Current Events > Do you think the "Gamers" mentality runs true on Gamefaqs?

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I'm a new user so I can't make a poll. No wonder people call Gamefaqs outdated.

I'm talking about the Gangweed meme where Gamers often have a pseudo-intellectual, narrow-minded, sheltered, racist mentality.

Obligatory "Rise Up" post
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Did that "Gamers Rise Up" meme come from that Gamergate fiasco?
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They targeted gamers.

Gamers.
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there's a little bit of gangweed in all of us
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Zerocide posted...

Did that "Gamers Rise Up" meme come from that Gamergate fiasco?

No that's more recent.

Manocheese posted...

They targeted gamers.

Gamers.

But this did. Also I looked at where this came from and even GG people were telling the guy who wrote the post to piss off.
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I was under the impression it was the result from all those cringe memes about gamers.

Like this
https://imgur.com/a/IxSZJnY
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Also as gamers, how often do you say the n-word while gaming?
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AnimeProfilePic posted...

Also as gamers, how often do you say the n-word while gaming?

Not as often as some would have you think.
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Banana_Cyanide posted...

AnimeProfilePic posted...

Also as gamers, how often do you say the n-word while gaming?

Not as often as some would have you think.

So no more than 5 times a session?
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Gamers rise up!
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AnimeProfilePic posted...

So no more than 5 times a session?

That's if you even hear it at all.
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They targeted gamers.

Gamers.

We're a group of people who will sit for hours, days, even weeks on end performing some of the hardest, most mentally demanding tasks. Over, and over, and over all for nothing more than a little digital token saying we did.

We'll punish our selfs doing things others would consider torture, because we think it's fun.

We'll spend most if not all of our free time min maxing the stats of a fictional character all to draw out a single extra point of damage per second.

Many of us have made careers out of doing just these things: slogging through the grind, all day, the same quests over and over, hundreds of times to the point where we know evety little detail such that some have attained such gamer nirvana that they can literally play these games blindfolded.

Do these people have any idea how many controllers have been smashed, systems over heated, disks and carts destroyed 8n frustration? All to latter be referred to as bragging rights?

These people honestly think this is a battle they can win? They take our media? We're already building a new one without them. They take our devs? Gamers aren't shy about throwing their money else where, or even making the games our selves. They think calling us racist, mysoginistic, rape apologists is going to change us? We've been called worse things by prepubescent 10 year olds with a shitty head set. They picked a fight against a group that's already grown desensitized to their strategies and methods. Who enjoy the battle of attrition they've threatened us with. Who take it as a challange when they tell us we no longer matter. Our obsession with proving we can after being told we can't is so deeply ingrained from years of dealing with big brothers/sisters and friends laughing at how pathetic we used to be that proving you people wrong has become a very real need; a honed reflex.

Gamers are competative, hard core, by nature. We love a challange. The worst thing you did in all of this was to challange us. You're not special, you're not original, you're not the first; this is just another boss fight.
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Banana_Cyanide posted...

AnimeProfilePic posted...

So no more than 5 times a session?

That's if you even hear it at all.

I think there would be a resurgence of the n-word ironically used due to the Gamers meme. There was the meme of 'RT if *insert anime character* can say the N-word, like for no' on Twitter recently.
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Delta_F14 posted...

They targeted gamers.

Gamers.

We're a group of people who will sit for hours, days, even weeks on end performing some of the hardest, most mentally demanding tasks. Over, and over, and over all for nothing more than a little digital token saying we did.

We'll punish our selfs doing things others would consider torture, because we think it's fun.

We'll spend most if not all of our free time min maxing the stats of a fictional character all to draw out a single extra point of damage per second.

Many of us have made careers out of doing just these things: slogging through the grind, all day, the same quests over and over, hundreds of times to the point where we know evety little detail such that some have attained such gamer nirvana that they can literally play these games blindfolded.

Do these people have any idea how many controllers have been smashed, systems over heated, disks and carts destroyed 8n frustration? All to latter be referred to as bragging rights?

These people honestly think this is a battle they can win? They take our media? We're already building a new one without them. They take our devs? Gamers aren't shy about throwing their money else where, or even making the games our selves. They think calling us racist, mysoginistic, rape apologists is going to change us? We've been called worse things by prepubescent 10 year olds with a shitty head set. They picked a fight against a group that's already grown desensitized to their strategies and methods. Who enjoy the battle of attrition they've threatened us with. Who take it as a challange when they tell us we no longer matter. Our obsession with proving we can after being told we can't is so deeply ingrained from years of dealing with big brothers/sisters and friends laughing at how pathetic we used to be that proving you people wrong has become a very real need; a honed reflex.

Gamers are competative, hard core, by nature. We love a challange. The worst thing you did in all of this was to challange us. You're not special, you're not original, you're not the first; this is just another boss fight.

PREACH! I could've just been a Chad getting all the hot babes but I prefer more rewarding and stimulating tasks that video games offer
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well TC, do you or do you not agree that we live in a society?
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ThyCorndog posted...

well TC, do you or do you not agree that we live in a society?

Yes, in fact it has been scientifically proven that we do indeed live in a society. Makes you think.

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