To Phire with love

01.10.2009

We’ve finally made it to the point where gaming is in the mainstream media more than ever. Gaming award shows, movie adaptations, million dollar competitions and sales high as ever. This is a beautiful thing for our community. Why is there yet still a shadow cast over us, the gamers, during these fine times?

It would seem we still can’t shake our stereotypical image of kids with no social lives & nothing better to do than rot within our imaginary Platform/RPG/Shooter/Sporting worlds. A guys club with no sense of hygiene who are usually skinny as a rail or too fat to be seen as anything other than a “frequent” customer at McDonald’s. Most people refuse to believe any gamer is capable of being good in any real life sport. I see where PART of the problem is coming from.

It’s us… Yes we, the gamers, are partially responsible for feeding this fire. Every time I see a launch event or tournament on T.V. it’s always the same story with these kids on camera. When asked “How do you feel about this game?” they are sure to reply, “It’s fun, I like it!”. Same at tournament scenes, which im heavy on all the time. “How did you prepare for this event?”, lame drag answer being, “Ummm, I played a lot cause I wanted to win”.

We see this happen all the time. Yet we lay down and let THAT represent us. We’ve got personality, so the next time your in front of a cam crack a tasteful joke or something. Lets enrich the interview with a bit more than a one liner about fun. Webmasters shouldn’t have to think twice about building forums for us because of constant flaming due to one person making a typo. And ladies, a lot of you game harder than us guys. I know your scared to really “come out” cause of our bad rep, but we gotta start this together!

-Sol Lekz
lekz

Sol Lekz is an MLG pro player from team Code 211 sponsored by Jason Wiley,no not that Wiley.


phire

I'm the Founder of Chocolate Lemon, a seasoned water gun killer,semi pro gamer,professional crazy guy, brony, lover of baked goods,hero and part time cosmic being. I'm just like you guys I put my pants on one leg at a time except when they are on I can travel though space and time. Feel free to hit me up on X-box live or PSN: Glory of phire/glory_of_phire

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  • VEJITO1

    Finally someone addresses the issue. 211 shall be the start of a new movement. Write a new code for gaming. 211 for life!

  • Iradicated

    Good point, for some reason people feel they have to get serious with their answers in front of camera. Hopefully it’ll change.

  • Mr Pink

    How does does it feel to be the G.O.A.T.? Nice to see 211 climbing to the top. Don’t make it too easy though. _ Rich

  • Irbanx

    Gamers need to practice whats been preached here. Its not enough to merely state that gamers with deeper, inner-lying personalities exist, they have to prove it. As in Sol Lekz’s case, countless people are living under the social label of “Gamer” and gamer only despite every other quality which brings them to life.
    Gamers are some of the most intelligent and versatile people around, and its time that we as a community find a dignified standing among every other social entity dedicated to a pass time.

  • sarah

    you make a good point. hopefully this will be able to help out other people.