Hate Speech: Come to the Dark Side

Thank you for this article. A disturbing trend I'm seeing as of late is the rise of a crowd that doesn't seem to understand the relationship between fighting games and tournament play. And when I say "not understand" I mean "don't like the concept of going out to face other players." It's sad to think that a genre, lauded by many for getting people out of their homes and have them interact with each other face to face (seriously, there's even a UCLA study on it), is now being plagued by players who don't want to be social and would rather conform to the "basement dweller" stereotype.
 
d3v said:
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What you'e driving at there is related to something I've actually touched on before: namely, the conflicts that arise from markedly different gaming genealogies. Check my dissertation for the looooong version when it's available, but the CliffNotes version is that most contemporary console game(r)s now conform to the Internet's mode of sociability. The tournament scene and the oldschool FGC folks are part of a tradition that actually descends from taverns and other so-called "third places."

We have a lot to overcome.
 
So, speaking of coming to the dark side, any tournaments on the east coast USA that are reasonably close to Greensboro, NC? Less than 200 miles is ideal.
 
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