Exploring Identity as a Gamer

[silence]

What's up homies, [d3m]silence here. Thought of you guys when I wrote this editorial on exploring identity as a gamer and was hoping I could share. Check out Black Nerd Problems for anything nerdy and of relation to persons of color!

Here's the link to the article: Exploring Identity as a Gamer | Website dedicated to and from the perspective of Blerds (Black Nerds). We tackle all subjects for your nerd pedigree

[Mindf!3ldzX]

What's up Silence, any chance of a Q1 return? Checking out the article right now.

[silence]

I definitely need to dude, I played Quake Live a bit a couple months back when they relaunched on Steam. I'm gonna have to dedicate a Saturday to reinstalling and configuring Q1 to get some games in. I imagine there's only Clan Arena, if any activity left yes? No TDM stuff going on?

[Mindf!3ldzX]

great read! I especially like how you handled the question posed to you "What do you get out of it?"

[silence]

Thanks a bunch man, I do appreciate you taking the time. Definitely share as you see fit, the site is fairly new, less than a year old. Just a bunch of friends trying to procure some good nerd content but we're at about 30k hits a day now and hoping to get that up. So keep going back if you see anything you like.

[Mindf!3ldzX]

It's actually the exact opposite, Clan Arena rarely sees any action now days. Straight up TDM is what gets played most time's. I typically follow the games, way back in the day when IHOC server's died off I followed the gaming, straight to Clan Arena. Now that Clan Arena has all but received the final nail in the coffin, I followed the games to Team DeathMatch.

Anytime you want to get setup just hit me up, I got hella contact methods. I shared your article with them TDM fellas. Remember i0v Shok? I shared with him for sure, the others will read it as they pop open their browsers!

[R00k]

+attack etc...

[golden_boy]

Reading your article has me wondering if "gaming" alone is actually enough to define a culture at all. Gaming at its fundamental level is merely consumption of entertainment products (in a group, optionally.)

After reading up on definitions of "culture", I currently tend to think that gaming is more of a sub-culture, akin to "grunge" or "punk" or "rockers". Because gaming is most likely not the sole thing that defines somebody's culture.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture#Anthropology

It's an interesting idea though.

[ArrrCee]

Reading your article has me wondering if "gaming" alone is actually enough to define a culture at all. Gaming at its fundamental level is merely consumption of entertainment products (in a group, optionally.)

After reading up on definitions of "culture", I currently tend to think that gaming is more of a sub-culture, akin to "grunge" or "punk" or "rockers". Because gaming is most likely not the sole thing that defines somebody's culture.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture#Anthropology

It's an interesting idea though.

I have to agree with GB on this. I always thought that Culture defined people and their way of life. I love gaming and I will always be a gamer. I play retro games, I play new releases, I buy new consoles -- but gaming doesn't define me as a person, it's only a part of my life. Maybe I'm just not passionate enough about it?

[smokey]

Hey silence, i remember playing against you in quake live, i was U4-Smokej. Thanks for dropping by