Boys and Video games :)
I was in Albuquerque over the weekend, and was able to watch Marcus, Devon, Jake, and Jory battle it out in Halo 3 (I was watching the first two.)
FUNNIEST THING IN THE WORLD!!!!!
There was two in one room and two in the other, talking to each other on a head set.
The hours passed (I don't think they even noticed how long) with massive amounts of screaming, yelling, cussing, name calling (and not nice at all). One even ran from the room in celebration (over a video game?).
I was working on homework in a notebook from last semester (because I'm cheap like that). It was from Semantics. The boys playing video games reminded me of the class; how the gaming culture can be defined as its own subculture. It has its own language (either you know it or you don't), vocabulary, actions, habits/rituals, rules, all which show membership. Those who don't know any of these things (like me) are excluded. However in today's society, the are are just a few who still are.
Gaming has reached many generations, with the Nintendo (remember the duck hunting game, and the original Mario?) to today's where you can play against people around the world. What I find odd is people can sit and play for hours on end, and waste away a whole day doing so.
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