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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.
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On August 25 2011 01:46 aaronthebaron80 wrote:
People only get offended when a comment hits too close to home. While it certainly doesn't apply to everyone, I'm sure we can all think of many examples where her description is spot-on.
no shit, that's why things get sterotyped. imagine if it was the same steroetyping OP but titled "Black people sell drugs and don't have time for school." same type of ignorance
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Meh, i'd imagine a lot of it is true. The SC2 professionals do a good job at disproving those prejudices, lets just leave it to them to "represent" our community.
If what they are saying offends you, just go out your way to prove them wrong.
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Even if it is just about the pros its still pretty wrong: Incontrol, Tyler, idrA and im sure there are more have pretty attractive significant others. This video was probably made by the same people who blame shooting sprees on the game of counterstrike or something...
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It's just trash journalism at its finest. Some time ago some American journalist criticized Comicon goers for not doing enough to help the poor or something.
Honestly, we need real research on the cognitive benefits that playing games can provide. I would love to compare frequent TV watchers to frequent gamers and see how much they develop cognitively in a year.
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On August 25 2011 01:48 Strike_ wrote:
Show them TLO and they'll change their mind
I can tell you how they would interview him.
Interviewer: So, you make a living playing computer games?
TLO: Yes, I-
Interviewer: Don't you think that you could do something more significant with you life?
TLO: What-
Voice-over: One of the strangest breed of gamers, so-called "progamers"...
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On August 25 2011 01:52 MangoTango wrote:
I want to hit her.
not even with a 10foot pole ...
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Honestly, when I went to MLG Anaheim, I was disgusted at the lack of deodorant the general audience seemed to have. Like seriously, I stopped walking by the seats because of it. So, yeah, I'd say I can understand their opinion on this.
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On August 25 2011 01:46 aaronthebaron80 wrote:
People only get offended when a comment hits too close to home. While it certainly doesn't apply to everyone, I'm sure we can all think of many examples where her description is spot-on.
Prohably, but they often think our livestyle is bad and that we should not play and so on. No doubt that some statements are often true, just they way it´s presented is totally wrong.
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My biggest Concern is, that they said nothing about what Gamescom is about, they portrayed it wrong in all aspects.
The only thing they delivered is that all of it is a waste if Life and Gaming makes you a bad person,
Anyway this article is obviously made up in the sense that they chose the person to portrayed them as bad it could be.
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On August 25 2011 01:52 ChrisXIV wrote:Show nested quote +On August 25 2011 01:48 Strike_ wrote:
Show them TLO and they'll change their mind I can tell you how they would interview him. Interviewer: So, you make a living playing computer games? TLO: Yes, I- Interviewer: Don't you think that you could do something more significant with you life? TLO: What- Voice-over: One of the strangest breed of gamers, so-called "progamers"...
Well .. the sad thing is, RTL would really do that
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I dont think Germany deserves GamesCom if they keep doing these stuff.
No offense Germans 
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Hmm, there might be some truth to it though. I know I've certainly had quite a few LAN parties (like once every two weekends for a few years in high school) where three or four friends stayed over for a few days, and the parties were never very hygienic. If your main source of entertainment is outside your room, you are forced to meet a minimum standard of hygiene. Similarly, if like many serious computer users you can get 90% of your entertainment (games/movies/shows/books/music) from your computer it becomes much easier to become slightly asocial.
That said, the gaming population is quickly becoming so large that such generalizations become useless. In the 1950s when few people drove cars, you could make some pretty good generalizations regarding car drivers (wealthy, probably well educated, white collar occupation, etc). Today, knowing that someone drives a car tells you very little about them. I would guess gaming is almost the same.
EDIT: Not to say that that video isn't completely ridiculous, haha. Half the things they point out can be found at any convention in the world, not just Gamescon.
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I have watched more German television in my life,when I was younger,than Croatian television and I can tell you for a fact that RTL is the rock bottom of bad TV and only those rigged talk show series can top it as far as stupidity goes.
These gamer stereotypes may be true to some extent but i don't see the reason why you would have to make a 20 minute special about how bad their social skills are.
I have noticed one thing though,for some reason the media in Germany seem to have some kind of agenda against video games and the communitys that surround them.I remember every time something happens,violence in schools,street fights,murders,..;there's always a tv station that manages to find the guys hard drive information and that he had CS,Quake,CoD or something like that installed on his computer.I know that its not only in Germany that media does these kind of things,but man the amount of German late night/round table talk show I have watched regarding violence in games is not even funny.The worst part about it is that they,if even,rarely invite someone with a different perspective and if they do,he doesn't even get to talk much because right off the bat he notices that he can't even begin to explain to these people why shooting of a guys virtual head is fun.
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Can't believe this stereotype still exists. Gaming is very mainstream, it's hard to find someone who has never touched a game be it in an arcade to a home console to world of Warcraft. How annoying, Stop forgetting your deodorant fellow gamers.
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If you've been to any kind of convention, you can smell the gaming room from quite a long distance away.
Sorry?
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Judging from the what information the OP had given (i don't understand German) it seems that the article assumes that ALL gamers are boys. Someone should show them TLO and White-Ra.
Really disheartening considering that across the Baltic sea is Sweden who had been accepting programing 
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uh, i think i might smell brb shower
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On August 25 2011 01:46 See.Blue wrote:
I DO NOT SMELL BAD
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