irrate tones of his post history among many of this community's mainstay. He flies off the handle whenever someone disagrees with him, and he routinely posts unintelligent sarcastic gibberish to Jim Sterling's articles.
He is also perfectly harmless. He practically begs to be taken as a joke.
This is your pariah.
At any rate, I like Red Shirt Guy in a Holden Caulfield kind of way.
As for this red shit guy, I can think of 20 gamers just off the top of my head that are similar to his mannerisms. Not really to that degree but exceptionally similar.
The way I take this Mattrodroid at first read is person that is in the process of being awaken. I think his mind is scattered and his attitude is a product of the truth he knows.
But seriously, what you say is true. We are sheltering our children (so says childless 20 year old) and trying to make our faux-reality is more important than friends and family, bills and work, healthy living and exercise. I wouldn't go as far as to blame it all on the kids though, something retarded must have happened during their retarded childhoods to make fantasy more appealing.
There's nothing wrong with daydreaming and being expectant of a book/movie/anime/manga/album/comic but there is something especially insane about how our generation seems to think only of that book/movie/etc. I do say that we need to have creativity, especially in a world saturated with stereotypes, but kids these days need to realize that calling out developers on retarded trivial canon is less important than saving up for college or getting a job.
Man, I didn't move out until September 2010 but at least I was paying for college out of pocket.
DAMN THIS RANT, why did you do this to me?!
I'm just trying to point out that gamers don't seem to go outside this box we made ourselves and it may be the death of us. The message is this: Question everything, and never stop learning/growing.
I play video games. I watch anime. I keep track of Canadian political news daily. I check out 4chan. I record podcasts. I have a B.A. in History. I make animated gifs. I use Twitter. I write complicated posts. I make sarcastic comments. I'm concerned about some aspects of game journalism. I laugh at some of Jim Sterling's posts. I read non-fiction historical books. Et cetera...
I didn't include "I believe that 9/11 is a big conspiracy", though. I may be weird, but that doesn't mean I'm crazy.
Also, please don't ban me from your blog...
Forgive me, but I'll have to reread this.
*scratches head*
What?
WHAT?
Meh, ignorance is bliss I suppose.
I guess you aren't dreaming enough. That, or you're a lizardman.
You do realise that gaming is a hobby? It's not a spiritual journey of the mind and soul. The people gathered here who write blogs and comments just want to talk about games and hook up for gaming sessions. People may write angry blogs or comments about review scores or which console is "better" but if you assume that these are the only things that run through the commenters minds then I fear you are very wrong.
You are utterly over thinking this as you do with all your subject matter.
You also seem to be attaching too much gravity to other peoples perspective of gamers.
Your entire ethos seems to be an absolute mish mash of theories that (if presented singularly) would be interesting and thought provoking. As it stands you seem to just throw a whole bunch of theories together and the result is a cluster fuck of tinfoil hat related fail that somehow seems to imply that as gamers we are a chosen society that can rise above the arrogance of our less educated brethren.
Naturally you will just shout down my criticism and imply that I think this way because i am in the dark with regards to the ultimate truths.
I genuinely look forward to reading your overly convoluted explanation about how a video game camera is somehow a bigger embarrassment for the closing of this decade than the fact that people still die in their hundreds every day because they don't have clean water to drink.
Although I suppose you have a grand theory to kinect the two (see what I did there?) that will clear up any confusion regarding the matter.
I'm just looking out for gamers before they sideswiped by something they never saw coming. The fact is this: It's still happening right now. That's why I'm bringing up QE2, this is an effect of 9/11, it's 2011 now. There's so much being destroyed and my whole argument is NOT to pay attention to TRUTHERS but the content of the argument!
Secondly, on the topic of relevance, money, life, truth, freedom and survival are ALL relative regardless interest. Now you might live in Cananda like I do, but it doesn't get rid of the important of encouraging everyone to be aware of the truth. I've been watching this, with others for years. Now is not the time for people to start laughing away 'blissfully' because the Economy is going to crash, the food safety bill has been passed, and now there are 2 wars.
