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    Infinite Bits: Miami's First Video Game Convention

    Study: Gamers Aren't Fat, Illiterate Manchildren

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    Image of Nowell Nowell
    10/20/09

    In reply to Infinite Bits: Miami's First Video Game Convention
    Man how did I miss this? Convention was set up/run by 2 friends, more power to them :) Wish I lived in South Florida to support it, but it's a 4 or 5 hour drive away :( #infinitebits
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    Image of Orionsaint Orionsaint
    10/13/09

    In reply to Infinite Bits: Miami's First Video Game Convention
    Whoa and I live in Miami. Sucks I don't get out of the house though. I fear the sun, lol.
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    Image of GoonerVance GoonerVance
    10/13/09

    In reply to Infinite Bits: Miami's First Video Game Convention
    Miami is like the island in Jurassic Park, the closer to the coast you are the safer you'll be.
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    Image of GoonerVance GoonerVance
    10/13/09

    @GoonerVance: You think you make a witty comment and ::crickets::...
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    10/13/09

    @GoonerVance: It might have been funny, but the dinosaurs live over on the other coast, near Naples.
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    Image of GoonerVance GoonerVance
    10/13/09

    Actually Boca Raton is on the east coast of Florida. We would have accepted Ft. Myers, St. Augustine, and St. Petersburg as gulf coast cities with lots of old people.

    Only in South Florida could you have cities named Boca Raton and Miami Gardens, and Boca Raton (which means Snake Mouth) is the safer city of the 2.

    EDIT: Thx for the promotion.
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    Image of Yossarian Yossarian
    10/13/09

    @GoonerVance: Crap, you're right... I meant Naples.

    Is there another St Augustine other than the one up on the river near Jacksonville? That's not gulf coast by a long shot either =)
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    Image of GoonerVance GoonerVance
    10/13/09

    @Yossarian: Crap, you're right...

    ...and my mistake was more egregious. Why would St. Augustine (only known for being the country's oldest city) be on the Gulf Coast? Like Ponce de Leon said, "We have discovered the new world after a long, treacherous journey, but let's not make landfall right away. Instead, let us sail around this land mass for another couple months before settling."
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    Image of Yossarian Yossarian
    10/13/09

    In reply to Infinite Bits: Miami's First Video Game Convention
    Cool event. Drive down to Miami on Friday night and get some Infinite Bits, then wake up and walk out on South Beach and get some Lady Bits.

    Win Win.
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    10/13/09

    @Yossarian: The Miami PD will like a word with you about the lady bits...
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    10/13/09

    @Michael Dukakis:
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    10/13/09

    @hismastersvoice: Damn, I knew that was coming.
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    10/13/09

    @hismastersvoice: Actually our real police chiefs are as douche-y, if not more douche-y, then him.
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    10/13/09

    @geiko: I don't see any difference.
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    10/13/09

    @hismastersvoice: That's the point. You'd think that Horacio's bad acting was just that, acting. But on the contrary, it happens in real life.
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    10/13/09

    @geiko: So he's actually... good?

    OH. MY. GOD.
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    10/13/09

    @hismastersvoice: Now you're just messing with me. (*_*)
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    10/13/09

    @geiko: That was to obvious, wasn't it?
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    10/13/09

    @hismastersvoice: Looks like this victim...just became 8-bit
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    10/13/09

    @#c15987351: Yeeeeeeeaaaaaaoooooooooowwwwww
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    Image of MCWHAMMER MCWHAMMER
    08/20/09

    In reply to Video Game Portraits (AKA "The Gamer's O-Face")
    Mmm, these will be good for my video game ad campaign. I can haz all?
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    Image of Bricked Bricked
    01/16/09

    In reply to Study: Gamers Aren't Fat, Illiterate Manchildren
    That "manchild" shit pisses me off, especially when I have a law school ID in my wallet and some people making that accusation haven't even attempted an advanced degree.
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    Image of AJ Glasser AJ Glasser
    01/16/09

    @Bricked: Tell me about it - I'm getting an MA. And I still hate it when guys in GameStop squint at me and ask "So are you like shopping for your little brother?"
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    Image of Bak3donH1gh Bak3donH1gh
    01/16/09

    In reply to Study: Gamers Aren't Fat, Illiterate Manchildren
    wait how can we go to the mall and buy online?


    anyways the only thing correct for me is i make online purchases. Well i still read books outside of Univ just not that often.

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    01/16/09

    @Bak3donH1gh: Buy it online, return it at the mall and use store credit to get something else :)
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    Image of Wizzard Wizzard
    01/16/09

    In reply to Study: Gamers Aren't Fat, Illiterate Manchildren
    Woah woah woah, hang on.


    Videogamers Keep up with Fashion


    Gamers Love to Shop for Clothes


    Videogamers Love to Drive Fast


    Gamers Use Cars to Express Their Personality


    I call bullshit on these ones.

