Most Ignorant thing somebody has to said to you about gaming.

[Hollock]

my friend who plays a good deal of games for the life of him couldn't explain to me what a platformer was, or even give an example of one.

 

[Ddgafd]

"Every single game made before 1995 sucks balls."

- My best friend

 

[Vraeyda]

While in the middle of Gears of War, my Mom the diplomat sits down for about ten minutes, nodding her head and watching the action. After another shotgun exploit (my weapon of choice), she waits for a pause in the game and says, "My, their delegation staff must not have been very well versed in peace-talking."
"Mum, it's a game about alien things."
"Xenophobia's no reason to be rash, dear. Perhaps a Summit would have been better use of time."


And then my friend (Lord bless her, she's never played a video game) while I was playing Psychonauts. "This game shouldn't be about telepathy! I want to know what happened to the squirrels!"

Okay, based on this evidence, I have come to the conclusion that everybody in your life is completely awesome and hilarious and would give you and them high-fives should the opportunity ever arise.

*Takes a bow* Why thank you. Yep. There is no replacement for my Mum and friends. It's comedy gold just walking in the door.

 

[VanityGirl]

"It will make you fat"

*looks down*
Nope, that's just stupid

 

[static119]

Had a project in criminal justice about juvenile crime. We had to answer a bunch of questions throughout a powerpoint. One of the questions was "Why do you think kids commit violent crimes?"

EVERYONE (except me) said video games were a big part.

 

[sheogoraththemad]

"gaming too much is bad for your social contacts"
reading too much books is also bad for your social contacts, and sporting too much, and watching too much T.V, and doing too much for school.
but no, gaming is as always the devil's work

 

[Bigsmith]

'Mate get an Xbox 360. computers are dying.' My responce 'coming from an Xbox fanboy'

 

[MetalDooley]

Haha, I work in a video game store, best thing I ever heard was this lady customer come up and ask me if a Wii game would work on Wii. That's not so bad seeing as a lot of people seem to have trouble reading what console something is for somehow. Anyway when I told her it was a Wii game she goes, "but it says Nintendo here on the back? We don't have an Nintendo just a Wii". I told her it was a Nintendo Wii. She goes "oh I don't think we have a Nintendo Wii, just a normal one." I then gave up and told her they work on those too...

Gotta laugh at stuff like that.Some years back I worked in a movie and game rental store.A woman comes up to the counter with several PS1 games and asks if they will work on her kids PC.I explain that they will only work on a PS console,a concept she can't grasp as "the discs are the same size and shape as PC ones".After spending several minutes futilely trying to convince her they won't work she insists on renting them anyway to check it out for herself.

Half an hour later she storms back into the shop and rather indignantly informs me they don't work and demands a refund

 

[auronvi]

for god sakes stop using "ignorant" as "Stupid". THAT'S NOT WHAT THAT WORD MEANS!!!

Ya, that would just be...

IGNORANT!

Sorry sorry. I am lucky that most people around me have an understanding of video games as a hobby and I don't get bashed really at all. Most of the stuff I read that is completely wrong and uninformed is from Fox news or random outspoken religious folks on the internet. That Frumpy Mom... I wish people would just live and let live.

just an fyi, when someone cites "wrong information" (where are you quoting this from?), or is wrong, it's not ignorance, or being ignorant.

Edit: -Sorry I screwed up this quote

Fixed!

Anyway...

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/ignorant

I think... that is exactly what being ignorant means. It means not having the knowledge or showing a lack of education. So in your example, replacing the stupid with ignorant in itself would be an act of ignorance towards the very definition of the word. Stupid people tend to be ignorant which is why a lot of people use the two words interchangeably but we both (or at least I do) know that that isn't the case.

Now I may agree with you that Fox may not be ignorant at all and be doing this on purpose too further their own agenda but sadly that is not what I wrote. I tend to be a bit more of an optimist and assume most of the people don't know and chose to make decisions based off of their limited knowledge or ignorance of the subject of video games.

