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

SuicidalSteve said:
You mean these right? ;P

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Wow that guy in lower right. Tipping intsenifies.
 
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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Because you were a black kid from Harlem? What the fuck? I think I'm being baited.
 
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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It's too late for damage control now OP! Thread has a mind of it's own by now, it's a gamer thing.
 
I have a similar story. Ended differently, though.

People were playing the demo of Terminator: Future Shock. I went in there with my old handle, Ricochet. Thought I'd be good. Thought I'd win against these guys. Nope. I got stomped into the ground, so I quit midgame and returned, with my handle changed to PunchingBag.

The name stuck and was my nom du guerre for many years, until I decided to use my real name a long while ago.
 
I remember going to a local Street Fighter IV tourney and playing casuals and the dude assumed I didn't know how to play. Started trying to tell me the buttons and what not. Washed him and the 5 others that were rotating. They were all like "oh man, your pretty good" etc.

Also went to a LAN party on a university campus. Me and 2 other friends. The only black guys there with actual gaming PCs everybody else just rolling with gaming laptops, or macbook pros. Logged in and started playing Starcraft 2. 1v1 the best player there, beat em. Everybody jaws dropped. I love breaking stereotypes.
 
10k said:
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.
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I bet they said some shit like, "play me at a REAL fighting game" afterward.
 
sixteen-bit said:
I bet they said some shit like, "play me at a REAL fighting game" afterward.
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No they decided to put it on the metal gear solid stage with all items on since beating me doing a clean fight with no items was hard lol. Still won, didn't run up the score as much though.
 
I've had the same experience, and it's definitely not because I'm particularly good looking. I'm in college and my group of friends are more the dudebro type. I live with half the hockey team and it's a big party environment. No one ever expects to see me playing Pikmin 3 in the morning as my hangover cure.
 
yep. I'm in the accounting/hr department at a software company where the majority of the people here are in research and development as software developers or they're in the sales/marketing dept.

I never really tell people I game despite owning a japanese candy cab, arcade boards, and a decent sized console/pc collection of 200+ games. mostly known as the "hockey" or "guitar" guy at work since I mostly play guitar in the multi-purpose room and talk about my men's league team.. but I bought mario kart 8 for my Wii U a month ago and have been playing it with my roommates almost every night for 3 weeks straight.

my work just got a Wii U and mario kart 8 for our multi-purpose/fun room, and I played against co-workers yesterday for the first time. When I sat down to play, the others were trying to explain to me how to play and I said I already knew...but they weren't expecting much. I ended up wrecking one of the best players at our company (both 150cc circuits I got the 3 star gold for getting 1st on every map). It wasn't until the second race that someone asked me if I've been playing and for how long.
 
"I can still recall old Mr. Barnslow, getting out every morning and nailing a fresh load of tadpoles to that old board of his. Then he'd spin it round and round, like a wheel of fortune, and no matter where it stopped, he'd yell "Tadpoles! Tadpoles is a winner! " We all thought he was crazy, but then we had a lot of growing up to do."
 
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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I'd think 27-29 would be best since they were the perfect mix of no responsibilities and capable of understanding strategy during the years Halo was the top game. 20 year olds grew up on CoD/BF.
 
There was a turf war at the school I went to between recording arts and game development. You're lucky they even let you in their apartment. Until they need sound for their projects, then they become your best friend.
 
This reminds me of last year when one of my teachers was surprised to find out I liked gaming, since she thought I was super into fashion related things, although I am into that but not nearly as much as I am into gaming.
 
This reminds me of how I am with sports.

I'm not super jacked or anything, so when me and my friends play football I usually get picked towards the end. When the ball gets hiked, I don't expect to get it, so I usually jog to get it and don't sprint. After a bit, they start trying to kick it off towards me because they "think I will be the weak link"... They are wrong, I'm fairly quick and agile.

I remember my friend invited me to play football with the town fire department. They didn't expect much from me, I got 5 touchdowns. I remember the guy that was meant to block me just said "oh, he's fast.."

Not really anything to do with gaming, but it's a similar situation. I prefer to be undersestimated, it let's me stay under the radar, which is always good.
 
ironmang said:
I'd think 27-29 would be best since they were the perfect mix of no responsibilities and capable of understanding strategy during the years Halo was the top game. 20 year olds grew up on CoD/BF.
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What are you talking about? I'm 22 and grew up on counter strike, don't try and group me with people who play casual console games like cod and halo
 
I hope no one is offend, or thinks I'm trying stick any image on how 'gamers" should look like. I just thought it was a funny story and decide to share it.
 
Knowing what the Halo crowd was like during the peak of the series the elitism the people in your story have toward CoD players is pretty amusing to me.
 
Lol. This thread, so hostile.

Defying expectations is always funny. That's what people get for applying pointless labels to people. Who hasn't had something like this happen in one aspect of their lives or another?
 
Nobody thinks I'm into games until they ask me about my interests. I'm really not concerned about what others think, regardless.

The only hard part for me is that the people that I would like to hang out with and talk about nerdy stuff keep a distance from me because they think I'm a dude bro.
 
A "dudebro" with an avatar of Rush Sykes. Captain Hindsight shouldn't be wearing Captain Prejudging's costume.

Edit: Beaten.

Never happens to me since I'm a 5'6 Asian guy and all of my friends either are gamers or sort of are gamers.
 
rrc1594 said:
I hope no one is offend, or thinks I'm trying stick any image on how 'gamers" should look like. I just thought it was a funny story and decide to share it.
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I don't think anyone is really offended. We're just having fun.

Still need pics.

Dipz said:
Almost none of my IRL friends are really all that into video games so this never happens to me.
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Same for me. :( I have to make my gamer friends online. Fortunately, my wife is gamer too!
 
I'm proud of OP. The same thing rarely happened to me when I was younger, but it didn't happen at all for several years. I'd love it to happen again. Happen.
 
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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Are we talking Highschool here? Junior High?

I went to a university with a "big game development" program and hardly ANYONE acted like they were better than others at games.
 
Ultimatum said:
What are you talking about? I'm 22 and grew up on counter strike, don't try and group me with people who play casual console games like cod and halo
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I'm saying 20 year olds were 7 when Halo came out. 10 when Halo 2 came out. They were a little late to the party.
 
The most bizarre part of this story is that he blindly assumed you've never played Halo. Not that EVERYONE has played it but chances are you probably have.
 
_illmatic_ said:
I remember going to a local Street Fighter IV tourney and playing casuals and the dude assumed I didn't know how to play. Started trying to tell me the buttons and what not. Washed him and the 5 others that were rotating. They were all like "oh man, your pretty good" etc.

Also went to a LAN party on a university campus. Me and 2 other friends. The only black guys there with actual gaming PCs everybody else just rolling with gaming laptops, or macbook pros. Logged in and started playing Starcraft 2. 1v1 the best player there, beat em. Everybody jaws dropped. I love breaking stereotypes.
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People who bring laptops to lans are scum. I don't care if we are playing Warcraft 3 all night, you still gotta bring your gaming rigs
 
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