gamers are weird, discuss
what's wrong with real life, ffs?
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 7 Jun 2012, 16:00, 3 replies, latest was 12 years ago)

it's the biggest entertainment industry in the world, can't be that shit.
(ThunderCuntThePendejo officially less shit than NakedApe, Thu 7 Jun 2012, 16:04, Reply)

the only people i have met who were over the age of 25 and into computer games
were your stereotypical internet weirdos - pasty, bespectacled, geeky, but utterly convinced of their own coolness.

i would like to be disabused of this notion, but.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 7 Jun 2012, 16:11, Reply)

CORRECT
Also, because he's sold millions of records Elton fucking John must be great, yeah?
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 7 Jun 2012, 16:19, Reply)

fat chicks look smaller in games
from the right distance
(Quintno EXPERIMENT RUINED CANCELLED, LEFT 4EVER, Thu 7 Jun 2012, 16:08, Reply)

same could be said of/to people who read books or watch TV
in my defence I have no interest in games.
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Thu 7 Jun 2012, 16:10, Reply)

sort of
but people get so obsessed with computer games, like the extreme case of the couple who were playing "second life" so much that their own child died of starvation - that doesn't happen with books or tv.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 7 Jun 2012, 16:12, Reply)

never hapens with books, does it?
*cough-bible-cough*
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Thu 7 Jun 2012, 16:13, Reply)

hmmm
gamers are geekier than godbotherers, discuss.

this would be a GOOD moot.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 7 Jun 2012, 16:14, Reply)

No, because they're not interactive and open-ended
You can't achieve the same level of total escapism from your own life.
( Kroney, Thu 7 Jun 2012, 16:14, Reply)