What's up with gamers?

I'm just saying gaming doesn't bring about new and "dangerous" or negative behavior that hasn't existed in kids forever. Like blaming gaming for violence and things. Kids have always been violent with each other. Gaming is just a scapegoat for everything. And it's annoying.

[QUOTE=Kristywatson]Believe me I not trying to offend anybody who plays games, I'm just trying to understand it. Games are not beneath me, I just have never found interest in it other than watching a couple of my friends play them a couple of years back. It just makes me feel like I don't belong and I am an outsider looking in on them dicussing all this wonderful stuff they are intently excited about. I don't think it's a waste of time by at all, there are many challenges and different things you may learn from it, drinking and doing drugs is a waste of time. The difference is between all the things you mentioned earlier for example sports is that we can watch from our TV and if we don't like it we can just turn the channel, I at least know how the sport is played even though I may not play it. But i don't exactly admire them by any means because of what they do outside the playing field. I would probably admire someone more for producing a really cool character that they can use in a game because that takes thought and time. I think you have ran into a lot of people in the past who have verbally vomited on it, but I am not one of those, but just a person trying to understand. People might percieve it as a not cool thing to do like playing sports, getting drunk, playing poker and if they did boy would we have a craze on us.
Thanks for your comments it helps me better understand the love of the gaming world.
Kristy[/QUOTE]

Hello again,

I goto a gaming cafe most of the time so I don't miss out on social action.