People make fun of my online gaming, but...

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I am an avid MMO gamer. One of the girls in my guild is thinking of visiting my area from Canada sometime during the winter. I listed some mundane activities we might do together (bowling, movies, etc) and she goes "those are boring - you're going to teach me how to shoot!"

I've got another fellow gamer who lives in Arizona, but has family up here in WA. Next time she visits, she wants to go to the range as well. Despite living in Aridzona, she's never fired a gun, either.

So you know what? Maybe online gaming IS good for the firearms industry :D
 
Coolness. I've been out of MMO gaming for a while but it certainly was/is a good way to meet new people.

I actually was speaking with a guy several years ago who live in Michigan. We were discussing general locations of where we were located and I gave a very vague location (between Charleston and Myrtle Beach) and he paused and asked about a small mom-and-pop store less than 7 miles from where I live. Apparently he was a truck drive that used to make deliveries there. Small world :).
 
No, having friends is good for the shooting sports.

It doesn't mater if you're in a darts, bowling or knitting group, making shooting sound fun and interesting is how we get people into the sport.
 
Skribs, you may need to explain to our older brotheren (farts) what MMO's are exactly.

Not to mention youre probably the first person to a) encounter a girl on one and b) have her want to come visit you.
 
I believe that you are going to meet people on massively multiplayer online roleplaying games in real life, but I do not believe that they are actually girls... :)

Pictures or it didn't happen.
 
I thought Internet gamming (gambling) is not lawful.
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I'm talking about online multiplayer video games. And I forgot to mention in my OP - but I actually helped another member (this one was a guy) pick his first pistol. He got himself a M&P.

HSO, that's a good point. Having friends in another activity, its easy to throw in an invitation to the range. I'm just happy that technology allows us to extend those invitations beyond our local community.
 
I've been getting the bug to get back back into Eve Online, aka internet spaceships, aka spreadsheets in space.

The community is very international, and there used to be quite a bit of pro/anti gun type conversations in the chat channels. FYI, i beleive the male female ratio in eve is about 90:10 in Eve. Ratio is better in the fantasy type games like WOW.
 
I'll admit to being a long-term EvE online player as well. and I've somehow been sucked into the Closed beta for DUST514 (EvE's Free-to-Play foray into planetary conquest.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIwekfp3p5Q

There are a few other games, but I'm not that HUGE of a gamer... it's money I could spend on reloading.

For those who aren't gamers...

The "big" things about EvE... one massive universe (I've seen nearly 60k people on at once), theft and betrayal are common game mechanics, (seriously, some of the big thefts make the "real" news), Massive fleet battles encompassing hundreds of ships, to control vast tracts of resources in space.

The part that kills most people, there is no "happy magic fairy" to give you back your stuff when you die... You lose what you were flying, you lose your cargo, (sometimes to people who scan you down and kill you) and if they're really into the work, they kill the little lifepod with you in it, sending you back to a vat-grown body without all those expensive implants you had before.

http://cdn1.eveonline.com/community/devblog/2011/eve-learning-curve.jpg << not a joke. Eve is Vicious and unforgiving...Kind of like a really advanced "Horatio Hornblower" at times.

I've gotten into a LOT of gun discussions with our friends across the Atlantic (and directed them here) sometimes helped a few Americans. (Bud's and CTD should pay me a cut!)
 
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You guys are making me want to renew my WoW subscription now :). Gave that up a few months after the Cataclysm expansion came out (probably about a year and a half ago now). Tried Rift briefly and I got into The Old Republic for a few months, but nothing has really grabbed my attention yet.

I'd like to give something like EVE a try if the combat was more like a cockpit-view "space sim" instead of mouse-driven. Kinda like Elite or Wing Commander: Privateer but set in an MMOG :).
 
WoW is very good, but it requires a lot of money put into it. I renewed for a month in April during the Scroll of Resurrection event, but I don't see myself coming back.

Trying to get back to guns, I heard from an Egyptian player in the game Conquer Online that during the riots, he and other people defended his neighborhood and he used a decorative Katana. He said he wished he had a gun instead, but gun ownership isn't allowed there.
 
But you can cleave bullets in two with a katana, and slice through tanks.
 
Remember, we are ambassadors of our beliefs at all times. How we carry ourselves and interact with others has a profound impression on other people, namely characterizing that value or belief with a face; yours.

