You ever been attacked for being a game collector?

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telly:
I never understood how people can bash gaming as a waste of time, then they binge on watching a ton of Netflix or movies or surfing the internet. Honestly, what's the difference? Always bothered me.

For me, I rarely talk about gaming unless it's with friends who also play games. It's something that I've kept on the subtle side. My parents aren't always the most keen that I play games, I always feel a little awkward bringing it up even though it's something I'm passionate about. Other than that though, have never been attacked or made fun of for it.

gf78:
I guess the worst verbal assault has to be my parents. I've heard them harp on and on for years. They don't understand and that's just fine. I don't get why they watch dreck like Dancing with the Stars or America's Got Talent. That is completely useless, vile garbage television programming IMO.

I don't really go out of my way to advertise that I am a gamer, but I also don't hide it. All of my coworkers know I'm a gamer and a geek at heart and at least to my face, nobody criticizes me for it. Many of the people I work with can't wait to come in on Monday and talk about what happened on the Walking Dead. And those are all ladies.

turf:
Nope. I have buddies that say "If you'd just sell all that stuff, you could buy that RZR you want."

No one has ever really given me grief over it. I think it's because I'm so freaking awesome. ;D Even if they did I wouldn't care.
Games are something I do and enjoy. It's not who I am entirely.

rayne315:
There have been very few times I have been "attacked" for playing/collecting video games. most of the time was when i was young like in grade school and friends would come over/I would go over to friends and we would play games and their parents would make comments to my parents about now wanting their kid to waste their life away playing games like I was. And once like another user said in a previous thread I got attacked by a gaming store employee for who said "why are you trying to buy those? (final fantasy 3(6) and Yoshi's island) they're trash like you are If you don't buy... (whatever late ps1 game early ps2 had just released)." What I find funny though is that I am already more successful than those parents and never stopped playing those games, and that guy was eventually fired because too many customers complained about him.

I have never hide that I enjoyed playing and collecting video games and in the last 5 years it seem more people are interested when talking about it than not.

ignition365:
lol Guy who runs a local shop that's part of a larger chain. 2 stories about this guy. First one is that he was saying he doesn't collect video games, he thinks it's stupid that people collect video games, that he's into football jerseys or something.

Other story was, and it riled me up, the store used to sell manuals for $1 a piece, rarely did anyone dig through their boxes of manuals, but I did, every time I would go in, I would get a manual that I need, because they would do $1 off your purchase if you check in on facebook. Free manual every day, I loved it. But then some dick face went in, found some rare manual, did what I did and got it for free. Proceeded to show this manager that it was worth a lot of money, posted it on ebay, sold it for $50 within a minute or two, said thanks like a dick and left. Manager told me that story and said they went through all of the manuals and grabbed anything they thought would be worth any money so they could price it accordingly, anything left on the shelves was still $1 because they weren't worth their time. I didn't really care, I figured they pulled the stuff that was worth like $50 and such, and I saw a manual for Primal Rage for SNES that I needed on the shelf, so I grabbed it and proceeded to check out and he told me "That'll be $25", argued with him for a minute about how he just told me that, and he said that they must've forgot to grab that one and that it's $25. At that point I didn't buy it and I let him know that he was being a dick to his regulars because of some assface. I haven't seen him in a long while, hopefully he got fired. Last time I went in, it looked like manuals are mostly $5 a piece now. Not that they were getting money out of me before, but now the stuff is just taking up space because nobody wants to pay $5 for the black and white manual for NCAA Basketball.

Similar story, same shop, different manager it seems. Any games priced over $12.99 go in their glass display cases, so if you are going to steal stuff, it's only the cheap games that they paid like $1 a piece for. Everything else goes on shelves that line the walls of the store. They had a copy of Donald Duck Goin' Quackers for N64 on the wall shelf marked as $12.99, no as-is sticker, but the label was in fairly bad shape, mostly wear, no tear. They were doing a few hour long 50% off all used games sale, so I was like, sweet, I can get it for like $7. Guy rang it up for $25.99, did 50% off, and told me $12.99. I showed him it had a sticker for $12.99, so it should be 6.49. We argued, him stating that some customer must've swapped the price tags. I insisted that how could a customer swap the price tag, if it was priced as $25.99, it would be in the case, where a customer couldn't do that. They NEVER let customers handle display case games until the product has been paid for, as it is corporate policy. Luckily, he asked another employee what he thought, he said, someone fucked up, give it to him. How little they pay and how high they usually charge, they still weren't taking a loss.

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