Finally, I'm not BANNING you. I'm requesting that you don't show up if you're going to make mockery out of important information worth millions of lives.
At the risk of appearing to pick sides, you might be underthinking the depth of interest many people on this site share in video games. As is common in human pursuits, from art to literature, from warring to backpacking, a "journey of the mind and soul" is often an underlying motive of attraction - from person to person, of course. Some people choose to verbally express it, is all.
I don't doubt the level of interest gamers on this site have. I imagine it runs from casual gamer/reader to near addict with every shade between. What I doubt is that many people attach such a social/political importance tl gaming as chris bradshaw does.
Naturally I am not interested in drawing people to my "side" because I don't believe I have a side to begin with, it's just my opinion I share but as an example....do you think people who make and race model cars or go train spotting view their hobby with such a level of importance in a global arena? Do you believe that amateur tennis player feels it's their duty to educate people to hidden truths?
@chris bradshaw
That's utter piffle. How have you managed to come to such crushing disappointment over gamers "narrow perspective of economics" when most comments regarding anything financial on this site boil down to rage born from overpriced games and dlc. If you're disappointed because gamers want to have cash in their wallets after a purchase or have value for money then your brain is truly wired very differently from mine.
Are you seriously suggesting that this long, convoluted rant is about other peoples perspective if economics?
To my knowledge, building model cars and spotting trains isn't really a pasttime through which one can directly ponder the world. The same cannot be said about video games, since they usually (and sometimes infamously) entail a message, and often one with a moral. In other words, I don't think taking an interest in the global arena and taking an interest in video games are mutually exclusive.
Who I am targeting are people that have brought gaming to that level of importance where all these relevant secondary interest/effects (anime/memes/4chan ECT) come into play. Thus becoming a much bigger issue. For me personally, anyone that deems gaming important enough to be on the ball with gaming news, have an opinion on it and write a blog on it, obviously deems it pretty important. To a point where it has taken most of their interest, thus a lifestyle is created as consequence.
I write for this primarily.
Not for the dude who has PS2, XBox 360, Madden, NHL, GTA4, Black Ops, and some racing shit.
But for the gamer who can tell me what Lufia and Chrono Trigger are and what a top shooter means to him along with Mario All- Stars and Yoshi Island etc.
Hold on a sec. You say your gripe is with those who take more than a superficial interest in their interests?
So if I can recall the plot of MGS4 and understand the reason why disempowerment survival horrors are scary to play, I am probably ignorant of world news or other important knowledge?
That's an awfully huge generalization to make. Here's hoping when you talk about global events, like a boat, being important, you're speaking extremely metaphorically.
The trolls are the dudebros. Course its rather hard to point out the dudebros because people have a different classification of a troll.
People who write something negative on your posts are considered trolls on your eyes, no?
But those assumed 'trolls' may not be dudebro pieces of donkeyshit and they actually have a unique background on how they started gaming, like myself, than rather incoherent ramblings of 'ohlol I gots a 360 and da black ops, son!"
Chris, your blogs give me smiles because you're so.....abstract and unique. Like a snowflake pattern.
In addition, I would like to crush any believe about me understanding the general 'gamer' interest from this website. I've been here for a little bit but I've come in attacking (, remember). Everything I speak about, I lived with my own experiences. All these problem I view in gamers are indefensible because I'm friends with these people.
Perhaps you vilify dudebros because you simply don't understand that culture, (these people are not the movers and shakers of anything but they all for the most part have a very fulfilling, dynamic life.) It just doesn't seem like it at the stage we're in. Jocks are better off than gamers in the end, right? Can you debate me on that?
So who's really the issue, the person that will live it up, going out, socializing, laughing, working, having fun... etc or the counterpart who is stagnate and solo in front of a screen 4+ hours daily, limiting his social ability and experiences? When we take a look at the pay off, who wins in the abstract? The dudebros who was growing in real life, or the vidiot who can't grow, still stuck in front of the screen?
