I'm with wildweasel on this one. Just how much kudos can you really get from being the über 1337 geek player of the year? I mean come on, sure playing video games is great fun and it's the basis of this community but we're hardly furthering mankind or making a grand contribution in any sense of the world. And it's really only important in a relatively small world. The rest of the universe considers it a bit sad (not that that's a reason to stop). Hey, even plenty other members of the community consider it a bit sad.
[sweeping_generalisation]To get
that good at a game probably means you spend way too much time in front of a monitor, have bad skin and are socially dysfunctional. Not something I aspire to.

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