Hi,

I wanna do a feature on video game players in Nigeria. I want to hook up with a real addict (25 upwards) that is the slant I wanna give the story, so it is important I stay in that range.

It will be nice if I can thro in a female who knows her way round a keypad too.

I am talking a game psycho here with a couple of consoles, a horde of games and a dusk to dawn addiction to match.

If there are any video game associations or video havens I can check in Lagos, i will like some contact points too.

The name of the programme this will feature is e360. We are on the AIT network on Saturdays 4:30 p.m and DSTV's Africa Magic Channel on Sundays 2 p.m

Hello Tolu, totally unrelated to your post, but I'm curious, Did you finish from Baptist High?? I've been searching for one Tolu Ojo that went to Babby High.

holler at texazzpete, dakmanzero, neoteny and Gtay. freaks i tell ya.

Hello, yea I finished from Babby High set of 92. Went to ABU studied English, creative writer/journalist in Lagos.


Lemme have your name mystery guy?

I wonder which kind of 'creative journalist' you are if all u can think of for a naijan video gamer feature is ways to reinforce the brainless stereotype of the immature gaming addict.
there's so much more to report on the naijan gaming scene. video game industry already surpasses the movie industry in sales in the US, and it's snowballing in naija too. instead all u can think of is to seek out some old, slack-jawed loser game addict.

wanna do a feature on game addicts? interview old geezers that sit around all day playing draughts!

Mr pete, you need to take out time to read and not fly into conclusions. Where did i mention that my story was to push the stereotype that gamers were puerile?

I am a video gamer myself and pretty much older than you. So that is an explanation in itself.

If other journalists have "yabbed" you in that regard, you need not crucify me for the sins of another.

Because I am seeking video gamers you assume you know my story slant.

I cannot remember showing you my journalistic templates.

If you are sore about the state of gaming in 9ja. You have the chance to change it.

If you not game for my feature. Well then don't send wrong misconceptions to people who are interested.

Button the lip!

toluwalomo:

Mr pete, you need to take out time to read and not fly into conclusions. Where did i mention that my story was to push the stereotype that gamers were puerile?

I am a video gamer myself and pretty much older than you. So that is an explanation in itself.

Because I am seeking video gamers you assume you know my story slant.

I cannot remember showing you my journalistic templates.

If you are sore about the state of gaming in Nigeria. You have the chance to change it.

If you not game for my feature. Well then don't send wrong misconceptions to people who are interested.

Button the lip!

Let me quote your earlier post for you, since you seem to be suffering from a temporary case of amnesia.

toluwalomo:

I want to do a feature on video game players in Nigeria. I want to hook up with a real addict (25 upwards) that is the slant I want to give the story, so it is important I stay in that range.

It will be nice if I can thro in a female who knows her way round a keypad too.

I am talking a game psycho here with a couple of consoles, a horde of games and a dusk to dawn addiction to match.

You want to promote a feature on gamers in nigeria, a feature you plan to broadcast to the world at large and yet you seek for a '25yr and above gamer who sits down at home all day gaming from dusk to dawn' (your words!) and you think you aren't reinforcing whatever stereotype people have about video gamers in nigeria?
You aren't seeking video gamers here, you're seeking for that niche breed of game addicts (you said that so yourself!). anybody with half a brain knows that addiction in all forms is bad, and to deliberately choose to use a video game addict (and even worse, a relatively old video game addict) in your portrayal, that means you're really out to reinforce all negative perceptions people have about we all that game sporadically, and purely for recreational purposes.

Even if i was 'sore about the state of gaming in nigeria' , your program (which, as you say, seeks to depict a mature man who instead of working productively, plays videogames all day) would only serve to exponentially worsen the situation. After all, when you show a slack jawed 28year old man who exists only to satisfy his 'dusk to dawn addiction' how many parents would go out to buy their kids games?

It's only a few days since your first post and you seem to have forgotten what you posted there. Even a quick glance at the top of the page would have shown you the folly in your last post. What kind of journalist are you? Creative or confused?

Dude. no one cares if you're older'n me. If you're an addict, film yourself!

@ Codec, loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooool

Anyway i take that as a compliment.

@Tolu, yup am interested but now most games i play are on my laptop. I really dont have consoles right now.

Cheers.

GTAY,

    You can give me a hit on e360@fastermail.com letz work on something.

    Mr Pete,If you to want play the hot-headed-cannot-see-beyond-his-nose-fool go ahead!

   I got 8 leads, obviously people did not hear your rabid rantings.

