Nerds or What??
 

Ok i was watching this show on MTV its called True life i am sure you guys have heard about it but any way it is about these gamers and like how they are the world champs of there game and i was just thinking good how much of a nerd can you get to be able to play games for like 8 hours aday??

I don't understand it.

Any one else see this show??

Re: Nerds or What??
 

Just because we like to have safe fun (yeah, it's safer than ruining your life by partying, drinking, and then ending up in the hospital after crashing in a DWI wreck) does not mean we are nerds.

Yeah, I was changing channels and saw a little bit of that show. There's nothing wrong with playing games, but 8 hours a day? Jesus! Did those guys even have jobs or girlfriends? At least one of those dudes made a living being a professional gamer.

come on you think 8 straight hours of gamin is not doing some sort of damage i mean i can see like maybe 4 and thats pushin it on a long rainin day

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you are always so negative. Not everyone does that kind of crap, there are much better things to be doing, like umm.... well you get the point.

Don't get me wrong, 8 hours a day is a bit ludicrous unless you have TONS of spare time, but just simply playing the game online doesn't necessarily mean you don't have a life.

At current, I have neither a job nor a girlfriend, but that's only because:

1) In this current economy it's hard for an 18-year-old with no work experience like myself to find a job and

2) I'm no Prince Charming, so my chances of getting a girlfriend range somewhere within infinitesimal (sp) to "Forget it!"

:roll:

I have been to several parties and gotten drunk, but I have never been in car wreck. Probably because I know not to drive when I am plastered.

I love online games but these dudes where like the pac man champs and the golden tee golf arcade game champ. Thats just nuts

Am I the only one who sees 8 hour gaming sessions as normal? :P I don't think I could stand playing that much each day, but everytime I do play, it's usually for 5-9 hours. And well, some people have to do that for a living y'know. A classmate of mine is a beta tester and his job requires him to play games for 12 hours each day, 3 days a week.

Good for you, Matthew. Sadly, you're missing the point.

It really enrages me whenver somebody finds out that I play video games a lot in my spare time (either that or MAKING them) and deem me as a friendless geek. My point was that just because someobody plays video games it does mean they're "squares", or whatever. Heck, I've seen the exact same type of people I described above in video arcades more often that I have!

Sorry to get off track, but biases towards game players like that really push me over the edge.

I do see your point. I don't think people who play games are nerds, it's the people who play games 10 hours a day and do nothing but that who are the dorks. But, hell, the first time I played Medal of Honor, I started at 9 in the morning and didn't quit until 1 at night.

I see what you're saying.

I can understand what you are saying, some people treat me that way when they hear I play games, I never go anywhere near 8 hours (Unless its a new Metroid game :P )
But a woman came in to work one day, and over heard me and my friend's wife talking about the TMNT game that came out for NES, and she started telling us to get a life, and how sad our lives are etc... I was REALLY angry, and needless to say, took it out on her :lol: (Still do everytime I see her, and that was 4 years ago)

I understand that. And I don't have problems with gamers in general (except my brother, but that's because his EverQuest addiction eats my internet time.) Games can be lots of fun. Lots of great webcomics have come from it.

It's the people who make it their "life" that, well, worry me. All things in moderation. It's not that they play games for 8 hours a day that makes them dorks, it's that they brag about it that makes them dorks. No one likes a bragger.

Now, if you're payed to do it, like testing video games, or working in a game shop, that's just cool.

Videogames are everything good about the world! HAHAHAHA! I play all day EVERYDAY!!! HAHAHAHAHA! :lol: MUHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!! I'm so lonley. j/k I play videogames alot on my spare time, I do it at my job since I work at EB Games, and I do have a girlfriend, and I STILL play videogames all the time. Am I a nerd? AM I? TELL ME NOW! ......... :sleep:

You know, there are those out there who are actually payed to play video games, they're called game testers; for them, playing a game for 8 hours a day is virtually the same as working a full time job.

Of course, playing the game is not the only thing they do. They write reviews, point out bugs and other such things for the makes to fix before putting the game on the market.

Heh, the dream job for one person I know... should point this job out to him and see what he thinks.

Videogames enrich the heart and soul. I have a friend that plays games for literally days on end. He stops only to relieve himself and to eat. He's beaten games in record time. I actually saw him get into a fight because someone said some **** about Mario.

Of course, he lost the fight and was brutally beaten by the quarterback. And he's frail, pale, and has severe stomach cramps from brooding in his cavernous basement all day.

Yea well I hope he learned to expect to get brutally injured if he starts talking about video games in front of a jock and expects to win a debate or something, lol... That is just plain dumb, if you want to argue about video games, argue with your own kind... :roll:

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Dont you know, its 2003, where everyone now thinks being a geek is hip. Just look anywhere online. Me, who liked it better when it wasnt so mainstream to be a nerd.

The longest I've played games for is about 9 hours one weekend. My brother and I played Half-Lif: Decay on PS2 and the 2 Resident Evil games on GC. Eventually played and beat Devil May Cry. And then got pretty far on Metroid Prime. But....every day?