It's Not Cool to Admit Being Gamer

^^What if you wear a shirt that proudly displays an image of The Heavy holding up his Minigun?

edited 10th Jun '11 1:24:36 PM by RocketDude

"Hipsters: the most dangerous gang in the US." - Pacific Mackerel

You either need to conform to what everyone else is doing or do the exact opposite of what everyone else is doing to be considered cool.

Tropers tend to do whatever the fuck we want.

I say we're the coolest. And if anyone talks back to me, i can tell them their lives will never be complete because they never watched Gurren Lagann or played Bayonetta.

Hooray for Be Yourself!

edited 10th Jun '11 1:25:17 PM by ShirowShirow

Bleye knows Sabers.

I see this as a problem with society if there is a stigma around not touching boobs.

Genkidama for Japan, even if you don't have money, you can help![1]

Where do you guys live ? Where i'm from being a gamer is no big deal and is pretty much the norm. Even the popular kids played videogames all the time with their girlfriends.Calling yourself a nerd won't ostracize you from the normal people either.

edited 10th Jun '11 1:27:03 PM by Vanitas

People here don't even know what a Mega Drive is... people who are AT LEAST a year or two older than me. It's a really backwards world here and I don't think it's changing anytime soon. I dunno if I should be happy or not for actually owning something not many even know.

Then again, I go to school with people who can't even make a table in Word.

edited 10th Jun '11 1:34:48 PM by Nayrani

"Liar liar on the wall, give the world to me..."

"Demigod was an abysmal failure because of the pirates, there's no question"

Yes there is. That operates on the assumption that pirate=lost sale which is an insane level of stupid.

It's also fact that the only DRM that took a decent time to crack was the one on Mysteries of Westgate, and that was simply because no one cared about Mysteries of Westgate (It was delayed until like... a year or more after the game it was for became completely irrelevant so, shockingly enough, DRM could be added). Everything else is cracked in days.

In fact, it is much more believable that DRM would cost sales.

edited 10th Jun '11 1:38:57 PM by deuxhero

First of all, the average person surfing through Gamestop doesn't even know what DRM is. Very few people take it into account when making a purchase.

Second, i pointed out and explained exactly why Demigod's piracy hurt it and that it didn't have anything to do with a pirate = a lost sale. There's still tons of lost profit thanks to piracy, though. There are more excuses than i have the care to type in, but pirates are all massive hypocrites when it comes down to it and no matter how many justifications they try and throw out at the end of the day they are never going to pay for a product they can have for free illegally.

Third of all, what the hell's a westgate mystery and why should i care?

Bleye knows Sabers.

Look, I've got a boob. Actually, two of them. They're not that exciting! Really.

You know, the only places I've had people go "OMIGOD GIRL!" is on the internet in articles complaining about it. Strangely, in the industry itself and amongst the gamers that go outside and talk to people, it's never been a big deal. Even if I am the only one in the room a lot.

My sister got into Call Of Duty and whenever she put the headset on she had to deal with people constantly questioning her gender. And her weight. And her degree of skankiness. It was a bit too much for an older brother to be asked to put up with, actually. I started to make random death threats.

That was a joke. People are having trouble picking up on my jokes lately. Too much Deadpan, not enough Snarker i guess. The death threats part, anyways.

ANYWAYS all i'm saying is people that play on Xbox LIVE either don't talk or are assholes. At least that's my experience. And that leads to gamers as a whole getting labeled assholes or shut-ins.

edited 10th Jun '11 1:58:37 PM by ShirowShirow

Bleye knows Sabers.

Yeah, the jerks push everyone else out. It's impossible to have a decent conversation when people are intent on being morons. :/

But somehow,◊

That's completely different from my experience I think I only encountered douche-pads on three occasions. And only one time were they racists Unfortunately I was playing with my black friend that one time...

edited 10th Jun '11 2:02:47 PM by NULLcHiLD27

I once claimed to be black, and the guy starting gibbering incoherently. It was somewhere between a brave front, an apology and an insult.

Bleye knows Sabers.

Silly gamer-tropers! The clear solution to avoiding gamer-jerks is to not make friends with any of them and never play online!

• forever alone guy*

Really, though, apart from being mildly annoyed when my mother calls my Xbox 360 a Playstation, I've recieved no bad press for being a gamer. And anyway, I try not to expect people to already know things that are pretty obscure to them, just because I know them. I don't think I should, say, leave a room in a huff because nobody knows about Orlando Innamorato or something.

I am a mote angered that almost every other male gamer my age is into Call of Duty: Modern Warfare while I couldn't care less about it, but I figure I can capitalise on this apart-ness by making a t-shirt that says "I don't care about COD". Fellow non-carers could not help but notice!

I'm pretty sure it's not cool to admit anything.

Well, in pop culture at least there seems to be a significant difference between "plays games" and "gamer".

Likes many underrated webcomics

What if you admit you saw a T. rex riding a tricycle up a volcano chasing after an ice-cream truck?

Pretty sure that's the coolest thing ever.

But somehow,◊

And now you're a hipster

Why's an ice-cream truck driving up a volcano?

edited 10th Jun '11 2:17:14 PM by NULLcHiLD27

No, I'd only be a hipster if I claimed I cared about COD when it wasn't mainstream.

Actually, I do wear glasses, although they're not hipster-glasses.

Nah, there's nothing wrong with being proud to be having different preferences if you actually have different tastes and don't just say you do because you want to be seens as different.

Oh wait. smiley. I missed that. Carry on!

Bleye knows Sabers.

Nul: Because people up in the volcano want some goddamn ice-cream.

edited 10th Jun '11 2:21:58 PM by AirofMystery

It's gonna melt...

Don't be ridiculous, Nul, why would a volcano melt?

Why wouldn't it? Volcanoes love to melt, especially ice cream...and people.

> Demigod was an abysmal failure because of the pirates, there's no question

No, it was an abysmal failure because it was a bad game overall and its support was really terrible.

> in pop culture at least there seems to be a significant difference between "plays games" and "gamer".

In pop culture if a game has a plot and you played it for more than fifteen seconds, you automatically have no life.

edited 10th Jun '11 2:38:12 PM by Aminatep

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