Being a gamer there are certain things that people say about games, being a waste of time and what not. Maybe that is true if you spend all your time doing just that one thing and there are enough people who do just that and it gives all gamers a bad name especially the ones that play a little or even an hour or so each day.
However, a person who plays video games and actually plays them to accomplish objects and goals within the game tend to be better decision makers than persons who don’t play video games.
The studies show that gamer is used to making choices and executing differing plans and paths routinely to accomplish goals during their free time and because this is behavior occurring during stimulated brain activity it transfers to times when quick choices have to be made and weighing out multiple variables while on the job. This isn’t likely going to get your boss to allow you to play games at work but it may help you problem solve if you play a moderate amount during your free time.
Gamers also tend to have better hand eye coordination than non gamers. Not always a useful skill set but it can help.
Usually I am playing with my clan, a group of gamers who add a clan tag to their gamer tag to show that these players routinely play matches together.
I belong to the DRD -- Die Red Dots clan. We are few in number but enjoy the games and are not to be trifled with. We have been playing FPSs for around three years. The tag has meant Deadly Red Dots in some versions. The name evolved from the fact that the enemy shows up on a PIP map as a red dot and friendly players are blue or green. You are always a red dot to the enemy so Die Red Dots because that is who we want to kill.
Most of us are adults with jobs and children and we enjoy playing the games for the sake of the games. We like to accomplish the missions and work well together as a team. We are not the top players on the game with the exception on one player who is a beast.
There are around 40 players who are DRD
There are a core group of about 7 who play with frequency. There are player in other countries and all other the US.
The core group of us are invisible don, Ronin, Smoke, Flee, Dope Delta, Kensai
Kensai plays in two clans
Delta is new and is Ronin’s neighbor I think
Ronin is a college guy in Tennessee and a beast
Dope is a construction guy in New England
Flee is also a construction guy in NYC
Smoke is too a construction guy in FLA
And yours truly
Smoke and I were in a match yesterday and were death from above I had a round of 19 and 2 meaning I killed 19 people and only died twice. It is the sort of match Ronin has all the time me I’m usually even or a little behind but I earn points for accomplishing goals. We were in a Viper helicopter and blowing shit up all over the town. And I’m sure I was being cussed and called all sorts of bad things especially as I earned a nemesis ribbon meaning that 10 of those kills were shared by two players at five a piece. I had no idea I was killing the same poor schmucks over and over again. The thing is we were effective because we were working together target spotting and keeping the heli repaired and talking to each other. If we weren’t working together we would have died a lot.
The FPS games are starting to reward teamwork more than individual run and gun game play style. COD is still a high reward for run and gun but most other FPSs do not give those type rewards.
We all work really well together and support each other and don’t freak out when someone isn’t playing like a lot of other clans will do in these games. Seriously they require a certain number of hours of play per week, a KDR at a certain level and other stats that the game provides should be at a level determined to be lethal by the clan.
The DRD doesn’t require any of that, just have fun.
We do group up with The Bangin’ Smurfs, and the Canadian Duo of Goblin Girl and Liquid Circuit
I don’t know any of these guys and girls out of the game environment and while we talk like good friends we wouldn’t know each other if we were silently standing next to one another.
I would say all of us would know one another’s voices thought.
The funniest thing that has happened in the DRD is one of the other beast college kid who is in the clan but doesn’t play a lot is Teal. He was talking about being at a small college in Virginia. I say really which one. He says oh you wouldn’t know it, it is this community college and he says the name. I say no way I teach there. He is like BS dude. So I tell him the street address what it near and all the high schools in the area. He is like whoa one of the college professors plays and FPS
Everyone else was like damn that is pretty amazing two people who randomly join a gamer clan and don’t know one another are actually in the same town doing things in the same place. I’m sure it happens a lot but it’s the only time it’s happened in the DRD. Small world
Recently we were playing against each other in a match designed to pit two squads of four against each other and I was kill by Ronin so many times with a knife to the chest I may develop post traumatic stress disorder from it. But it is a bit of pay back because I’ve gutted him a few times before in other matches but it was like he started in on killing me like it was his job in that one match.
Well, that’s all for now, other stuff tomorrow most likely
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Ciao,
PS 3 Gamer Tag: invisible don
PO Box 4425 Roanoke VA 24015
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