Well I am jobless..(the frequency of my blogs give that away i think). So without wasting much time(ironical isnt it? I mean i do this to waste my time...ahhm anyways .I shal close this annoying bracketed text now.) i shal present to u what I promised- that is the female gamer.Before I begin let me clarify that the female gamer that I am referring to is not your average solitaire playin girl..she is that but also beyond that. I am talkin about dudettes who can hanndle a rocket launcher as well as their color pencils. It is thus my great misfortune that this account of mine is greatly insufficient as I had limited data to work with.But I was lucky enough to be able to observe and hopefully(in a very small way maybe) create one such gamer.Without trying to take much credit away from her let me get back to the point:
The female gamer is under threat.And unlike other tropical primate being wiped out gradualy the female gamer is highly important.
So I urge ppl to promote girlz to take up gaming and see Y its awesome fun(I mean why wud we be so crazy about games if it wasnt)
A few possible benefits of this :
1) No need to make up excuses to girlfriends while playin games online..rather they could join u for a romantic game having a twenty frag limit.
2) Resolving fights by shooting each other down is great fun..(better still a head shot is great to put an end to fights amicably)
3) The obvious quiet moments can be filled by discussing gaming strategy.(Try the..what is the most effective unit to kill a persion elite war elephant or hey which is the ideal build for centaur khan if he's taking on Razor?)
But beware ..ur actions online may lead to real world repurcussions(unimaginable usualy).So do keep a few things in mind while enjoyin games with the gamer girls. For starters try not to blow up the dead body after making the kill..seriously not a good idea.And ya feelin sorry after making a clean shot with the rocket launcher can take you a long way :)
Tuesday, December 30, 2008
Monday, December 29, 2008
The Games Men Play
Its holiday time again - A time for fun ,frolick and for people like me joblessness. And as proof of what I am sayin let me tel you guys that I just completed reading a novel(the title of which being of no relevence to the point i'm trying to make).And on top of that I also read through Vignesh's blog which I would usualy not have done.But I am glad I did as it made me realize two important points-
1)Even he is jobless
2)Blogging is a great way to kill time
So without any further useless drivel I shal present to you all this work of crap.
The whole idea for this stems from my discovery that many a people (mostly of the female kingdom) have no clue about why guys are so addicted to videogames and gaming in general.Also some of the stimulus also came from a newspaper article I was going through(also an indicator of my being jobless-would never go beyond the comic section otherwise) which in a way answered the same question "scientifically". So I thought before some more scientists from Japan (i think only Vignesh would have understood the serious Japanese threat to my endevours ) tries to sink their claws into it let my disect the male gaming mind for the benefit of one and all(atleast the one for whom this is intended :) ).
Well to start of I would like to reiterate on the point I made earlier-Gaming is an addiction and I know this cause i'm a proud addict.But just like any addiction it comes in many brands.Well the game I enjoy most is the Age of Empires.Though I don't claim to be the best(though I do claim to be better than my fellow addict Sankalp-@ Sankalp: I can kick your ass in AOE anytime boy and you know it) I certainly pledged my aleigance to it.But this account is not about my gaming habits or about games and I shal now,as I said before, dissect this habit.
Most games provide the player with the sense of conquest or achievement.In the olden days probably it would have been easy to wage a war on your next door neighbour and show him whose superior but it just cant be done now.So the only option left to us is to setup a wireless lan and shoot his inferior bot with a shotgun or destroy his castle with about 20 trebuchets(I apologise to those who dont have a clue what trebuchets-all i can console you with is that your lives have been meaningless if you havn't waged a siege with around 20 of them).See the point I am trying to make is that it is a human tendency to make conquests after conquests.Barberic as it may sound ,the urge to make mince meat out of your competition is inborn in all males and Gaming is a great outlet for that.Even games that lack awesome graphics may do well by just giving a sense of achivement and superiority.For example Mob Wars : an app on facebook has been a great hit with not only Sankalp and me(hardcore gaming gone cases) but also the gentle "Photoshop loving,Excel abusing" gamers like Vignesh :)(As in people who actualy use the comp for things beyond games).
So for all those who think playin games is just a means of killin time i would say that it realy is'nt just that(thats what books are for).It's something more.And for those who still think otherwise just experience the fun of letting lose a bunch of cavalry archers on rival villagers or invoking a chain lightning on your "buddy" :)
BTW wait for the next post :Its about an endangered species(in India atleast- the Female Gamer ;) Happy holidays
1)Even he is jobless
2)Blogging is a great way to kill time
So without any further useless drivel I shal present to you all this work of crap.
The whole idea for this stems from my discovery that many a people (mostly of the female kingdom) have no clue about why guys are so addicted to videogames and gaming in general.Also some of the stimulus also came from a newspaper article I was going through(also an indicator of my being jobless-would never go beyond the comic section otherwise) which in a way answered the same question "scientifically". So I thought before some more scientists from Japan (i think only Vignesh would have understood the serious Japanese threat to my endevours ) tries to sink their claws into it let my disect the male gaming mind for the benefit of one and all(atleast the one for whom this is intended :) ).
Well to start of I would like to reiterate on the point I made earlier-Gaming is an addiction and I know this cause i'm a proud addict.But just like any addiction it comes in many brands.Well the game I enjoy most is the Age of Empires.Though I don't claim to be the best(though I do claim to be better than my fellow addict Sankalp-@ Sankalp: I can kick your ass in AOE anytime boy and you know it) I certainly pledged my aleigance to it.But this account is not about my gaming habits or about games and I shal now,as I said before, dissect this habit.
Most games provide the player with the sense of conquest or achievement.In the olden days probably it would have been easy to wage a war on your next door neighbour and show him whose superior but it just cant be done now.So the only option left to us is to setup a wireless lan and shoot his inferior bot with a shotgun or destroy his castle with about 20 trebuchets(I apologise to those who dont have a clue what trebuchets-all i can console you with is that your lives have been meaningless if you havn't waged a siege with around 20 of them).See the point I am trying to make is that it is a human tendency to make conquests after conquests.Barberic as it may sound ,the urge to make mince meat out of your competition is inborn in all males and Gaming is a great outlet for that.Even games that lack awesome graphics may do well by just giving a sense of achivement and superiority.For example Mob Wars : an app on facebook has been a great hit with not only Sankalp and me(hardcore gaming gone cases) but also the gentle "Photoshop loving,Excel abusing" gamers like Vignesh :)(As in people who actualy use the comp for things beyond games).
So for all those who think playin games is just a means of killin time i would say that it realy is'nt just that(thats what books are for).It's something more.And for those who still think otherwise just experience the fun of letting lose a bunch of cavalry archers on rival villagers or invoking a chain lightning on your "buddy" :)
BTW wait for the next post :Its about an endangered species(in India atleast- the Female Gamer ;) Happy holidays
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