are you embarassed that you play video games?

[Pirce]

You're right! I mean just think of all the things you could have whittled with all the time spent on gaming.

 

[TehSilentWolf]

I really couldn't care what other people think, unless of course your trying to pick up chicks, then you may have a problem, just go to lots of gaming conventions and hope there are some hot ones

 

[RetiarySword]

Why feel embarassed? Its a form of fun. The same as sport as in it can be taken seriously. Even when I talk to a girl if it comes up I can happily say 'I play games'. Whats so different with 'I watch TV' or 'I listen to music'?

 

[WeedWorm]

I never get embarressed about being a gamer/nerd and I play videogames, D&D and Warhammer. Whats to get embarressed about? Sure, I could have spent my childhood running around outside, playing sports but I didnt. So what? Fuck 'em.

 

[SecretTacoNinja]

Hell no! Gamers are the coolest people I know. The fact that I game gets me more attention from boys too. XD
If anyone gives me crap about being a gamer, they can jog on and fuck themselves.

I get pissed when people call gamers the scum of the earth, but I found something hilarious;
I was listening to a conversation going on in my class about games (the teacher was talking about COD 4), and this guy was saying how games are for kids, like it was a 'retarded' thing to do. It was funny because the guy who was saying all the bullshit was the dirtiest, rudest, dumbest smeghead I've ever seen, racist too.

 

[L33tsauce_Marty]

I'll tell any girl that I'm a gamer. If she doesn't like the fact that I play games then whatever. I probably don't like the fact that she probably rambles on about how intuitive and mischievous her cat is. Woo-hoo.

Eventually at the end of the graph I just walk away.

 

[RAWKSTAR]

I wouldn't go shouting 'I AM A GAMER, LOOK AT ME!!' Down the street. But I'm also not ashamed of it.

 

[KeithA45]

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?

I only used to feel embaressed when I gave up social interactions because of games, but now I've learned to balance spending as much time with my friends as possible, yet learning when it's time to leave them the hell alone and find entertainment elsewhere. Plus, I've come to realize that some people AREN'T worth my time, and gaming comes first when it comes to spending time with them.

I'm proud of my gaming past-time. Think about it: does baseball accomplish anything? Is anyone ever embaressed about that?

 

[ThePlasmatizer]

Not really, I go out with friends they all have consoles, I go to work and surprisingly my colleagues all own consoles and chances are quite a few people now own gaming consoles, so I'm never embarrassed about it.

The thing is though knowing when not to talk about it as not everyone is into games.

 

[Clemenstation]

This has probably been said before (tldnr), but I think gaming is only embarrassing if you don't have other hobbies or interests to balance it out.

Everything in moderation, blah blah blah. Nobody likes someone who's obsessed with ANYTHING (although, annoyingly enough, people are more willing to let sports freaks slide than game freaks).

 

[Jursa]

I don't feel embarrassed about being a gamer, I avoid jumping to that conversation with a person who doesn't like games and that's it.

 

[JohnSmith]

no, it's a legitimate strategy............. ok now I'm a little embarrassed

 

[goodman528]

Yes.

 

[sirdapfrey]

Not just no, but Hell No! I will always be a gamer. That doesn't mean it's the first thing I talk about when I meet someone, but I won't shy away from a converstion if it comes up. Maybe it was a little different in my younger days, but I'm really past the point where I give a rat's ass what people think other than those who are important to me, and those people are either also gamers or they take me as I am. Case in point-I met an amazing woman, I mean literally love at first sight (I fully disbelieved this B.S. until it happened to me). She is not a gamer. Very early on as we started dating, I let her know I was a gamer. Here we are, months later, living together, and she is the best thing that's ever happened to me. If people do not want to accept you for who you are, then they are not the right people to have in your life.

 

[nova18]

Not really, me and my friends are all pretty serious gamers.
We rarely have a day where we dont discuss the finer points of gaming, and everyone in the 6th form room will have some kind of gaming knowledge and will join in.
Plus we're pretty popular within the school so it's not like anyone looks at us any differently.

 

[latenightapplepie]

Yes, but I'm not really sure why. I feel it just be part of my overall shyness/lack of confidence. I tend to downplay most of what I do (and it is not just gaming) and say I don't do much at all - pretend I do nothing so that I can't be critized (except for doing nothing, which I don't mind). It's a bit Fowler-esque from The Quiet American .

 

[Monkfish Acc.]

The only time I'd ever be embarrassed is when someone walks in on a particularily corny or terrible piece of dialogue. But other than that, no.

 

[Harbinger_]

I'm not ashamed or embarassed to be a gamer. If anything the thing that I'm ashamed of most of all is the fact I'm single and have a crappy job.