Have any "anti gamer" or "video game ignorant" stories.

[zombiejoe]

Let me explain, for lack of a better word for the title. Have you ever met someone who either didn't really "get" video games. Someone who either thought that "OH NOEZ TEH VIDEO GAMES CORRUPT TEH YOUTH!" or "What are you talking about 'good story', ain't you just running and shooting babies?"

I'm having a bit of trouble explaining this, so if you take some liberties with your explanation, that's fine.

Sorry I'm having trouble explaining D":

 

[Sassafrass]

Only the good ol' "But if you play that, you'll become a murdering rapist who beats people to death with a sex toy!" type stories. I'll also say that the last time this happened, I was 19 years old and buying GTA IV. ... -_-

 

[TeeBs]

Last time I told a story like this I got suspended, lets just say they were right about everything.

 

[Taxman1]

"You can play games on the computer?"

My heart sunk deep.

 

[smearyllama]

I was telling my mom about a portrait of Marilyn Monroe's face that my sister's roommate painted, and how it looked a little like the cover of a Metal Gear Solid game, but my mom stuck on "Marilyn Monroe" instead of "similar art style", and she said "I hope you're not playing that game."

>_<

Edit: Now I'm gonna make her listen to "The Best is Yet to Come", and see how she likes that.

 

[Enigma6667]

Okay, so I am playing a song from Shadow of the Colossus on the piano (Memories, as it is called) and mom comes in and asks what song it is. Then I tell her that it is called "Memories" and that it was from the video game Shadow of the Colossus. Then she replied with, "Huh...I didn't know video games had music like that."

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Not necessarily anything too bad, like say "Video games have stories?" or some shit like that, but still worthy of a facepalm.

 

[ReservoirAngel]

I was re-buying Saint's Row 2 after my disc of it broke, and there was some kid, about 15 years old I would guess, in the shop while I was looking for it. We ended up getting into a discussion, and his mum won't get the game for him.

I ended up describing all this kick-ass stuff you can do, when suddenly the kid's mum turns up and drags him away from me, telling me "shame on you for filling his mind with that twisted pornography!"

That was pretty fantastic...I gave the kid my copy of the game.

 

[Diligent]

My mom has this fixation with the idea that video games are only for children. She has, on multiple occasions in the past, witnessed me playing something (one of the silent hill games, god of war, bioshock) and said with a disgusted tone, "Are kids supposed to be able to play this?" or "Isn't this supposed to be for kids?"

 

[zHellas]

But...you ARE a murdering rapist who beats people to death with a sex toy...

I have never raped anyone, and beating someone with a sex toy only happened once! And it was a zombie! And for some reason I found the sex toy in a jacuzzi at Totally-Not-Las-Vegas and it was oddly called a "massager".



Mostly true, thanks to Dead Rising 2.

OT:

None, really. Though I do know about 1 guy (there are 2 others, but I haven't talked with them much so I don't know if they're also like this) that's like the Ignorant Gamer. You know, the stupid teenager you usually find on Xbox Live playing the latest Call of Duty game and calling everyone a noob.

 

[David Demers]

"You can play games on the computer?"

My heart sunk deep.

I know that feel bro. I get it all the time.

 

[smearyllama]

"You can play games on the computer?"

My heart sunk deep.

Yeesh.

That burns.

 

[TiefBlau]

Last time I told a story like this I got suspended, lets just say they were right about everything.

Sarcastic rape: It's more dangerous than you think.
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I don't usually come across video game idiots. You either play them or you don't, and things like Facebook and iPods are blurring even that.

 

[zega frega omega]

While I was driving my Mom around town (to practice driving; I'm fifteen, rounding sixteen), we heard on the radio that a man the day before had tried to escape the police. Apparently, he didn't have a driver's license and was probably doing something illegal (obviously) and he decided the most rational course of action was to drive down the highway as traffic is coming towards him.

"He must have learned it from video games," I hear her comment.

Befuddled, I say "What? Wh-what makes you say that?"

"How else would he think to go on the other side of the road?"

"He was running from the cops!"

"But he probably saw it in a videogame and thought 'oh, I can do this.'"

A bit more abrasive now, I rebuttle: "Yes, because a low-income criminal who hasn't the money to get a license obviously has the disposable income to buy and play games."

"Then where'd he get the idea?" she asks.

"Where do people get the idea to run red lights or deal drugs or traffic women?"

So she presses her case: "But there was a guy on Craigslist who put his phone up for sale, and when he met with the buyer, the buyer attacked him."

"Yeah, I remember that part of GTA 4, when I lure someone out over the internet and kill him..." And we ended the conversation there.

Okay, yes, I know that is in fact a mission from GTA 4, but it's not like she knew that . Besides, you were killing a criminal in that!

 

[Legendairy314]

Fox News anyone? In reality I'm going for a Game Design career and telling that to college counselors and having them constantly say, "Hey! It's that Video Game Guy!" Makes me cringe every time. On the bright side my friends get a kick out of it.

 

[moretimethansense]

My mother:
"Only boys play games."
"You'll grow out of it eventually."
"Games are boring."
"They're all that *bing* *bing* *bing* *bing* *bing* crap."

1. No, just no.
2. I'm twenty one and my love of gaming is only getting stronger!
3. Pfft!
4. It's not fucking pinball!

At least she thinks the idea of gaming makeing someone violent is stupid.

 

[jawakiller]

Fox News anyone? In reality I'm going for a Game Design career and telling that to college counselors and having them constantly say, "Hey! It's that Video Game Guy!" Makes me cringe every time. On the bright side my friends get a kick out of it.

Oh don't go bashing fox news. They, like most other news stations, only play what their audience wants to hear. I don't know why nobody gets that? They're just as bad as liberal media... Both are just pushing the bullshit their viewers want to see.