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

[Saxm13]

"Video Games = Toys"


-________-

*facepalm*

 

[Not G. Ivingname]

Him: Walks into the TV room "What are you doing?"
Me: "Playing Fallout 3"
Him: "You do anything else today?"
Me: "Nope."
Him: "You need to be more productive."
Me: "Yeah?"
Him: "Yeah it's bad for you." Then sits down, loads bong and proceeeds to get cheeched, then falls asleep.

But like, dude, getting high is so uber productive man!

OT: Well, I was writing an article for my school newspaper on the (then) up coming ESA vs. California supreme court case in defence of the video games, blaming the parents for letting children play mature games, that education on the ESRB rating system would do more good, yadda yadda yadda. My editor saw it fit to post a violent image that has a character pointing a shotgun in the readers face as the title image and changed one of my wording to say "the corruption of America's youth."

 

[quhouv vhqwiufv qwiu]

You'll soon get over playing games because games are for children." - My mother.
Gaming isn't for 5 year olds, it's a recreational activity which people of all ages enjoy.

 

[Daft Sikes]

"360 is better than the PS3, Wii, and PC."
His ignorance made me want to slam my head against a wall, or, more preferably, his.

 

[Daft Sikes]

"The PS3 is gay"

what? they were stating a fact.

ಠ_ಠ...what.
.............................OH! You're just trollin'. My bad.

 

[emeraldrafael]

I remember when i first tried MMORPGs, someone had said to me that the people on the other side of the screen werent really real and that it was all just a waste of my money and a scam...

Then he started up the game of metroid prime hunters i set up with three bots and thought that they were real online players.

 

[blankedboy]

Most on-topic question ever: WHY THE HELL IS EVERYONE REVIVING THREADS FROM A YEAR AGO? It's happened about 10 times in the last two days!

 

[Keppler]

"Why on earth are you getting another game system (PS3)? You already have one (Wii)! They've all got the same games anyway."

 

[Not G. Ivingname]

"Games without multi-player are gay" ... Again, consult the dictionary on proper usage of the word "gay", because I think you just said something you didn't intend to (I *love* the irony!) - And to discard everything from Grim Fandango & Dreamfall to Fallout based on the "lack" of multi-player functionality is just that, being ignorant.

Doesn't a single player focused game make you happy to?

 

[Zayren]

Most on-topic question ever: WHY THE HELL IS EVERYONE REVIVING THREADS FROM A YEAR AGO? It's happened about 10 times in the last two days!

Because if they did, the first page would be filled with "USE THE SEARCH BAR" as usual

 

[Octorok]

"Games for Windows..."

Oh yeah?

"Games for Windows... Live is a horrible service that goes so far beyond broken, that I think it is an intentional troll-program generated by MS for kicks."

OT : "Playing that Xbox makes you stay off school." Facepalm/RAAAGE!

Just in context, I have a long-term medical problem which means that randomly, I will catch something and be pretty damn sick without my immune system reacting much, but otherwise I'm in school long enough to get good grades and run a nice social circle.

HOWEVER. When I'm perfectly medically well, my Dad does not say my Xbox is making me "well" or "ill". But, when I catch something nasty and have to miss school, OMG IT'S TEH VIDYARGAMEZ! KILL IT WITH FIRE!

Man's an ignoramus... I've heard stupid things, but for an educated man it's amazing the alarmingly piss poor logic he comes up with to blame videogames/Muslims.

OH. OH WAIT. I got another one. "Don't play that game, it's programming you to be pro-Muslim, pro-Gay and anti-Catholic. "

I WHAAAAAA? He seriously thinks that the games industry is anti-Catholic. I'm not even Catholic, or Liberal, or anything! He just blames the industry anyway!

 

[StriderShinryu]

Not so much a single direct statement, but any time anyone trots out a line about videogames being just toys/things for idle enjoyment or any time someone says that videogames can't or shouldn't be artistic in nature. The worst part is, it's not just non-gamers or anti-gamers that say those things.

 

[Why do I care]

"You play games on a Mac? Mac sucks."

This annoys me... a lot.

 

[PhunkyPhazon]

"You play games on a Mac? Mac sucks."

This annoys me... a lot.

