5 Things Gamers Do When Not Playing Games
Gamers are busy. When not dedicated to an all-night WoW raid or teabagging n00bs in Halo 3, they have precious little time to spend on mundane activities such as skydiving, going to parties, and having sex. Even so, gamers do have lives outside of video games, which is where this article comes in. We’ve painstakingly pretended to research the subject matter and composed a cockamamie list of activities that completely accounts for what gamers do when they aren’t glued to a game.
#1 Talk about games on Message Boards
Besides politicians, nobody likes arguing more than gamers. Maybe the United States’ role in a post-Saddam Iraq is slightly more important than which Resident Evil game is the best (It’s RE4, by the way), but for the internet forum faithful, dishing about games is as good as it gets when holding a controller is not an option. It may not be the healthiest lifestyle choice, but it’s a great alternative to reenacting your favorite scene from No More Heroes (and a lot less messy).
#2 Write fan-fiction/Draw fan-art
When the more creative gamers out there are away from their greatest passion, their other passion takes over and results in either an amazing spectacle or a mind-bogglingly terrible eyesore. Fan-fiction and fan-art are here to stay, whether we like it or not. Sure, the quality is often hit-or-miss, but that can also be said of the games that inspire these amateur artists to craft more bikini-clad anthropomorphic furry drawings and Master Chief vs. Samus Aran stories than necessary. Thanks to the Internet, every aspiring artist or writer has an outlet for their crazy creations. That said, you guys and girls need to come up with some new material; dragons and half-naked cat women just don’t cut it anymore. How about a half-naked cat dragon? Wait, that isn’t helping.
#3 Watch other gamers play games
Sometimes gamers are unable – or unwilling – to play a game themselves. Whether it’s a wrist injury that prevents maximum Guitar Hero rocking or a particularly nasty boss that seems unbeatable, passing the controller along and simply watching a friend play is a basic tenet of gaming. Not only does the nerdy art of ‘watch-play’ bring gamers together, but it also ensures entertainment for the controller-less. Want proof? Let a friend play the opening sequence of Fatal Frame and subsequently get scared out of their mind. It’s great fun for all…well, except the person who nearly suffered a massive coronary.
#4 Work on their cosplay
What better way for gamers to spend their off time than by dressing up as their favorite video game hero or villain? Well, I could think of at least a dozen, but cosplaying is not just some freaky Japanese trend anymore. No, it’s a full-blown worldwide craze that gives gamers the chance to try on the superfluously-zippered leather chaps of a video game character and momentarily escape reality (which they already do on a daily basis via video games…this can’t be good). Comic Con just wrapped up and was host to a plethora of video game-inspired costumes complete with cheap craft store fabric and overly-long cardboard swords. Unsurprisingly, these people are also the ones producing the fan-fiction and fan-art I mentioned in #2.
#5 Lurk in game stores and criticize other gamers’ purchases
God forbid you visit a game shop and furtively attempt to snatch up a used copy of the supremely awful Kane and Lynch: Dead Men, lest you incur the righteous wrath of a bored gamer with nothing better to do than meander around and tell random people what they should and shouldn’t buy. These special individuals may just be killing time while they wait for their moms to pick them up, but they still serve a valuable purpose: Making the rest of us gamers feel better about our own lives. Instead of launching angry diatribes at total strangers over their gaming choices, leave the recommendations to the employees, gaming pals. As much as watching someone buy Big Beach Sports may cause you physical and emotional trauma, getting in their face over it won’t stem the tide of Wii shovelware and will only lead to you being forcibly removed from the store and left to wait for your ride in Foot Locker. And they don’t take too kindly to us gamers there…
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Personally I only do #1 from time to time.
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