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ScareCrowReturn

ScareCrowReturn

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I f you're with friends, or strangers and the topic of "gamng" comes up, do you tend to have an input and say how much you do it or enjoy doing it, or are you too embarrassed to speak up?

(Obviously not friends, but maybe people you know but don't talk to that often)

I use to be, alot, but now, so much, but still a little bit..
 
No. Never shameful. If I'm in a large group I won't, really. It's bound to alienate a few people.
In one on one, it depends. If it's a girl then I'll be honest. I'll talk about it for as long as she's interested (usually not long).
If it's a guy, I will talk to a degree, but I don't like talking about specifics. "Oh, this game developer X, and this physics engine Y, and that Microsoft, oh man." I prefer to talk about games that I either really enjoyed or really disliked and why. One of my favorites is recounting how much fun I used to have with the original Halo. True blue childhood gaming memory, that one.

The bottom line is, as long as you don't show any shame, they'll just accept it. If they can't, then that's their character flaw and I fully intend to give them **** for it.

Example: My boss at GameStop was a complete prick. He'd give any co-worker a hard time for anything he could. One day he asked me what I'd been playing all weekend. I looked him straight in the eyes and said "Maplestory. It's pretty fun." as if it was just a regular thing to say among gamers (it's not). He paused for a good two minutes then finally said "dammit. I really want to give you a hard time for this but I can't do it now."

People will feed on how you present it. If you act like it's something you're embarrassed of, they're more likely to enforce that.
 
I end up in this sort of conversation more often than I thought I would - usually with older people who are moaning about how much time their kids spend with their games. I've got no problems talking about something I enjoy and whilst I'm hardly representative of gamers (I suck, for a start, as you all know), it's usually enough of a surprise to people that I game at all that they listen to my side of things - stuff like how they think gaming kills brain cells or makes murderers or destroys social skills, I talk about how that's a load of nonsense and how I let my kids game. I think I'm acquiring something of an uninvited fanclub with all my friends' kids...

I don't understand why it would be a problem to talk about it unless you're hanging out with some Amish people and they really have no idea what you're on about...
 
Yeah suppose you're right, but for me, people never, ever really expect it, considering im sort of outdoorsy kind of guy, haha.

What about then, are you embarrassed about these forums? Would you ever tell your friends about the forums?
 
I've got a 50-something old uncle who both plays vidja games and attend all sorts of awesome rock/metal concerts. He's like the bigger brother I've never had.

If he's not embarrassed about gaming, why should I be?
 
Tsuyu said:
I've got a 50-something old uncle who both plays vidja games and attend all sorts of awesome rock/metal concerts. He's like the bigger brother I've never had.

If he's not embarrassed about gaming, why should I be?
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No reason why you should be, just curious if anyone is..

And plus, gaming is the new in thing these days anyway, soooo many people play vidja games, its crazy
 
Just makes me think of all those slutty girls I know who try to attract guys by being really sh*t at COD. It's not the first thing I bring up, but if someone mentions a game, I'll join in with the conversation. I'm not ashamed, I just don't declare it either. It's not like how gamers were perceived in the 90s; basement-dwellers living with our moms. That's just WoW players.:troll:

Some stranger in the pub started to talk about Skyrim, and I got right up in there. Was drunk as f*ck, still knew every little detail about Skyrim. lolnerd
 
Tsuyu said:
Where are all the girls like you where I live? I don't even have the slutty CoD bitches!
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They don't deserve you

You're better than that

Seriously, CoD sluts are the lowest of the low.
You're better off finding a prostitute, really. Much lower chance of catching some unknown STD, and you'll still have some small amount of dignity.
 
When I'm just with acquaintances or friends I just don't consider super close, the topic of gaming rarely comes up. When it does though, I'll join in the conversation, but I won't just go on and on about games like I might with my close friends unless I learn that one of the people I'm with is also a gamer. When the topic of gaming doesn't really come up organically, I usually just end up identifying myself as a nerd to people I don't know very well if anyone's asking me anything about myself, and I've never gotten any sh*t for it.
 
ScareCrowReturn said:
What about then, are you embarrassed about these forums? Would you ever tell your friends about the forums?
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Considering this is part of Steve's business, yeah, I'll tell people about it. Most of them are over 40 and are just a bit, "what? what does that mean?" but their kids know the game titles and so I get rescued where necessary ;)

My sister is the hired help - oops, sorry, she's a nanny - for some rich teenagers, one of whom is a 16 year old boy who loves games. As soon as he found out about our Grey Viper site he was in awe of Steve even though he's never met him and will never meet him either. I went over to visit my sister at work for the day once and for some reason he felt the need to talk about games with me constantly (yeah, cos I'm the best person obviously) and actually it turned out to be a great day of verbally abusing my sister because she doesn't play games. She was totally outnumbered and we got to play games all day long instead of her suggestion which was something Disney-related and crap. Monopoly, I think...or Trivial Pursuit. Whatever - the geeks won that day.
 
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Not at all, if people ask im happy to tell them im a gamer and co-own forums and such. I dont just bombard people with 'Hi im Andy and im a gamer' though. If they ask im more than happy to talk about it, ive even got things about the forums on my CV for jobs.

Been many times when ive been out with friends in pubs and bars and the group also has some people I dont know or only recently met and we have started talking gaming. Then before we knew it the non-gamers have been standing quiet for some time and we realise we have spoke gaming for a good 45mins-1hour and they have felt like the outsiders as there are less non-gamers than gamers.
 
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