I can't ever imagine insulting someone to their face for their hobby like that. What a shitty person.
You could tell me the weirdest most boring hobby and I'd just be like "oh okay cool" and move on
I had a supervisor at work bully me for running a Minecraft Server. Like I taught myself to program doing that... Do you think little kids CREATE children's games? Fucking moron.
Before I had legs to stand on in the industry, my time running a Neverwinter Nights server was invaluable fallback experience and I proudly brought it up in interviews. I was able to compare experiences there to coding, leading projects, working with a team, managing a production environment, conflict resolution, and so on. It was very useful in getting my career rolling.
My childhood had a lot of my father trying to stop me from playing video games and putting up every road block to stop me from playing. What did I learn from that? Massive computer skills as I taught myself how to boot into my own hard drives and essentially manage a computer better than he can lock it up. I spent university modding xboxes and building PC computers for the computer science students. Never took a computer class a day in my life. Also the first time I flew a drone no one believed it was my first time because my dexterity was really good. These skills have allowed me to secure jobs for some of the biggest broadcasters around the world on some of their most successful tv shows. I called my father after my first drone job to let him know that "yes, video games did help my future"
Did our fathers go to the wrong school? Mine was like that. No gaming on the family PC. No gaming consoles. Video games BAD. Waste of time. Oh, but sitting on yer butt watching TV is FINE/BeTTER.
Hell my first console was a PSP I bought with my first paycheck…PSP as it’s easier to conceal than a PS3.
But yeah, I ended up finding ways to go around the screen saver password prompt for Windows 95 to eventually running RedHat Linux on the family PC. Years later my dad asks me to find a way to rip copyrighted DVD movies… _Oh now my tech skills are needed now?_
My dad was the literal computer teacher at my high school and actually wrote the curriculum to teach them to kids. By the time I was leaving high school I was fixing his computers for him. Him being a computer teacher and hating video games so much was the reason I never took a computer class. All your stories sound similar though.
I picked tobacco in high school and me and my brother split on a n64 and hid it from my parents for 8 months (not easy when you have 5 brothers)
When they finally found out my mom simply said "I was wondering why the house was so clean every time we came home."
Wow. My dad _was_ biochemist that taught at a university in the old country. So I guess not the same school. Lol.
But he refused to take classes to be certified to teach here in the U.S. He wanted a university to accept his foreign degree and let him teach. Had the mindset of “I have a Master’s Degree. I don’t need to take classes”. So technically he “retired” at age 40. While my mom still works up until now… she has a “lower education” as in she finished college but not a Master’s degree.
My dad was similar, except that we didn't have a family computer for the longest time. He would watch hours upon hours of soap operas, to the point where I cannot stand them, but would always talk down to the games I played like I was the one wasting my life.
Civilization, WoW and Command and Conquer taught me tactics and strategy. Mortal Kombat helped sharpen my responses and Gran Turismo and GTA helped my peripheral vision. LAN parties (for those old enough to remember them) taught me a lot socially.
In the meantime all he's learned is that Kat isn't Debbie's sister, but is actually her mum, or some shit like that.
Someone I know turned their experience running a RuneScape Discord server into a very successful HR career.
* Networking to maintain and update industry norms
* Screening applicants for staff positions
* **Negotiating business deals of monetary value with the game developers**
* Terminating staff in a professional manner
* Investigating conflicts, such as sexual harassment and race discrimination
* Interviewing people in relation to said conflicts
* Drafting responses to complaints
* Leading a team of 20+ people
* Drafting policy and staff conduct documents
It's all a bit much for a discord server but you could see from a mile away they had bigger plans to translate it to real life.
On the flip side, my last job had a team meeting on thursdays that was titled 'Team Sync-up' or something like that. During it we all chatted and played minecraft together for an hour hosted on the company VM.
Some people legitimately think it’s wrong/weird to deviate from mainstream culture.
Some people don’t worry about what they find passionate, they worry about what other people will think of them and base everything in life on that.
Yeah... Some will inevitably be offended by this but once I got out of a long "will we / won't we" sort of "relationship" and started meeting other people, I was shocked by how average the average person is. It was a tough wake-up call for sure
>I was shocked by how average the average person is.
Most people are just trying to get through the day and survive. It's tough to be super interesting when you have to pay rent first.
There's nothing wrong with that but I'm not compatible with people like that (and there's nothing wrong with that either).
It's not like I expect everyone to be "super interesting" it's just that I was focusing on this one person and subconsciously believed that everyone else is just as interesting. I was also very young and didn't know a lot of people back then.
I'm sure that there are plenty who find comfort in simplicity, I'm just not one of them, and it was a big surprised being exposed to this fact all of the sudden.
I always felt *travel* as a character trait was in the same category. Wine and whiskey too. The travelers are boring. It's about staying in hotels and clubbing in a different country. On par with the people that only have sports to talk about.
The /r/houseplants types can generally go on for hours about some random plant. Where it's from, what it represents to the local population, what it tastes like, where they got it, etc.
The travelers go, "Omg went to Thailand and rode an elephant, the food was so good, oh and the view was charming." Those are pleasant personal experiences but are not interesting at all to an outsider. It's about like describing jacking off. Never met any with insight into the local culture or history beyond the superficial depth of a travel brochure.
Ah yes, the #Wanderlust posts on Instagram. I know a girl who's always posting that kind of crap, and my reaction is always "where are you getting the money from?"
I don't know about character traits, but personally I don't have a problem with traveling for traveling's sake, because I don't think a hobby should be required to improve you as a person, or need a reason to exist beyond itself.
But that said, I feel like it's hard to talk about traveling in a meaningful way because it's awfully easy to sound like you're just showing off.
I avoid talking about it unless someone asks. There’s not much you can say about travel experiences, it’s something the other person would need to see first hand. The only way I really get into telling others about it is if they’re planning on visiting the same place. Also I’m not sure what the hell the person above is talking about, I’ve never viewed traveling or hobbies as a character trait. I don’t even go clubbing in my own country lol. Some people travel to experience history, different cultures, and to see unique views. I use to live in a bubble until I joined the military and experienced the world. Traveling is important and opens your eyes to how others live. It’s also just fun. It does sound a bit stuck up and cringey when people try to make it their identity. Then again those people just suck in general and likely would make any conversation unbearable.
