Ways to tell if you are a hardcore gamer

**Tainted_Girl** · 07-12-2006

Mwahaha

The title says it all, eh?

1.You Dress Up as Game Characters for Halloween.

2.You Buy Games Just for the Box Because It Looks Cool.

3.You're sponsored at the Local LAN Center

4.You Dress Up Pets as Game Characters

5.Your Desk Is Covered With Gaming Action Figures

6.You use Linux

Feel free to add to this list. Thanks ^_^

**carlosponti** · 07-12-2006

most gamers dont use linux because of the game support for linux. besides this is a Coffee Lounge post.

**techieMoe** · 07-12-2006

7. You've ever seriously considered naming one of your children after a game character. (Mario, Aeris, Link, Cid, etc.)

8. You've developed carpal tunnel from game controllers and have to wear a brace so you can get one more level up in Diablo 2.

(These might be from personal experience.)

**easuter** · 07-12-2006

You use Linux

actualy, linux is the least supported gaming platform, so i dont see why its on the list

**ImNeat** · 07-12-2006

Originally Posted by easuter

actualy, linux is the least supported gaming platform, so i dont see why its on the list

Usually people with "modded" xboxes and the like use linux. I intend on putting linux on my xbox in the not-so-distant future.
Even with that aside - I still think it deserves its place on the list. These are simply to "describe" gamers.

**Tainted_Girl** · 07-13-2006

Originally Posted by easuter

actualy, linux is the least supported gaming platform, so i dont see why its on the list

Wha? You can't play a game like Doom 3 well on a computer running something as unstable as Winblows. Who cares if Windows has a large number of games. There is really no point in playing when that little blue screen of death sends me into Game Over sooner than expected. It is a game itself; "how long will you be able to play before Windows sends you into sudden death"(not long)

**benjamin20** · 07-13-2006

i thought mac was the least supported game platform. basicly its blizzard who makes the majority of mac games.

**Weedman** · 07-13-2006

Originally Posted by benjamin20

i thought mac was the least supported game platform. basicly its blizzard who makes the majority of mac games.

Who is the major company for Linux games? I know all (or almost all) the Unreal Tournament series were released onto Linux (whether by Loki or a proper installer).

I'm not 100% that there are more gamers on Mac. Some gamers use Linux for dedicated servers with Teamspeak, or at least, that's what I heard.

weed^

**techieMoe** · 07-13-2006

Originally Posted by Weedman

Who is the major company for Linux games?

Id Software, hands down. They've released Linux versions (or released their clients in the GPL allowing someone else to release a Linux version) of ever software title they've made since the original Doom.

**fingal** · 07-13-2006

I really miss playing Heretic <sighs> .

At one time I could play it all the way through in a couple of sittings and beat the boss at the end. Creepy with the lights turned off!

My friend and me used to play Duke Nukem over the network in the engineering department when I was a (not very) mature student. I never managed to beat him: he would lie in wait for me, type 'I can see you: prepare to die' ... and that's what I did.

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