lwatson's posterous

Girls and Gaming!

I never ever though I would consider myself a gamer untill we had the class of gaming. Before when I heard the word 'gamer' I imagined exactly what we talked about pretty much a teenage boy who sits at his computer all day. This whole idea of a 'casual gamer' completely changed my views. After the class I thought i'd actually take notice at what games i play and how much. I was really surprised, even though in no way did I think i was a gamer turns out I am a bit of a casual gamer. It's not like I go into EB games each week to check out the latest games, or even buy games for that matter. But whenever I'm bored and waiting for something, e.g. doctors waiting rooms. I can't help but bring out the tetris on my phone, its so addictive. Then there are times when I'm bored and have my laptop with me, if this ever happens where there isn't interent access I always find myself playing solitaire. So I guess I am a gamer, even though I can't imagine I'd get into World-of-Warcraft of anything that technical. I think people in general need to be more open to the spime around gaming (did i use that in the right context? like the cloud of meaning around the word 'gamer'), and I think now after looking at it if our class was asked that question again that was asked at the beginning of the class "put your handf up if your a gamer" pretty much all of us would.

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