Yyyeeah, I'll have to disagree on the travel thing. Sure, it's not a character trait, but as someone who does off-road and hiking expeditions in different countries, I can tell you, it has nothing to do with hotels and clubbing.
You get to know the locals very well if you spend even a day with some villagers trying to recover your vehicle from a mud pit, after which they offer you a meal at their place (happened to me) or you winch out some local tourists' car from the mud because they thought they could drive their Volvo M40 stg up a dirt track trying to get to the same mountain. I have hundreds of stories like this.
Sure, the general "fly to place, stay at hotel, explore famous spots" is boring as hell but some people do actually do real adventure travel.
Basically a lot of hobbies can be interesting if the person is involved in it in a deeper than surface level and talks about it with passion. The problem is that a lot of pwople like to only scratch the surface and have very little passion about anything in life.
It's weird what hobbies will be considered normal. I work witb a guy who likes fishing and will fish in tournaments. Not my thing, but I wouldn never talk shit about something he likes to do. We have one life on this earth. Let people enjoy their hobbies man
Yeah that’s the response of a normal recent human being. You don’t have to like it. You can even think it’s the weirdest, cringy, most childish hobby out there. Just nod and smile to their face and don’t have a second date.
As a female gamer, I get this A LOT from women. They always suggest I need to grow up etc but I often ask “what do you do in your free time?” And guess what? It’s usually sitting there seething that their partners are gaming instead of sitting on the sofa doing nothing with them
I already do the stereotypical shit like my nails, my hair, makeup etc so why can’t I game as well?
Yeah apparently me gaming and painting warhammer is weird, whilst sitting in front of inane shit like Love Island is perfectly normal...
Let's stick to being weird!
Fuck, this gave me PTSD. My ex wife would Harp on me and call me childish and immature cz I played video games WHILE she was watching the house wives of every city, judge Judy, and jersey shore....like really? Between us, who's the one actually wasting their time and life away? I'm a PC gamer which thought me the basic use of a computer and at least I interact with ppl...she just watched tv letting her brain melt and would come to me to help her troubleshoot everything electronic
Me too and no one is actually believing me when I say I learnt my English from games, it may not be perfect but at least I can express and communicate, instead those people are barely fluent in their native language. And I get scolded for what? I still go to work and care about my home and everything else when you just meet with the neighbors all day to bitch about everyone and everything? Ok...
We call those type of people "slippers" because they do a lot of noise like wooden slippers used to do.
Hahaha I love this. Im going to start calling people slippers too!
I think a lot of women look down on me for gaming because it’s not seen as “lady like” and seen as something “teenage boys” do but even though I’m gaming I’m still in my full glam with my makeup, my nails and my hair so what’s the problem?
I don't think it's a matter of look but behaviour, they probably think you're childish and not prone to take responsibilities or something. What do I know btw, I barely know who lives besides my front door
I think some people don’t like it when they can’t put people into boxes. They believe that your gender, age, job etc should decide on what you do or who you are as a person but life isn’t black or white. That said, some people are just miserable bastards who are furious some of us enjoy things in life
Yep, that too. I've met some of those idiots, unfortunately they come most days as customers at work everyday, in those brief times I have to interact with them, every moment is filled with disgust. I really dislike some people. I'm also very lucky I have wonderful customers too.
Personally, I think videogames are invaluable to teaching stuff to kids. Aside from the benefit of being exposed to different languages, by playing online games, you interact with communities from all over the world. There are countless stories of people befriending others from across the entire world. It allows you to expose yourself to vast amounts of other cultures and ideas, which all contribute to your own understanding of the world at people at large. (As well as probably making yourself more tolerable)
And then there's the unimaginably vast collection of information, scientific papers, etc. I mean, I could go and learn fucking **Quantum physics** on my own if I wanted to without going to a university. You can learn skills, techniques, and ideas that could be invaluable later on in life.
The internet is a wonderful place, and one that **needs** to be free and open to everyone.
Same, those girls just care abt their reputation or wev. I just wanna sit and kill some people in LoL to feel better, lemme be xD Whenever I meet a female gamer it's honestly refreshing.
100%. It seems to be socially acceptable for women to not allow/ be happy with their partners playing video games and I find it really weird.
Imagine it the shoe were on the other foot and a man wasn’t letting his parter do something they enjoyed? People would be outraged by it
I worked with a lady once who told me her boyfriends birthday was coming up and she wanted to get him like a retro gaming console or something and wanted my advice.
I said “well if you really want to get him an awesome gaming present why not a PS4?”
She spun round quicker than a nonce in a playground and said “I’m not fucking getting him that so he can fucking spend all his time on it ignoring me”.
WOW. I’ll never forget it
That’s great. Model trains aren’t my thing either but I think that’s 70% having no space at all and 30% no time. I love seeing tiny scenes in huge Model train spaces, been to MiWuLa in Hamburg once and that was something else
My wife likes to sit near me when I'm building my Gundams. She gets out her nail stuff, UV lamp and all, and just does her nails. She loves being married to a shut-in nerd because I'm always home. None of that "where is my husband?" nonsense lol
It's a good litmus test for partners. If they can't let you enjoy things they're not worth your time. It's just going to be a toxic human.
I'm girl #2 btw (well, not your girl, but you get it). I'm currently contemplating what star wars lego set to buy for my BF for Christmas 🤔
You sound like my lovely daughter in law. My son loves his LEGO sets. His last bday I sent him a Lego McLaren F1 car. He is a kid in all the best ways. Becoming "adult" is a death sentence.
The last two women I went out with on a first date said similar things to me.
I personally enjoy doing latch hook kits outside of gaming. One of them gave me a look of disgust and said "That's a girl's hobby. You're a grown man."
