DoctaStrangelove wrote:
robcr9 wrote:
DoctaStrangelove wrote:
I would just like to remind everyone that if you play any game competitively, and take it all srsly, like the OP does then you automatically fail at the universe.
Not if you're winning money while having fun. Win/win situation. bye bye.
And how many people actually have made money from playing video games? Sure maybe you win free games or a keyboard or some shit, but it's not an actual job. And if it was a job then it wouldn't be fun, it'd be a job.
Professional gaming is a fulltime hobby that you do in substitute for a job. Sorry to state the obvious, but you can't really relate the two- gaming obviously involves sitting around on yer arse for copious amounts of time with little regard to any other affairs in your personal, social and business life. Consequently most 'pro gamers' are either students or people that have been sucked into multigaming conglomerate-corporate-shitcakes that throw them a free PC/gear and a paltry pittance to survive on. Tournament and LAN winnings are nice bonuses but yeah, there is no steady income, and it's generally a pursuit for people with way too much free time or a severely messed up sense of priority. I can attest to this... been there, done that, got the 'I Wasted Several Years Of My Life' t-shirt.
Associating this subculture-phenomenon of professional gaming with nationalities and gross generalities / prejudices is beyond retarded though. I sincerely hopes that kids like Irishpride die out of the gaming scene altogether; they bring the irrational elitism and utter twattish mentality to mid-high level gaming that so unfairly daubs all the rest of the competitors with the same brush.
@Simon: I'm addressing the
principle at hand of determining between groups of gamers by country/flag/nationality. I don't care if this thread is a spoof-post, the other thread is orientated around the exact same /failboat point.
Last edited by Uzique (2009-04-12 18:07:57)