Regarding Day9 - manifesto
Hey everyone! I recently found Day9's "manifesto" on his own site and really, really, liked what he wrote... I'll paste it here before I go on.
"We are more than stereotypes. We are adventurers and doctors, engineers and entrepreneurs, journalists and lawyers, scientists and students. We are smart, ambitious, and competitive. We are gamers.
We believe society has forgotten how to play.
Play keeps us sane in our daily lives. Play keeps us curious, imaginative and directed. It teaches us to learn from our mistakes, to constantly improve, and to stride forward – battling through failures on our road to success.
Play develops relationships and communities. We have fond memories of growing up playing games with our friends and siblings. The gaming experience bonds us together now, as it bonded us then. We discover friends, partners, and spouses while gaming. We game with our children. We transcend international borders when we play.
We believe that our game, StarCraft, is the chess of our generation. StarCraft requires the dexterity of a pianist, the mind of a chess grandmaster, and the discipline of an Olympic trainee. We believe that our game, StarCraft, is as dynamic and exciting a spectator sport as any other. We fill auditoriums to cheer on our favorite gamers. Most of all, we believe our game, StarCraft, is a beautiful platform for play. Whether you’re a veteran, a newbie, male, female, a parent, a student, or a total nongamer, you too can join in the fun.
Our community is smart, supportive, funny, irreverent, international, insightful, and intolerant of bullsh*t.
We think you should be one of us."
I support like every word in this. "We are more than stereotypes", even the beginning is bloody brilliant. How have I not stepped across this? Truth is, everyone is something else than just a stereotyp but sometimes that can be hard to see, I get that. But if you want people to know who you really are, show them, and that's what Day9 does. "We are adventurers and doctors, engineers and entrepreneurs, journalists and lawyers, scientists and students. We are smart, ambitious, and competitive. We are gamers." And gamers can be just about anyone. I know some gamers that are fat, some gamers that doesn't smell that good - prejudice confirmed - but I also know grown up nurses that steal from the patients and athletic people that cheat in their sport, no one is perfect and a whole group of people will never be. The manifesto goes on, you already read it, and it tells me everything I always wanted to tell everybody about games. It's not that we're just lazy and like clicking buttons on a keyboard but we bond with people trough it and develope ourselves. Just now, writing on my blog about it, makes people read and interact with what I have to say. You can comment on it and tell me what you thought as well. This is fun to me and I can't see the problem with having fun, interacting with others and feel like someone cares about what you write, maybe you don't feel that very often otherwise. People with no/few friends I think benefit from the gaming and online socializing a lot too!
Day9, you're wise and the StarCraft community should never forget about that.
"We are more than stereotypes. We are adventurers and doctors, engineers and entrepreneurs, journalists and lawyers, scientists and students. We are smart, ambitious, and competitive. We are gamers.
We believe society has forgotten how to play.
Play keeps us sane in our daily lives. Play keeps us curious, imaginative and directed. It teaches us to learn from our mistakes, to constantly improve, and to stride forward – battling through failures on our road to success.
Play develops relationships and communities. We have fond memories of growing up playing games with our friends and siblings. The gaming experience bonds us together now, as it bonded us then. We discover friends, partners, and spouses while gaming. We game with our children. We transcend international borders when we play.
We believe that our game, StarCraft, is the chess of our generation. StarCraft requires the dexterity of a pianist, the mind of a chess grandmaster, and the discipline of an Olympic trainee. We believe that our game, StarCraft, is as dynamic and exciting a spectator sport as any other. We fill auditoriums to cheer on our favorite gamers. Most of all, we believe our game, StarCraft, is a beautiful platform for play. Whether you’re a veteran, a newbie, male, female, a parent, a student, or a total nongamer, you too can join in the fun.
Our community is smart, supportive, funny, irreverent, international, insightful, and intolerant of bullsh*t.
We think you should be one of us."
I support like every word in this. "We are more than stereotypes", even the beginning is bloody brilliant. How have I not stepped across this? Truth is, everyone is something else than just a stereotyp but sometimes that can be hard to see, I get that. But if you want people to know who you really are, show them, and that's what Day9 does. "We are adventurers and doctors, engineers and entrepreneurs, journalists and lawyers, scientists and students. We are smart, ambitious, and competitive. We are gamers." And gamers can be just about anyone. I know some gamers that are fat, some gamers that doesn't smell that good - prejudice confirmed - but I also know grown up nurses that steal from the patients and athletic people that cheat in their sport, no one is perfect and a whole group of people will never be. The manifesto goes on, you already read it, and it tells me everything I always wanted to tell everybody about games. It's not that we're just lazy and like clicking buttons on a keyboard but we bond with people trough it and develope ourselves. Just now, writing on my blog about it, makes people read and interact with what I have to say. You can comment on it and tell me what you thought as well. This is fun to me and I can't see the problem with having fun, interacting with others and feel like someone cares about what you write, maybe you don't feel that very often otherwise. People with no/few friends I think benefit from the gaming and online socializing a lot too!
Day9, you're wise and the StarCraft community should never forget about that.
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