Hardcore gamer

today’s massive world, we need all the perspectives we can get to understand matters at hand due to the grand scale. All this talk about social philosophies coming from me sounds somewhat uncredible due to the fact that I’m just some skinny asian kid who barely went outside at all. But despite this, I’ve managed to have some impactful experiences in my life that connected to the essay via online gaming. When I was in high school, I was a hardcore gaming nerd. I’d make sure to finish all my work in school so as to allow myself to have a huge amount of time to play games when I got home. I would spend every week, day, hour, minute, and second playing games during my breaks from school. The only time I would step away from my computer would be to tend to my basic human needs such as satiating my hunger, quenching my thirst, relieving myself in the restroom, or letting my eyes rest for a couple hours away from the blinding light of a computer monitor. Spending so much time enveloped in an activity or culture changes you. I was fully versed in gamer subculture from a young age and by the time I reached high school I basically lived online. My ratio of online friends to friends I met in real life was about thirty to one. And I had about sixty or so online friends. Out of those many online friends I grew especially close to a small group of people who I would spend hours upon hours playing a wide variety of games with. Out of this small group, we would often joke around with each…

the world, videos games have now become an ever growing craze. Perhaps its most impressive quality is the rapid growth of the gaming community. Along with this vast market came a 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…

eSports v. Sports: Does Electronic Gaming Deserve to be Considered a Sport? “What type of competitor practices for 10 hours a day, lives in a team house surrounded by other professional players, and is supported by coaches, managers, and corporate endorsements? Answer: professional video gamers.” (Li) If the first thought that popped into your mind was a sports player, you were half right. If you guessed “eSports player”, you were definitely correct. “eSports” is an invented term that means…

How do female gamers navigate the world of gaming culture today? When, so often, that culture is against them. Why are women, for the most part, being ignored and excluded by mainstream game developers? How did gaming culture come to be what it is today? A culture containing sexism and negative as well as stereotypical representations of women. What is a gamer? What is gaming culture? These questions can be answered in the context of game design studies. Gaming culture itself can be seen as a…

If I told you to picture what you consider to be a gamer, the first image you would come up with is a young boy holding a controller. If I told you to come up with another image, it would be a struggle to imagine another type of gamer, and there’s a reason for that. The target demographic of the gaming industry includes men from age 18 to 34, and the industry goes to great lengths to make them the sole demographic. The sexualized representation of women in games, the backlash from men that…

This kind of discovery means gamers are discovering games from all different types of genres. There are millions of games in the world just ready to be discovered. Gamers strive to find that one game they love and that takes discovery. Discovery can be looking through parents old games to searching the web for that one game that catches your eye. I personally have not found the game of my dreams. Game geeks want to discover a game that consists of all their wants. Ranging from a scary love story…

involved with gaming tournaments including Blockbuster Video, Nintendo, GamePro Magazines, etc. What 's the first thing that comes to your mind when I say the words "Professional Gamer"? You probably think about some overweight guy in his late 20 's to early 30 's in a basement, unemployed, just playing video games 12 hours a day, and sleeping the other 12. According to ESPN, " more than half of American eSports fans are employed full time, 44 percent are parents and, perhaps most surprising,…

Gaming is a worldwide phenomenon now that keeps getting bigger and bigger every day on multiple consoles or computers. But now everyone is thinking is it going to be considered a sport. Well in some parts of the country and outside our country it is already considered one. To some people sports are supposed to be physically active and moving around daily during the sport. To others it is just standing still and golfing patiently. But gaming is a special one because you are either sitting in a…

When speaking on the subject, the teacher stated that he would “be pretty hard-pressed to find one of the standards [he] couldn 't teach with Minecraft" (Meyer). Minecraft has many useful aspects for the classroom and this teacher from Oahu made it his goal to discover and use them all to better his students learning abilities. Continually, video games can also be useful within the classroom by promoting in class participation and helping teach students many useful skills like how to form an…

THE CONSOLE SLAVE “Filthy Console Peasants” –Tim Wagemaster The console slave is the opposite of the PC master race. These are the people who only believe in console gaming, nothing else. They believe that computers are a wasted platform for gaming, that because consoles were the original platform for gaming, 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…