Ah yes, this one annoys the piss out of me as well. Especially "You can't play games on a Mac." It's true that OSX rarely gets any ports, but once you make use of Bootcamp it's just as capable as anything else.

 

[Zeema]

Me-'Hey i got the new CoD game its really awesome
My friend- 'yeah same here its awsome i love zombie mode'
Some Twat at my school- 'Call of Duty Makes you Gay and cause school shooting and you play on PS3 don't you? well your GAY you Cockhead'

My Friend who is gay was quite pissed and punched him in the face and the Twat fell on his arse.

 

[starwarsgeek]

Gonna have to go with the massive Wii/Nintendo hatred that's been building up lately.

Not liking something? Fine. I could easily see how someone leans towards...say, shooters or W-RPGs wouldn't care for Nintendo's stuff. Or someone who prefers online multiplayer, or someone--well, you get the idea.

Hating something based on misinformation? Obnoxious. Wii Sports is a free game that comes packaged with the Wii, it's NOT a representation of the entire library, and Nintendo's not just "pandering to the casuals". They're expanding the gaming audience, and if all the new fans of gaming left after going to the forum for their first time to see hatred and pretentiousness and bickering--a good deal of it aimed at them--would you really blaim them for leaving the hobby behind and forever accepting the negative stereotypes of gamers?

 

[Octorok]

http://lhla.org/breaking_news/?p=3966
this was in a different forum recently, and while i read it, at first i was amused, then mad, then ashamed that people from my own religion say this crap.

Guitar Hero (Playstation) ? Players use guitars decorated with pentagrams.

OH NOES!

I laughed so hard I threw some pie across the room into the mouth of a sleeping person.

Then I laughed some more at that. So, I'm saying that your post succeeded.

 

[blankedboy]

"You play games on a Mac? Mac sucks."

This annoys me... a lot.

Ah yes, this one annoys the piss out of me as well. Especially "You can't play games on a Mac." It's true that OSX rarely gets any ports, but once you make use of Bootcamp it's just as capable as anything else.

-.-

And then it's a Windows. Of course you can play it on an Apple computer, but there's barely any games for OSX.

 

[PhunkyPhazon]

"You play games on a Mac? Mac sucks."

This annoys me... a lot.

Ah yes, this one annoys the piss out of me as well. Especially "You can't play games on a Mac." It's true that OSX rarely gets any ports, but once you make use of Bootcamp it's just as capable as anything else.

-.-

And then it's a Windows. Of course you can play it on an Apple computer, but there's barely any games for OSX.

They call it an iMac for a reason.

 

[Octorok]

The stupidest thing ever said was from my nan, although to be fair it made me laugh more than anything else. The gist of it was essentially asking if I was controlling a documentary/film on t.v. The game was Assassins Creed.

Welcome to the Escapist! And that is funny. I've just got this idea in my head of this serious documentary saying, "It was entirely common for the local citizens to plunge many hundreds of feet into haystacks, and emerge unharmed. However, moving at anything faster than 2mph in any direction was a crime punishable by death, so now we observe these armoured guards free running across rooftops."

"You can play games on the PC? I only use mine for porn."

UNBELIEVABLY WISE WORDS.

I was playing Mass Effect 1 when my uncle comes along. He has never played videogames in his life and has no kids so the only time he even sees them is either when he comes over and I'm playing or apparently news broadcasts on TV.

Uncle: What game you playing?
Me: Mass Effect
Uncle: Where are the hookers?
Me: WTF? What are you talking about?
Uncle: Don't all videogames have hookers you can sleep with?
Me: ....no....
Uncle: Yeah and then you can kill them. I saw it on TV.
Me: uhh thats just Grand Theft Auto. Thats a different game.
Uncle: Well why doesn't this game have hookers if that other game does?
Me: ..because most games don't have hookers...
Uncle: This game is stupid. It should have hookers. *walks away*
Me: /facepalm.

I think you mistook the word "ignorant" in the title for the word "brilliant". Seriously, that's incredibly awesome, and your Uncle is a wise and sage man who should be listened to.

In fact, I think your Uncle deserves a game production company based on the manifesto, "ALL GAMES SHOULD HAVE HOOKERS."

AND FORGET THE BLACKJACK.