N00BS

This post is about game noobs. those who pretend to be into gaming but quickly are exposed when asked anything of real substance, or those who boast of their skills only to be pwned by an actual gamer thus not only exposing them as a noob, but a noob who is too noob to know he/she is a noob and thats the worst kind! If you don't want to be a noob, or at least want to not get awkward looks from actual gamers when in a casual outing coversation and what have you, here are some tips to help you on your dragon's quest to acheveing max level, and not being a noob and having thine hits reduced by 1337 by real gamers.

1. Learn about developers, Atlus woot woot, sony, microsoft, especially at least the CEO's or leaders of developers such as those from Nippon, Bandai, Tecmo, Team Ninja, Working Designs, Sucker punch, Naughty Dog, Rare, Capcom, Ubisoft etc.

2. Learn about those behind the game, music, art designer, voice actors, script writers etc. Shout out to Nubuo Uematsu, Koichi Sugiyama, Yoshino Aoki woot!.

3. Broaden your horizon in the genre of games you play, and casual is good, but we are talking about nerding it up with harcore friends, and yes we like causal games but if you want to not be left out of a convo with some meat, then you are going to have to deviate from mother's milk called soccer mom casual games.

4. Suscribe to a game magizine, Gamerinformer, Playstation, Xbox, *cough* Nintendo power, (no no never mind Nintendo can die in a fire.

5. Use the buddy system, Sensei student friendships in which most often hardcore gamers are willing to expound their knowledge, or just listen to them rant you can usually gather all the intel you need about console wars, and the latest genre, who is the cooliest art designer, music composer etc. (Hardcore gamers just don't like pretenders, so if you are a noob own up to it its ok we all can be born with a Atari 2600 joystick in our hands. But lets face it we were noob at some point, well some tee-hee.)

6. Go on forums beware of the vampire people and emos, alternative forms of social networking include facebook and myspace.