Gaming Community Paper

Video games have become as pervasive an aspect of our society as television, with many people spending more time playing video games than watching television. There are many perspectives with which to gauge videos games’ effect on society, from a functionalist, conflict or interactionist perspective. (Schaefer, 2011) Each of these sociological theories can provide a different view of video games, how they affect society and the subcultures that develop around them.

Central Idea: Focusing on how games are incorperated in peoples lives by viewing the time spent playing, relationships through video games, how video games are for all people, and the social aspect that is incorperated in the video games.

“In today’s society computer and video games are fulfilling genuine human needs that the real world is currently unable to satisfy. Games are providing rewards that reality is not. They are teaching and inspiring and engaging us in ways that reality is not. They are bringing us together in ways that reality is not. And unless something dramatic happens to reverse the resulting exodus, we are fast on

Though gaming has its drawbacks, it also has many benefits to cover them. If controlled, gaming is extremely useful and with the amount of gamers in the world today, it proves that it is not just for children or for teenagers. There are millions of adult gamers that understand the importance of gaming in the under the existing circumstances of the world. Individuals that have studied gamers believe that gaming in today’s

Maybe it's just my nerves getting the best of me. This would be the game of a lifetime and it would be my last game whether we win or lose. The High School championship basketball game would be filled with press and crawling with college coaches eager to offer the students that stand out the most amongst the others. My knee was still bothering me, but I wouldn't let that hold me back from giving my all for the last game of my senior year. Everyone was pumped, we knew it was now or never. We were more than prepared to win this game. We started our pregame dance, as usual, I was always first to start us off because the team agreed I had the most rhythm. I did a few dance moves, a bit of twerking and a few other things my parents probably wouldn't approve of, but it was all for kicks and giggles. After my dancing, I returned to my spot in the circle and waited for the next person to go in.

The film Second Skin provided a large coverage of the effects of massive multiplayer online games on the players and the people around them. This film was used to shed light on what actually occurs in a gamers’ life and their perspective on their “hobby”. The point that jumped out the most would be the fact that excessive gaming can be as addictive as drugs and as a result can have mental and social repercussions. The fact is that online gamers find it difficult to draw the fine line when a game is for passing time and when it officially becomes a problem.

In Clash Royale my goal is to make it to Royal Arena, maybe even the frosty Frozen Peak! How will I do this? Countering everything. The only reason to counter is because your Crown tower is at 500 health or lower. The only way I’ll get to Royal Arena is to use the most annoying deck in Clash Royale is the Spawner Deck. The hardest battle in Spell Valley was against this lvl 9. He was annoying and all but, I still won. Here's how I did it. I placed down the mighty P.E.K.K.A. Then my Witch followed my P.E.K.K.A. He countered with Skeleton Army. The Skeletron Army just got demolished by my Witch. My P.E.K.K.A decimated the Crown Tower. My P.E.K.K.A. was still at half health. If do that strat it is a guaranteed first crown tower.(If they don’t

Gaming has been a controversial topic with a line drawn between it. One side believing that video games ruin culture. On the other side of the line people believe gaming has cultural benefits. Will Wright writer of “Dream Machines,” writes how evolution of gaming has changed over the decades and how it benefits today's youth. No longer can we say they will rot your brains, when todays studies show how we benefit from them. As a gamer myself I would like to prove to the doubters how beneficial gaming is.

Naval have received an urgent message from command. The message indicated that the CIS has created a prototype weapon that disintegrates targets on a small scale, but is only getting more and more advanced as time goes on. We have been instructed to gather a task force (most likely a few battalions that are within the commando/attack battalions) and destroy the weapon on a droid foundry before it can amass to a larger

To highlight the ideas Nancy K. Baym addressed in her chapter, Communities and Networks, I found a TEDx Talk by Rosianna Halse Rojas (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JmFXtbsL2g), an online content producer who looks at online communities as having a positive impact. Rosianna Halse Rojas is a YouTuber with 42,000 subscribers who, in the TEDx Talk describes herself as an active member of an online community (YouTube). In her TEDx Talk, she describes how her love for Harry Potter fueled her interest in online content and online communities.

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My team, the strikers, was the very first soccer team I played on. The strikers were the only team that I had ever gone to the championships and the only team I ever wanted to play for. When the day of the finals came upon me, I had so much determination yet also fear for if we were gonna lose or win. Because it all depended on me as the goalie to not let one ball through our net.

Board Games: Although it may sound strange now, owning board games used to be considered a symbol of wealth. Until recently, people didn’t have the free time to sit and play a game - they were too busy working or farming. Only the wealthy had time to sit around and socialize.

Video Game Designing is when people create new games. They decide what a game will be about and how it would look. Video game designers may design games for computers, game consoles, or cell phones. In 2013, the video game industry as a whole made about $24 billions (Powell 6). What inspires individuals to pursue a career in video game designing? Most game designers were inspired to pursue this career because they had their own ideals of making video games even better or bring it up to the next level. For example, creating your own characters to be extremely powerful with ultra armor, so you cannot be killed or defeated easily. Also creating your own custom levels some can be more adventures or, a 3D level with virtual worlds can make it more advance. Video game designers today are stepping up their skills on making video games more advanced and challenging to win then the games in the past.

Video games are a huge part of our society more now than ever before. A huge number of people around the world play them. In fact, the game StarCraft boasts to be South Koreas unofficial national sport due to the high number of players. Throughout media and just day-to-day life. Throughout this paper, I am going to discuss not only the pros of video gaming but also the cons.