I was playing a friend's copy of Rainbow Six Vegas 2 and I had to pause the game to attend to something, but I was in a cutscene. I had hoped the Xbox Guide button would pause it during the cutscene, but it was at that point I found it that it did not.
My friend helpfully chimes in by saying "Just press Start. Should pause it."
At that moment, I tried my hardest not to slam my face into my keyboard. Telling a guy who has been playing games for 11 years of his 19 year old life that pressing a button designed to pause a game will pause a game is like explaining to a scuba diver that unplugging his oxygen tank underwater is a bad idea and adding in at the end that you might be able to live underwater for the rest of your life if you can splice your DNA with that of a fish and develop gills before you drown.
The best part is was the last part of his sentence. "Should pause it", which heavily implied a chance of failure.
One of my other friends is twenty years old and doesn't know his left from his right, and it took him thirty seconds to find a shelf in Dead Rising that was on-screen via MSN video call.
*stands in front of mixed juice recipe in between the shelf and the blender*
*in the most dumbfounded tone you can imagine*
"...This?"
He also refuses to get the Lost Planet 2 MP demo (the full version of which we are both getting on release day), even though my aforementioned other friend gave me a code for the demo which he somehow didn't know was one use only, even though he (friend #2) has the other two demos for both Lost Planet games and will be asking his parents for the full game as a birthday present.
Thanks for making this thread, OP. I really needed to get that out of my system.
