Congratulations on reaching this thread. In the rare event that you are in grandmasters league, have a scorching hot girlfriend, and somehow avoided the terrible stench of being a gamer, please refrain from telling us about it. The 10 pages of people informing us that they do, in fact, have sex should provide enough of a counterexample to any non-believers.
On August 25 2011 03:28 DueSs wrote: Stereotypes exist because they're largely true.
this MAY be true here, but the main thing why people are upset with the video is because it's offensive and diffarming
There are many (MANY) gamers who fit this description. So it's not like it's a big fallacy. When you say something about a group of people, you are also aware that not every single one of them fits your description. There are always exceptions. I myself am not offended in the slightest. I don't smell, have a girl and all that jazz. But I know some RL friends who fit this description 100%. I know from experience they're pretty much telling the truth. That's not saying gamers are bad people, they tend to have different priorities.
I don't get why people get offended so easily but from reactions here I guess I get now why racial jokes are a taboo.
Sometimes, when you try too hard to show you don't care, all you really show is that you care.
Lol who the fuck cares. As long as you don't stink and and shit.. just don't let it bother you. I don't know a lot of people that watch the news anyways.
On August 25 2011 03:28 DueSs wrote: Stereotypes exist because they're largely true.
this MAY be true here, but the main thing why people are upset with the video is because it's offensive and diffarming
There are many (MANY) gamers who fit this description. So it's not like it's a big fallacy. When you say something about a group of people, you are also aware that not every single one of them fits your description. There are always exceptions. I myself am not offended in the slightest. I don't smell, have a girl and all that jazz. But I know some RL friends who fit this description 100%. I know from experience they're pretty much telling the truth. That's not saying gamers are bad people, they tend to have different priorities.
I don't get why people get offended so easily but from reactions here I guess I get now why racial jokes are a taboo.
Many people aren't, which is why publications like these are so problematic. People are not those noble beings created in the perfect image of god. We are primarily animals, and it shows and is hard to overcome, which in turn is why publications like these are popular and achieve such high ratings.
Damn, superficial girls who I don't know and who don't have a clue about my passion said on a sensationalist TV channel that the people with the same passions as me smell bad and don't have time for girls!
That hurts! If at least I smelled bad, it would have been a little bit farther to complete bullshit than it is...
Anyway, let me try their recipe, I think I got it : "People who work in sensationalist TV channels are coke addicted whores, workaholic, and don't have time for generating quality content."
Woah, that felt good! I know why they do it all day every day now!
If we had a report like this, as derogatory and senseless, on some event where a lot of people from some ethnic minority attend it would have definitely been considered racist. I'd still hit that blonde chick tho.
That's not the only thing that happens. You have a bunch of mindless drones who can't think for themselves and get the whole stereotype rolling, where the unlucky ones who happen to not fall under any of these categories except for the title of "Gamer" get thrown into one category, period. You can try arguing with them, but it doesn't do you any good, because "It was on the news, so it must be true and infallible." I'd use a political analogy, but I don't think the mods would receive this post well if I went on about politics... so I'ma jump out on a limb here and say compare it to any political party you don't agree with, and consider what you think of your opponents most of the time, assuming you don't belong to the moderate part of the group. I'm not saying it's wrong to belong to any party or hold any mindset, but just give it some thought.
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