Admittedly I thought this thread would be about something else. I know plenty of folks who are deeply vested in the MMO's, something I never got into. I'm a casual gamer at best, usually a FPS of one variety or another.

Nothing drives me up the wall more than getting walked all over in a shooter knowing full well that a large majority of my opponents never touched a real gun in their lives!:banghead:

Hell, I don't even wear a headset no more; my view on humanity is already depressing enough, don't know what hours upon hours of 12-14 year olds yelling the N word would do.
 
owen said:
stick with real life guns convo driven by internet gaming please...
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^^^was waiting on this...^^^

My son plays online shooters, Medal of Honor, Call of Duty, etc... While not in the same vein as MMORPG's's, it's similar enough to include in this thread.

His interest in firearms in general took off after a while and he has educated himself to the point that he's written papers on JM Browning and can identify makes and models by sight, as well as give some general and depending on the firearm, a detailed history.

I'd say gaming has had a positive influence on him for this reason alone, but it's gonna put a dent in my pocketbook attempting to provide him with first hand experience on various platforms.

We are currently working our way into base AR and 1911platforms, and to his credit, he scoffs at the 'tacti-cool' movement surrounding the AR craze. While we both see the value of attachments and their intended use, he is able, at 12 years old, to appreciate the value of learning the base platform's workings as well a learning to shoot well without all the doodads and bells and whistles...and give a dissertation on the mechanics of said platform.

At this point he knows more about them than I do, by far... The end result is that he's asked about becoming a gunsmith/armorer, where he would have to go to learn, and is beginning to ponder ownership of a business dealing in firearms and related goods.

So, thanks game designers. First you bleed me dry purchasing the game, and then I have to go out and purchase the civvie versions of your fancy weapons! What am I to do...? Oh, woe is me...
 
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There are no women on the internet, dude. Your "girl" is a 48 year old bald guy. Turn off the video console, put on some pants and go outside. :neener:
 
I used to play WoW as well and met some pretty cool people. We used a VOIP (voice over IP) program that lets you actually talk to people instead of typing. We talked about guns a lot, people from Canada/California/Mass. were definitely blown away by how much freedom we have in some states.

And I knew personally several girls that played, usually because their guy friends or boyfriends played and they wanted to be a part of it. That's excellent you're going to hopefully introduce some new shooters to our world. :D
 
I am an avid gamer also and play weekly with a party on WoW that includes 4 real girls out of the 10 people. We use a chat program and talk, and have became pretty good friends.. I do have pictures also so I can confirm they are real women.

We talk about alot of things; they all know that certain weekends I am off to compete is CAS/SASS matches around the area and are very supportive. When the Col. thing happened, we once again talked about gun control and the like and were able to all act like adults and listen to each other. Not sure any opinions changed but, some seeds were planted.

I play, right now, WoW, Old Republic, Diablo III, and a few other cats and dogs. Have to say, EvE sounds interesting too.
 
My shooting buddy and I played WoW for a while but it got boring with Cata having nothing new to offer in the last few months. He bounces between Diablo and StarWars now and I've moved away from the games (and my wife appreciates that) but we still get together and shoot.
 
OP, I think you'd be surprised how many gun owners (and gun-curious, soon-to-be gun owners) are gamers.

In Seattle there's even a gun geek club.

http://www.geekswithguns.com/
http://gunnuts.net/2011/03/10/seattle-geek-shootout/

It makes sense; many popular games (Counter-Strike, Call of Duty, etc.) feature gun-buying as a mandatory, critical system for progression. Gamers went to the Internet to research optimal choices for those games, discovered real guns, researched those, and... became gun owners.

I've been fascinated by the way the huge influx of nerds has affected "gun culture." The interesting conflict is the mix of traditionally socially-conservative gun culture and traditionally socially-liberal geek culture.

This site in particular suggests that both can get along, united by mutual enjoyment of guns.

Anyway: have fun introducing someone to shooting. Just be sure to drill the 4 rules of gun safety. You can not overemphasize those 4 rules; they're especially critical for someone whose only exposure to guns has been through TV, movies, and games.
 
I figured when I started this thread that some people might track down the way of gaming more than guns, but hoped it wouldn't. If it gets locked because of tangents, I'll link to it when I post how the range trip went. If it stays open then I'll bring it back up.

Seattle, that's interesting. That's actually close to me. I favorited the site, I'll have to look at it more later.
 
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