I love when people don't think I'm a "Gamer" (Jinfash wins w/post 214)

I'm a pretty normal guy, average looking, and I do not fit the stereotypical gamer look. I have shocked people in the past when they find out how hardcore I am about gaming and how knowledgeable I am. I've had people come to my house (friends of friends) and see my gaming room and collection upstairs and would suspect that I would have some sort of sports man cave instead (even though I hate sports). That being said, most people I know who are hardcore gamers do not fit that stereotypical look either. *shrugs*
 
OP:

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The rest of us:

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OP wins.
 
Maybe I should post this before it gets messy. I don't think people who play games look like Steve Urkel or I'm some cool guy. I just find it funny, that because I was a black kid from Harlem. I didn't know anything about games. Maybe I should put that in the OP.
 
Spork4000 said:
I go to a school with a big game development program, so yes, those guys are dicks who think they are the best gamers on the planet and that Dark souls is the second coming of Christ.
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I met a few guys who got into that kind of study and man, I have to agree that the majority seem to think that they know everything about videogames. Man, they were pissed that I needed to explain them about vidyagaemes. Hilarious.
 
Whenever people start talking about video games in a misinformed way, I just sort of stay quiet or only talk about it casually, because who calls someone out on something like that without being an actual crazy person
 
Servbot24 said:
Isn't it just assumed that every 20-something guy is decent at Halo?
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It depends WHERE in your 20s:

Late 27-29: You're probably no good at Halo.
24-26: You're probably decent
20-23: You probably grew up playing FPS as your first console experience
 
Adam Prime said:
It depends WHERE in your 20s:

Late 27-29: You're probably no good at Halo.
24-26: You're probably decent
20-23: You probably grew up playing FPS as your first console experience
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This is just wrong. There are lots of people into their 30s with Halo skills. It just depends which Halo. ;)
 
I like the looks of my kids 20-something friends when my old ass limps in with a martini and rips their face off at *insertgamename*
 
I just assume that everyone I don't know doesn't play much until they say (or prove) otherwise. Usually seems to be the safer assumption.
 
rrc1594 said:
My friend who is in game development at my school invited me to a Halo party. I'm in Recording Engineer, so I didn't know anyone at the party. They were picking teams for a 5v5 match; I was picked last (H.S gym all over again lol). Whatever they don't know me, but the guy was like " I guess I have this guy". Rolling his eyes, then he says, " This game is nothing like COD". I didn't even say shit about COD; he just assumed that's only game I know. Then I started fucking with him asking questions like how you prone and can you run up walls. Now I don't think I'm good at Halo 3 maybe above the average player. The game was to 25 and I destroyed everyone, I was on personal mission to rip everyone a new asshole. I went 17-0 the look on the guys face was priceless. This stuff happens all the time; people just assume I don't know anything about games.

Does this happen to anyone else on Gaf. People just act smug like they are some "Hardcore" gamer. You’re some "Dudebro" who knows nothing.
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Did this actually happen? This sounds like some weird nerd fantasy.
 
rrc1594 said:
Maybe I should post this before it gets messy. I don't think people who play games look like Steve Urkel or I'm some cool guy. I just find it funny, that because I was a black kid from Harlem. I didn't know anything about games. Maybe I should put that in the OP.
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You should, because there are plenty of hilarious, defensive posts in this thread, as if your story is so utterly implausible that there's no way it didn't happen without proof.
 
Lots of overly sensitive people here.

Take it easy guys. I don't think OP was trying to insult you and your lifestyle.
 
I remember a bunch of dudes in the music department at my university being shocked when I jumped into a Street Fighter discussion. Apparently I didn't look the part or something.

They dragged me to a DnD session some time after that.
 
OP is like the Bruce Wayne of videogames, keeping his true identity hidden to the public.

Us gamers, right?
 
