Who said there was anything wrong with gamers using JU? I've been doing that the whole time and even got a featured article that was game-related (in the form of my developer diaries for my World in Conflict mod).

Are you saying you are an Opinionated Mexican Catholic Homosexual Gamer? Well...welcome to JU!

Do you even read the stuff you write?

Oh yeah, and what Phazon88 said.

I do read it, I'm just writing it in reply to at least one person telling me to go back to the gaming sites I frequent and leave JU.

Where I live being called Mexican is not just a part of race, it's a part of culture.

I've got an overflow of articles right now, but I don't know if I'll keep being able to post so often.

Yes, but one chooses to be a gamer, not the culture in which they are born and raised.
(I'm going to stop here, its going off-topic.)

Actually, it's still on-topic, for all I care.

I believe gaming is a culture, and I was pretty much raised in it.

So does this gaming culture have a music, style of dress, menu of food items, or anything else unique to or originating from it? (MtDew and Doritos do not count, they predate it...and you'll have to come up with more than soundtracks to satisfy the music requirement.)

I'm not saying gaming doesn't have a culture of sorts. Heck, Star Trek fandom has a culture of sorts. I'm just saying comparing being "Mexican" to being "a gamer" is kind of like comparing piloting a passenger jet to riding a bicycle.

Simply, I listen to video game music (yes, I do. Oblivion and Shadowrun are my faves), I even prefer 8 bit to the real song, and I find MIDI's an easy-listening format. I wear whatever I want, though generally bright, atrocious colors. I eat pretty much the entire diet of most people in this day and age (I dunno if this counts, but I make a real-life nonalcloholic "PPC" from the Battletech galaxy using too much Ovaltine and various other components in about half-an-inch of milk).

I do find that gaming has its own culture. Stronger than the Trekkie fandom, though maybe it's just because I missed out on that due to the cheese of most of the episodes I saw, lack of diamond-hardness, and other various things, but I do believe it has its own culture at least as strong as Mexican culture is. When they speak of a "Decker" lifestyle in Cyberpunk, it really applies to gamers. Energy drinks, those are us. Though I don't drink 'em. Messes me up.

Sorry for double post, but no, I am saying I am an Opinionated Caucasian Protestant Heterosexual (though Celibate) Gamer.

Ok, I'm just gonna have to walk away from this thread now.

Perhaps that *is* a bit of an overstatement there.

Haha, I'm glad I'm able to provide you with some food for thought to actually create a somewhat decent article (compared to you "on" series).

Allow me to pick on you, feel free to delete at your choosing.



First I will give you some advise, take it or leave it, I don't care. If you have doubts about your own opinions, such as not being sure if the above is out of context or not, you should probably avoid saying anything at all that could get you into more dilemmas than you were planning to solve. here are my exact words that lead to this article:



It seems obvious that my point was that you spent a lot of time on gaming sites so that would seem to be what suits you better than what you are doing here. The fact that this site has a gaming section and that the owner of this site is also the owner of StarDock and creates games such as GalCiv, it would seem really stupid for anyone to suggest you have no place on this site because you are a gamer.

Just so you know I am a gamer. I am a hardcore Call Of Duty 4 player. My name is BraveStarr and I belong to The Brotherhood Clan so my name online is [BHC]BraveStarr. I also play Call Of Duty United Offensive and Call of Duty 2. Now that you know a little bit about me, stop acting as if we are picking on you for being a gamer simply because somehow we are not.



First of all this is the dumbest thing anyone can do in their lives. Learn to pick in choose your battles, so fights are not worth fighting. I'm not sure what kind of training you are talking about but what ever it is, it's not working. You still have a lot to learn young padawan. What they should have taught you was to be an adult and learn that petty back and forth arguments in a childish manner is pointless and in the end no one wins. Win the battle? Child, you need to grow up already. People come here to debate not to do battle; the purpose of a debate is to put your point across, not to defeat your opponent. If you are confident in your opinion and can back up your comments with facts then you have nothing to defend or worry.



Maybe you should try not to assume the worse all the time. Generalizing everyone under a single thought is a very ignorant way to live life. First you say your experiences prove this to be true then you say this may not apply to JU, which would suggest your theory is wrong because you found proof that says otherwise. Contradiction is a really bad thing to do on JU, especially with google's cache keeping record of everything you and everyone else writes.



Get over yourself already. Being a gamer is just that, being a gamer. No religion, no race, no culture, no dress style. You play games, period. Should people who play sports be called sporters and have a culture of their own? Should people who love cars be called automobilers?

Let's stick to the facts here, you are lousy at making articles and at debating them. You are lousy at defending yourself and you are waaaaaaaaaaaaaay too sensitive. Being part of a blogging community means that you will have people who will agree and people who will disagree with you. You will have nice people and you will have unpleasant people. If you can't deal with this, then maybe blogging is not for you. One things for sure, you need to grow up already. It's one thing to get into silly arguments with a fellow JU blogger that become more like entertainment to others than actually making a point, but it's another to be thick headed and not listen when some are actually being nice or trying to help you or basically saying the truth and instead argue like a disrespectful child regardless of how wrong you may be.

You do realize that's exactly what I was talking about, don't you?

Ah, so my reply is the only one on this article I see. And you have been doing a great job boycotting his articles, I believe this is the second time I see you breaking it? Seems you guys are paying more attention to his articles than you claim to be, otherwise you would not be here calling a pot black, miss kettle.

BTW, you should pay more attention, I wasnt the only one posting on his articles (col gene), you are pretty much dragging IslandDog into this mix since he posted almost as often as I did on his articles. If you wanna steer clear of peoples article, that's your prerogative, but do me a favor and stop acting as if we somehow have to bowdown to you and steer clear of those you dislike just so you don't have to see their articles. Your obsession with the ignore feature is now extending to literally insulting people into falling in line with your mentallity. Get over yourself already, you are no ones boss around here. Deal with it.



Actually, you were refering to how, because you are a gamer, that I think you should leave because you shouldn't be here. My point, which you seem to continue to miss, is that you seem to be more into gaming so maybe that's what you should stick to. And considering you are causing so much headache to many here (I could care less) maybe you should have stayed over there. I could care less whether you stay or go, some here might feel the need to boycott you and then bitch to those who give you air time (not that it's any of their business what I say to who), I will agree and disagree and tell you what's on my mind so long as I am able to post on the article. If others don't like it, they can kiss my Latino behind.

So, wait, you're telling me that I'm more into gaming than life?