You do not need to be a qualified psychologist to notice the patterns people tend to fall into when discussing, buying, and playing video games. All of the bias and various effects mentioned in this article have been empirically proven in experiments. However, that is not to say we are prone to all of them, but they do stand as tendencies that people have. It should be pointed out that this is meant as a humorous and hopefully entertaining look at the way we interact with games, rather than a more serious, scientific approach. Every gamer will be able to identify with at least one of the listed effects.
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Most gamers I know are reasonable, open minded people.
Sadly, the hobby will always be plagued with hateful, narrow minded, fanboy idiots. Professional sports has the same problem. It makes me wonder, if people from NY and people from Boston didn't hate each other so much, would anyone give a damn about Yankees VS Red Sox? Just an example...
most games are biased and hypocrite in my eyes...and most of them are blinded by fanboy
*looks at picture*
Oh yeah, ALWAYS make the PS3 guy out to be the irate one when that couldn't be further from the truth. Who does this asshole think he is? How dare he portray PS3 owners in such a barbaric way. We don't scream at people! that's fucking ridiculous!
I'm not actually being serious.