Weekend Double Feature: Gamers, what we are, and are not
I first wrote this to celebrate Winter-een-mas, a silly winter holiday invented by the web comic, Tim Buckley . The reasoning being, if everyone else gets a holiday, why can't gamers have one! It's a week, in mid January dedicated to games, laughing, and pleasing the Gaming Gods. I've since expanded this one, moved some stuff around, but it's still very true. Gamers aren't all over-weight, over-educated nerds who've never seen a women before. A good portion of us are women! [And yes, we've seen nekkid women and men! Woohoo!] As perceptions change, as gaming begins to take on more and more forms I think we'll become more and more acceptable. (ie. social or causal gaming becoming so big, and games like Scrabble you play on your phone with your friends). I also expect gamers to become more acceptable as we age a little more, and our cohort starts taking over more of the governing of the country. The average gamer is in their 30's, with a spo...