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Jay520 on 07 July 2012
UnitSmiley said:
I like to think I know more about video games than the average "gamer". But I don't necessarily think that makes me a better person. Rather, I care enough about games to look up information on my own, through sites such as these. Most people I know (some of my friends included) only play what is popular at the moment. If you tell them game X is popular they will love it. If you tell them game Y is unpopular, they will hate it. They have no opinions of their own when it comes to gaming. So when discussing games with them, yes, I have a certain arrogance about me.

But to other enthusiasts such as myself (and everyone here) I don't act arrogant at all, usually i'm eager to see what I can learn from them. Basically I see the "sheep mentality" as a form of laziness, and sometimes I feel a bit more superior because I don't fall into the habit of believing what everyone else does, for the sake of fitting in.


What do you think caused you to not follow the sheep mentality? How come you think the sheep mentality is lazy as opposed to your friends? Was it a particular game you played that was unpopular and it compelled you to start researching more unique games? Because that's what happened to me.

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hatmoza on 07 July 2012

Especially those who stick around. So yes, I do think the average users here are smarter than the average human being. The first hint is that we love to read and do our own research on things. It's because of our interest in certain issues and topics that we make and contribute to threads.

I really put a lot of users at the same level of some of my University colleges. I'm a T mobile agent and I can honestly say sometimes I feel blessed that I can interact with intelligent users as yourselves after a long day of interacting with stupid people.



I am the black sheep     "of course I'm crazy, but that doesn't mean I'm wrong."-Robert Anton Wilson

Mr Khan on 07 July 2012

Lots of TV.

I'm serious. PBS in my youth probably did a good deal for me. Bill Nye got me interested in legitimate science, Wishbone for literature, Carmen Sandiego for geography. Mister Rogers and Thomas had to contribute somehow...

TV can teach you lots of things



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PullusPardus on 07 July 2012

I r the smarterest!



Jay520 on 07 July 2012
NintendoPie said:

Do you consider yourself smart Jay?



Sure. Id say I have fairly decent intelligence.

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MDMAlliance on 07 July 2012
hatmoza said:
Especially those who stick around. So yes, I do think the average users here are smarter than the average human being. The first hint is that we love to read and do our own research on things. It's because of our interest in certain issues and topics that we make and contribute to threads.

I really put a lot of users at the same level of some of my University colleges. I'm a T mobile agent and I can honestly say sometimes I feel blessed that I can interact with intelligent users as yourselves after a long day of interacting with stupid people.


Hmm... I do believe that accessibility to resources can make a person smarter (and the person being willing to use them).  However, there have been many cases of a person who had very little resources but end up being very smart.  



MontanaHatchet on 07 July 2012
MDMAlliance said:
MontanaHatchet said:
You know how they say we can only use 20% of our brains? Well I took this pill that lets me use ONE HUNDRED PERCENT of my brain's capability. Needless to say, I invested in IBM.


Someone actually just made that up and people believed it.  We all use different parts of our brains for different things.  We technically all use 100% of our brains.  Are you just trolling?


Yeah, the mod is trolling.

Thankfully NintendoPie got my very obvious movie reference. Good job my friend.



 

 

homer on 07 July 2012
MontanaHatchet said:
MDMAlliance said:
MontanaHatchet said:
You know how they say we can only use 20% of our brains? Well I took this pill that lets me use ONE HUNDRED PERCENT of my brain's capability. Needless to say, I invested in IBM.


Someone actually just made that up and people believed it.  We all use different parts of our brains for different things.  We technically all use 100% of our brains.  Are you just trolling?


Yeah, the mod is trolling.

Thankfully NintendoPie got my very obvious movie reference. Good job my friend.


Ugh. Poor movie reference. That movie was extremely disappointing to me. It came out in a time where I was looking for the next Inception and instead my searches only brought about 4 crappy movies.(Source Code, Limitless, In Time, and the Adjustment Bureau). Those were desperate times.

And no I'm not smart. Or rather perhaps I am really smart for trying to make people believe I'm not smart. This is assuming I try to appear as unsmart...



"Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth." -My good friend Mark Aurelius

haxxiy on 07 July 2012

Actually when we are awaken we do really only use about one third of our brains at any given time. That's not to say parts of it are untapped because different parts are active are different times. Still you use like nine tenths on REM sleep. Creating a virtual reality requires some steam, after all.

Anyways since I was a kid I was labeled as a "brain" because I understood stuff and interacted in ways much older kids couldn't even start to comprehend. I've been diagnosed with schizoid personality disorder when I was seventeen - which is a sign of gifted intelligence according to recent studies, because apparently social synapses go work on something else - and consistently scored in the 140-150s on IQ tests.

So yeah, as a gifted person I'd say I'm smarter than an average VGC member. However intelligence alone does not make one better, nor a better person, and neither does it give the truth. So, on the other hand, I'm sure lots of VGC members far surpass me on certain areas of knowledge.



 

 

 

 

 

c03n3nj0 on 07 July 2012
MontanaHatchet said:
You know how they say we can only use 20% of our brains? Well I took this pill that lets me use ONE HUNDRED PERCENT of my brain's capability. Needless to say, I invested in IBM.

Holy crap Montanta! 

 

You're dreamy. 



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