Looked Downed upon as a Gamer
- Thread starter Zeema
- Start date
Recommended Videos
OT: You don't JUST play videogames on the weekend, right? You have something else going on in your life, some other form of social activity?
If not, and there are likely people on here reading this, then those idiot girls are at least a little right. I LOVE videogames. When my wife left for a work retreat one weekend, I told my friends I was going along, ordered 3 pizzas and played videogames for two days straight. BUT, you have to have a life outside of video games.
There's a reason people who play games are looked down upon, and that's because it can become all-consuming. Games are so fun, that you really don't need to do anything else and you'll have a good time. But some people realize this, and decide that everything else isn't worth the effort and shut themselves inside their homes and lose connection with the rest of society.
These girls asked what you do on weekends. In your answer, you had an opportunity to define yourself outside of the forced-social environment. What you say you do, and what you do do, define you as an individual. If you said you help orphans learn to read, then that is what you are. If you said you write books, that is what you are. Maybe you snowboard occasionally, maybe you take photographs, maybe you cook. But you said videogames.
Videogames are fun, but they are also easy. Yes, there are difficult games, but it is far easier to throw in a different disc than it is to call someone and ask if they want to do something. Some gamers know this, and so they choose to stay isolated. Games become what they are. And in the end, though gaming is fun and sometimes challenging, all you are truly doing is pushing buttons. That is what you are.
I'm not recommending that the next time people ask this question, and they will, that you lie. But take 2 weekends, do something amazing that you've always wanted to do, and when someone asks say "Sometimes, I _______. Otherwise, I play videogames." And for good effect, add, "Or I hang out with friends doing nothing." Doing nothing with friends is always doing something. If you play games with friends (in person), then say you're hanging out with friends and drop the videogame line.
Everyone plays videogames. But the only people who are looked down upon for doing so are the ones who are defined by it. And even as a gamer, someone who has been a gamer for a long time, I look down on people who are defined only by playing videogames.
If not, and there are likely people on here reading this, then those idiot girls are at least a little right. I LOVE videogames. When my wife left for a work retreat one weekend, I told my friends I was going along, ordered 3 pizzas and played videogames for two days straight. BUT, you have to have a life outside of video games.
There's a reason people who play games are looked down upon, and that's because it can become all-consuming. Games are so fun, that you really don't need to do anything else and you'll have a good time. But some people realize this, and decide that everything else isn't worth the effort and shut themselves inside their homes and lose connection with the rest of society.
These girls asked what you do on weekends. In your answer, you had an opportunity to define yourself outside of the forced-social environment. What you say you do, and what you do do, define you as an individual. If you said you help orphans learn to read, then that is what you are. If you said you write books, that is what you are. Maybe you snowboard occasionally, maybe you take photographs, maybe you cook. But you said videogames.
Videogames are fun, but they are also easy. Yes, there are difficult games, but it is far easier to throw in a different disc than it is to call someone and ask if they want to do something. Some gamers know this, and so they choose to stay isolated. Games become what they are. And in the end, though gaming is fun and sometimes challenging, all you are truly doing is pushing buttons. That is what you are.
I'm not recommending that the next time people ask this question, and they will, that you lie. But take 2 weekends, do something amazing that you've always wanted to do, and when someone asks say "Sometimes, I _______. Otherwise, I play videogames." And for good effect, add, "Or I hang out with friends doing nothing." Doing nothing with friends is always doing something. If you play games with friends (in person), then say you're hanging out with friends and drop the videogame line.
Everyone plays videogames. But the only people who are looked down upon for doing so are the ones who are defined by it. And even as a gamer, someone who has been a gamer for a long time, I look down on people who are defined only by playing videogames.
this is true in every sense of the phrase. Anywhoo.. I really haven't gotten that because of the fact that way too many people I know play games, even if they aren't considered gamers and so they don't recognize the stereotype. I think this is starting to happen a lot more.moretimethansense said:
No matter that it is, your taste in music, your hobbies, gaming.
If it's different from what the "cool" kids like, they'll call you out about it.
In the end, don't listen to them, the ignorance they show is at such a grand level that there isn't a word to describe how stupid they are.
I used to get shite for my music taste and my love of gaming (including pokemonz aww yeah) And now, I'm working towards a well paid career, have a wonderful girlfriend, a good group of friends. And the people that gave me shit are behind the counter in shops with a dead end job.
Popularity sure got them far.
If it's different from what the "cool" kids like, they'll call you out about it.
In the end, don't listen to them, the ignorance they show is at such a grand level that there isn't a word to describe how stupid they are.
I used to get shite for my music taste and my love of gaming (including pokemonz aww yeah) And now, I'm working towards a well paid career, have a wonderful girlfriend, a good group of friends. And the people that gave me shit are behind the counter in shops with a dead end job.
Popularity sure got them far.
Huh, I am suddenly very glad to live in South Africa... as odd as it sounds, here in a third world country, every person my age I know who has parents with a stable income plays video games of some sort. I have often gotten into conversations with people I would NEVER expect played video games... who also didn't expect that I did 0.oRedEyesBlackGamer said:
Should've answered with "If you're a slut, why aren't you pregnant?"
Worked on more than one occasion at my high school, although I am a girl and the original insult wasn't about gaming, but still
Worked on more than one occasion at my high school, although I am a girl and the original insult wasn't about gaming, but still
Ask them how the hell do three females get out of the kitchen at the same time and just who the hell is making your pie while they are gone.
Give it a minute then ask them how they feel about perpetuating stereotypes.
Give it a minute then ask them how they feel about perpetuating stereotypes.
Meh, if they're anything like a similar airheaded clique that existed at my high school, then odds are that their free time is spent gossipping, trying to impress people they pretend not to care about, and bingeing/purging.
