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It's all the lead dumplings
Talking with gamers at work should be fun, but it's depressing.
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Same. Everybody played games, and it was something people bonded over. If anything people got teased for what consoles they weren’t playing.
But at the same time, I also feel no one completely sperged out 110% on games where it just dominated their lives totally.
I think this is because parents back then generally were more invested in what their kids were doing with their spare time…unlike more recent times where they just don’t give a fuck. Also, our school also required every student to do an after school sport in every season.
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Only 1 person in my office plays games and it is just Call of Duty since the entire time I've worked with him. It is fine for when I was playing Black Ops 4 and Warzone when it was new, but since I stopped playing those there isn't much to talk about. I know the games he played before CoD was Counter Strike and Thief, which isn't much to talk about.
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You spent 10 years here there can't be much left mate.
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Gaming evolved and went into various directions. Fuck me and my brothers are all gamers but all play diffrent kind of games and hate each others games.
I only ever met one person in the wild that actually knew what a Neogeo was. I was working part time as a dishwasher in a restaurant while finishing up my bachelors degree. We were closing up and talking about old games and this dude brought up "this console that had huge catridges and amazing 2d graphics" he was also shocked i knew that he ment neogeo. He was a little older and had a baby mama, but one day he said she was at work and asked if i wanted to come over and game and I brought some hash and beers and we got high and drunk and played Garou, Last Blade 2, Samurai Shodown 3,4 and then Baseball stars 2 for what felt like an hour. Then his baby mama showed up and asked where the chicken he was supposed to take out the freezer to thaw out for dinner was, and i know were grown ass men but i felt like a kid again hanging out at his friend house when his mama said he cant have friends over, so i dipped. And I still laugh about it whenever I see her, but yeah everyone has shit tastes in games. We forgot to take out the chicken
I only ever met one person in the wild that actually knew what a Neogeo was. I was working part time as a dishwasher in a restaurant while finishing up my bachelors degree. We were closing up and talking about old games and this dude brought up "this console that had huge catridges and amazing 2d graphics" he was also shocked i knew that he ment neogeo. He was a little older and had a baby mama, but one day he said she was at work and asked if i wanted to come over and game and I brought some hash and beers and we got high and drunk and played Garou, Last Blade 2, Samurai Shodown 3,4 and then Baseball stars 2 for what felt like an hour. Then his baby mama showed up and asked where the chicken he was supposed to take out the freezer to thaw out for dinner was, and i know were grown ass men but i felt like a kid again hanging out at his friend house when his mama said he cant have friends over, so i dipped. And I still laugh about it whenever I see her, but yeah everyone has shit tastes in games. We forgot to take out the chicken
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It's never too late to lose your virginity, LoneSage, don't sweat about it.
Just kidding... but I hope you don't feel like that nowadays. There's always time to go back home and reinvent yourself if you do.
I was going to say something about videogames being a-ok socially but reflecting about it I know this isn't 100% true. I really don't know what to make of it, I'm not necessarily ashamed of being a gooby bastard but I don't make an habit of telling people about it either. At work your social standing matters a lot to avoid backstabs and such so I really don't want to talk about owning old videogame shit with anyone there, that much I know at least.
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I feel good nowadays. I even play my emubox Switch during lunch break in the office with people coming and going. Whatever hangups I had in childhood about gaming remained there.
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A good friend of mine was a massive gamer in the 90s like I was. But I went down the arcade path, and he the PC path. He got deep into Doom and Quake mods and such, and had never heard of the Neo Geo, Street Fighter 3, shooters, etc, until I showed them to him. We both have consoles in common though.
So even then gaming was a diverse hobby.
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I'm not sure who's the sperg here, I see it on hifi forums too where 70yr olds rage about kids listening to compressed music on a phone or Bluetooth speaker or whatever and can't understand why they don't want a life of vinyl, OCD and pain.
This is pretty much like talking about films and getting annoyed that other people don't like exactly the same (really obscure and niche also) gaming stuff when it's such a huge landscape you'd be a retard to expect they would anyway.
This is pretty much like talking about films and getting annoyed that other people don't like exactly the same (really obscure and niche also) gaming stuff when it's such a huge landscape you'd be a retard to expect they would anyway.
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I gave up a long time ago the idea of finding someone who was into all this old japanese shit. But the funny thing is when I did happen to come across a few people I hated every minute of it. They were too deep in man, too far gone. The kind of people that go to Japan and spend a week or two going between their hotel room and arcades and nothing else.
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This. It's a double edged sword when you do find an adult that "knows" something about classic games - it's usually an insufferable interaction.
These days, I'm content being the game nerd in my circle of friends. I find much more enjoyment out of friends coming over to play games and introducing them to fun old shit rather than trying to find another adult in their 40's to relate to on this level. It just isn't happening.
So, totally anecdotal but, at my work, there's this guy named Mason who, occasionally, does talk about video games with me. One night, randomly comes up to me and asks me about Koudelka for PS1 and what I thought about it. I told him I used to own the game but, never finished it. Yes, this is the prequel to the Shadow Hearts games for PS2 and was published by SNK and developed by Sacnoth, who also did Faselei for NGPC.
A couple months ago, mentioned to him that the remake of Star Ocean 2 came out and, that it's freaking fantastic, game of the year, for me. He said, "what about Baldur's Gate 3?" That made me cringe a little. Then, he started talking about the 3rd Star Ocean for PS2 and how he did a level zero challenge shortly after the game came out. Apparently, Peppita Rossetti, the little gypsy/pervert magnet from the game, is one of the best characters, had no idea. I guess there's an amazing attack you can do that makes the game easy. Also, mentioned Maria and her Aiming Device attack, which I knew about. Oddly enough, the party I used was Fayt, Cliff and, Abel.
Anyway, your mileage may vary but, people with similar tastes as you do exist. Just like OP before he became obsessed with aliens (not the awesome Konami game).
Jon
A couple months ago, mentioned to him that the remake of Star Ocean 2 came out and, that it's freaking fantastic, game of the year, for me. He said, "what about Baldur's Gate 3?" That made me cringe a little. Then, he started talking about the 3rd Star Ocean for PS2 and how he did a level zero challenge shortly after the game came out. Apparently, Peppita Rossetti, the little gypsy/pervert magnet from the game, is one of the best characters, had no idea. I guess there's an amazing attack you can do that makes the game easy. Also, mentioned Maria and her Aiming Device attack, which I knew about. Oddly enough, the party I used was Fayt, Cliff and, Abel.
Anyway, your mileage may vary but, people with similar tastes as you do exist. Just like OP before he became obsessed with aliens (not the awesome Konami game).
Jon
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When two nerds who are accustomed to being the alpha clash, it wont't end well.
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You're probably not allowed to mention Western RPGs when Japanese RPGs are the goobing subject.
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When I was selling off all my shit I would meet these mutants. They would start talking shop, I would feign interest for a few minutes, then I would shut them down, grab the cash and kick their nerd ass to the kerb. Fuck outta mah face you smelly geek cunt!
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I cringe when I hear or read the term "gamer"