This is a stereotyping thread. I'm 14, and I don't scream that everybody who kills me in first-person shooters is an asshole, I don't use profanity directed towards people to their face unless I've been targeted by it first. It doesn't make me feel "big," or anything, but it's a nice vent when you've just been cursed out, because it basically lets me say, "yes, everybody knows how to curse so shut up and play the freakin game." I've played in several different guilds across several different games, and most of the guild was in a 17-25 age group. Did I still carry on a mature conversation with them? Yes. Did they notice I was my age until I told them? No. The three situations I will use profanity in are retaliation, as I said before, to show them that putting together a simple four or five letters isn't some ability exclusive to them. The other is cursing an inanimate object in frustration, (Fucking demon killed me 30 times) or something like that. This is just for venting, because I can't honestly come up with a stinging insult for something that has no perrsonality or history. The last is when I'm talking to my friends, I'll say something like "this asshole was spawn camping AND teabagging today," but I'll never give his name, and again, not intended to offend the person, as they cannot hear it and I like to be able to vent. Saying "all kids are chipmunk-voice losers that fire off the word fuck like a machine gun," is a stereotype. That's equivilant of saying "all black people should be in jail because they all steal things and shoot people." More of us are mature than you give us credit for, because you only notice the ones that annoy you. I'm sure you play with more kids than you think. Those people without mics? The one that played legit, didn't camp, and didn't whine about losing by sending you hate mail? That was probably a kid. You notice the ones that annoy you because you expect them to be more respectful.
"It's a hate towards the image gamer kids give towards the entire gamer audience."
(New to the forums, don't know how to quote.)I'm pretty sure we do less damage than you do. When the gamer sterotypes come around, people generally think of a fat 30 year old man sitting in his mother's basement playing games all day, breaking only to LARP. Bit of a difference between 14 and 30. Not so much 25 and 30. The "mature adults," do the image a bit more damage than we do. It's even expected for a guy to have at least one video game in his teens or preteens. Not so much as you get older. Sure, I think adults can play games. They've got better developed reflexes and their sense of time is diferent from being alive longer, so they can grind longer and respond faster. That mean they'll probably be better. But really, don't look down on us so much. It's rude, and blaming stereotypes on an age group is hipocritical because that is a stereotype on its own. That's not wxactly "mature," now is it?
"It's a hate towards the image gamer kids give towards the entire gamer audience."
(New to the forums, don't know how to quote.)I'm pretty sure we do less damage than you do. When the gamer sterotypes come around, people generally think of a fat 30 year old man sitting in his mother's basement playing games all day, breaking only to LARP. Bit of a difference between 14 and 30. Not so much 25 and 30. The "mature adults," do the image a bit more damage than we do. It's even expected for a guy to have at least one video game in his teens or preteens. Not so much as you get older. Sure, I think adults can play games. They've got better developed reflexes and their sense of time is diferent from being alive longer, so they can grind longer and respond faster. That mean they'll probably be better. But really, don't look down on us so much. It's rude, and blaming stereotypes on an age group is hipocritical because that is a stereotype on its own. That's not wxactly "mature," now is it?
