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| BlackNinjaVinny 565th Post
 
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|  "Skip to "To sum it..." for the jist of this."
, posted Sun 27 Jul 01:26
First off, in no way were my intentions to say I disapprove of social parties. The comment about '...this is a party I'd expect...' was intended to have meant I can understand how a magazine such as that, or maybe a better example would be a magazine such as Entertainment Weekly, or Hell, maybe even Time, could throw a party like the one this 1-up magazine is doing. A magazine that can have spokes models of companies come, or movie stars, or heads of big wig companies. I can see that. But 1-up is trying to make a party like that involving video games.
This is mainly a surprise to me as I could never quite understand the video game subculture, or more accurately, how it could exist. I like video games. Who doesn't? But as something to base you're life around? The people who would rather never leave the house and just play video games all day. It's those people who I can't understand.
I have always perceived video games as a toy. Something you play with when you're bored. I enjoy playing a game of Street Fighter and such with a friend. We can play it if we are waiting for someone, or if we are waiting to see a movie or something. But I can not see any fun in going over a friends house to merely play video games all day and do nothing else. A life of that would just seem to be a waste to me.
I still dig playing video games, like I mentioned before. It’s nice to hear news about a cool game coming out. SNK vs. Capcom has me a bit excited. I’d like to give it a try. But now take this and apply it to one of these video game obsessed people. Those who sit around waiting for each scrap of news. Those who put others down for liking video games by a certain company and such. Something that I really don’t understand is the bickering going on about three big name systems out. People who hate it because of a certain company. I can’t understand why people would do that.
OK, I’m getting a little off topic now ^_^. It may sound like it, but I’m not trying to put people down who live this style of life. I simply just don’t understand how they can. But the same can be said for me. Many probably can’t understand why me, and quite a few others, bicker over car companies. I guess it just seemed OK to me because that’s societies norm. Shit, talking about society. I feel like I’m back in high school.
To sum it up, I guess I just don’t understand enough about those who live their lives for video games. A party based on this love just comes off as weird to me. The many aspects, too. Do video games mean so much to people that they form a band to play songs from them? Or to make a magazine based around them? This, I cannot understand, and yes, I know I sounded quite arrogant in my two previous posts, and I’m sorry for that. Especially to you, Exodus, to whom I just sounded like an ass to ^_^; It’s been a bad week, just venting. I just want to find whoever thinks it’s funny to litter my backyard with chocolate pastries…
As for me and the partying, some parties just end up with getting loaded. Maybe some didn’t have the chance to experience such in high school, but some parties at a friends house always seemed to circle around alcohol. I never did drugs, but included that because fellow party goers seemed to always include that in there curriculum. I can have a great time just hanging out with a friend on his porch talking. I can also have a great time with a friend getting loaded and acting stupid. It’s just all what the parties about.
There are some you come to get drunk. Others you go to celebrate. I wouldn’t dream of getting loaded at my best friends birthday if it’s not what he intended. I don’t go to parties expecting alcohol. I don’t walk in just and ask where the alcohol. It’s just when it’s there, it’s there. I included that as an example because it’s what I, and most people my age, do.
Sorry for the long, pointless post.
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| DarkZero
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| "Re(1):Skip to" , posted Sun 27 Jul 01:56
Hundreds of thousands of people, possibly even millions, all across the world, gather each day to watch games. More specifically, to watch other people play games. It's called "sports". It has caused much face-painting, barbecuing, gambling, death, property destruction, male bonding, and uncountable hours of fun for thousands of years. It is accepted. It is normal. It is something not often criticized, nor mocked in an unfriendly manner. And all of this without being a form of entertainment that not only entails friendly competition and cooperation, but also art, music, and story-telling.
Also, just because someone leaves the house or even travels a substantial distance to go to something does not mean that it is "their life". Many sports fans travel substantial distances to visit their team's stadium, possibly planning a stop there while on vacation. And I don't think I know anyone that hasn't travelled for hours to get to their favorite band's concert, or a play, or a stand-up comedy act, or something that required a few hours of travel just for the sake of a hobby. Are all of these people of some rare, antisocial (yet surprisingly common and social) breed of obsessed freak?
Everyone has some weird little quirk or hobby that they're willing to go to great lengths to enjoy. I will be rather surprised if you do not.
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| exodus 1069th Post
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| "Re(1):Skip to" , posted Sun 27 Jul 16:09
Vinny:
Ah, I see. Well be aware that game journalism is what I plan to do with my life...as you know, a *job*. Thus, for me, going to this thing is not a stretch. Besided, I live most of my life in LA these days, so driving there does not seem bizarre to me.
But the comment about those who don't leave the house seems unwarranted. Because, quite obviously to me, this party is taking place in nobody's house. It's a gathering like any other - get a bunch of people together who have similar interests, and there you are. It's not so much videogame themed as it is a celebration of independent game journalism. This is something interesting to me because I'm involved in it.
It's getting together in person with a bunch of people you know online, and whose ideas or aims you respect.
Plus, I mean...the minibosses were playing. And they're pretty cool.
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