Yeah but does anyone really use those? Especially now that reddit exists, has the same thing, and is more readily visible to that particular demographic?
As noted, the smaller boards seem OK for the most part (which is incidentally why they are fairly slow), and some of the larger ones are not completely dominated by awful people, which is why I qualified the statement.
I'm not really a fan of 4chan. It's too fast, impersonal and insular for me.
Is there a Level -1 category for people who are mediocre at casual scum games? Would they be the casual scum of casual scum?
On a more serious note, I think one of the silliest parts of the hardcore gamers vs. casuals thing is that it represents a hierarchy within a larger group that is itself sort of socially disfavored. While playing video games as a hobby may be a bit more mainstream now than it used to be, I feel like plenty of people still believe it is either childish, a colossal waste of time, or both.
Sure, there are definitely reasons to criticize certain behaviors that are all too common within gaming circles, but I am not sure I have ever really understood the desire to classify people and draw lines within what already is a bit of a niche group. Honestly, I feel pretty similar about people trying to precisely define "nerd," "geek," "dork" and related terms to establish some sort of pecking order.
Is there a Level -1 category for people who are mediocre at casual scum games? Would they be the casual scum of casual scum?
On a more serious note, I think one of the silliest parts of the hardcore gamers vs. casuals thing is that it represents a hierarchy within a larger group that is itself sort of socially disfavored. While playing video games as a hobby may be a bit more mainstream now than it used to be, I feel like plenty of people still believe it is either childish, a colossal waste of time, or both.
Sure, there are definitely reasons to criticize certain behaviors that are all too common within gaming circles, but I am not sure I have ever really understood the desire to classify people and draw lines within what already is a bit of a niche group. Honestly, I feel pretty similar about people trying to precisely define "nerd," "geek," "dork" and related terms to establish some sort of pecking order.
What I think is happening is that people want to take pride in their eccentricities and create a hierarchy that disfavours those that would look down on them... and then proceed to behave just like those who call them childish weirdos, in essence reinforcing the stereotypes and alienating less hung-up people.
Sredni Vashtar, What I think is happening is that people want to take pride in their eccentricities and create a hierarchy that disfavours those that would look down on them... and then proceed to behave just like those who call them childish weirdos, in essence reinforcing the stereotypes and alienating less hung-up people. Yeah, I think you more or less nailed what I was trying to get at with that last post. If you want to read more into it, I guess you could also add something about people who have been bullied or criticized wanting to find their own group to mock. I would like to think that most of it is not so intentionally malicious though. Whatever the reason for it may be, I feel like creating hierarchies like this can make finding good places to talk about niche interests rather difficult sometimes.
Imipolex G, Honestly, I just like how the small text looks. That said, if it bothers you, I could go back to a larger size.
/b/ was at its best when it actually was being loopy...porn dumps, attempts to out-ew goresploitation films or ED's "Offended" page, and bad attempts at being Reddit/Fark/Digg/(insert your favorite news aggregtor here) all got old fast.
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I feel like it's easier to do that on reddit because the subreddits are more cleanly divided. Idk.
Even /z/ is better and that is just a picture of a benis with bees on it
On a more serious note, I think one of the silliest parts of the hardcore gamers vs. casuals thing is that it represents a hierarchy within a larger group that is itself sort of socially disfavored. While playing video games as a hobby may be a bit more mainstream now than it used to be, I feel like plenty of people still believe it is either childish, a colossal waste of time, or both.
Sure, there are definitely reasons to criticize certain behaviors that are all too common within gaming circles, but I am not sure I have ever really understood the desire to classify people and draw lines within what already is a bit of a niche group. Honestly, I feel pretty similar about people trying to precisely define "nerd," "geek," "dork" and related terms to establish some sort of pecking order.
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What I think is happening is that people want to take pride in their eccentricities and create a hierarchy that disfavours those that would look down on them... and then proceed to behave just like those who call them childish weirdos, in essence reinforcing the stereotypes and alienating less hung-up people.
Yeah, I think you more or less nailed what I was trying to get at with that last post. If you want to read more into it, I guess you could also add something about people who have been bullied or criticized wanting to find their own group to mock. I would like to think that most of it is not so intentionally malicious though. Whatever the reason for it may be, I feel like creating hierarchies like this can make finding good places to talk about niche interests rather difficult sometimes.
Imipolex G,
Honestly, I just like how the small text looks. That said, if it bothers you, I could go back to a larger size.