To my fellow gamers...

[Leisher]

You might have the reflexes of a cat, but you're also probably fat and out of shape.

I'm not sure this study is fair.

Who did this guy test? Did he include Wii players, particularly Wii Fit and EA Active players? Did he test all age groups? Did he test cell phone gamers?



Edited By Leisher on 1276201970

[TPRJones]

Sounds like he went to a trade show and just took whoever showed up.

[Malcolm]

There's umpteen zillion things that need clarification.

What's a "gamer?"
What's "fit?"
Who's your control, Olympic athletes, normal folk, or non-gaming & out of shape folk?

Then he goes off on this...

I have a theory. Micklewright's research showed that gamers do have certain things in common with the finest of athletes. Reaction time, for example. Competitiveness, too. Their general motor skill levels are first class. Emotionally, they also exhibit little predilection for depression and they quite like themselves.

I wonder, though, whether they feel it would betray an ethos, a culture, a way of life, if they suddenly bought themselves some tight pink spandex and started spending their summers like Suzanne Somers. What gamer of any worth would twitch his pecs at a lissom lovely, when he could destroy a whole galaxy with the merest twitch of a finger?

Gaming, like baseball, was invented for those who were shunned even at elementary school, those who wanted no more to run an errand than to run 100 meters. Gaming is less a world and more an underworld. It exists to accept the exiled, the shunned, the poor, the huddled masses yearning to breathe free, even at three in morning.

Whoa, there, buddy. Put down the bong & take a deep breath.

[Troy]

I it's possible we are assuming we are classified as gamers simply because we game.

I think that the guy specifically went for the sub class of the gamer groups "the neckbeard, basement dwelling, cheeto eating type" and is making judgement upon the rest of us because of it.



Edited By Troy on 1276205635