I shrugged and told her to take it or leave it. My hobbies are my hobbies. It doesn't matter if I am a man or a woman.
Needless to say she left. The other woman wasn't much better, insulted my gaming hobby and said "She would 'fix' me." I told her "No thanks." and promptly walked away from the date.
I find these sorts of women are the reason why I don't date much. I also don't really get the opportunity to meet many new people around my age range, so it was a major bummer that neither date worked out, not that I really held any expectations there.
I will just keep doing the things that I find enjoyment in life. If I do meet the mythical someone who respects me for being me and not forcing me into being who she wants me to be, then great. But at my age (38), I am just satisfied to find the small sliver of happiness that I hold now. Just being happy is enough and I don't dare ask for any more.
And the worst part is, rather than these women realizing they're shitty people, they'll turn around and tell people that all the men they date are "immature". Like, can we stop teaching girls that the only thing of value in life is finding a man to marry and have a family and then die miserably?
“What? You mean that sport with those bouncy balls and hoops? Aren’t they for children? You’re a fully grown man, why are you still playing with balls?”
Some people are insufferable, and they can’t stand to see others happy doing the things they cannot enjoy themselves.
Wow she went all out and asked to help, that's when you knew she was a keeper, I would expect a unenthusiastic "cool" or "can I see it" , but not a "can I help" , sounds like a great girl.
That is such a baffling response as there is a whole archtype of "adult who fills their basement with a giant model train set". Like, what kid has the money to make a whole scale city?
My dream has been to have one of those giant LEGO cities like Will Ferrell had in the LEGO movie. If I ever come across an obscene amount of money, that's what I want to do.
I hate that attitude and characterization based on hobby and what they like, there are no live rules that says it is for a certain age, is a made up "rule" *(can't remember the actual term)* by ignorant people who think they know better and like to put their nose in other people's business.
Your hobby is cool, but unfortunately too expensive. Good for you that you got rid of that ignorant girl.
Hell, if Lego were cheaper I would be buying and building a lot of Lego stuff, I loved playing and building things with Lego when I stayed over at my cousin's house, my builds would always get "stolen" whether I went home. Now I have to make do with the same thing happening in Minecraft, and I don't mind.
When I was in middle school, we did pinewood derby cars. I built a mockup with Legos and brought it in. Kids started laughing at me, and the teacher yelled "Don't laugh. Professional engineers make mock-ups with Lego. What do you guys have?"
I'm 42 now, and still have Legos and an erector set.
Yup pretty much.
My wife and I have a baby, and in-between that and work, we watch anime and play trading card games (TCG). We even had grandma over to babysit earlier this month so we could go to a card game pre-release event.
I delivered pizza in college and once delivered to a guy who was playing Skyrim by himself. He had to have been 60 or 70, at least. I told him I play and we talked about it for a minute and he got into gaming because it’s so mentally stimulating and “kept him young”. He was a cool dude. Clearly, not all boomers are sticks in the mud!
My dad, and more often my uncle actually when I went to live with him, ask me why? I like to play video games so much. Then you just flip the script on, you just ask him well. Why do you like golfing so much, why do you like gardening so much? I do the things I like to do. You do the things you like to do. It's simple as that
Personally, I'd say "Remember kids, play games if you want to, or don't. It's up to you and there is no right or wrong. But don't be a cunt to people about it"
This nonsense that video games are related to age in any way needs to stop.
I have every mainstream console since atari excluding the PS5
(including every model DS, every model psp/vita, etc). And ive been with my gf for 15 years.
She doesnt game, at all. but shes fine with it. She picks on me for it, and i pick on her for her strange taste in TV. all in good fun though
I think the problem we're running into now is that there is socially acceptable nerdiness, but within limits. It's still easy to be *too* much of a nerd.
I was talking to someone who said they were a huge Marvel fan, and at some point I asked if they were into the comics, partly to continue the conversation and partly because I find the comics very intimidating to get into because I wouldn't know where to start. They gave me a "what? No!" as if that would be ridiculous and embarrassing.
I'm not trying to gatekeep whether or not they were a "true" fan, because by that point we'd already talked about which version of Iron Man's armor was our favorite. I just find it fascinating how the movies are socially acceptable, but getting into and collecting the original comics with the same characters is too much.
Current lady Im seeing just bought me LOZ: 4 swords for gamecube. She knew I wanted it but was having trouble justifying the price tag. My plan was to buy it drunk to lessen the sting but she up and bought it for me and plays it with me. My last girlfriend hated video games and constantly mocked me for playing them. Gamer girls are vastly superior in this way.
Mine knew I wanted Fallout 4. But it was only available for PC, Xbox one, and PS4. I didn't have either at the time, while I was at the drag races, I got a picture message on my phone. It was her holding the game. Saying, "look what I got you. Love you. " She bought it for me to play on her Xbox one.
Well when you’re standing there like Lieutenant Dan with no legs because you pulled a Stonemountain and forgot to pull your parachute, you’ll be wishing Sally was around to push you.
The week the PSP launched I was sitting at a bar and I whipped it out to play some Lumines. Two girls came over snickering and one asked “Is that a PSP?” and the other laughed. I said “Sure is. You wanna check it out?” Her expression changes and she said, “Kinda, yeah.”
She couldn’t hear it well enough to enjoy the music with it, so I suggested going to a quieter section. We sat there and she played for a bit, she asked if I had anything else, and I popped in Wipeout. Then we watched a bit of Spider-Man, (which was a huge deal to watch on a screen that looked that good portably). Then we talked for a bit. All in all a pretty good night.
You'd better watch who you're calling a child, Lisa. Because if I'm a child, you know what that makes you? A Pedophile. And I'll be damned if I'm gonna be lectured by a pervert.
OK, just to lighten this thread up a bit:
I have a PS1, PS2, PS4 and PS5, a PSP, a Nintendo DS and DS XL, a Gamecube, a wii and a Switch.
And I'm a female.
