- Post
- #265695
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- The saddest thing ever - WOW Radio!!
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- https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/265695/action/topic#265695
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The one thing that I find a real shame, aside from all the mud slinging or personal digs, is the use of stereotypes. I find it feeble and ignorant.
Hundreds of millions of people of all ages, children, teenagers, adults and yes even retired people all around the world play video games. It is a industry where billions of dollars/pounds are speant in. It is a hugely common past time which many people enjoy doing regulary, as is playing sports, reading a book or going to the cinema to see a film. Many people play video games and are normal, social, healthly people who lead an active, healthly lifestyle and aren't all insane murders who butcher people in dark alleyways after playing a violent game or live in their mom's basement scared of natural light.
Now in this industry one of the major genres of games is the Mmorpgs (Massively multiplayer online roleplaying games) and world of warcraft currently is the biggest game in that genre with over 8 million active subscribers. Now I play and enjoy the game. I won't go on with the "I got blah blah blah in rel lyfe so I r not nerd plz kthzbai" I don't need to I'm happy with who I am and don't feel insecure enough to tell the world about my life. But yeah you do hear stories about people playing it for 72 hours straight and dying from exhaustion or people with no social skills because they haven't seen natural light in years, yeah that is a horrible thing to happen and something did really go wrong there. But to say that all 8 million people are recluses who play the game 24/7 is completely and utterly wrong and I can't stand that.
That is like saying every single fan of star wars camps out for says on end in front of cinemas to see the film first or all walk around the streets dressed up as Darth vader with a lightsaber? See how silly it is? because to say any wow player plays the game 24/7 is just as ignorant.
One of the best things about Wow in my opinion is the social aspect of the game and how you can play with people from around the world from different countries, classes and age groups with out fear of stereotypes or your appearence. You can make friends, chat about stuff, not just the game believe it or not. It is why wow includes the concept of guilds, so groups of friends can group together to form their own clan within the game. The biggest challenge in wow is through teamplay and what will be 25 people trying to take down a challenging boss. This requires a good amount of teamwork, social interaction and the ability to have fun with other people.
Now onto wow radio. What is it? It is a radio station where people who like the game can go and discuss it, about the various aspects of wow and other games in general. Basically a bunch of friends chatting about the game they enjoy playing. Isn't that what you guys have here? A bunch of people who enjoy the star wars films, who chat about it and other things because you enjoy it. What is wrong with that? Nothing at all and in my opinion neither is wow radio.
Maybe you guys have had bad experiences with online games or the people who play it (I guess this could count as one), yeah there are some real horrible people out there but drop the stereotypes, they are usually, if not always wrong, most people who play online games are normal healthly people with jobs, familes of their own and lives. Just like I'm sure you guys all have and enjoy. But come on, keep an open mind about things like these and do not always believe the stereotypes and go about insulting people for doing something they enjoy, yeah its your opinion hotshot but people have put alot of time and effort into the station, it is hard work (you guys have no idea what is needed) so that IS a personal insult just as it is to insult you as a father, that is why people are offended and when people are insulted they get defensive, it's a natural reaction.
I ain't going to insult you Hotshot, I know to be a father is an admirable and challenging thing to be but being able to keep an open mind is what many people in this world lack, its what causes alot of problems in this world and it should be one of the most important things to teach your kid.
I imagine I'll get flamed now, so meh fire away. My death star's shields are up (a bad joke I know). I had 5minutes to spare