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    Image of AJ Glasser AJ Glasser
    01/16/09

    @Wizzard: Maybe by "keep up with fashion," they mean the clothes on NXE?
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    Image of roscoe roscoe
    01/15/09

    In reply to Study: Gamers Aren't Fat, Illiterate Manchildren
    is it only me that noticed that the electronic copy of this report costs $3850?! i call shenanigans on that!


    a subscription to JSTOR or something doesn't cost that much... does it?

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    01/15/09

    In reply to Study: Gamers Aren't Fat, Illiterate Manchildren
    What can I tell you? They got me pegged!
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    Image of Quilt Quilt
    01/15/09

    In reply to Study: Gamers Aren't Fat, Illiterate Manchildren
    Videogamers Work Out - I work out quite often and am in pretty damn good shape, me thinks.
    Gamers More Active than Other Adults - I am very busy, quite often.
    Videogamers Still Read Books - I'm in the middle of 3 books at this time, and have a stack still left to read.
    Video-Game Players More Likely to Go to the Movies - If I'm near a movie theatre and the movie looks good (so no video-game movies).


    Shopping Patterns
    Video-Game Players Like to Shop - Sort of...
    Videogamers Go to Malls More Often - Nope
    Convenience Stores Popular among Videogamers - Sort of...
    Incentive Offers Capture Attention of Videogamers - Meh...
    Videogamers Far More Likely to Make Online Purchase - Books and videogames are WAY cheaper online.

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    Image of Phronima Phronima
    01/15/09

    In reply to Study: Gamers Aren't Fat, Illiterate Manchildren
    As part of the socially inept loser stereotype, I take offense to this.
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    Image of balls187 balls187
    01/15/09

    In reply to Study: Gamers Aren't Fat, Illiterate Manchildren
    I was at pax 2008, and on average, everyone fell into on of two camps:


    Fat or incredibly Scrawny.


    Certainly not female.

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    Image of Comatose Turtle Comatose Turtle
    01/15/09

    @Stallion187: No matter how much it gets thrown at me, I'm still not convinced about this whole "female gamers" population that supposedly exists. Heck, I'm still not convinced females exist at all. I've theorized that they are an invention of the media, with the purpose of controlling us through unexplainable urges.
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    Image of ljndeed ljndeed
    01/15/09

    @Stallion187:

    I am very much a girl and very much would have loved to have gone to PAX :)


    i will say that most girls are not typically what most would consider "gamers" they are usually casual gamers at best or just play the sims


    though I will say that most "gamer girls" I've encountered are quite a bit overweight and, in the immortal words of Yahtzee " really weird girls that smell like old meat"


    I am happy to say I am a girl gamer who dodges that stereotype


    we do exist!

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    Image of D-Lish D-Lish
    01/15/09

    @Stallion187: So which category did you fall into if there were only two? Fat or scrawny?


    Also, I would say that a video game conference isn't the most accurate focus group to study. The majority of those that attend are not the "average gamer" and more likely bordering the fanaticism line. That's like going to a wine tasting event and making the claim that the people there are either complete and utter alcoholics or uptight designated drivers. When there might just very well be a wine aficionado at home who prefers one glass a night.

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    01/16/09

    @D-Lish: I get jokes.


    I'm more on the chubby side of things.

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    01/16/09

    @ljndeed: Oh there were plenty of girls there, but still it was 15:1 guy to girl ratio.


    Which is pretty funny because for every girl, there was at least 15 nerds encircling her.

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    01/15/09

    In reply to Study: Gamers Aren't Fat, Illiterate Manchildren
    "Male Avid Players Watch Channels Geared toward Younger Demographic"


    Are they talking about anime?

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    Image of elevenoverzero elevenoverzero
    01/15/09

    @Brinic:

    Probably Nickelodeon shit like Zim (yes, we know anime is mature bla bla bla)
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    Image of Combichristoffersen Combichristoffersen
    01/15/09

    @elevenoverzero:

    I swear to God, if I EVER see you call Invader Zim shit again.. >:(


    You can call Nickelodeon shit as much as you want to, though.

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    Image of SaanZ SaanZ
    01/15/09

    @Combichristoffersen:


    You have my sword on that

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    01/15/09

    @SaanZ:

    And my bow.
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    Image of supershavin supershavin
    01/15/09

    In reply to Study: Gamers Aren't Fat, Illiterate Manchildren
    Gamers:

    Often consume oxygen, release carbon dioxide.

    Age at a constant rate

    Take Surveys


    I guess this makes the stereotype gamer feel really bad about themselves... knowing that everyone they meet on WoW isn't exactly like them.

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    Image of Parapraxis Parapraxis
    01/15/09

    @supershavin:


    I don't do the first two.


    You are bad, and you should feel bad.

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    Image of excaleranth excaleranth
    01/15/09

    @supershavin: Technically the air we breathe is more filled with nitrogen than oxygen, but for the sake of the popularity of the idea that we breathe more oxygen than anything, I'll let it slide.
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    01/15/09

    @excaleranth: only oxygen binds to the heme prosthetic group of hemeglobin in our blood. i'll let it slide.
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