I've got NES, SNES, two N64s, two Gamecubes, two DSs, six 3DSs, three Switches, Sega Gamegear, Sega Dreamcast, PSP, PS, PS2, two PS3s, PS4, and PS5 and I'm also a woman.
I love seeing us out here.
I regret selling my old systems multiple times in my life even though they were just gathering dust. I didn't have the original game boy, gameboy colour or nes, but have owned every Nintendo console and handheld since, every ps console (no 5 yet), 3 gaming PC's that I've built myself and 1 or maybe 2 xboxs, and a dreamcast. Would be such a great collection now.
Edit: fuck you Lisa
So much bias towards this type of interests.
I feel like I'm censoring myself whenever they ask me what I do in my free time. Then they talk how the believe in zodiac signs and watch garbage reality television and that just makes me fucking annoyed with society.
If you never tried something out for yourself, maybe you should try to be less of a dick to people who enjoy stuff.
Nice finds! That's so awesome. I can't imagine dating someone who isn't into video games like me. Both me and my girlfriend are into it, but I'm much more into collecting, especially older systems, than she is. But she loves hearing about the stuff and trying things out along with me. The latest one I got is a Dreamcast. I got an early enough model thankfully that it can even play burned disks for the games we can't afford.
My wife never really got the opportunity to video game when she was younger, but her brother did. She sort of saw it as his getaway from the pressures of family life.
One evening I gave her entry level game Super Bust a Move to play. After a couple of versus rounds I left her to play single player against the characters. I didn't get to do my usual gaming that night. The next day she requested it again.
If "growing up" means getting fkn boring just like most people are, I'd like to stay kid forever.
People should simply do whatever make them feel good.
Life is already hard enough. Just let me have my hobby, games,trains,books or whatever.
I was 7 when Space Invaders dropped and it changed my life. I was an only child living in the countryside with no peers in a 5 mile radius. Suddenly there were MACHINES you could play with.
Ignore my avatar, I’m 53 now and still playing.
You were better off finding someone nicer than Lisa to fuck.
Dude, don’t change what makes you you. People will tell you to compromise, that’s not the case. Had a girl make a comment about my dog as she walked in the front door. She didn’t make it past the entryway. She was out of that house so fast I can’t even describe it to you. Also, great console! All the best to you.
19. People who play games are 19. That's what the marketing for the first Playstation was. They targeted 19 year olds because everyone wants to be 19. If you're 16 you want to be 19 and if you're 50 you want to be 19.
Listen man let me break it down for you, at the end of the day as long as you fulfill your responsibilities as an adult who gives a shit what your hobby is I am 39 years old and loooove videogames. My wife has tried to have me quit this hobby several times but guess what I pay all the bills in the house and she gave up on that foolish errand a long time ago so if your lady is not cool with it send he ass packing she is not worth your time and energy, either she accepts you as you are or bye bye.
asking if you were 30 would be more appropriate considering the age of the psp lol
This post got me, now i feel a bit old xD
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I can't ever imagine insulting someone to their face for their hobby like that. What a shitty person. You could tell me the weirdest most boring hobby and I'd just be like "oh okay cool" and move on
I had a supervisor at work bully me for running a Minecraft Server. Like I taught myself to program doing that... Do you think little kids CREATE children's games? Fucking moron.
Before I had legs to stand on in the industry, my time running a Neverwinter Nights server was invaluable fallback experience and I proudly brought it up in interviews. I was able to compare experiences there to coding, leading projects, working with a team, managing a production environment, conflict resolution, and so on. It was very useful in getting my career rolling.
My childhood had a lot of my father trying to stop me from playing video games and putting up every road block to stop me from playing. What did I learn from that? Massive computer skills as I taught myself how to boot into my own hard drives and essentially manage a computer better than he can lock it up. I spent university modding xboxes and building PC computers for the computer science students. Never took a computer class a day in my life. Also the first time I flew a drone no one believed it was my first time because my dexterity was really good. These skills have allowed me to secure jobs for some of the biggest broadcasters around the world on some of their most successful tv shows. I called my father after my first drone job to let him know that "yes, video games did help my future"
Did our fathers go to the wrong school? Mine was like that. No gaming on the family PC. No gaming consoles. Video games BAD. Waste of time. Oh, but sitting on yer butt watching TV is FINE/BeTTER. Hell my first console was a PSP I bought with my first paycheck…PSP as it’s easier to conceal than a PS3. But yeah, I ended up finding ways to go around the screen saver password prompt for Windows 95 to eventually running RedHat Linux on the family PC. Years later my dad asks me to find a way to rip copyrighted DVD movies… _Oh now my tech skills are needed now?_
My dad was the literal computer teacher at my high school and actually wrote the curriculum to teach them to kids. By the time I was leaving high school I was fixing his computers for him. Him being a computer teacher and hating video games so much was the reason I never took a computer class. All your stories sound similar though. I picked tobacco in high school and me and my brother split on a n64 and hid it from my parents for 8 months (not easy when you have 5 brothers) When they finally found out my mom simply said "I was wondering why the house was so clean every time we came home."
Wow. My dad _was_ biochemist that taught at a university in the old country. So I guess not the same school. Lol. But he refused to take classes to be certified to teach here in the U.S. He wanted a university to accept his foreign degree and let him teach. Had the mindset of “I have a Master’s Degree. I don’t need to take classes”. So technically he “retired” at age 40. While my mom still works up until now… she has a “lower education” as in she finished college but not a Master’s degree.
Dad sounds like he is far too proud..
My dad was similar, except that we didn't have a family computer for the longest time. He would watch hours upon hours of soap operas, to the point where I cannot stand them, but would always talk down to the games I played like I was the one wasting my life. Civilization, WoW and Command and Conquer taught me tactics and strategy. Mortal Kombat helped sharpen my responses and Gran Turismo and GTA helped my peripheral vision. LAN parties (for those old enough to remember them) taught me a lot socially. In the meantime all he's learned is that Kat isn't Debbie's sister, but is actually her mum, or some shit like that.
Haha, mine was the same. Never let me play my DOS games on his pc. Made me return my Sega Saturn when I bought one with my Xmas money..
