are you embarassed that you play video games?

[letsnoobtehpwns]

recently when ever i sit down on the couch and grab my controller i've been feeling kind of like a loser. i'm in school and doing ok but and i have a social life but it just seems like all the years i've spent gaming have been a waste of my life. i could have done so much in that time. and even when i go to school i can't escape video games. all my friends talk about is WoW, gears of war 2 and worst of all, RUNESCAPE. even when i'm on youtube, a website that flooded with original and creative videos i find myself watching trailers, reviews, machinima's and all kinds of other things about games. i've been feeling really embarrassed about the fact that i'm a gamer. are any of you ever embarrassed that you like to sit down and turn on the console?

 

[A.I. Sigma]

Psshh, hell no. I'm proud to be a gamer; it's my passion, and I feel different from the stupid, bimbo girls that infest my school and college with their dyed blonde hair and orange faces. Can they get a headshot on Halo?

No!


I doubt the stupid bints even know how to hold the controller.

Gaming rules~

 

[Drake the Dragonheart]

you shouldn't be at all. I know I certainly am not. My friends are all gamers, and we probably will be our entire lives. I mean back in the hayday of Mechassault and Mechassault 2, you wouldn't believe the number of guys in their 40's I had on my friend's list. Those two games were really popular among U.S. soldiers over in Iraq apparently. One of the best guys I played with on MA2 was a 23 year army man. I knew several guys in the military who played.

As for gaming being a waste, really unless you are good enough to go pro, isn't playing a sport an equal waste of time by that logic (not counting the exercise factor here of course)
Just about all of our hobbies and entertainment venues are in truth wastes of time, but they distract us from the fact that if the earth blew up tommorow, the universe would hardly notice.

 

[Twilight_guy]

Yes. Internalized stereotypes make me ashamed to admit it. Now I fell bad.

 

[NeedAUserName]

Not at all, I go to high school, and between, football, games and girls there's not much else me and my friends talk about... I don't see the embarrassment about gaming, I mean if its something like Runescape, or Hello Kitty Island Adventure then fair enough, but most other games the chances are you have at least one friend who plays it.

 

[Donbett1974]

Nope if they don't like me because I'm a gamer than i don't need to know them.

 

[Russia208]

lol, not really, i was talking to this cute chick today about fallout 3 today at school haha!!! But to bad she has a 360 and I got a ps3 , she plays COD 4 too.

 

[NXMT]

Not at all.

 

[Donbett1974]

lol, not really, i was talking to this cute chick today about fallout 3 today at school haha!!! But to bad she has a 360 and I got a ps3 , she plays COD 4 too.

Sound like she to good for you.

 

[Fronken]

I've jumped out of high school twice and never had a chick, so if anyone here is a looser its me, but i still am proud to be a gamer, i've been gaming for 15 years now (started with Commodore64/NES back when i was 4), and i still have the same love and respect for games, though im mostly for retro games...

Anyways, you dont have to feel ashamed to be a gamer, its a hobby, and if you love it, keep doing it, things will work out eventually, just as long as you dont overdo it with the gaming, keep real life things prioritized, but dont let go of gaming if you love it.

 

[Theo Samaritan]

even when i'm on youtube, a website that flooded with original and creative videos i find myself watching trailers, reviews, machinima's and all kinds of other things about games.

Because youtube isn't flooded with original creative videos. It is flooded with shit, with an odd gem surfacing from the sewage. Serious gaming sites and so forth only really ended up putting vids on youtube because the shit for some unfathomable reason brings in millions of possible pageviews.

Basically my point is that you watch that stuff because other than film trailers, clips ripped off of comedy dvd's and the occasional, genuinly funny, comedian, that is all there is to watch on it that is anywhere near passable.

In other news: Don't feel embarrassed for doing something you enjoy.

 

[Tekrae]

If you don't like yourself as a gamer, then try and find another hobby. Taking up Airsoft or paintball might not be too bad an idea.

But remember, don't be ashamed of liking something, unless it's furry stuff. >_>

 

[Baneat]

Nah because I'm independent in thinking.

 

[letsnoobtehpwns]

If you don't like yourself as a gamer, then try and find another hobby. Taking up Airsoft or paintball might not be too bad an idea.

But remember, don't be ashamed of liking something, unless it's furry stuff. >_>

i airsoft and i'm good at it to! i'm in a great team called the outlawz.

 

[The Shade]

Never bothered me. Almost everyone I know plays video games in some form or other. And I know a lot of people. Even the more "Jocky" sorts I know love their games.

I dunno. I always just looked at it as a hobby.

So short answer: no.

 

[redscarecrow]

Well I've been playing computer games since I was 5 and never really felt that it was an embarrassing act. Most of my friends played and we would talk about games alot at school and wouldn't be ashamed.

That was until I started playing WoW. For some reason it was suddenly a massive tabboo to talk about it even to other people who played the game it felt like it was a secret shame or something. I found it a very strange experience to find something I've felt to be normal all my life to suddenly be frowned upon just because of a games reputation (courtesy of South Park and some rather slow news day reports).

I stopped playing WoW after I did genuinely get unhealthily addicted but I'm still an avid gamer today playing alot in my spare time not consuming my social life. I don't usually talk about games to people anymore but I have no problem with being a gamer or admitting so and will talk if it's a common interest.

 

[Danglybits]

No, never and no. If people want to call me a loser for playing games that's fine with me; I don't care to know them. But I would like to know what they do with their free time that's so much better. And gaming isn't all that I do with mine.