I don't think "What are you doing, shifting responsibility into inanimate pieces of interactive media instead of assuming it yourselves as parents?" will make your friend feel happy, despite it being the truthA friends Facebook post a couple days ago:
"I volunteer at my son's school on Wednesdays and read through each student's written weekend reports. It blows my mind how many of these kids write about nothing except video games. I always feel better about how [wife's name] and I are doing as parents after I leave."
This is a person who usually talks about NOTHING else except sports. I wanted to drive to his house and smack him.
Is this annoyance at being called a gamer new? I don't recall it being so prevalent but now I see it all the time on GAF. I don't see it any different than calling yourself a reader or a listener (in the case of music or radio or whatever).
Pertaining to the thread, my dad about a year ago (I'm just about 28):
"Don't you think you're a little old for Mario?" You know, because age has anything to do with enjoying a well designed game or any other type of medium.
My wife literally will not even sit in the same room as me if I'm playing a game on the TV, "too distracting" she'll say. As if it's any different than me having a hockey game or movie or TV show on and sitting there while she's reading her phone. I don't get it.
I've gotten "Oh you are into playing video games? What games do you play?" from people when the topic somehow comes up and I just want to say, "Well, whatever looks interesting to me. Do you watch the same movies over and over?"
I've gotten "Oh you are into playing video games? What games do you play?" from people when the topic somehow comes up and I just want to say, "Well, whatever looks interesting to me. Do you watch the same movies over and over?"
Calling me a "gamer".
People who say that gaming/First Person Shooters turn people into murderers.
Y'know, the typical Fox News type of crap.
This. In college, my roommate brought a friend over and told his friend "Oh, they're gamers"
Then he proceeds to play COD..... . .. .
Like, wtf?
I normally don't have a problem being called a gamer, but to label people as gamers to differentiate themselves to others who do game, like what my roommate did, really gets under my skin.
Oh my god this reminds me of when my mum was teaching me how to drive.
"Just remember you don't get points for hitting people in real life."
....like seriously?!
That seems to be an attitude problem on your behalf.
Person: "Hey, i am showing slight interest in your hobby"
You: "YOU ARE NOT MY SUPERVISOR!"
Person: "Oh, ok, just pout then."
That's not my intent, I mean I'll gladly tell them "Oh yeah I'm playing Trials Fusion and OctoDad right now" and get a blank stare, it's just the question is usually so generic and all-encompassing. If it was posed as "Oh yeah? What are you playing lately?" then it just seems more genuine.
That said, I've only had people say this to me like 2 or 3 times in my life, so it's not like it's a common thing.
"I wish I had time for video games"
Seriously, its so insulting. There's a final bosman on it. So condescending to my hobby.
yo man something I've discovered is that if you call people out on watching that idiot shit they're usually too lazy or too genuinely brainless to field a valid response so next time just do thatUgh, it pisses me off to no end when non-gamers makes fun of adult gamers. My mother and I stayed at my grandparents' house for a week during the holidays. My grandparents (and my mom, too) would sit in front of the TV for hours watching intellectually stimulating programming such as Maury, The Wendy Williams Show, The Steve Wilkos Show, and the myriad court TV shows that air throughout the day. At some point, the subject of adult gamers comes up (because two of my uncles are men in their 30s who still play games), and they immediately start making fun of them and claiming they're wasting their lives and going on about how pathetic the hobby is (and just for the record, my gamer-uncles are two successful, socially well-adjusted guys). Don't get me wrong, I'm not gonna sit here and say that video games are inherently more valuable and meaningful than the trash TV that they spend hours watching (let's be honest - most are just mindless entertainment), and I hate to be so judgmental towards the way my family members use their free time, but the sheer hypocrisy is just so infuriating.
At lunch a few weeks ago.
Me: "I'm glad I finally get some time to play some games this weekend."
Other person: "Oh do you play like the Call of Duty?"
Me: "Uh, no. I'm going to be playing something else."
Other person: "Oh like what?"
Me: "It's called the Witcher 2 and Wonderful 101..."
Other person: Blank stares...
I get that CoD as the go-to "you play games, you must like that" example is off-putting, but if you're upset they didn't recognize any of the stuff you threw out, that's really dumb.At lunch a few weeks ago.
Me: "I'm glad I finally get some time to play some games this weekend."
Other person: "Oh do you play like the Call of Duty?"
Me: "Uh, no. I'm going to be playing something else."
Other person: "Oh like what?"
Me: "It's called the Witcher 2 and Wonderful 101..."
Other person: Blank stares...
It bugs me when people who do nothing but watch TV for 4 hours every night imply that I'm wasting my life by spending a lesser amount of time playing games.
I get that CoD as the go-to "you play games, you must like that" example is off-putting, but if you're upset they didn't recognize any of the stuff you threw out, that's really dumb.
You'd give someone a blank stare if the conversation was about books and they mentioned they're reading Frog Music and Cauldron of Ghosts, and those are current bestsellers, less relatively obscure to the medium at large than your examples.
Here was the big whopper that I got hit with a lot by my dad when I was growing up, in middle/high school.
"You know if you put even a tenth of the effort you put into videogames into studying, you'd be on the honor roll!"
Thanks Dad. Thanks for that.
"I wish I had time for video games"
Seriously, its so insulting. There's a final bosman on it. So condescending to my hobby.
Well, throwing out names and then sighing that they don't recognize them and immediately dropping the subject will definitely clear up that misunderstanding for them.To this person, Call of Duty and Flappy Bird are the only games that exist.
Well, throwing out names and then sighing that they don't recognize them and immediately dropping the subject will definitely clear up that misunderstanding for them.
"I wish I had time for video games"
Seriously, its so insulting. There's a final bosman on it. So condescending to my hobby.
This one customer at my job learned that I played games and said "Id never take you as someone who finds pushing buttons to be intellectually stimulating."
I didn't even know what to respond to that
When people refer to me playing a 'game box' in a sarcastic way as to imply it's some dumb thing I'm wasting my life on it like I'm a kid.
Here was the big whopper that I got hit with a lot by my dad when I was growing up, in middle/high school.
"You know if you put even a tenth of the effort you put into videogames into studying, you'd be on the honor roll!"
Thanks Dad. Thanks for that.
"You need to get a life."
First of all, what is "a life"? Secondly, this is usually said by someone who does nothing but watch TV all day.
Calling me a "gamer".
lol all too true
another one is "didn't you already play this game?" or "this is the same game" when referring to a sequel.
Isn't it great?
This is rotting your brain:
This is totally acceptable:
lol all too true
another one is "didn't you already play this game?" or "this is the same game" when referring to a sequel.
yo man something I've discovered is that if you call people out on watching that idiot shit they're usually too lazy or too genuinely brainless to field a valid response so next time just do that
I mean seriously you don't get to watch Maury and Steve Wilkos and act like there's a dumber way to pass one's time that doesn't involve lingering at a gas station for an hour buying scratchers
It's usually gamers that get under my skin. Being all elitist about stupid stuff.
Using the word "gamer", as per others ITT.
This stuff mostly.