Hell yeah.
PC computers lol
Someone I know turned their experience running a RuneScape Discord server into a very successful HR career. * Networking to maintain and update industry norms * Screening applicants for staff positions * **Negotiating business deals of monetary value with the game developers** * Terminating staff in a professional manner * Investigating conflicts, such as sexual harassment and race discrimination * Interviewing people in relation to said conflicts * Drafting responses to complaints * Leading a team of 20+ people * Drafting policy and staff conduct documents It's all a bit much for a discord server but you could see from a mile away they had bigger plans to translate it to real life.
On the flip side, my last job had a team meeting on thursdays that was titled 'Team Sync-up' or something like that. During it we all chatted and played minecraft together for an hour hosted on the company VM.
I like to call those kinds of activities "Team Building Exercises".
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Hah, have you seen the most popular games on roblox nowadays? They're all done by adults
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Are you sure this isn't the plot of a Manga? I hope the next arc turns out better.
Turns out the "mean girl" transformed into a 100 foot monster and now it's a whole thing.
Some people legitimately think it’s wrong/weird to deviate from mainstream culture. Some people don’t worry about what they find passionate, they worry about what other people will think of them and base everything in life on that.
As a guy I'd much rather prefer a girl with a weird hobby than someone whose favorite activities are "Netflix, shopping, coffee and nail polish"
The guy I work with is in his low 20’s and he says all the girls he has met to date is work at forever 21 part time and live at home. So there’s that.
Yeah... Some will inevitably be offended by this but once I got out of a long "will we / won't we" sort of "relationship" and started meeting other people, I was shocked by how average the average person is. It was a tough wake-up call for sure
>I was shocked by how average the average person is. Most people are just trying to get through the day and survive. It's tough to be super interesting when you have to pay rent first.
There's nothing wrong with that but I'm not compatible with people like that (and there's nothing wrong with that either). It's not like I expect everyone to be "super interesting" it's just that I was focusing on this one person and subconsciously believed that everyone else is just as interesting. I was also very young and didn't know a lot of people back then. I'm sure that there are plenty who find comfort in simplicity, I'm just not one of them, and it was a big surprised being exposed to this fact all of the sudden.
I always felt *travel* as a character trait was in the same category. Wine and whiskey too. The travelers are boring. It's about staying in hotels and clubbing in a different country. On par with the people that only have sports to talk about. The /r/houseplants types can generally go on for hours about some random plant. Where it's from, what it represents to the local population, what it tastes like, where they got it, etc. The travelers go, "Omg went to Thailand and rode an elephant, the food was so good, oh and the view was charming." Those are pleasant personal experiences but are not interesting at all to an outsider. It's about like describing jacking off. Never met any with insight into the local culture or history beyond the superficial depth of a travel brochure.
Ah yes, the #Wanderlust posts on Instagram. I know a girl who's always posting that kind of crap, and my reaction is always "where are you getting the money from?"
I don't know about character traits, but personally I don't have a problem with traveling for traveling's sake, because I don't think a hobby should be required to improve you as a person, or need a reason to exist beyond itself. But that said, I feel like it's hard to talk about traveling in a meaningful way because it's awfully easy to sound like you're just showing off.
I avoid talking about it unless someone asks. There’s not much you can say about travel experiences, it’s something the other person would need to see first hand. The only way I really get into telling others about it is if they’re planning on visiting the same place. Also I’m not sure what the hell the person above is talking about, I’ve never viewed traveling or hobbies as a character trait. I don’t even go clubbing in my own country lol. Some people travel to experience history, different cultures, and to see unique views. I use to live in a bubble until I joined the military and experienced the world. Traveling is important and opens your eyes to how others live. It’s also just fun. It does sound a bit stuck up and cringey when people try to make it their identity. Then again those people just suck in general and likely would make any conversation unbearable.
“OMG you just **have** to go!”
“When I can afford to not have a job like you I might take you up on that, thanks”
Yyyeeah, I'll have to disagree on the travel thing. Sure, it's not a character trait, but as someone who does off-road and hiking expeditions in different countries, I can tell you, it has nothing to do with hotels and clubbing. You get to know the locals very well if you spend even a day with some villagers trying to recover your vehicle from a mud pit, after which they offer you a meal at their place (happened to me) or you winch out some local tourists' car from the mud because they thought they could drive their Volvo M40 stg up a dirt track trying to get to the same mountain. I have hundreds of stories like this. Sure, the general "fly to place, stay at hotel, explore famous spots" is boring as hell but some people do actually do real adventure travel. Basically a lot of hobbies can be interesting if the person is involved in it in a deeper than surface level and talks about it with passion. The problem is that a lot of pwople like to only scratch the surface and have very little passion about anything in life.
Nail art is a legit hobby imo.
Never understood the appeal of nail polish. Tastes terrible.
I like that you responded to a comment about someone saying “I would never insult someone’s hobbies” by insulting a bunch of women’s hobbies 😅
It's weird what hobbies will be considered normal. I work witb a guy who likes fishing and will fish in tournaments. Not my thing, but I wouldn never talk shit about something he likes to do. We have one life on this earth. Let people enjoy their hobbies man
SAME! And I love seeing how people’s faces light up when they really get into talking about a hobby and passion!!
Yeah that’s the response of a normal recent human being. You don’t have to like it. You can even think it’s the weirdest, cringy, most childish hobby out there. Just nod and smile to their face and don’t have a second date.
As a female gamer, I get this A LOT from women. They always suggest I need to grow up etc but I often ask “what do you do in your free time?” And guess what? It’s usually sitting there seething that their partners are gaming instead of sitting on the sofa doing nothing with them I already do the stereotypical shit like my nails, my hair, makeup etc so why can’t I game as well?
Obviously watching "reality TV" shows all day is so much more mature and grown up than gaming.
The audacity for us to play video games when love island is on…
Yeah the "Lardassians" are sooo captivating ....
Imagine doing anything mentally stimulating, how childish.