   My story is going ahead. So sorry it is not me in the lead role.

   Don't slit your throat out of envy!

  So whilst you continue to rant like someone who needs to be imprisoned in a straitjacket, i  have a story to work on!

Thanks for adding a comical connotation to my post.

Gamer/programmer/otaku types tend to be very aggressive at times. I wonder why. Good luck, toluwalomo.

am interested in the gaming thing my guy, count me in. i'd like to show off my game-pad handling skills as well as my , i hope the game is strategic in nature.

oh boy, 25+ is not really common in naija but u still a couple of ppl, so its goin 2 a show, am rite.

Wisemikky you will get an e-mail from one of my colleagues today.

Hey Tolu, you're definately the TOLU I lost contact with! I'm Babby High set of 97, remember Peterson??Agboola House?? I actually caught your name in the cast after an episode of e360, and I was so sure it was you. Lets take this private. I'll send you an email. Nice one!!

We'll see how this turns out, perhaps it'd have been better if you didn't call for addiction etc. All i've been saying is IMHO anyone 25+ that plays games dusk to dawn has to be psycho, if you insist you aren't putting this kind of thing out for show, then good for you. Will see if the actual show gives me a change of mind.

toluwalomo:


   Don't slit your throat out of envy!

Thanks for providing me with a genuine reason to laugh today  . Even if i had no problem with this, i'd never sign up for stuff like this. However, i never specifically tried to dissuade others from doing this. I'm even surprised that you've got only 8 leads so far, Nigerians tend to jump in on anything.

@Tolu
My reservations aside, i've heard good things about your show. I still have problems with where i think you're headed to, but i'll apologize for comments calling your talents as a journalist in question.

yo tp, go easy on this guy!

I'm sure he's a great journalist when dealing with people in the traditional sense (face to face interviews, quotations and after the fact reporting) but obviously doesn't quite have a handle on the Internet yet, which isn't a bad thing! afterall aren't we all guilty of net rage!

hey tolu, Tp was actually right. I (and quite a few others I'm sure) felt quite offended by the tone of your initial post, but I realised you didn't mean to use words like 'addict' in a derogatory way.

Gamers can be quite sensitive when you talk about them, because we are depicted in a negative light as a matter of course. Check out texazzpetes thread on 'gamer stereotypes' to find out a bit more about that part of the 'gamer mindset'

The truth is, there's *much* to report on the 9ja gaming scene, because its so large, yet so underground, and so unique (since there is no official suppport for any major console here). It survives based almost entirely on a structure of informal business relationships and the international secondary market. You can easily do a half-assed job, but a good job will definitely be an interesting piece of journalism!

Be prepared to make some trips to Alaba, computer village and oshodi- and some trips to LUTH and UNILAG. Seek out a few g-houses. The gamers themselves may be a more difficult prospect though. I don't think I will be available because of my company's policy on granting interviewsx to the press :-(

Well it is nice to see that we have arrived at a type of understanding here.

Yes! I must admit that I allow my figurative sense of words get the better of me sometimes

The words that supposedly caused this brouhaha, were not intended to be derogatory.

I guess i was runnning in e360 script mode.

I know some gaming scenes in Lagos.

Are you saying the ones in LUTH AND UNILAG are hot?

Gimme some pointers for the underground g-scene if you can.

I would welcome it.

When I'm thu with the story.

I will leave a post here telling yall when the story will run.

Peterson! I am expecting your email.

You did not leave yours, I cud have hit you up eons ago!

Glad d misunderstanding is over and done with, just like dakmanzero i'm a  working professional, and i always flare up when someone questions the maturity of gaming etc etc.

TP!!!!

wipe ya email address off nairaland or the yahoo boys and spambots will get you!!!!

have you no further need for that email address!??!?!?!??!??!??!?!?!!!!!1

Also he wasnt referring to you, it was some guy from his secondary school

peterson! ROFLMAO

Hey I Was waited for your show this sat, but unfortuanately it didn't show.

It was sum technical mix-sup, sorri bout dat.

We are on the new channel Link 65 and STV now.

I will hit you with the timings once I confirm.

Thanks for watching e360!

Gtay and Texxazpete I sent you guys e-mails eons ago, no response.

Wisemikky, I'll hook up with you after the easter holidays, been awfully busy, shud have done that earlier.

I said it it before Lush, dat when the story is done, i'll put up the show time.

I intend to still do that!

Don't hold your Breath home-boi!

How did this eventually end up? Where was the journalist heading with this?