Over they years, gamers have gotten this bad reputation for being not doing much. For not paying attention to their health. As gamers we are seen as fat, sedentary individuals who (like in the south park episode of World of Warcraft) just eat junk food, sit around all day, and are over weight.
I know that there are many gamers, who choose to do the right things and take care of themselves. Yet, I also know that I myself have tended to not really do what I should be doing to stay healthy. Everything comes with a cost. To make a decent meal, you may miss a raid or dungeon. I know what it is like to be behind on gear and have to bust my tail to get the gear I needed to play the higher level dungeons and raids with my guild.
I know how easy it is to just grab a bag of chips and munch on them while I game. ( No Cheetos, or Doritos.) No self respecting gamer will cover their keyboard, mouse, controller, or game pad with that cheese crap. I also know how easy it is to just eat junk food. I would go to 7/11 all the time and get a bag of donuts and eat them while I gamed. Chocolate only the powdered ones also are like the Cheetos and Doritos.
I have committed some of the worst food crimes of gaming. Pizza being a major one. Nor is it fun to clean up. There are many foods that; as gamers we are known to eat more of. Carbohydrates are the worst culprit. It is the bain of the gamers existance. Knowing that we as gamers, don't always eat correctly or get enough physical exercise. I have made a choice.
This choice is to do my best to get healthier, as a gamer. I know how stupid that sounds, but what if I told you that if you just sit there in your gaming chair or on your couch. You could be doing things to help get you healthier. Things that will benefit your gaming and your life.
I know I sound like a salesman, then again that is the point. You have to make a choice to do better for yourself. You can't just sit there and say. Oh I will do it tomorrow. There could be no tomorrow. So why not start feeling better and healthier now?
There are many ways to help gamers change the reputation of being lazy and fat. One way is to spend some time in the gym. Go for a walk. Do some physical activity. Also eating better never hurt either.
Then there is a way that I can help you. This works for men and woman, ages 18 and up. This is what I was talking about. When I was saying that you can get healthy while you are gaming.
The products sold on the website work. I have been using the greens for almost 2 months now. I went from smoking a half a pack a day. To now having maybe 3 a day. I have even gone days without having a cigarrette. No headaches or issues at all.
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(I have been using these)
Then you have this
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Which is what you can wear while gaming.
For those of you who like your energy drinks. We have those too
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There are even skin products for you ladies.
All of these products can help, gamers go from being considered lazy to fit and healthy. Given time and persistence. I am on this journey as well. If you wish to join me and my fiancee in this visit our facebook page https://www.facebook.com/jmitworks/
We are willing to help you in anyway we can.
Happy healthy gaming.
Thursday, February 11, 2016
Monday, February 1, 2016
Jaded Gamers and why they are jaded
(Disclaimer, I talk about a few specific companies in this post. I would like to have them know that they need to fix their shit before shipping broken products to the customers. Also just because you change the name by adding a number doesn't mean it is a totally different game. It is the same rehashed crap from the year before. Just with different movement abilityes)
With all the different youtube channels, blogs, websites, and other ways to get information about video games. Wether it be about reviews, first impressions, or maybe just a few screen shots and a bit of the hypetrain.. I personally feel that a lot of things have happened in the last decade of gaming that shouldn't have ever happened. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamergate_controversy)
Let me get straight to the point. Reviews from places are a joke. Unless you trust the place, there is no point in reading their opinion. The same goes for any other form of review. Gamers have become jaded when it comes to games. This generation seems to the the spoiled little brat in pre-school that brought his new toy and wont share.
What do I mean by this, well allow me to elaborate. Gamers today have multiple outlets to get information from about games. Not only do they have the ability to look in magazines, youtube, gaming websites, and other forms of media. Which has influenced the marketing and the media. Look at the marketing campaigns of some of the biggest games of the last decade.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_video_games
Yes, some of these games are a bit older than a decade. Yes look at Call of Duty, look at how many times a Call of Duty game has been on this list. Do you get my point yet?
No? Well here let me jog your memory. It was 2003 when the first Call of Duty was released by Infinity Ward and Activision. How did a game that was based in the time period of World War 2 become this giant juggernaut of a gaming series?
Well magazines like PC Gamer, or Game Informer. Those were the beginning. Once the internet took off. Everyone knew everything. Some people say they are reviewers when they just want a pay check. They don't care about the games as a medium, or as an art form.
Due to this influx of ways to review games, The publishers have turned to paying the reviewers for good reviews, or keeping them silent with NDA's. When ever a reviewer doesn't like a game they are either attacked by the company or just keep them silent with the marketing campaign. (http://www.trustinplay.com/2014/11/02/developer-attacks-jim-sterlings-first-impression-video/)
Through this type of review system, I personally have discovered that my opinions on a game are, a moot point. Noone wants to hear my opinion. They just want to watch the drama. Now the game developers and the publishing companies, love things like this. Any publicity is good publicity.
If a Youtuber says a game sucks so bad, that people find it funny to watch them. They will fork over the money to see if it is as bad as the Youtuber says. Which is a total contradiction of what the Youtuber adviced. Which gives the companies more money to keep shelling out crap games.
Which in turn creates more crap games. Does anyone remember Assasin's Creed Unity? (http://www.polygon.com/2014/11/26/7294993/assassins-creed-unity-is-broken-so-ubisoft-is-giving-players-free-dlc) Yay free DLC for a game that you could have already got it for, or a free game that could have also been broken.
