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BoneSnapDeez wrote:Wait, so if people enjoy things like top 40 music and sports, it's okay for you to look down on them, but if they look down on gaming, they're immature? Not sure if that's what you're saying or not, but it looks that way to me...

point taken

NesimLE wrote:Wait, so if people enjoy things like top 40 music and sports, it's okay for you to look down on them, but if they look down on gaming, they're immature? Not sure if that's what you're saying or not, but it looks that way to me...

Yeah, I guess you could take it that way, after what I said. No, what I am getting at is people with tunnel vision. People who are content to just follow the status quo. People with no real variety in life. These are the people who get uncomfortable around people who choose to live a non-standard life. These are the people who focus their free time on "safe" things. For example, hanging around project managers at my previous job, it's "safe" to say you're into playing golf and get excited about watching it on TV. I never mentioned to them what my hobbies are. However, hanging around the IT guys downstairs, I could have conversations with them about Blade Runner or the "Walking Dead" comics and everything was cool. Tell these same guys you like golf and they'll have no problem with that. Tell the big guys upstairs you play video games, and they think you're immature.

It's the normaltards who take issue with anyone who doesn't live a plain vanilla lifestyle. Oh, it's okay to have a passion for dogs or cars or baseball or something, but not a passion for collecting action figures or video games.

The biggest I problem I run into with my video game collection is meeting girls. Most girls are at best uninterested or only slightly interested in casual video games, and at worst are anti video games, thinking they are immature, dumb, time wasters, etc. Sure there are gamer chics, but I don't tend to like them.

greg wrote:Tell these same guys you like golf and they'll have no problem with that. Tell the big guys upstairs you play video games, and they think you're immature.

I made the mistake of telling my boss at a temp office job one time I liked playing video games. I was told by the temp agency the company no longer needed my services a week later. Although who knows it was connected. Temp work is very temporary by nature.

video games will be mixed with so many things, people wont even know what the difference between a video game or a movie is.

greg wrote:I have a word for people like that. I call them "normaltards." Also in this category are people who can actually have conversations about shows like Dancing With The Stars and American Idol, listen to Top 40 pop music, watch sports on TV, and any other "normal" stuff. They're normaltards.

However, not treating others with respect and judging others---that is true immaturity.

Hypocrisy at its finest!

3DSStrider wrote:Hypocrisy at its finest!

Yeah, having an opinion on something makes me a hypocrite. So it's okay if people on this thread can crack jokes about people who watch Twilight movies or Jersey Shore, or people who basically do nothing with their life whatsoever, that's okay. But if I disparage something like Top 40 music, that makes me a meanie. And if I identify these people as normaltards---the ones who get uncomfortable with others just because they don't fit into their own category and call them"immature"---that makes me a hypocrite? If someone was to say that video games are "stupid," that's fine with me. That's their opinion. I think listening to Lady GaGa is stupid. If somebody says they listen to that silly bint, you won't see me suddenly clam up and react like the person is a freak of nature. The last place I worked at in America, I was stuck in an office with a group of ladies who were about as "normal" as you can get. They were courteous to me when I moved into a cubicle in their office, but once the Star Trek posters were on the cube walls and the X-Men figures were on my desk, all the sudden they were reacting to me as if I was a serial killer or a child molester. If one of them had something to tell me, her face would be so uncomfortable as if she was straining herself to shut off her peripheral vision while looking at me, lest she look into the eyes of Medusa. So I think I am entitled to rolling my eyes when I listened to them gabbing about "Oh, what a cute top you have on!" or "Did you watch American Idol last night? Oh, I can't wait to have the mass media tell me who I ought to listen to next!" I still treated them with far more respect than I got from them.

If you spend any amount of time connecting with nerd/geek culture, you will know that there will always be an issue with the so-called "normals" (ie the people who look down on you for your hobbies). People who grew up as nerds have always had to struggle with those who maintain the status quo. These people consider themselves to be "the norm" and they act retarded. Hence the phrase, "normaltards." You can live a plain vanilla lifestyle as you want, and I won't mind it at all. But once you start judging me for being different, that's where I take issue. Understand?

You're a hypocrite because you're the one bitching about people judging you for gaming and you go ahead and judge and call people who listen and enjoy the top 40 "normaltards".

You're basically saying you're expecting other people to accept your hobby while you wont accept theirs.

Yes some people will judge you, but not everybody that likes Lady GaGa and watches American Idol thinks you're a freak for playing video games or being a nerd.

RyaNtheSlayA wrote:You're a hypocrite because you're the one bitching about people judging you for gaming and you go ahead and judge and call people who listen and enjoy the top 40 "normaltards".

You're basically saying you're expecting other people to accept your hobby while you wont accept theirs.

Yes some people will judge you, but not everybody that likes Lady GaGa and watches American Idol thinks you're a freak for playing video games or being a nerd.

LOL. Let's try to separate this into two categories: people who don't like something, and gives somebody crap for liking it, and people who don't like something, but leave others alone for liking them. I belong to the 2nd category. And your last statement was an even bigger LOL. I never said that everyone who watches American Idol makes fun of nerds. Sheeze.

greg wrote:LOL. Let's try to separate this into two categories: people who don't like something, and gives somebody crap for liking it, and people who don't like something, but leave others alone for liking them. I belong to the 2nd category. And your last statement was an even bigger LOL. I never said that everyone who watches American Idol makes fun of nerds. Sheeze.

Oh you really belong in the second category eh?

greg wrote:I have a word for people like that. I call them "normaltards." Also in this category are people who can actually have conversations about shows like Dancing With The Stars and American Idol, listen to Top 40 pop music, watch sports on TV, and any other "normal" stuff. They're normaltards.