Not really. It's usually good results when folks find out that I'm a gamer. I actually had a awesome conversation with a gamestop rep about dota and counter strike. He was trying to get me to play dota at the time and I was telling him how awesome counter strike was. Another time I was talking to this dude at a flea market about Gran Turismo 2 since I bought the game from them.

The only time I got the whole "not a gamer" vibe was with my peers who was shocked that I'm not really big on rpgs....but that was just harmless jabs.
 
Not every one suspects that I play games. But some people that know assume that is all I do and all I like to do. Not so long ago a guy said to me you like to play games why are you not going to work for a game website.... he was not joking. substituted game with anything anyone likes to do and it is a completely stupid thing to say , but if you play games it must be the only thing you like
 
rrc1594 said:
My friend who is in game development at my school invited me to a Halo party. I'm in Recording Engineer, so I didn't know anyone at the party. They were picking teams for a 5v5 match; I was picked last (H.S gym all over again lol). Whatever they don't know me, but the guy was like " I guess I have this guy". Rolling his eyes, then he says, " This game is nothing like COD". I didn't even say shit about COD; he just assumed that's only game I know. Then I started fucking with him asking questions like how you prone and can you run up walls. Now I don't think I'm good at Halo 3 maybe above the average player. The game was to 25 and I destroyed everyone, I was on personal mission to rip everyone a new asshole. I went 17-0 the look on the guys face was priceless. This stuff happens all the time; people just assume I don't know anything about games.

Does this happen to anyone else on Gaf. People just act smug like they are some "Hardcore" gamer. You’re some "Dudebro" who knows nothing.
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You're a gamer ringer, like that kid in the Wizard.
 
Finishing off my industrial degree the guys I studied with were all typical to the types of folks who enter into the field. Various levels of good ol boys with a strong affinity for machines and a love of hard work. Not a nerd in the bunch. We all shared a floor with the software development degree folks and they were joking around about "the Nerds" one day. Called em out on it and brought up that I was in fact a nerd and my other degree was a BA in Animation and I worked on game stuff and was big on it myself.

They were all like "well yeah, but you're a cool nerd though you don't do D&D and stuff like them man".

Had fun watching the room crack up when I responded with "not since I was traumatized by fucking THACO systems way back in the day making negative armor classes good and rolls a math field day adventure of fail". Then I continued on to bitch about the most obscure shit I could think of from Magic the Gathering to TAC combos to make their eyes gloss over for the hell of it. Fun times. Got some smiles from the rest of the nerds on that. Then proceeded to continue on out with the Industrial guys and continued working with them on our Circuitry Homework and Gas Turbine research after I'd gotten em to laugh and lighten up. They didn't give folks shit for being a nerd after that. One of them began hitting on one of the girls learning Java later in March. Both crowds were pretty cool. Miss them.
 
RP912 said:
Not really. It's usually good results when folks find out that I'm a gamer. I actually had a awesome conversation with a gamestop rep about dota and counter strike. He was trying to get me to play dota at the time and I was telling him how awesome counter strike was. Another time I was talking to this dude at a flea market about Gran Turismo 2 since I bought the game from them.

The only time I got the whole "not a gamer" vibe was with my peers who was shocked that I'm not really big on rpgs....but that was just harmless jabs.
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Yeah, on a serious note I've had good results as well. I've built good rapports with bosses and coworkers over my love for gaming. The neck beard stigma is really disappearing for the most part, though you do sometimes see them hanging out at Gamestop to inform you of the quality of your purchasing decisions.
 
My college group mates invited me to play smash bros brawl after we finished up a project. They assumed I was a newb and they were pro because they played a lot together. I played my main, Fox, and destroyed them lol.

It was beautiful.
 
I do this with Rock Band and Guitar Hero. Picking expert on guitar isn't that big of a deal, but when I sit down at the drum set and pick expert, I get looks like, "Are you serious?"

And then I fucking kill that shit.
 
Happened to me all the time with quake 3 and unreal tournament/ UT2003.

I lost all my nerdy friends because I could win alone vs 10 guys :(.
 
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