AU Gamers

At a meeting of the American University Gamers on Saturday the 2nd of December, many gamers had gathered to play the new and revolutionary game system, the Nintendo Wii. Many others were playing various board games and card games. I observed one gamer who sat in a dark corner of the room with her laptop. She wore headphones and had a microphone that she was talking into. I went to see what she was doing and observed that she was playing an online role-playing game. It appeared that she was conversing with the other players in the game with her microphone, but she paid little attention to the gamers present in the room. She only spoke to other gamers nearby if they asked what she was doing or if they could watch, but she otherwise did not socialize with them, speaking only with her virtual friends.