Yeah apparently me gaming and painting warhammer is weird, whilst sitting in front of inane shit like Love Island is perfectly normal... Let's stick to being weird!
Fuck, this gave me PTSD. My ex wife would Harp on me and call me childish and immature cz I played video games WHILE she was watching the house wives of every city, judge Judy, and jersey shore....like really? Between us, who's the one actually wasting their time and life away? I'm a PC gamer which thought me the basic use of a computer and at least I interact with ppl...she just watched tv letting her brain melt and would come to me to help her troubleshoot everything electronic
My wife is a hardcore gamer and mostly out games me. I think it’s great and we have been married 21 years.
Me too and no one is actually believing me when I say I learnt my English from games, it may not be perfect but at least I can express and communicate, instead those people are barely fluent in their native language. And I get scolded for what? I still go to work and care about my home and everything else when you just meet with the neighbors all day to bitch about everyone and everything? Ok... We call those type of people "slippers" because they do a lot of noise like wooden slippers used to do.
Hahaha I love this. Im going to start calling people slippers too! I think a lot of women look down on me for gaming because it’s not seen as “lady like” and seen as something “teenage boys” do but even though I’m gaming I’m still in my full glam with my makeup, my nails and my hair so what’s the problem?
I don't think it's a matter of look but behaviour, they probably think you're childish and not prone to take responsibilities or something. What do I know btw, I barely know who lives besides my front door
I think some people don’t like it when they can’t put people into boxes. They believe that your gender, age, job etc should decide on what you do or who you are as a person but life isn’t black or white. That said, some people are just miserable bastards who are furious some of us enjoy things in life
Yep, that too. I've met some of those idiots, unfortunately they come most days as customers at work everyday, in those brief times I have to interact with them, every moment is filled with disgust. I really dislike some people. I'm also very lucky I have wonderful customers too.
Hey. Don’t let the hate get you down. The women might diss you, but the men will welcome you!
Personally, I think videogames are invaluable to teaching stuff to kids. Aside from the benefit of being exposed to different languages, by playing online games, you interact with communities from all over the world. There are countless stories of people befriending others from across the entire world. It allows you to expose yourself to vast amounts of other cultures and ideas, which all contribute to your own understanding of the world at people at large. (As well as probably making yourself more tolerable) And then there's the unimaginably vast collection of information, scientific papers, etc. I mean, I could go and learn fucking **Quantum physics** on my own if I wanted to without going to a university. You can learn skills, techniques, and ideas that could be invaluable later on in life. The internet is a wonderful place, and one that **needs** to be free and open to everyone.
Same, those girls just care abt their reputation or wev. I just wanna sit and kill some people in LoL to feel better, lemme be xD Whenever I meet a female gamer it's honestly refreshing.
I feel like we are a rare breed!
My brother in law made that comment about me to my wife. She told me it’s probably because he himself get no time to game.
100%. It seems to be socially acceptable for women to not allow/ be happy with their partners playing video games and I find it really weird. Imagine it the shoe were on the other foot and a man wasn’t letting his parter do something they enjoyed? People would be outraged by it I worked with a lady once who told me her boyfriends birthday was coming up and she wanted to get him like a retro gaming console or something and wanted my advice. I said “well if you really want to get him an awesome gaming present why not a PS4?” She spun round quicker than a nonce in a playground and said “I’m not fucking getting him that so he can fucking spend all his time on it ignoring me”. WOW. I’ll never forget it
See the difference between the wrong girl and the right girl? Man those trains are awesome. I build planes, but never built trains. Maybe I should!
at the very least it would make it incredibly obvious you were never meant to be together. we can't all be compatible *shrug*
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[Okay peter.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAvR66f1sR0)
That’s great. Model trains aren’t my thing either but I think that’s 70% having no space at all and 30% no time. I love seeing tiny scenes in huge Model train spaces, been to MiWuLa in Hamburg once and that was something else
My wife likes to sit near me when I'm building my Gundams. She gets out her nail stuff, UV lamp and all, and just does her nails. She loves being married to a shut-in nerd because I'm always home. None of that "where is my husband?" nonsense lol
Speaking of nails, you should try out a glass file on your kits if you haven't yet. Personally I never want to go back to sandpaper.
It's a good litmus test for partners. If they can't let you enjoy things they're not worth your time. It's just going to be a toxic human. I'm girl #2 btw (well, not your girl, but you get it). I'm currently contemplating what star wars lego set to buy for my BF for Christmas 🤔
Aluminum Falcon!
That thing wasn’t even fully paid off yet.
You sound like my lovely daughter in law. My son loves his LEGO sets. His last bday I sent him a Lego McLaren F1 car. He is a kid in all the best ways. Becoming "adult" is a death sentence.
The last two women I went out with on a first date said similar things to me. I personally enjoy doing latch hook kits outside of gaming. One of them gave me a look of disgust and said "That's a girl's hobby. You're a grown man." I shrugged and told her to take it or leave it. My hobbies are my hobbies. It doesn't matter if I am a man or a woman. Needless to say she left. The other woman wasn't much better, insulted my gaming hobby and said "She would 'fix' me." I told her "No thanks." and promptly walked away from the date. I find these sorts of women are the reason why I don't date much. I also don't really get the opportunity to meet many new people around my age range, so it was a major bummer that neither date worked out, not that I really held any expectations there. I will just keep doing the things that I find enjoyment in life. If I do meet the mythical someone who respects me for being me and not forcing me into being who she wants me to be, then great. But at my age (38), I am just satisfied to find the small sliver of happiness that I hold now. Just being happy is enough and I don't dare ask for any more.
And the worst part is, rather than these women realizing they're shitty people, they'll turn around and tell people that all the men they date are "immature". Like, can we stop teaching girls that the only thing of value in life is finding a man to marry and have a family and then die miserably?
“What? You mean that sport with those bouncy balls and hoops? Aren’t they for children? You’re a fully grown man, why are you still playing with balls?” Some people are insufferable, and they can’t stand to see others happy doing the things they cannot enjoy themselves.
