Gamer

When most people think of gamers they think of guys whose life consist of video games and an unhealthy lifestyle (not just physically, but mentally, socially, intellectually, and etc.). I’m here to kill that stereotype like I kill every noob in Call of Duty. I am the complete opposite of what many people think gamers are, I’m a female, my major is in Biology, and I love doing my makeup. I have always been in love with video games, but the moment I knew I would be a true gamer was when my dad first allowed

Professional Gamer Negative Outcomes It’s preposterous and a dream come true, the profession of an elite gamer. In this day and age, this recreational activity is considered a career. The professional sports they had in previous generations are transitioning into eSports, one of the fastest growing industries in the United States, South Korea, and other places around the world. “To put the skyrocketing of eSport viewership into perspective, the 2013 League of Legends Season 3 World Championship’s

in general. However, you do not ever think about telling your friends and coworkers that because you already know how people react to “gamers” or “nerds” or “geeks”. You are terrified that people will insult you and call you childish, idiotic or even stupid. You know this since you were stereotyped before of being a childish/idiotic “nerd” or “geek” or “gamer”, and know you are left with the memory of being generalized for what you like your entire life. In reality though, these stereotypes are

Psychology of Games and Gamers What is a Gamer? This question is thrown around today with more accusations and people trying to defend themselves than anyone had thought possible before. A gamer used to be someone who simply played games, but now it 's been branched off into so many different types of gamers. The main types I will be focusing on are as follows: The Casual Gamer - Someone who primarily plays casual games or plays games less frequently than others. The Core Gamer - A player with a

experiences in gaming. But his colleagues call him a loser and a dweeb for playing games. This is because when the word gamer is said, images of fat, unemployed, basement dwellers who have nothing better to do than play games come to mind. Stereotypes are qualities assigned to groups of people because of race, nationality, or sexual orientation. Stereotypes of gamers usually portray a fat, unhealthy basement dwellers ridden with acne and living on a diet of burgers and Red Bull. This is

A gamer is someone who plays video games as a hobby. Gamers are usually quite good at this hobby. Gaming has been around since 1958. It’s ancient. Few people in the United States have gone untouched by video games at some point in their lives. In fact, it is estimated that the number of gamers around the world is about 1.2 billion people. That is a good portion of Earth’s 7.2 billion population. Gaming is huge. Despite that, there are quite a few stereotypes regarding gamers. Some people seem to

medieval times, be a soldier in WWI, or build a fortress while gathering resources to survive a zombie apocalypse. Gamers can experience all of this and more through the world of video games, but many people have developed false perceptions of who the gamer community consists of. These false perceptions have only formed negative stereotypes for the gaming community, but the truth is gamers can be anyone. Stereotype, as defined by the Oxford English Dictionary, is "A preconceived and oversimplified

The term “gamer” tends to be synonymous with “geek” in many people’s minds. They see gaming as a device that absorbs the majority of the time of the user, leaving them as mindless empty, pale husks with no ambitions other than beating that next boss or shooting the enemy in the face. However, few gamers waste their life away. On the contrary, many of these so-called geeks tend to be more social than the average person, and farther down the technological curve than most. For the truth is that gaming

my group decided to do our documentary on a topic that we are all passionate about. Video games and the stereotypes that we, as gamers, are put into. there's so many: girls can't be hardcore gamers, all gamers are post pubescent teens with extreme social anxiety,gaming is a pointless hobby, all gamers are violent, etc. we have to fight Against how society sees us and slowly we may manage to get the respect and acceptance that we deserve. But the thing many don’t understand is that stereotypes are

entertainment molded me into the writer I am today. In my ignorance I didn't think it possible that a person could use gaming much in the same way I used to books, and I wrote it off as an expensive waste of time. More and more though, articles about female gamers infiltrated story lines in my social media, to the point that I could no longer ignore. I read Latoya Peterson's "Girls in Gaming: A Story Worth Telling" where she described video games as a " defining medium of our time", worthy of taking their place