What is gaming?

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impertinence on 02 October 2013

What are you? A solider? A wizard? A bear, an ant, or a God? A leader of armies? A fighter or a farmer? A small child or a fierce warrior? Are you all of the above? Are you a gamer?

Gaming is discipline. Hours of toil and work to develop mastery.

Gaming is the elevated joy of beating your previous best, and the white hot fury when you die for the 20th time, in the same spot.

Gaming is time stopping when Samus first removes her helmet

Gaming is a lonely night that creeps into the morning hours, as the morning breaks: no regrets

Gaming is a stiff pain in the joints of your thumb

Gaming is dawn of the first day. 72 hours remain.

Gaming is hours spent hitting the corner with pixel accuracy to shave 1/10th of a second of your lap time.

Hadouken!

Gaming is having the last 30 minutes of progress wiped out in 40 seconds by Soda Popinski

Gaming is years later picking up an old game, and your thumbs still remember exactly where to jump

Gaming is the joy and hate of a battle to the death with your brother. Finish Him!

Gaming is a row of quarters.

Gaming is punching your friend in the shoulder for trying to sneak a peak when you call a play.

Gaming is a flying controller

Gaming is forever. The princess is in another castle

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Anfebious on 02 October 2013

Capcom don't hurt me, don't hurt me, no more!

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SxyxS on 02 October 2013

Reading all this bla bla there is just one answer possible:
Gaming is philosophy

And I always thought :Gaming is just moving around millions of pixels and polygons around a static avatar in the middle of the screen to create the illusion that you avatar is moving

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blkfish92 on 02 October 2013

I like this. A lot; here you go.

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Veknoid_Outcast on 02 October 2013

This made me smile. A+

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Euphoria14 on 02 October 2013

I read this and my first though was:

Yes, I agree. Gaming is the 80's and 90's.

So much of what was written reminded me of my childhood on the NES. However, I my thumbs still can't properly time the jumps on Ninja Gaiden. The game still pisses me off.

iPhone = Great gaming device. Don't agree? Who cares, because you're wrong.

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pokoko on 02 October 2013

Gaming is using fire when the enemy is ice.

Gaming is scoring a Flawless Victory against your friends and then explaining to them what just happened.

Gaming is giving your console the finger.