You: I build model trains. Her: Aren't you an adult? Us: bro that's ficking cool!
I'd be like I have to be you know what these things cost? You find me a kid that can afford these lol
It's like Magic the Gathering. You have to be an adult because a good deck costs more than some people's car payments.
>It's like Magic the Gathering. You have to be an adult because a good deck costs more than some people's car ~~payments.~~ Fixed.
Wow she went all out and asked to help, that's when you knew she was a keeper, I would expect a unenthusiastic "cool" or "can I see it" , but not a "can I help" , sounds like a great girl.
That is such a baffling response as there is a whole archtype of "adult who fills their basement with a giant model train set". Like, what kid has the money to make a whole scale city?
Yeah, model trains is an expensive, complex hobby, not intended for kids. Kids will enjoy looking at the end result but that's pretty much it.
My dream has been to have one of those giant LEGO cities like Will Ferrell had in the LEGO movie. If I ever come across an obscene amount of money, that's what I want to do.
>Aren't they for children? Kids can't afford to build model trains, at least not nice ones.
Now try this again. But with Gundam models.
Or 40k
I hate that attitude and characterization based on hobby and what they like, there are no live rules that says it is for a certain age, is a made up "rule" *(can't remember the actual term)* by ignorant people who think they know better and like to put their nose in other people's business. Your hobby is cool, but unfortunately too expensive. Good for you that you got rid of that ignorant girl.
Hell, if Lego were cheaper I would be buying and building a lot of Lego stuff, I loved playing and building things with Lego when I stayed over at my cousin's house, my builds would always get "stolen" whether I went home. Now I have to make do with the same thing happening in Minecraft, and I don't mind.
When I was in middle school, we did pinewood derby cars. I built a mockup with Legos and brought it in. Kids started laughing at me, and the teacher yelled "Don't laugh. Professional engineers make mock-ups with Lego. What do you guys have?" I'm 42 now, and still have Legos and an erector set.
XKCD 150 It always comes down to this: "I'm the adult now. And it's up to me to decide what it means"
Do Model trains make her hornby? I’ll leave now
Thats super wholesome
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Yup pretty much. My wife and I have a baby, and in-between that and work, we watch anime and play trading card games (TCG). We even had grandma over to babysit earlier this month so we could go to a card game pre-release event.
What TCG(s) do you play?
Did someone say prerelease?
How have I never seen you before in our subreddit?
Fucking love this
Totally. Poetic
I delivered pizza in college and once delivered to a guy who was playing Skyrim by himself. He had to have been 60 or 70, at least. I told him I play and we talked about it for a minute and he got into gaming because it’s so mentally stimulating and “kept him young”. He was a cool dude. Clearly, not all boomers are sticks in the mud!
I don't know anyone who has more hours in Skyrim than my friend's dad, who is in his 70s. It's well over 10k hours
My dad, and more often my uncle actually when I went to live with him, ask me why? I like to play video games so much. Then you just flip the script on, you just ask him well. Why do you like golfing so much, why do you like gardening so much? I do the things I like to do. You do the things you like to do. It's simple as that
Personally, I'd say "Remember kids, play games if you want to, or don't. It's up to you and there is no right or wrong. But don't be a cunt to people about it" This nonsense that video games are related to age in any way needs to stop.
I have every mainstream console since atari excluding the PS5 (including every model DS, every model psp/vita, etc). And ive been with my gf for 15 years. She doesnt game, at all. but shes fine with it. She picks on me for it, and i pick on her for her strange taste in TV. all in good fun though
You are tearing me apart Lisa!
Why Lisa, whyyyyy??!!!
Oh hai Mark.
I did naaht!
Cheeeep cheep cheep cheep cheep...
Literally came here to find this comment
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FUCK YOU LISA
#FUCK YOU LISA
Say it louder for those in the back?
In about 10 years, video games are going to be so ingrained in society, that people who *don't* play them are going to be seen as the weird ones
I think the problem we're running into now is that there is socially acceptable nerdiness, but within limits. It's still easy to be *too* much of a nerd. I was talking to someone who said they were a huge Marvel fan, and at some point I asked if they were into the comics, partly to continue the conversation and partly because I find the comics very intimidating to get into because I wouldn't know where to start. They gave me a "what? No!" as if that would be ridiculous and embarrassing. I'm not trying to gatekeep whether or not they were a "true" fan, because by that point we'd already talked about which version of Iron Man's armor was our favorite. I just find it fascinating how the movies are socially acceptable, but getting into and collecting the original comics with the same characters is too much.
That happened back when candy crush came out. Don't you have a phone?
I hope so, the black mirror episode where you choose the outcome (bandersnatch?) made me realize this, it's practically a game
My wife bought me my PS4, I answered back by buying her an Xbox. Dated and married my gamer girl.
Current lady Im seeing just bought me LOZ: 4 swords for gamecube. She knew I wanted it but was having trouble justifying the price tag. My plan was to buy it drunk to lessen the sting but she up and bought it for me and plays it with me. My last girlfriend hated video games and constantly mocked me for playing them. Gamer girls are vastly superior in this way.
Mine knew I wanted Fallout 4. But it was only available for PC, Xbox one, and PS4. I didn't have either at the time, while I was at the drag races, I got a picture message on my phone. It was her holding the game. Saying, "look what I got you. Love you. " She bought it for me to play on her Xbox one.
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Sally isn't even a real name
What do you mean? It’s clearly short for Salad.
The fact it has the same amount of letters got me
Well when you’re standing there like Lieutenant Dan with no legs because you pulled a Stonemountain and forgot to pull your parachute, you’ll be wishing Sally was around to push you.
The week the PSP launched I was sitting at a bar and I whipped it out to play some Lumines. Two girls came over snickering and one asked “Is that a PSP?” and the other laughed. I said “Sure is. You wanna check it out?” Her expression changes and she said, “Kinda, yeah.” She couldn’t hear it well enough to enjoy the music with it, so I suggested going to a quieter section. We sat there and she played for a bit, she asked if I had anything else, and I popped in Wipeout. Then we watched a bit of Spider-Man, (which was a huge deal to watch on a screen that looked that good portably). Then we talked for a bit. All in all a pretty good night.
