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"But can you PLEASE take your gym clothes home to wash every now and then?"
My point is the world is not as black and white as you are making it out to be. It is not Nerds vs Jocks here. The people who like sportscars and hockey might also like D&D and Street Fighter. I'm someone who likes to play video games but I'm also into literature, philosophy, a wide range of music, fashion, science, soccer and various alcohols. People are not clear cut and I think it's inaccurate to pigeon-hole them into stereotypical groups based on a few of their interests.
Most people consider themselves people first and foremost, because labels are a Bad Thing
When, oh when, will I hear something about the new Natural Selection?
Oh, also people tend to become far more complete and varied people when they get older, I find.
I don't think you do.
And good job on muddling the waters by including professions.
I guess I failed to explain my point, and you guys are hellbent in ridiculing me.
There's no point in fighting...
Still, I have no hard feelings.
Yes, but what you think has absolutely no bearing on what I am.
And plenty of people define themselves by their professions as well. This has nothing to do with muddling the waters.
We're only calling you out on your failure to recognize that other people might be.
i've known a bunch, i've talked to these guys and gotten to know them, it's generally not their fault that they ended up in that situation.
often they've got health problems or psychological issues or they're poor or they got some other thing that's fucked their young life up and set them up with a shitty base to form a personal identity.
and that totally sucks for them.
but part of growing up is identifying those things and moving past them. if you couldn't do sports as a youth because of some personal issue, or just had no interest in sports for an unrelated reason, that's okay.
and the fact that people might've picked on you for that as a kid is totally unfair, i agree.
but grow up. move on. don't blame sports, or sports fans, because you got tormented as a kid by an asshole gym teacher or jerks your age.
In my defense, I'm not ridiculing you at all.
It does seem that you believe certain interests predispose people to behave in certain ways, and we (or at least, I) am saying that it's not really true past a certain age. When you break about 22-23, you generally mature a ton and realize 'hey, there are lots of things out there that are cool beyond the things I used to like', not to mention that you tend to shy away from labels and attempted categorization.
But I digress. In more important news, I hope they have exciting and wonderful MechWarrior news sometime soon at this here E3 thing.
"You're a slave?"
"I'm a person and my name is Anakin!"
OH GOD KILL ME
Come on, everybody, chant the nerd out of our thread!
NERD
NERD
NERD
NERD
This is the main problem with your attacks. You're belittling me on this whole premise, yet I never said anything of the sort.
ALL THE GIRLS STANDING IN THE LINE FOR THE BATHROOM
wait am i doing it right
I am not!
Broseph, you sorta started this line of conversation with classifying and belittling others. It's a little late in the game to be like "You are attacking me!"
No! No!
dammit fari
I wonder if Kinect could work with Mechwarri- no I hated it before I finished typing.
I would like Kinect on Mechwarrior for one reason - combined with 3D to make amazing interactive 3D HUDs. Like, holobuttons that you hit to do stuff. That would be incredible.
Otherwise, no thank you.
Well the fact you tend to outgrow labels as you mature is true, of course.
I just like to raise my "I'm a gamer" shield when more mainstream people come at me making fun of the fact I'm still a gamer even though I'm an adult and everything.
Anyway. I guess I quickly painted myself as being too fanboyish. I'm not used to post on this board to be honest even though I've been lurking for years. I'll learn.
It's a teenager mentality. "I'm a _____ and you are a ______ and that makes us different."
honey, adults recognize things like nuance and variety in a person's interests and identity.
Well, people who make fun of you for playing games despite being an adult are assholes anyways. I'm an adult who plays games and it is as a direct result of my game-playing that I make a fairly comfortable living, particularly given my age.
I really want to see Kinect combined with traditional controls. I don't really want to steer via Kinect, but if I can use my pad or wheel in conjunction with Kinect letting me look into corners, that would be swell.
Similarly, in Mechwarrior it can also be used to look around, and maybe have some sort of overhead-mounted switches in the cockpit you could raise your hands to virtually flip.
Who did I attack again? If anything I might have said offended you, then please receive my apologies.
Have you ever considered that you might have cause and effect backwards here?
slick, you're clearly struggling with this so i've bolded two important elements of what you are saying here
first of all, you're aware that you are using your personal identifier as a "gamer" as a shield to hide behind instead of confronting people. this is not healthy or mature behavior.
second, you use the term "more mainstream people". you are still thinking in an "us vs. them" mentality. people outside your approved paradigm are this nebulous "other" that you define as the "mainstream" that you clearly consider yourself not a part of.
what defines a "more mainstream" person to you, other than simply saiyng "Someone who isn't me"?
You'll be less stressed in life if you don't worry about what every single person out there thinks of you.
Kinect combining with the controller would be rad as hell. But the thing is, MS' whole philosophy behind Kinect is "no controller." They might resist that sort of thing for a while.
Well hopefully they'll leave it up to the devs. I think the "no controller" focus was mainly on the interface itself, which I agree with. Kinect XBE looked fantastic. As far as less casual games go, I think there will be leeway.
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You have to stomp around like a mech.
Make Mech noises.
Twist your torso independently of your walking direction.
Oh my god this is the best idea ever
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I hope so. Kinect could have some really, really cool applications, as long as the guideline isn't 'MAKE THE GAME USE IT EXCLUSIVELY'.
Great, now I'm in a giggle fit.
Then in this case, 95% of my workplace are assholes then. And strangely, the remaining 5% happen to be :
-A hardcore PC gamer
-A yaoi fangirl
-A roleplayer/larper
-And one linux geek
Okay then. Yes, of course there's nuances, so I guess the whole "us VS them" model doesn't hold water at all here. So let me rephrase. I can divide the world into two categories. "People I like to hang aound" and "people I have absolutely no affinities with."