Haven't read this yet but I'm preparing to be completely embarrassed.

Fuck it, not reading that shit fuck off

^

Thanks for posting this, I'm glad you enjoyed it :]

- Susan @ VGR

It sucked. It's embarrasing to know anyone liked it tbh.

Can't please everyone. Although I'd love for you to elaborate a bit more than simply "OH EM GEE IT SUXX0RED".

- Susan @ VGR

What he actually wrote was "It sucked. It's embarrasing to know anyone liked it tbh."

It sounded like the chick who wrote it had no clue what being a gamer actually means so she just put together a bunch of ridiculous stereotypes hoping for it to come out funny. It didn't.

It reminded me of this:

Family Guy: a bunch of ridiculous stereotypes hoping for it to come out funny. It didn't. :P

fuck you..

You have a thing for gingers don't you?

Poor writing, unoriginal, unfunny, cliche after cliche and pure zzzzzzzzz.

i'm sorry but that's just pathetic and cliché

...It wasn't meant to be taken seriously whatsoever. Surely you realised it was greatly embellished?

- Susan @ VGR

well, it is seriously unfunny.

Yous trollin'.

Iiiiiiiiiii'm not troolling

What would I give to have been in the brainstorming session where they came up with that

“DID YOU SEE THAT BABY? DID YOU?”

“OHNOOHNOOHNOOOOOOO!”

“AHAHAHAHA! THAT’S WHAT YOU GET FOR COMING UP AGAINST ME MOFO!”

“BRING IT AWWWN!”

OH EM GEE IT SUXX0RED

OH EM GEE IT SUXX0RED

OH EM GEE IT SUXX0RED

OH EM GEE IT SUXX0RED

Stick with good games like quake, and let the noob play whatever he/she want's.

my real-life emoticon went from a 0-bracket to a 9-bracket when i read this.

a captivating read for an audience under the age of 15

also:
OH EM GEE IT SUXX0RED

pics or gtfo

To a gamer “quality time” generally means “All of my games are boring me right now and I need entertaining.”

I skimmed over it and found that gem, what a shit article.

The hazards of having your article posted on ESR:

- no friendly "thanks for effort" remarks
- no slimy "better be nice, she's a girl"
- no hand holding
- a straight verdict

that's what you get for having your article posted on ESR

esr, the last site with honest users on the internet

us and /b/

yes /b/ is very honest

>no slimy "better be nice, she's a girl"

This is why we're all here.

a straight vedic*

fixed

not so sure about the middle part.

his wife bakes starcraft-cakes, that can turn any man straight

Made me cringe as it contained so many stupid stereotypes.

yeah, seriously.

I mean I get it that some cuss and shout during a game.

but "BRING IT AWWWWN"?
wtf?

This article is GHEY

I brought a girl home a few weeks ago and eh, we ended up playing portal before passing out in the early hours of the morning.

Although it was cool, I'm a bit embarrased about the incident.

did you announce your undying love for the companion cube again?




if only it were a girl *sigh*

You know that the cake is a lie right? RIGHT?

Did you get to the part where you can open the second portal? Not many girls will go there.

Nice.... I will need to progress the next time I see her.

Jesus fuck, perhaps I am getting to old for this. I could not even bare to read post the first two sentences.

More like The hazards of dating a retard

The ESR comments were my favourite thing about this article :)

Thank you. I take full credit.

"I would like to thank all my enemies and especially my parents who gave me all the hate I needed to achieve this. Thank you, and fuck you all!"

"I wanna thank God for my new number one hit single; 'Suck yo mama'."

"And to my grandmother who raised me so lovingly, I dedicate my double platinum album "Am gonna kill yo muthafuckaz!"."

are you also going to take credit for the comment from one "ESR" on that site? :-p

I he does I'm gonna plus him just for that avatar :D

Aside from fox you're one of the few real gamers to have dated a real gamer. Does it really make much difference? I don't imagine it does.

quiet

lol

lol :)

How is that not a legit question? I wouldn't want to date a gamer as I waste enough time on gaming already, two is like addicts dating.

I guess we can do stuff like travelling to events together, thats a bit different. and also going to different events - for a few years he's had to put up with me being away for weeks or even months at a time. but nothing like what is mentioned in that article, haha :)

LOL, I wasn't thinking it would be like the article, fox summed the article up completely.

I liked the idea, but the tone alternates too often -- you muddle between a more intimate subjective tone to the much more tiring second-person, public essay format. I was a Features Editor for a 10,000+ small newspaper, and I would definitely print your article with several minor retouches:

I would maintain a first-person, subjective experience of your "gamer/gamer" relationship throughout most of the essay, including more specific, colorful details. For the last quarter, I would widen my scope and come to some general conclusions that you've learned or believe. Otherwise, you have to be snappy and constantly funny to use the second-person voice in a "Your Guide to..." or "How to Spot a..." format.

+subject choice
- somewhat sloppy execution; not enough color

Yeah well, I can edit in a ~500 views per hour online site and I didn't print it out.