Oddly enough, by '06 I did indeed know that the economic crisis was coming fast. Similarly I had my eye focused on the news channels last quarter-year for the IMF bailout my country was preparing to undergo. In the end, my focus on such matters proved futile - I'm not an economist, nor am I in any position to do anything about it. No matter how much or little I worried, I would still endure the same economic consequences. Fretting myself over it was pointless and damaging so although the knowledge was retained, I abandoned concern.
You make it sound like living in ignorance is a sorry state of existence, yet you explicate importance on topics of your choice. To expect a shipwright to take interest in the rotational speed of Mars or other topics utterly alien to him, is an irresponsible measurement of worthy knowledge. Of course he who obsesses to the point of fanaticism risks losing track of reality, but on the other hand everybody has their own fantasy about what is important - Holden Caulfield especially. Who knows? Perhaps some fanboy on this site is a fantastic whistler.
I got a little lost when reading your blog. Must be the style or something, I'm not used to.
It was all revealed here (I don't expect you to watch/understand it). I'm just saying that gamers don't know at all:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZU0c8DAIU4
Secondly, Holden was principled morally, why do you think he was so disappointed with his surrounding? Because 'everyone was a phony'. They did not act genuinely disturbed by the injustices of the world.
"Anyway, I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids, and nobody's around - nobody big, I mean - except me. And I'm standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff - I mean if they're running and they don't look where they're going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That's all I do all day. I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it's crazy, but that's the only thing I'd really like to be." -Favourite part.
But get off the Catcher In The Rye and get on 1984.
Jomonoe: Sorry about the style, it's something my mind does automatically when I write.
I would argue firstly that women don't think the same way as men, especially with a child. A gamer neglecting a child, I believe, would be most prominent in a father because men's mindset enable them to do so. There HAVE been many circumstances where fathers have neglected their children for gaming, as of recently, one even killed his own child during a Black Ops session (pretty disgusting eh). But I'm not talking about that radical.
There are a lot of people so focused on the short term gratification that they forget the bigger picture. By design, I believe, gamers are like this.
You're speaking about economics, which is fine. I will not argue that I am personally a recluse who does not keep himself informed on current events. It's very much so in my personality and the way I was raised to keep to myself. It will indeed not kill me to hear about it once in a while. You're destined to fail, though. Your methods aren't productive.
If you're so focused on educating people on current events, why haven't you actually done that? Why haven't you written articles about economics instead of articles about how we don't know about economics? Why haven't you directed us to the proper avenues to educate ourselves if you're so concerned?
You've written an article where you are afraid that people spend too little time thinking about real world issues because they spend their time in fantasy. Great. Wonderful. In theory you may be right about some people. Maybe. So why are you spending all your time complaining instead of actually... giving people some kind of useful resource if you feel they need it?
You write about how you feel people need something and then completely fail to give it to them. If you thought you were doing that with your video clips, I'm sorry, but I will not be compelled by fearmongering youtube videos. There was not a single citation or source in the majority of your videos. The only video you provided that had actual information on current events was the fox business clip, and a single video clip with information from a single side of an argument with no documented sources is lopsided and ultimately maybe a bit pointless.
You've provided useless information while complaining about how we aren't informed. Do something productive or stop associating yourself with me.
The risk factor with recommendations have a lot to do with reading, time and researching. This, I know is not the strongest suit of typical gamers, so I provide these videos to push people into using the Google search field. Why do people need all this evidence handed to them? Do your own research and come up with your own conclusions. Then we can have a conversation at another level.
I'm giving people the answer in these videos and examining the general response via text, and so are so many people but not one gamer wants to learn anything. This is just a blog identifying that.
If you want to know about how this plot has been put into play, you need to have a general understanding of the importance of money and politics.
Start to understand this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0zEXdDO5JU
then this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZU0c8DAIU4
then this- I feel this video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2I0QN-FYkpw
Read- End the Fed, Crash Proof 2.0.
There you go, but the correlation to the gaming space is still important in this blog so I can't focus this aggressively on the source material. At the end of the day, I'm just trying to save the gamers I can out of this nonsense.
Your methods aren't logical, and I ask you to please not further associate yourself with me if you intend to continue acting in such a polarizing manner.