Call me cynical, but I am very cynical when it comes to buying games with my hard earned money. As a kid, I played one of maybe five games I had. Now as an adult with well over 300 games, I have to pick and choose what games are worth my time to play at the moment.
That being said though, I didn't count all the free to play games on Steam or any other platform. So many games just get forgotten. If they don't have a big marketing budget or if they are from some small developer. Which is another reason why I think gamers today are jaded.
The market is flooded with all types of games. Along with the ability to look up any review on the internet. Back when I was a kid, not all games were good. Yet they were worth playing. Not only because you were bored with all the other games you had, but because it was something different all together.
With all the mass marketing of game franchises like Call of Duty, Assassin's Creed, Far Cry. It begs the question. Are all these clones needed? Which brings me to another topic of annual releases. Which in itself is another problem.
You have a game a year coming out, and if you don't get the newest one you can't play with your friends. Or the game is no longer played ( in the case of the PC) You loose the ability to play the game how you want. That is if all you like playing is multiplayer...
This topic can go on for days. From how jaded gamers are to how almost all games are just played for their multiplayer components.
Now these are my opinions, and my own perspectives on why I think gamers are jaded. My opinions my not be popular or publicized, but look at the medium in general. Look at everything. Gamers seem to throw a fit when they don't get what they want. (http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2014/08/california-man-sues-sony-over-killzones-1080p-graphics-claims/
I guess I just miss the days back when gaming was just gaming and not some multiplayer competative shooting game.That is just a rehash of the game from last year, but doesn't work as good as the game from last year.
With all the different youtube channels, blogs, websites, and other ways to get information about video games. Wether it be about reviews, first impressions, or maybe just a few screen shots and a bit of the hypetrain.. I personally feel that a lot of things have happened in the last decade of gaming that shouldn't have ever happened. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamergate_controversy)
Let me get straight to the point. Reviews from places are a joke. Unless you trust the place, there is no point in reading their opinion. The same goes for any other form of review. Gamers have become jaded when it comes to games. This generation seems to the the spoiled little brat in pre-school that brought his new toy and wont share.
What do I mean by this, well allow me to elaborate. Gamers today have multiple outlets to get information from about games. Not only do they have the ability to look in magazines, youtube, gaming websites, and other forms of media. Which has influenced the marketing and the media. Look at the marketing campaigns of some of the biggest games of the last decade.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_video_games
Yes, some of these games are a bit older than a decade. Yes look at Call of Duty, look at how many times a Call of Duty game has been on this list. Do you get my point yet?
No? Well here let me jog your memory. It was 2003 when the first Call of Duty was released by Infinity Ward and Activision. How did a game that was based in the time period of World War 2 become this giant juggernaut of a gaming series?
Well magazines like PC Gamer, or Game Informer. Those were the beginning. Once the internet took off. Everyone knew everything. Some people say they are reviewers when they just want a pay check. They don't care about the games as a medium, or as an art form.
Due to this influx of ways to review games, The publishers have turned to paying the reviewers for good reviews, or keeping them silent with NDA's. When ever a reviewer doesn't like a game they are either attacked by the company or just keep them silent with the marketing campaign. (http://www.trustinplay.com/2014/11/02/developer-attacks-jim-sterlings-first-impression-video/)
Through this type of review system, I personally have discovered that my opinions on a game are, a moot point. Noone wants to hear my opinion. They just want to watch the drama. Now the game developers and the publishing companies, love things like this. Any publicity is good publicity.
If a Youtuber says a game sucks so bad, that people find it funny to watch them. They will fork over the money to see if it is as bad as the Youtuber says. Which is a total contradiction of what the Youtuber adviced. Which gives the companies more money to keep shelling out crap games.
Which in turn creates more crap games. Does anyone remember Assasin's Creed Unity? (http://www.polygon.com/2014/11/26/7294993/assassins-creed-unity-is-broken-so-ubisoft-is-giving-players-free-dlc) Yay free DLC for a game that you could have already got it for, or a free game that could have also been broken.
Call me cynical, but I am very cynical when it comes to buying games with my hard earned money. As a kid, I played one of maybe five games I had. Now as an adult with well over 300 games, I have to pick and choose what games are worth my time to play at the moment.
That being said though, I didn't count all the free to play games on Steam or any other platform. So many games just get forgotten. If they don't have a big marketing budget or if they are from some small developer. Which is another reason why I think gamers today are jaded.
The market is flooded with all types of games. Along with the ability to look up any review on the internet. Back when I was a kid, not all games were good. Yet they were worth playing. Not only because you were bored with all the other games you had, but because it was something different all together.
With all the mass marketing of game franchises like Call of Duty, Assassin's Creed, Far Cry. It begs the question. Are all these clones needed? Which brings me to another topic of annual releases. Which in itself is another problem.
You have a game a year coming out, and if you don't get the newest one you can't play with your friends. Or the game is no longer played ( in the case of the PC) You loose the ability to play the game how you want. That is if all you like playing is multiplayer...
This topic can go on for days. From how jaded gamers are to how almost all games are just played for their multiplayer components.
Now these are my opinions, and my own perspectives on why I think gamers are jaded. My opinions my not be popular or publicized, but look at the medium in general. Look at everything. Gamers seem to throw a fit when they don't get what they want. (http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2014/08/california-man-sues-sony-over-killzones-1080p-graphics-claims/
I guess I just miss the days back when gaming was just gaming and not some multiplayer competative shooting game.That is just a rehash of the game from last year, but doesn't work as good as the game from last year.
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