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The Angry Video Game Nerd |
There's a long and standing tradition
in popular culture that's held its own for decades: nerds are not
social beings, they feel better in solitude inside their video game
basements, a shrine reserved for themselves and a few extremely close
friends. Video game YouTube stars have capitalised on this trope.
Even though recent studies have found
that gamers are in fact very social persons and
not
sexually starved animals,
as
the online gaming community knows quite well, YouTube stardom
seems associated with a general “expectation” of what a hardcore
gamer should aspire to be. Video games, posters, collectible toys and
paraphernalia that appear on-camera function as a tool for
credibility inside the gaming universe. Generally, the bigger the
video game collection, the more credibility the gamer acquires.
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Most video game YouTube stars are also
proficient in the cinema-TV-broadcasting or editing fields, as well as graphic and animation tools, such as After Effects. The items
mentioned above—video game boxes and cartridges-- serve a stage
prop to immerse
the viewer in that channel, just as the techniques from the fields mentioned above.
Any male console gamer that wants to be taken seriously needs this setup. It is obligatory. Hoarding and NIBoxing are commonplace and encouraged. There
is also a
girl
gamer type of basement, but I have not researched that subject yet
(warning: academic journal article linked).
The “media room” where gamers dwell
is essentially different from other rooms of the average household.
The center of the room, obviously, is the screen. Again, the bigger
the display the more gravitas the gamer holds among his
acquaintances. YouTube videos have enlarged this social circle, but
the tenants remain the same: alongside the display and the game
collection there is some kind of sound system that enhances the
gamers experience, as well as diverse accoutrements that dress the
room like a gigantic popular culture envelope. The setup can be very
expensive. One gamer got
medieval
and spent 50,000 dollars on his game room.
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Of course, that expenditure
is reserved for the older gamers, which appear to be in their
mid-to-late 30s. Most YouTube gamers seem to be in their
early-to-mid-20s. There is basically no depth-of-field in their shots; the gamer is a few inches in front of his collection. Here, the collections showed on-camera are smaller.
Most of the last group live in smaller apartments, where space is
tighter. Their recroom space is limited or non-existent.
No all this this all
seems very American for my taste. Hobbies are part of their culture.
Historically, the US holds a special place of the house for “manly
entertainment”, a room where the men of the house can hang out
without disturbing their female family members. This space can have
billiards, a bar, darts, a TV, video games or all of them combined.
There is a
huge
industry around this particular room of American homes. If you prefer
building your own mancave, you can do that too. Here are some
excellent and cheap ideas you can use right now for your own “media room”. Outside
the US, however, space and funding are more limited.
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That One Video Gamer-The Completionist |
Being a life-long gamer myself, I know
this post can come off as pedantic. That's not the case. As most of
you, I spend an obscene amount of time watching videos of my favorite
online gamers. After some time, it struck me that all of the--bar
none--use the formula I described above to show they are experts in
their respective video game fields. There are very few studies of
this phenomenon, which I find captivating. The closest I could get
was a related
wiki-post
on the basement of the most beloved gamer on the planet, but
little else. But the environment where a gamer feels at home should be a
serious research subject. Just a few decades ago, arcades were very much
studied in social fields such as Antropology. Given the social and financial
importance of video games today, the same should be done in the
physical space gamers enjoy themselves. Can a gamer basement expert,
a la expert decorators of the past, be far behind?
Other famous gamer basements and/or media rooms
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The Dali Popka |
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The Gaming Historian |
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Gnoggin |
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Pat The Nes Punk |
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Super Derek RPG |
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AlphaOmegaSin |
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Mike and Bootsy inside the former's game room.
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Hey i love being a gamer
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