S e c o n d e d I t I o n 1 Reading for the Real World 1

based on
video games, 
Tomb 
Raider
included. Obviously, the video game industry is highly 
profitable
, and 
the designers of a successful game can become very rich. Of course, what this 
means is that there are many people buying and playing video games. What 
kinds of people are they?
There are many stereotypes about gamers. The first one is that most gamers 
are males. Another stereotype about gamers is that they are not interesting or 
attractive people. According to this view, gamers are mostly fat because they 
always play games instead of exercising. Even if they are not fat, they are still 
unhealthy because they 
rarely
go outside or do anything active. Another part of 
this image is that gamers are ugly. They play games because it is impossible for 
them to find girlfriends. Not only are they ugly, but they are also boring. Gamers 
have no interests outside games, so games are all that they can talk about, 
besides computers. Further, this image of gamers 
implies
they are antisocial. 
They do not know how to communicate with other people. This is the main 
reason that they play games. Gamers spend all of their time alone with their 
computers, and they only connect with other people through the Internet, where 
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numerous --- many
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character --- a person in a story
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based on --- originating from; taken from
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profitable --- able to earn money for a company
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rarely --- seldom; not often
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imply --- to suggest; to seems to mean
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they can pretend to be different people. This sort of communication is not real, 
since gamers would never be able to talk the same way with people in the normal 
world.
The most negative stereotype about gamers is that they possibly have