Gamer

Bigotry is seen by most of the world as an unholy, damaging, extremist act that is never to be done and it should not done or be given even the smallest bit of attention. To me, however, bigotry is just another perspective. The “Twitter, Hate Speech, and the Costs of Keeping Quiet” essay got me thinking about the importance of perspectives. If I see or believe something from my perspective, even if it’s considered to be offensive or demeaning towards a person or group, I put it out there. If I…

Sports have been known as physical activities such as football, soccer, hockey, and baseball. Gaming has been around for quite a while now, and now people are trying to turn it into a sport. Competitions are held worldwide between professional gamers and have become a career for many. Anything that is requires skill and is competitive should be considered a sport. Organizations have been created with different teams for different games and have acquired sponsors to support them. Gaming should be…

The “popular” societal view on something is usually full of ignorance. You can’t label all situations specifically, and categorize it since each situation has many different variables. Life has always been and always will be about perspectives. In most social settings someone who plays computer games are often looked down on or viewed as a nerd. Not only is that thought stereotyped but also inaccurate. I have to say I’m far from a nerd and computer games are my life. I am completely capable of…

assessable to student gamers in terms of pacing and engagement. Zooinverse has the most potential of being a stepping stone into the worlds of research, academia, and vocation between the reviewed games by far. In the nature of webpages like Wikipedia, Zooniverse’s gameplay revolves around the use of certain skill sets or critical comprehension to analyze, dissect, discern, or rate projects that use non-fictional, natural, or seemingly historical artifacts and topics. Gamers are then able to…

they are the best. I really do not know too many of these people, but the ones I do know are fairly extreme. Most console gamers play games such as Call of Duty, Battlefield, and many other similar games. Because these “console slaves” only play console games, the influx of people who have never even experienced PC gaming is high. This influx of unexperienced, young gamers leads to some “interesting” people, to be discussed later on. The Console slave is commonly regarded similarly to the PC…

With the growing popularity of social media and its increasing involvement with matters both domestic and worldwide, individuals have begun to gravitate toward being “techno-optimists” or “techno-pessimists”, with many left somewhere in between. We are surrounded by TV programs telling us how to look, videogames telling us what races are “good” or “bad”, and the whitewashing of nerd culture it’s not difficult to see why some are pessimistic about social media, especially with its role in…

Moreover, video games can be beneficial to children of all ages because they can stimulate creativity and motivational growth; this is most effective in younger children but is also effective in teens. Most any game will enhance a student’s creativity, however, a good example game is Minecraft; the player must use his or her imagination to create a village using only the materials that he or she can collect. A teacher at Momilani Elementary School in Oahu, HI, used Minecraft as a teaching…

vast breed of gamers. Gamers can be broken down into various categories based on a plethora of things. From their approach to games in general, to how much time or effort they dedicate to gaming, all the way to what games they play and how they play them, gamers cover a wide array of personalities and traits. For me however, gamers can be broken down into five categories: the casual, the dirty casual, the try-hard, the completionist, and the cheater. First off there is the casual gamer. These…

whole should be seen as just another harmless hobby, and not something to blame when people commit crimes or act a certain way. Being able to call myself gamer made me proud, until accusations of violence, immaturity, racism, sexism, and “being a nerd” were made popular beliefs in news articles and reports. These accusation are based on gamers using video games as education and a reason to reenact certain events in the “real world” compared to the “virtual world”. When I was young…

to female players, considering them irrelevant, thus categorising male gamers as the real audience and excluding females from the gaming community (Fisher, 2015). Equally, Cote’s study of Nintendo Power magazine from 1994-1999, also evidenced a male audience focus while females were disregarded or sexualised. She concluded a lack of female representation in videogame content directly affected their ability to identify as gamers, and that videogame journalism needed to become more representative…