The 'vidiot' because, again, the 'ignorance is bliss' plays into effect. Sure, the jock grows out of our medium and begins to live his life. But the vidiot will have somthing permanent than the jock will only experience temporarily: 'happiness and the enjoyment of our profession to it's fullest.'
Your gamers needing to understand economics speech is interesting. I try to keep up with stock and the news every now and then. I know that times like these are difficult for people. But at the end of the day: as long as I have a roof over my head, a stocked fridge and all of my bills paid along with my games, I'm happpy.
And that's all what matters in the long run.
Secondly I would ask that you shake off that air of importance quick. Our association is irrelevant to the subject matter.
If you don't pick what the economic conditions mean, there won't be food in your fridge.
If you want to do something useful, bring us information. Write an article about how this QE2 thing is liable to materially affect the lives of gamers. Write an article about how a major economic or political change in the last several years has actually changed how we go about our lives (as gamers).
People you have the same blessings I have, you can all learn the same things I know. I didn't get tipped off either, I just asked questions.
That said: Trust me, you're going to perpetually fail like this. Drop this "Can't you see" stuff. I believe you are in fact missing the point. "The best I can do is point gamers in the right direction."
Did you consciously decide the best you could do was provoke people by riding in on a high horse going "I'm ashamed of you" and then tossing vague hints to go search for QE2 on google? If you're really trying to do your best at anything, I really fail to see how this particular method of yours is working.
I will restate, your methods aren't logical. Don't pussyfoot. If you really think this shit is relevant to your blog you could have actually tried to work it in your favor. You could have opened with a personal bit about your life. That is a simple and personable way to get people interested in what you have to say. You did something similar to that already, but it has no real connection to the rest of your article. Thanks to that your entire opening paragraph was basically reduced to fluff.
You then could have transitioned into how you feel gaming is a fantasy realm that many people can get caught up in, and because of that they miss many bits of valuable information about the world. If you wanted to make it more personal you could have related it to yourself. Maybe you have played games yourself too much, before you decided to educate yourself. That would have likewise strengthened the articles' tie to gaming. This would also have been your segway into discussing an actual current event.
At that point you could have used QE2 as an example of important information that people are missing out on. You could have shown off your knowledge in a neutral way without this "I'm embarrassed" garbage. You could have simply presented the facts and hoped that they in themselves were compelling enough to make people wonder what else they had been missing in life. At the end of the article you could have simply asked the neutral question "Did you know about this? If so I'm proud of you. If not I'd like you to ask yourself if your life would have been better off if you spent time learning this than getting another achievement, and if maybe you could downscale your gaming in favor of other things."
The structure of such an article would have a sufficient tie to gaming, and trust me, it would have worked better than what you came up with. It would have had an actual message whereas your attempt to poke and prod people fails to really convey anything.
I will say this to you with absolute honesty: If you were seriously trying to reach out to anybody with this article, you did it poorly. Spend less time complaining and more time getting to the point. Stop and think before you decide to go on a mini-rant about "console wars, game review score debates, online gaming, manga, anime, sequels, internet memes, 90s nostalgia, phony gamer score stature, franchise gossip, graphics, cinema, fantasy, game release date, cartoon characters, J-pop, violence and the debate over it."
You are perpetually sidetracked with your whining about gamers. Please don't tell me I'm missing the point. You're missing the point of even writing in the first place.
Personally I was more of a fan of this bit:
"You can't ever find a place that's nice and peaceful, because there isn't any. You may think there is, but once you get there, when you're not looking, somebody'll sneak up and write 'Fuck you' right under your nose."
You're right that Holden Caulfield despised the 'phonies' but recall that it was sincerety of character that he most admired, from the girl walking the curb to his old roommate's slobbish but honest demeanour. That's what I find endearing in Red Shirt Guy - his blatant honesty of character, absurd and ridiculed though he may be for it. This sincerety accumulates to his charm so long as it's harmless; in the case of that Farmville woman, or any overly-obsessive fanatic of anything, the fantasy snaps and the whole existential house of cards comes tumbling down. Nobody would defend obsessive behaviour of that calibre.