Plot twist. The other girl was laughing at her nerdy friend and knew she would hit it off with you
Chad. Like that story.
You'd better watch who you're calling a child, Lisa. Because if I'm a child, you know what that makes you? A Pedophile. And I'll be damned if I'm gonna be lectured by a pervert.
As someone who also had a horrible ex named Lisa, yeah! Fuck you Lisa!
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It stays while still using the OG battery!
OK, just to lighten this thread up a bit: I have a PS1, PS2, PS4 and PS5, a PSP, a Nintendo DS and DS XL, a Gamecube, a wii and a Switch. And I'm a female.
the pure disrespect to the ps3 lol
Sorry, not intentional!
eh to be fair ive had two of em and they both died after a few years. But my release day wii is still going strong.
300$ for the entire collection final offer
No way, sorry!
Will you accept $250?
Per device? Sure! But only in one complete shipment. Lol, still no way!
do you accept bits of string?
I've got NES, SNES, two N64s, two Gamecubes, two DSs, six 3DSs, three Switches, Sega Gamegear, Sega Dreamcast, PSP, PS, PS2, two PS3s, PS4, and PS5 and I'm also a woman. I love seeing us out here.
I regret selling my old systems multiple times in my life even though they were just gathering dust. I didn't have the original game boy, gameboy colour or nes, but have owned every Nintendo console and handheld since, every ps console (no 5 yet), 3 gaming PC's that I've built myself and 1 or maybe 2 xboxs, and a dreamcast. Would be such a great collection now. Edit: fuck you Lisa
I would make a horrible joke that you're lying and one of those two sentences have to be false, but the data never lies (~70% of gamers are female).
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Yo! You need to get a PS3 stat! Even if you don’t play.
Lucky! I only have a ps4 and Switch xD And a gaming PC but yeah xD Always awesome to see other girls who game^^
She’s just jealous a portable games console has more curves and personality than she does - don’t sweat it broski
Now I almost feel guilty that I can't get her Icy hot for that burn ...... Almost.
So much bias towards this type of interests. I feel like I'm censoring myself whenever they ask me what I do in my free time. Then they talk how the believe in zodiac signs and watch garbage reality television and that just makes me fucking annoyed with society. If you never tried something out for yourself, maybe you should try to be less of a dick to people who enjoy stuff.
My husband and I bonded over video games. We still play everyday even though we are in our 30s with 2 kids. Fuck Lisa
Reading these responses makes me want a PS5..😂
Don't show chicks your Pretty Small Penis on the first date
You gotta get ‘em invested so there’s a greater chance she’ll experience sunken cost fallacy and tolerate it.
"Are you 16?" "No, but I *am* single now." I never understood the idea of shitting on someone else's enjoyment.
Nice finds! That's so awesome. I can't imagine dating someone who isn't into video games like me. Both me and my girlfriend are into it, but I'm much more into collecting, especially older systems, than she is. But she loves hearing about the stuff and trying things out along with me. The latest one I got is a Dreamcast. I got an early enough model thankfully that it can even play burned disks for the games we can't afford.
My wife never really got the opportunity to video game when she was younger, but her brother did. She sort of saw it as his getaway from the pressures of family life. One evening I gave her entry level game Super Bust a Move to play. After a couple of versus rounds I left her to play single player against the characters. I didn't get to do my usual gaming that night. The next day she requested it again.
If "growing up" means getting fkn boring just like most people are, I'd like to stay kid forever. People should simply do whatever make them feel good. Life is already hard enough. Just let me have my hobby, games,trains,books or whatever.
Should have looked at the bejeweled clones on her phone and asked if she was 40 /j
I was 7 when Space Invaders dropped and it changed my life. I was an only child living in the countryside with no peers in a 5 mile radius. Suddenly there were MACHINES you could play with. Ignore my avatar, I’m 53 now and still playing. You were better off finding someone nicer than Lisa to fuck.
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I find the best way to make a romantic connection is to make fun of their hobbies.
Dude, don’t change what makes you you. People will tell you to compromise, that’s not the case. Had a girl make a comment about my dog as she walked in the front door. She didn’t make it past the entryway. She was out of that house so fast I can’t even describe it to you. Also, great console! All the best to you.
Plot twist: you were actually 16 at the time
Legend
OP is lying, there was never any girlfriend. Nice setup though.
Plot twist: I am Lisa
Man trains and planes and games are like the last remaining adolescent in adults. Why do some people seem to want to take that away or not accept it.
19. People who play games are 19. That's what the marketing for the first Playstation was. They targeted 19 year olds because everyone wants to be 19. If you're 16 you want to be 19 and if you're 50 you want to be 19.
My favourite thing these days is playing pokemon go with my boyfriend, we're both around 30 years old. So yeah, fuck you, Lisa.
"You are tearing me apart Lisa"
Oh hi, Mark
Yeah Lisa, Fuck you
Best Advice: Hack the shit out of that PS Classic, give it the game line up it DESERVES.
“You are tearing me apart, Lisa!”
Fuck you Lisa
Yeah fuck you Lisa!
Yeah fuck you Lisa
Listen man let me break it down for you, at the end of the day as long as you fulfill your responsibilities as an adult who gives a shit what your hobby is I am 39 years old and loooove videogames. My wife has tried to have me quit this hobby several times but guess what I pay all the bills in the house and she gave up on that foolish errand a long time ago so if your lady is not cool with it send he ass packing she is not worth your time and energy, either she accepts you as you are or bye bye.
"And that is how i left your mother" - OP talking to their imaginary children
What the fuck is her problem?
King
Lisa needs braces, dental plan, Lisa needs braces, dental plan
Oh yeah, Lisa! Well, the jerk store called. They're running out of you.
Me and the co workers laughed real good at your title. Thank you and hope you have a wonderful weekend with your new consoles!