First of all; having every soccer mom in the country playing Wii Sports doesn't help our cause. Because those idiots are still not accepting of video games, just that...crap. If you've noticed, these stereotypes still haven't changed. Gamers are still nerds, geeks, whatever. REAL video games still get no respect, only WiiFAIL titles do.
In any case, I don't want gaming destroyed so idiots stop stereotyping. I'd rather have people stereotype and make fun of me for the rest of my life than have gaming destroyed.
And I hate your mentality here. "GAWSH, WE ALREDY KNO THIS." NO ****! THAT DOESN'T MEAN I'M NOT ALLOWED TO GET PISSED BECAUSE I'M STEREOTYPED! This is the same exact type of crap you see when it comes to Smash Bros. "We can't change Brawl, stop complaining and play Melee" or "Sakurai made great games, thus you're not allowed to complain about his screw up." I don't care when it was discovered, I don't care if it can't change, the fact that I have been teased, and made fun of, and stereotyped my entire life for being geeky is NOT something I'm going to say "oh well" about.
Son...there's no need for you to vent your anger.
IMO, all you need in Video Games are sharp reflexes, fast fingers, and quick-thinking mind.
All you have to do in Video Games is to look at a screen, agreed? You have to concentrate really, really hard.
In sports, it is quite different. You need coordination, reflexes, an agile body, a quick-thinking mind and you need a '360' vision. You need to watch your surroundings...carefully.
So to say, I agree that Video Games should not be looked down upon, BUT I disagree that it takes more skill than most sports.
That's not my anger. That's how I feel, honestly. Sports are more physical. Video games are more mental. There's only so much thought involved in hitting a ball and trying to catch it or tag a base with it. Solving intense puzzles in games like Zelda or Metroid takes skill and knowledge. Not saying sports don't, but video games certainly do, and the knowledge required is much more in video games if you ask me.
And I don't understand how 360 vision makes things different. If anything, that makes games harder because it's harder to turn and look at things behind you. For example, in a game like Metroid, there might be 8 Space Pirates that appear in the room you're in. Some of them appear in front of you, others to the sides, and others behind you. You've got to watch out for all of them and a screen doesn't give you as much space to do so.
While a lot of it is pretentiousness as I said, I do have to throw out there that it'd be a little self indulgant I think to say that negative stereotyping of gamers is completely because they're "different", or socially taboo...or other such reasons along those lines. I have to say in my experience that some of the most self-indulgant and just plain irritatingly cocky people I've ever met were self described "gamers". There are many people who follow this hobby who treat themselves like some wave of the future that silly everyone else just doesn't get, when in actuality it seems like many of them "get" them just fine. Elitist, delusional jerks.
Before someone tells me that exists everywhere in every one of the silly categories of human beings we make for ourselves., i know that. Why I'm bringing this up is because I think it's important for people to level a little with the situation when it comes to stereotyping. While there are a lot of the people who pick on any other niche because it's different, judgemental people who just want to one-up someone else using anything they can get for whatever reason, I think it's also important to note that many people arn't like that...but a lot of so called gamers don't exactly try to make themselves likable people for them either. That's another reason why a person may be driven to have a negative stereotype of another "type" of person. No one likes to be irrationally talked down to.
Okay, perhaps you just know a lot of jerks that are also gamers. Most of the gamers I know are normal, nice people. A little quirky, yes, but not cocky as you so describe them. I am a gamer myself, and I'm not talking down to anyone. I usually leave people alone (I'm generally a pretty quiet person) and the only time I'm mean to someone is if they give me a reason to do so. A lot of people give me a reason to do so. You can't even begin to understand how much crap I've gotten throughout my life because I'm a geek.
Saying that "a lot" of gamers are cocky when you just happen to know a lot of cocky ones is hardly applicable. I'm not saying it doesn't happen, as that would be a lie, but you say that like it's generally true for most gamers -- which is basically stereotyping.
Seriously, though, there may be some envy involved in some cases of their ability to include such a time-consuming habit in their lives... or, pity that they can't and still try.