I used your post as an attention getter for my post to bash Fox news and I guess I should ask for permission next time.

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/sarcasm

 

[KP Shadow]

Someone on these forums said not too long ago that all gamers were fat, sweaty losers who lived with their mothers after graduating college and had no social skills. So that guy.

I remember him. Was he the guy who didn't describe himself as a gamer, because he thought he was a minor deity, and that gamers were fat, sweaty losers?

Reminds me of this one guy from another site.

 

[Aesir23]

The hypocrisy that is some women vs videogames never fails to astound me.

Also, welcome to The Escapist! Don't feed the trolls, they're getting fat lately.

Fixed that for you.

I'll admit I could have worded it better. No offense intended

None taken. ^_^

 

[Sephychu]

Most ignorant comments from gamers:

That Halo was the first game, to feature:

-A separate grenade button
-First successful FPS designed for console
-As far as I know, first FPS to limit the number of weapons carried
-Vehicles in a first person shooter or first one to have good controls
-Shield system that paved the way for recharging health instead of the old healthbar
-Large, open levels instead of linear corridors
-Multiplayer for a console shooter.

Fanboy failure. Even though this is incorrect, they are effectively saying that their game ruined the genre. How unwittingly correct.

Oh, come on! In a thread about people saying stupid things about games and gaming? Really? [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CompletelyMissingThePoint]

Read to the end. [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WalkItOff]

Don't worry, you're not alone. [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RuinedFOREVER]

I now only phrase my forum posts in the form of links to TV Tropes. [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TVTropesWillRuinYourLife]

I'm sorry. I truly am.

I'll correct that.

"Even though this is incorrect, they are effectively telling me that their game ruined the genre for me."

 

[Spudgun Man]

Mostly when I have told someone i've played recently and they criticise me for my chioe by stating an incorrect fact about said game.

E.G.
Me: Have you played Brootal Legend?

Semi-Rem: Well I was going to get it but then I realised that he just hits people with a Guitar.

Me: He's got a freaking axe!

 

[GrimmG15]

"TF2 is shit, because it's unrealistic"

 

[Sir Kemper]

"TF2 is shit, because it's unrealistic"

Did you proceed to beat this person violently?

 

[Jay Cee]

That I have issues separating video game contexts from real life.

I was so infuriated that I wanted to use a finishing move on her and gain double experience!

 

[Composer]

"OHMYGOD YOU'RE A GIRL AND YOU PLAY VIDEO GAMES?!"
Goddamn moron. Never happens on the internets though, praise the lord.

"All new video games suck. The golden age is over. I hate the new generation of video gamers, etc. etc. etc. And you can't disagree with me, because I'm a a more 'hardcore' player than you."
Just an overall douche-y and elitist opinion that irritates me.

OMG GURL!!!!!!!!

Sorry, couden't resist.

ninja'd =(
OT: eh the usual 12 year olds thinking they're freakin gods

 

[Dudemeister]

"Games are a waste of time."
"And all the TV you watch isn't?"
"But TV is real, games are for kids."
...
"TV is not real! TV is a bullshit box people use to escape real life. At least with games, there's a level of brain activity required."
...
"They're for kids..."

AAAARGH!

 

[Malf]

An ex told me that games were for children or people with really low I.Q's

This same girl would watch several hours of soaps and reality tv every night.That relationship didn't last too long

Wow hypocrisy at its finest man I commiserate with you.

 

[Sir Kemper]

"Games are a waste of time."
"And all the TV you watch isn't?"
"But TV is real, games are for kids."
...
"TV is not real! TV is a bullshit box people use to escape real life. At least with games, there's a level of brain activity required."
...
"They're for kids..."

AAAARGH!

Ironically, the person against gameing seems to be rather childlike in the fact that they only seem to repeat "games are for kids"..