Hello everyone
A few years ago I made a "which gaming stereotype annoys you the most" thread. It got a lot of activity and was fun. But that was more so critiquing the gamers. But this is more critquing the critics of their idiotic assumptions of our culture.
A lot of people who aren't in the gaming community, simply judge us without much in the way of knowing what they are talking about. So I will list many of these criticisms and you can choose or add the one you hate the most
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"Every Gamer is a unemployed Virgin that Lives in his mom's basement"
This critique is the one I see the most, hear the most and annoys me the most. It just is ignorant. The whole idealogy that in order to be an adult playing video games you must "get no girls" or "You live in your moms basement playing games all day". I know so many here who have more games than gamestop but also have a home, a wife, a kid, a car, a successful carreer. If anything i'd say the latter is more true. Because games are freaking expensive as is having the latest technology. Sure their is the rare case that a mom will buy their kid a gaming PC and or he lives off the government aid. But most gamers need to have a job and be productive to fund their hobby to begin with. And the community has tons of girl gamers in it as well.
I think this idealogy is very old and hasn't died like it should have. I guess in the damn 1970s when dinosaurs roamed earth girls used to look down on nerds and that was the whole jock thing. "Hey, look at the gamer nerd" but now it's really the opposite. Girls massively love game culture, and jocks are kinda the lames now. So the stereotype is a joke.
"GTA caused Columbine and Violence in kids" (Mothers against gaming)
The picture does most of the talking
. Bascially "I'm mad.... why am I mad? I'm mad at you for not knowing why I am mad, Let me take away what you love to explain my insanity". Sums up the whole mother's against gaming movement. A group of moms who didn't want to take the blame for raising shitty kids so instead blamed a video game for their childs wrongdoings.
Between Eminem and Marylyn Manson but especially M rated games like Doom, GTA and Mortal Kombat. Parents have always tried to blame popular media for the worlds evil. Which has led kids to want it more. It's such a silly stereotype to assume that a game convinces you to kill people in real life because it's a digital entity. Obviously fake. And good parenting shouldn't be recycled with these censorship filters. Put down the remote, put down the phone and be a mom.
Why did you buy all these games you don't even play. You could have bought (Insert expensive car here)
This one is more nicer natured, and I think the people are just trying to be nice when they say it. But is still a stereotypical question. I know some of you have mentioned it too
. It's when someone looks at your collection and says the cliche "Why did you buy all these games. You can't even play them all. You could have bought a Lamborghini or a house"
. It's like. Maybe a Lamborghini isn't as important to you as video games or all your cherished childhood keepsakes. Maybe a overpriced, gas guzzling hypercar might be someone else's life goal and fun hobby but not yours. But it seems most people see every collection as a money pit and not for the love that goes into it.
People who are good at games, have no life
This one goes hand in hand a bit with the 1st stereotype, but it's more so gamers who are so envious of other gamers being good. They have to say that the only reason they lost is because "The other guy is a no life, he doesn't have a job, he plays all day and I don't". Instead of being nice and being an adult.
Games are for little kids, adults who watch anime or play pokemon are wierd
This one tends to come up to me a lot when I play pokemon on 3DS, from people who are not in the know when they see me playing Pokemon or wear a Pokemon shirt. It's like the 40-50 year old crowd really think you are a sub human specimen for liking a children's cartoon or game. I have even seen posts saying any grown man who watches Anime is a pedophile. I just don't give that any creedance and it's so offensive. But their are people so toxic enough that they equate playing video games, especially Nintendo ones that are aimed for kids as a lack of masculinity or some sort of creepy mind state of being attracted to youth things. I'm glad this stereotype is a bit more uncommon. But I do hear the "You still play Pokemon". Or "Arent these for kids?" Thing way too much. Most of these stereotypes can be summed up into McJuggernugget's dad on that fake YouTube channel way back
"It's me or the games" spouse
This one exists in almost any hobby or in life. It's just the obsessive girl or guy that wants to monopolize everything you love so they can have your undevided attention at all times. Guys usually do this by not letting a girl hang with a certain friend, girls usually make a guy give up games or sports. It typically leads to degradation in a relationship. To sacrafice what you love means the person didn't love you for who you really were. Someone who is clearly on a power trip.
Why buy Retro games, You can just get them on Raspberry PI for free?
These guys while completely factually correct, just don't seem to ever grasp the importance of physical media to us collectors
. They always make fun of all of our clunky plastic. They might even be right. But their is nothing that quite replicates holding that grey plastic in your hands and remembering the exact moment you held that same cart in your hand at 8 years old. Remembers the sounds, the voices that day. Remembers the smell of christmas ham as you unwrapped your N64. Feeling the box again. It's all what drives us
The seller that ships a box in a bubble mailer, thus creasing it
Their is a special place in hell, typically next to Pol Pot where Ebay sellers go who do this
. Maybe only 1 day, because it's not so bad but they have to at least go for this. When they place a 250 dollar irreplaceable CIB N64 Game or some special amiibo you have been wanting for years in a flimsy 1 dollar bubble mailer to save on shipping cost. Easily getting crushed into a mush of nothing throughout trasnit
. Leaving your golden Mario amiibo or your CIB Mario Party a crushed and pitiful mess of lies.
. It's so cruel it makes me want to cry when this happens.
The "Imma leave your 500 dollar package outside in the rain or send it to your neighbors house" USPS dude 
I won't be too mean because USPS drivers do have a hard job, I just wish most of them would just leave it in the entry. Please just leave it in the entry. Sometimes a lot of the USPS drivers really mess up and the company never really helps you out.
Which stereotype drives you the most angry and which do you wish would go away most?
. Feel free to add any that I missed or the one you hate the most.
Thanks for sharing.
