Do Gamers Have Enemies?

And I'm not talking about an enemy on MW2, Halo 3, or BFBC2.
I mean people against video games, and the people who play them in general.
The simple answer is, yes.
From parents, politicians, feminists, and the non-gaming buzz killers.

Apparently we live in a world where 63% of the population plays video games, with the average age being 30. You more than likely have heard this before, but has anybody really taken the time to think long and hard about this statement. Lately I've thought about this quite a bit.

For years we as gamers have not always had it easy, from accusations, scapegoating, and stereotyping, even we have drama to deal with outside of a game.


People just LOVE to blame video games for children acting out, or adults committing some kind of crime. Sure, video games may have desensitized us from violence, I proudly admit it sure has to me, but to actually make us WANT to commit a crime? Well, that's just absurd.
Parents who blame video games for the bad things their children do are just unfathomably stupid.
The parents don't wanna admit their own damn mistakes and not being a decent parent, so they go and blame video games.

If a person is actually stupid enough to act out what they see in a video game, then they deserve whatever comes to them, adults especially. With children, they're just kids, the parents are the ones who should either:
a) BE A PARENT, and restrict what video games their child plays, if a child is playing a M rated video game, well, we all know who bought it for them.
b) TEACH THEM values and morals, so maybe they won't act out their stupid GTA fantasy.

I myself was never a stupid little kid as to act out what I saw on a video game. I was raised right. And even as an adult I know better...well, I do occasionally have a fantasy of dressing up in a ghillie suit and sniping people from a tree...or doin' a bit of illegal street racing *-*

BUT ANYWAYS, one can only fantasize. :P

On to stereotypes!
Ugh, tis a horrible thing with us gamers!
For years, and still to this day, we have to endure the harsh stereotypes ignorant people assign us.

Especially female gamers, I've seen this a few times myself, if I'm ever playing online, the usual responses I get are along the lines of....

"Oh my god, is that a girl?" <-- My usual response to that is "No, I'm just a 10 year old boy who hasn't hit puberty yet"
"I bet she's ugly"
"I bet she's hot"
"Want some dick?"
"How old are you?"
etc etc.
I love it when I hear them say, "Oooh, you just got beat by a girl"
Not sure if that's an insult or compliment, but I enjoy it anyways. :F

On to feminists, these...creatures annoy me more than ANYTHING on this planet.
They always bitch about everything, including video games, "That game is misogynist"
"This game demeans women, herp derp blah blah blah"

I don't give a fuck if video games demean women or not, they deserve it. After this I'm gonna go on GTA and get me a prostitute, then kill the bitch and get my moniez back.

Lastly, but certainly not least, non-gamers!
Agh, pretentious snobs they are.
For years, we've endured their criticism. Gamers are immature. Gamers are immoral. Gamers are wasting time and money on silly, stupid toys. Herp derp derp.

Some non-gamers are quite...uneducated about video games, and the gaming world, so they can annoy us when asking us things like, "Do you have Hello 3 for the Wii?" "Is that that one Mario game?"

So yeah, every game ever made is not called Mario. Ditto for Pac-Man, Tetris, Doom, Myst and Pong. We have not been playing the same thing for 25 years. Similarly, Gears of War is not Halo "with new guns" and Soul Calibur is not Street Fighter "with different graphics."

No, his name isn't "Zelda." It's Link. Samus isn't "Metroid" and Pikachu isn't "Pokemon." Sometimes videogames, like books, films and television, are complex enough to contain characters with names separate from the title. Hard to believe, but true!

Then there's the other type of non-gamers, who constantly rip on gamers.
Calling us pathetic, losers, nerds, etc.
And also saying how we have no life, to which I respond, "I'm a gamer, I have many lives ;)"

All in all, we as gamers have it rough at times, even more than dealing with the red ring of death!
But in the end, we just play on our consoles/PC's and chillax. 8)