Reading 'n Gaming

Over the recent years, a lot of people have told me that my English was very good.  Pronunciation and grammar could still need some work but they thought that I had a strong vocabulary.  I have books and Star Trek to thank for that.  I watched Star Trek even before I could fully understand the language; it's people in colored uniforms shooting laser beams at aliens.  As a kid, that's all I need!  Reading books, on the other hand, I picked up much, much later during my college years 11 years ago (makes me feel old just thinking about it).

Anyways, I read a lot of books.  Paper-back novels to be precise and most turn out to be of the fantasy genre.  You know, orcs and elves.  It's kind of a huge U-turn from colored uniforms shooting laser beams but, whatever.  While not being the very first series I've devoured, R.A. Salvatore's "the dark elf trilogy" is probably the series of books I've liked the best.

Now a days, I tend to read novels based off video games.  Games such as Diablo, Warcraft, GuildWars, Starcraft and even The Elder Scrolls.  You know what the strange part of all this is?  Every time someone sees me reading these books they get all curious until they see the title.  "Oooh what are you reading?  Tha--  Oh!  It's one of your games isn't it?  Bah!"

... And then they drop the topic.  It's always the same thing.  Why?  What's wrong with my books?  I get more interesting characters and story than any of these folks would ever get from their TV shows (which, for a lot of people, consists of nothing but drama - especially those reality shows) and on top of that, it keeps me involved in my hobby when I'm away from the computer and they're snubbing my reading?

I hate hypocrites!

Why is anything related to gaming perceived as this inferior thing?  Those people never played a video game since PAC-MAN!  No!  Chances are they never even played that either!  You know what's really stupid about all this, these people think that way because video games "are meant for little kids" and they're the ones complaining about video games being murder simulators...

To these folks, I say: "It takes an open mind to read my kind of books; that you're not reading these is probably for the best."

If you've never played PAC-MAN because, you know, some of you might be too young for that time, go play it now!