I've never had much of a taste for betting, stock markets or conspiracy, myself. Although 1984 is an interesting book, I have little interest in doomsayers such as those who preach conspiracy. Were I to feign enthusiasm and join in the futile crusade, I'm afraid I'd only be a different coloured phony.
At any rate, I see you've continued to label and generalize the proletariat with a full sense of righteous judgementality, and going by the taste of vomit in my mouth I don't think this conversation is anywhere I belong. I would wish you a good day but I'm not sure that would mean anything to you should you see my bank account.
It's interesting, I finished this article and I was pretty proud of it though. I suppose that I simply assumed too much in believing that gamer would take it upon themselves to research. If that's the case, could I not make the argument that they should all feel the pain of they're ways once it all falls down?
I also fail to see why you would assume people would do research just because you're attempting to nudge them in that direction. Goading people isn't a strong tactic unless you're dealing with school children.
Likewise it's presumptuous to argue that anything is going to fall around anybody. Regardless of any knowledge you have, you don't know the future. Using that in any argument just hurts yourself. Besides, you start to make yourself sound like a doomsayer, especially when you throw out lines like "I can barely stand to look at children without a sense of doom." Doomsayers of all kinds are a breed of people that our country has conditioned itself to not listen to. This particular generation has been sick of them since Y2K.
You're free to be proud of your articles, but you seem to make excuses because you think your audience doesn't live up to your standards. The fact of the matter is you have a lot of work to do as a writer.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRNhOJkrR2M
@chris bradshaw
Stop it. We neither need or want you to tell us what's important. We don't need you to post links to the things you think we should understand. We dont need you to tell us anything about anything.
I read your blog for 2 reasons. Firstly because I thought it would make an interesting read after skipping all of your videos. Secondly because I wanted to see if a blog of you're about the "truth" would be a balanced affair. Instead what I got was akin to being beaten around the head with a brick.
Chris, my friend. You have to realise that regardless of how important something is, regardless of how much you have researched something, regardless of how passionate you are about something you cannot expect people to share that passion.
It's is cool that you wanted to share what you believe to be an insight into the average gamers mind but what's in the average gamers mind is a matter is a matter is personal choice. Your pushy technique to show us what's really important was destined to fail because we don't all share the same priorities.
I'm going to make an assumption here because I just can't quite remember at the moment but was it you who poste dthe blog in which you said 9/11 was the most important date for anyone who is alive right now? Are you the same person who called me ignorant because i said the birth of my daughter will akway be the most important date to me? Because if you are the same person then what you have done I exactly the same. If you're not that person then I apologise but it seems very much like the kind of thing you would say.
...Okay so let me see what you did.
The George Carlin video
-I've actually watched so much of him and of all those vids I watched, I kinda get his point-he wants to achieve equality. But of course there's a problem there, it's an ideal that can never be fixed, there's always this, segregation, division. And I don't know if he mean't to himself his messages there but I do; "Be Happy with what you have", and that thought regarding these stuffs, I think that's all that always matters.
And it is more sad to realize that George Carlin, by essence, is quickly forgotten. Why? Because these critical thinkers are actually wise enough to try and do something about it, instead of standing still and listen to an old man bitch about it.
Oh, You want me to critically think more about it? Okay. here I go.
Didn't you see that your actual objective is to just take their place? Sure you're saying "we want equality, we want what you have." But ask this; what then if you have those? What's your next step when you are finally there? And it is actually funny seeing stories where the slave becomes king, and see how the slave-king slowly becomes the image he wants to destroy. There is no equality, there never was, there never will, and that's nature. If you say "no", then just look outside, cats killing mouses, trees getting cut down for housing projects...
Oh you want me to think more about it? So what about those mouses? What about those trees? Do they have their rights on this? Can you now see the problem with the argument?
tl;dr -your thoughts are not weak, just vapid overall.
"Don’t let the ‘gamer’ title distract you though, when I speak of ‘gamers’, I mean to topically section out the general majority of our community..."
