So I've pretty much surmised that a majority of people on this particular site or at least frequent it are a few things. 1) PC gamers. 2) Atheists. 3) Valve Worshipers. Ok ok ok please don't beat me with a stick I promise I am going somewhere with this and its not all condescending. Like I said I'm just ball parking saying that a majority are one of these three things here. It can't be all because hey I'm a Catholic and I know one J-E-F-F-E-R-S is a devout Nintendo fan. Jeffers if you read this I don't mind what you do just try to stay out of too much trouble.
Anyway back on point. I'm not going to make this into a whole religion/gaming/net culture discussion.
So I bet you are asking why do I bring those things up? I bring them up mostly because of all the recent Valve announcements. How they are making Steam Machines, with the Steam OS, and some kind of 3rd reveal I don't know about is all about of the Half-Life 3 conspiracy. Which in all honesty is one of the few net jokes that doesn't really cease to be funny for me. Now I don't know how this stuff is supposed to work. I haven't looked as much into it as I should but what I do know is this. I can pretty much guarantee PC gamers everywhere are going nuts with this stuff being announced. Saying that this is the future of gaming and other stuff like that. To me this only means that we might actually have a 4th legitimate competitor in the hardware department or a replacement for Microsoft by most people's accounts people are convinced that they are going to fall hard on the Xbone. Personally I want to see that happen. The PR surrounding that thing pissed me off like Michael Vick's dog fighting. That man should not have a career after what he did. Yeah I'm that pissed off at Microsoft.
Still do you think Valve may be being overpraised for this? I mean I like them don't get me wrong but don't you think that they might be getting just a bit too much praise at the moment? I mean I see next to no truly negative feedback about their unconventional controller where as when a certain game company tried making an unconventional controller last gen. it was leaning on the negative side with "core" gamers and positive side with the "casual" gamers. It feels like to the internet they can do no wrong. When in my opinion Left 4 Dead and Half-Life were wrong steps. Yeah I played Half-Life 2. It was a slog. Hard: Yes, which is not wrong but it wasn't that fun kind of hard. Just the annoying tear your eyes out kind. The vehicle sections were annoying. The controls awkward and the sections just ran on. Also that damn physics puzzled popped up too many freaking times. Physics can be more fun then a teeter totter.
Back on point. What I am really trying to say is that half the time on this site I don't feel like I belong. I like a lot of the content on here especially between Yahtzee and Moviebob but the community itself seems to accidentally alienate me. I'm 22 and just now daring myself to try and build a gaming PC but I have not converted. I'm a console gamer at heart. I'm just tired of League of Legends freezing on me. I can't operate Linux and yet I want to design games. Some people make it seem like you have to know Linux inherently if you want to have any hope of making games. Then you bring religion into the mix and good god does that open a can of worms. I rarely rarely rarely meet genuine Christians/Muslims/or any form of religious follower that legitimately believes that stuff on this site or others.
Now this is the part where I'm going to sound like a real dick though. There are several out there who look down on people like me who have the same obsessions or hobbies as they do but think I'm some kind of brainless idiot when I tell them I read and believe the Bible. Calling me a child and telling me to go onto my fairy tails or enjoy living in my happy made up dream land. I often want to retort what helps them get through life and not worry about death? Because for me the idea that every single thing I am is just gone in an instant and goes nowhere is the most sad, unappealing. and pathetic existence I can think of. Here is the problem though with you guys that judge us so harshly. You rarely take the higher road. I know that "my people" can be dicks and rude, and hurtful and believe me when I say I wish I could straighten them out myself, but when they show up I never see you guys take the high road. I always see you try to outsmart or poke holes in their logic or just generally try to degrade them so that they are reduced to nothing and you feel good about yourself. Is that really what makes you feel good? Putting "religious whack jobs" in their place?
In conclusion I do know that this is more or less gonna piss people off. Still I think that sometimes people just need to be blunt. I hope I was as blunt as a baseball bat. What I hope to do with threads like this is to get people to slowly start changing the landscape of the internet. As awesome as it is it feels like walking through the land of Mordor. To some people more then others. Just remember that before the next time you try and put someone down on the youtube comments section.
So I bet you are asking why do I bring those things up? I bring them up mostly because of all the recent Valve announcements. How they are making Steam Machines, with the Steam OS, and some kind of 3rd reveal I don't know about is all about of the Half-Life 3 conspiracy. Which in all honesty is one of the few net jokes that doesn't really cease to be funny for me. Now I don't know how this stuff is supposed to work. I haven't looked as much into it as I should but what I do know is this. I can pretty much guarantee PC gamers everywhere are going nuts with this stuff being announced. Saying that this is the future of gaming and other stuff like that. To me this only means that we might actually have a 4th legitimate competitor in the hardware department or a replacement for Microsoft by most people's accounts people are convinced that they are going to fall hard on the Xbone. Personally I want to see that happen. The PR surrounding that thing pissed me off like Michael Vick's dog fighting. That man should not have a career after what he did. Yeah I'm that pissed off at Microsoft.
Still do you think Valve may be being overpraised for this? I mean I like them don't get me wrong but don't you think that they might be getting just a bit too much praise at the moment? I mean I see next to no truly negative feedback about their unconventional controller where as when a certain game company tried making an unconventional controller last gen. it was leaning on the negative side with "core" gamers and positive side with the "casual" gamers. It feels like to the internet they can do no wrong. When in my opinion Left 4 Dead and Half-Life were wrong steps. Yeah I played Half-Life 2. It was a slog. Hard: Yes, which is not wrong but it wasn't that fun kind of hard. Just the annoying tear your eyes out kind. The vehicle sections were annoying. The controls awkward and the sections just ran on. Also that damn physics puzzled popped up too many freaking times. Physics can be more fun then a teeter totter.
Back on point. What I am really trying to say is that half the time on this site I don't feel like I belong. I like a lot of the content on here especially between Yahtzee and Moviebob but the community itself seems to accidentally alienate me. I'm 22 and just now daring myself to try and build a gaming PC but I have not converted. I'm a console gamer at heart. I'm just tired of League of Legends freezing on me. I can't operate Linux and yet I want to design games. Some people make it seem like you have to know Linux inherently if you want to have any hope of making games. Then you bring religion into the mix and good god does that open a can of worms. I rarely rarely rarely meet genuine Christians/Muslims/or any form of religious follower that legitimately believes that stuff on this site or others.
Now this is the part where I'm going to sound like a real dick though. There are several out there who look down on people like me who have the same obsessions or hobbies as they do but think I'm some kind of brainless idiot when I tell them I read and believe the Bible. Calling me a child and telling me to go onto my fairy tails or enjoy living in my happy made up dream land. I often want to retort what helps them get through life and not worry about death? Because for me the idea that every single thing I am is just gone in an instant and goes nowhere is the most sad, unappealing. and pathetic existence I can think of. Here is the problem though with you guys that judge us so harshly. You rarely take the higher road. I know that "my people" can be dicks and rude, and hurtful and believe me when I say I wish I could straighten them out myself, but when they show up I never see you guys take the high road. I always see you try to outsmart or poke holes in their logic or just generally try to degrade them so that they are reduced to nothing and you feel good about yourself. Is that really what makes you feel good? Putting "religious whack jobs" in their place?
In conclusion I do know that this is more or less gonna piss people off. Still I think that sometimes people just need to be blunt. I hope I was as blunt as a baseball bat. What I hope to do with threads like this is to get people to slowly start changing the landscape of the internet. As awesome as it is it feels like walking through the land of Mordor. To some people more then others. Just remember that before the next time you try and put someone down on the youtube comments section.