grovers the Irrelevant wrote:
gbjai wrote:
with the normal skin tone and speach patterns
I'm still trying to figure out your definition of normal. What's normal for Jophiel isn't necessarily normal for gbjai. I know you can't show me a middle class family with 2.5 kids living in a perfect situation were nothing is wrong.
"normal" as in *not* pasty white from spending every day on the computer. And *not* 50 pounds overweight from sitting at said computer eating junk food. And *not* speaking of his characters as though they are a larger part of his life then his work, school, friends, and family.
Most people who play MMORPGs have "normal" lives. They play those games maybe as often as other people watch TV. They have social lives. They have friends outside of people who play those games. They treat it as a recreational activity, no different then any other. But those are *never* the people you see portrayed on any media dipiction of gamers. They always pick the geekiest (and not in a good way) and most lost into the game world people to show and portray as the "typical" gamer.
And to be honest, as Joph pointed out, this isn't something they really have a lot of control over. Media is about sensationalism. No one does a piece on a normal guy eating a sandwitch. They do stories on the unusual and the abnormal. Because we can all see "normal" every day. We flick on the TV to see something different...