-But sadly, the "general majority of the community" that you are trying to reach on, are the one's who are not willing to waste their time to read these things. So what's your problem there now? See the comments section? The ones you are obliviously "bashing to their analytical submission" are the ones who are, as you say, "likes to think". It's kinda ironic to see a "thinking-man's" comments section is filled with replies that has more thought, more content, and has more solid ideas regarding their thoughts.
tl;dr? -you are firing your gun and hitting the wrong targets.
"That’s why I am so enraged when most gamers start narrowing the range and simplifying the mold of who we are to be..."
-and I am enraged myself when I see you shot down people's thoughts when they are not on YOUR range. With these kinds of statements, slowly my thoughts on "you're putting too much gravity/emphasis on a fucking HOBBY/pass-time!" and "ChrisBradshaw is a douchebag, and he's realy proud of it" are starting to strengthen.
If i can put some example regarding my thoughts above;
If that's the case;"Gamer must be a respected brand!"
Then why; Is there no 'movie-er'? A man whose life is purely on movies.
A 'TV-er', oh, right, we have couch potato. But still.
Why don't we have a 'Book-er'? oh, again, we have this Book-clubs.
but anyway, see my point?
Unlike those other form of entertainment medium, why would videogames must be treated more especially?
Of course, your thought;"I'm not talking about games itself, I'm talking about the people! And I'm not just talking about videogames, I'm talking about something more!"
Well then, here's a rightfull comeback question, why are you HERE?!! Why Destructoid? Why do such Blog HERE? This very place. THAT is what most of the people here are asking you. Why try to ram THIS place's ass up for some thoughts regarding conspiracies? Why not some forum section of a government site, or sending e-mail on some high-ranking government official or go and crash www.gamepolitics.com instead? Of all the options available, why here?
I'm guessing your answer there would be;
"Pfft! 'A brand for people who loves movies or television...They must be given a brand', get out of here..."
-guess what, videogames? it's not that different to those either.
again, if the thought in your answer is;"I'm not just talking about videogames here, i'm talking about something more than that."
Well, then you just defeated your point of posting a videogame-related conspiracy blog. That kind of blog is NOT wanted here. shit it's just like posting an nvgr law about child porn...and we know what happened there
tl;dr? -you are "enraged" that no one can see your point? well, WE are enraged that you can't see ours.
Again, so sorry, but that kind of opinion is not for this place, THAT's our point. No matter how serious THAT issue may be, the thing is, this is Destructoid, that's that. You? Game related?, I bet few blogs later you no longer talking about games and just start making tons of NVGR George Carlin-esque blogs. This is a place for videogames, sure this site also handle some other things, and good for you that you like that sort of thing but. Really, if you think about it, this is just like, that one other blog that's NVGR and is heavily bashed for it.
"Like I said before though, it would seem that no matter how many people try to bring up other real world issues, we would much rather keep that nonsense to people outside of gaming space, because it doesn’t encompass the light-hearted cute fun fluffy cotton candy coated world games..."
This is the part where you simply transform into that ignorant common-gamer-folk you yourself hate. It's kinda silly that, for a man who wants diversity, you keep generalising, stereotyping, and pining us individuals for being "a sheep". Maybe we should not fight the people above, maybe we should just fight you douchebag.
"We are not kids anymore..."
Just because you like to brag-talk about the things we're not interested in doesn't mean we're childish/ignorant/a sheep. Your approach in gaining proper audience is all wrong, it's wrong to say "you're a dumbass, i'm right", then tell them "google it yourself" when your asked one.
And we're being "ignorant" in these kind of things here...
...Because...
...Here's our message;
WE DON'T WANT TO CARE!
Let me emphasize that one word there; "DON'T"
Imagine, a 30-year old soldier stationed at some god-forsaken warzone, just wants to visit this site to see if there's a set-up match in CoD to blow off some steam. And what more ideal you want to force-fed him is some more economical crisis b.s.