? non-sequitor reply.

not really.

note: if you're gonna use fancy technical terms, make sure they apply ;)


/whoops, just found out you English nerds seem to use non-sequitor in a wider sense, so: maybe :P


But in reality, it's a mocking statement, I never ever read small newspapers and this is a perfect example why.

well actually a non-sequitor is an informal logical fallacy...something one would pick up in a philosophy/logic class or on your way to law school. Just means "does not follow from." If I said "Well prison only serves to make better criminals," and your reply was "Not true, at all. After all, the sun is 93 million miles away." -- non sequitor.

* to clarify * - the "small newspaper" was a college newspaper, but very professional since the school had a reputable tv/r/journalism school. btw, when you dismiss an entire print media based on circulation, you really miss out on some amazing writing, e.g., after college, I wrote some small features for The Ithaca Times, a local weekly that attracted quite a pool of talent based in the same town as Cornell U. and Ithaca College and many, many (over!)educated people.

well, you are wrong in that case.

In English, apparently, it is used both informally, as you described, and formally. (Something you can pick up anywhere, no need for logic class or law school).

In German, people only use the formal definition, afaik.

However, as I said both do not apply at all, since my intent was not to reach a true conclusion, but a mocking one ;)

I am sure there are good articles even in small newspapers, but I simply don't like the odds, since you only find out after you read the article and spend (or wasted) the time. Your saying you would have printed the article in question (+minor touch-ups), doesn't improve the odds for the newspaper you are talking about...

"well, you are wrong in that case."
- not sure how you came to that conclusion

"In English, apparently, it is used both informally, as you described, and formally. (Something you can pick up anywhere, no need for logic class or law school)."
- not sure how one would use that term "informally" I think I confused you with using "informal" and "formal" which are very specific categories when applied to logical fallacies -- you're using the two terms in the broader sense of diction or tone; also, by no means did I mean to imply that one could ONLY pick up the term "non-sequitor" in logic class or law school - just don't hear a lot of Latin used in everyday conversation anymore :/ Lastly, would be interesting to think of an informal use of another Latin phrase "ad hoc"??

"In German, people only use the formal definition, afaik."
- I think I cleared up the confusion around "formal" now.

"However, as I said both do not apply at all, since my intent was not to reach a true conclusion, but a mocking one ;)"
- a "mocking one" is nevertheless a conclusion, so I think had you began a higher thread instead of replying to mine would clear that up. Your statement "Yeah well, I can edit in a ~500 views per hour online site and I didn't print it out," literally does not follow from anything I said in my comment.

"I am sure there are good articles even in small newspapers, but I simply don't like the odds, since you only find out after you read the article and spend (or wasted) the time. Your saying you would have printed the article in question (+minor touch-ups), doesn't improve the odds for the newspaper you are talking about..."
- matter of taste/art...opinions are like that well-known part of one's anatomy(to be tasteful!), everybody's got one.

p.s. minor touch-ups make all the difference. A "guide to the perils of a gamer dating a gamer" certainly has some pop culture currency and would pique the interest of any features editor -- just poor execution and lack of editing.

out of laziness I am just gona go with the wiki article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non_sequitur_%28logic%29

If you would please read up on "normal" speech and then continue to theother examples. Then tell me which of those would fit my sentence. And I think referring to normal speech as informal might not e completely accurate but close enough.

I also meant that the type of non-sequitur was informally, not my usage of the term. I think I might have confused you there?


Additionally, I think that my reference to your text is there.

You can (or could) edit newspaper texts. I can edit all forum posts.
You can (or could) let the article be printed. I can print it on paper.
You would do it. I wouldn't do it.

But as you said, I guess it is a matter of taste whether you think it's similar enough to be mocking, or not. ;)

Yea in that wiki article, I would definitely say the non-sequitur(oops, I've been spelling it wrong!) in normal speech fits my original intention. And btw, hate to bring up another informal fallacy, heh, but I think you equivocate the term "print" and probably "edit" when you say:
"You can (or could) edit newspaper texts. I can edit all forum posts. You can (or could) let the article be printed. I can print it on paper..."

In the above I use "edit" to mean, quite literally, the function of a real copy editor whose job is to evaluate text before it's published for syntax, grammar, tone and adherence to a stylebook like AP, for example. It's a very specific job at a newspaper. However, the real equivocation comes with "print," as I'm using it in not JUST the literal sense, but to mean "publish" as in the old newspaper editor saying "Print that story!"

I appreciate your explanation, and I'm definitely entertained by the stretch of thinking employed -- "you can (or could) edit...I can edit all forum posts...," :) :) but I think your summary about taste is a good place to end and complete the thread.

that one with "edit" and "print" was intentionally ;)

Don't talk shit, you picked it up watching CSI or Cold Case.

who are you replying too? think you got the wrong thread.

tl;dr

I HAVE REACHED THE NEXT LEVEL

OH NO GAME OVER

WAKKA WAKKA WAKKA

1UP

I got sick to my stomach from reading the first paragraph.

Susan please, promise to never write about gamers again. For the humanity.

Could be accurate.. if both the participants in that relationship were 12 years old.

.

OH EM GEE IT'Z GONNA SUXX

BRING IT AWWWN! ... OR ACTUALLY, DAWWN'T!

.

oh man ... that's just sad.

"hun"

ahah that's funny...don't be mad hun!