Honestly, the best thing you can do is just brush them off next time they try to talk to you. Nothing gets to that type of person more than not being treated like the most important thing in the room.
Honestly, the best thing you can do is just brush them off next time they try to talk to you. Nothing gets to that type of person more than not being treated like the most important thing in the room.
I've never encountered stereotypes as defined as they seem to be in America. Around here, stereotype usually refers to knackers and its rare to see anyone else stigmatised on people's perception of a group, rather than of that one person. It helps I suppose that gaming is so popular among secondary schoolers and college students. All of my many friends are gamers, with only one or two who play casually, or not at all.
I think the correct response to this is...who cares?
Unless you're trying to bone them (which you probably will be in a couple of years) I wouldn't worry about what they think. And even then I would just pretend to care what they thought until you get them naked...wait...what?
Jr High kids are probably the worst for things like this (ages 10-13), they're so obsessed with being "cool". Once you get older it's not as big a deal.
Unless you're trying to bone them (which you probably will be in a couple of years) I wouldn't worry about what they think. And even then I would just pretend to care what they thought until you get them naked...wait...what?
Jr High kids are probably the worst for things like this (ages 10-13), they're so obsessed with being "cool". Once you get older it's not as big a deal.
It once Happened to me.
Playing PSN On the bus with my headphones in, when all of a sudden someone sat straight next to me, and started bugging me about how : "I've heard the 3DS can kill you or give you seizours (Escuse the baby murdering spelling)!"
As to which I reply : "I don't have a 3DS, Ma'am. Can you please stop bugging me and let me get back to my Silent Hill?"
She kept slapping my ear off about "The video-games cause violence" Bullshit.
Then she started complaining about the whole "Survival Horror is too scary" Bullshit and asked to to put it away.
I then reply "I am sitting on a turnable seat, and have headphones in. I cane easily turn it around and no sound will come out and you won't be able to see it."
And then I got a bunch of bullshit rambled to me about the whole "Video-games cause heart-attacks" Bullshit (Once again). Seem's a bit stereotypical. That's the only time I can remember, by the time I got back home she knarcked to me all the age rating's and all that bullshit and asked why a 25 (me) Year old was still playing video-games. WORST DAY OF MY LIFE.
EDIT : That never happened when I was in school, hell, even on friday for our 'Reward time' (Which we got for tolerating the bullshit about quantum physic's) there was even a gaming activity, where we where aloud to bring 3 Handheld's (I alway's brought my Gameboy) and someone would ramdomly be picked to bring a console and have it hooked up, it was usually and NES but every once in a while someone would bring a pong-machine, and even rarer someone would being a virtual boy and noone would play them since they didn't want their eyes to look like something K'thulu just tore up with a jackhammer.
Playing PSN On the bus with my headphones in, when all of a sudden someone sat straight next to me, and started bugging me about how : "I've heard the 3DS can kill you or give you seizours (Escuse the baby murdering spelling)!"
As to which I reply : "I don't have a 3DS, Ma'am. Can you please stop bugging me and let me get back to my Silent Hill?"
She kept slapping my ear off about "The video-games cause violence" Bullshit.
Then she started complaining about the whole "Survival Horror is too scary" Bullshit and asked to to put it away.
I then reply "I am sitting on a turnable seat, and have headphones in. I cane easily turn it around and no sound will come out and you won't be able to see it."
And then I got a bunch of bullshit rambled to me about the whole "Video-games cause heart-attacks" Bullshit (Once again). Seem's a bit stereotypical. That's the only time I can remember, by the time I got back home she knarcked to me all the age rating's and all that bullshit and asked why a 25 (me) Year old was still playing video-games. WORST DAY OF MY LIFE.
EDIT : That never happened when I was in school, hell, even on friday for our 'Reward time' (Which we got for tolerating the bullshit about quantum physic's) there was even a gaming activity, where we where aloud to bring 3 Handheld's (I alway's brought my Gameboy) and someone would ramdomly be picked to bring a console and have it hooked up, it was usually and NES but every once in a while someone would bring a pong-machine, and even rarer someone would being a virtual boy and noone would play them since they didn't want their eyes to look like something K'thulu just tore up with a jackhammer.
Bitches are bitches are bitches, my friend. On the plus side, everyone is far more tolerant of just about EVERYTHING in college. Hell, when I was in college, we would sometimes play a real life version of what was essentially Left 4 Dead/ 28 days later. Goooooood times.
I hate most living people out there..and i look down upon people who look down on gamers,they are maggots with a career that wouldn`t exceed working at the local fast-food..there is no fighting the mass that the haters represent..maybe in time gamers will be more accepted by the general population..until then i`m proud to be a gamer and i don`t hide it...and if somebody has a problem with that they can just go die in a fire, i would be happy to help them..
ps. i think moviebob discussed this in an thebigpicture episode.."magnito was right" i think it was the title..not sure though
ps. i think moviebob discussed this in an thebigpicture episode.."magnito was right" i think it was the title..not sure though
No, most people dont think gamers are fat. If your only 12, then youv got highschool and college to look forward to, were most people are gamers in some sort of fashion.
Those girls at your school are just extremely insecure and are trying to belittle your hobbies to make there own poor attitudes seem less terrible in there own minds. Next time they ask you why you arnt fat and ugly for playing games, ask them why they dont have STDs for being sluts.
Hell, id say that 75% of people at my college play some type of video game at least 3 times a week. Even if its just farmville.
Those girls at your school are just extremely insecure and are trying to belittle your hobbies to make there own poor attitudes seem less terrible in there own minds. Next time they ask you why you arnt fat and ugly for playing games, ask them why they dont have STDs for being sluts.
Hell, id say that 75% of people at my college play some type of video game at least 3 times a week. Even if its just farmville.