Okay, so that's a tad-bit over-the-top, but if applied those example to others; a 40-year old wife, a crack office accountant, some celebrity. The point there is, the reason these folks no longer want to care about this is because they got their own priorites. And look at that, they're too busy living to care about such other stuff.
I remember the time when I so strongly believed in the notion that the sexual revolution was wrong. That the whole notion of sexual freedom was wrong and evil and stupid...turns out i'm just angry because I never had any...
"There's so much being destroyed and my whole argument is NOT to pay attention to TRUTHERS but the content of the argument!"
-and our thought is this; Why would you want us to care? Why do we need to be afraid of these things? To further iterate myself;Why try so hard on making us care? So what is your real motives here? As I said to Fame Designer before, this is not just about your arguments, it seems to me that this is just about you. Why would you want to sway us? What do you hope to gain when you finally sway us with your conspiracies.
We kept falling attention to the truthers because the actual point of the truthers is to be heard, not the thought, but themselves. I doubt George actually care in his ideals, and I also strongly doubt YOU really care on your ideals. If you do, then you shouldnt have been such of an ass on having "so few followers"(guised in the line of "so few critial-thinkers"). So is that it? You just want to see that people likes your opinions, to agree to you, that you are right?
"Finally, I'm not BANNING you. I'm requesting that you don't show up if you're going to make mockery out of important information worth millions of lives..."
-For a man who likes to think, I see you don't know how to take on jokes, picture-comments, silly questions. Take them by context, and give them proper reason. YOU are childish yourself for simply insulting them with "you're not good enough, therefore you're an idiot" lines.
Also, "worth millions of lives"? Where did that came from?
...
THIS is how I think outside of the box, asking question on why do you ask such question.
sigh....you know, I suddenly got tired of continuing this for realizing that you're probably not gonna read all of this actually...or just gonna skim in it and say i'm a "vidiot".
really hard to reason with an unreasonable man, huh...
so instead, just answer these questions to me;
1) What would you do then, when we finally reach the part where, being a gamer is an honorable brand?
2) What more would you actually want to gain in your...in this, campaign? You're not just doing this "for the sake of the community", I know that now.
3) You keep bashing Epic with your "you are a useless basement-dweller" line. So tell us then, what do you do for a living? If you are oh so proud of being "different"..."above" from us, surely, you'd be more than happy to inform us of your interesting living.
really, answer those with full honesty. You want a thoughtful converstation? Why not start there? Now that we're thinking back, what do you think?
"Eventually, I felt a necessity to discover who we were as a culture and medium." or "I got a bad case of USI and a worthless life, so I joined Destructoid."
1)
My ambitions as a gamer have everything to do with cultivating a force that will demand change in game design thus changing the nature of gamer's label. This force would be perpetual one, that would demand deeper for human game design. A world where gamers are advantageous in the realm of decision making because of a the positive impact from games created by true intellectuals... thus conditioning improved human life via video games.
With that, I can die knowing that no more gamers can be marginalized as useless good for nothings, and no gamers has to be a crippled product of gaming.
2)
How do you know that? My motivations come from my personal pain from being a vidiot at one time (long ago, when I was 19) and witnessing vidiots DAILY today. I declared that there's something seriously wrong here. My gain out of this IS the betterment of gamers! Everyone that comments on my blog can claim ignorance all they want, there IS something wrong here, I'm seeing it with my own eyes! I've proven it to all my friends, onces you understand it, it's irrefutable and my whole life becomes distorted. I knew from the moment I started this thing, that it was not going to be effective as what I was actually going to do through video game design. We are running out of time though, and this is the best I can do.
3)
I'm bashing Epic because I know exactly where he's at. It has nothing to do with I being genuinely better. But I will definitely make the claim that in this gaming world that I've broke it down to its very fiber, so there's nothing that no one can say on a gaming front to refute some positions I have on gaming and 'gamer lifestyle' is one of them. Its not that I don't acknowledged his importance as a human and a gamer, but on gaming respect that's a level broke through a long time ago. Sound self-righteous but not if you understood the complexity.
As for my life and what I do. I would gladly tell you that on Skype or MSN, it would be a lot more productive.