one of the more bizarre things in hindsight is the fact people used to literally get bullied for playing video games. not even the runescape nerds who deserved it, EVERYTHING was off limits for a while where i lived.
imagine being scared ppl find out you play Elden Ring nowadays LOL
imagine being scared ppl find out you play Elden Ring nowadays LOL
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I hate being such a visionary
See you in the future nerds.
And the moment I leave and lose interest in it. It’s regularly accepted. 😭
did. Tireless labor.
From the ground up.
Outstanding
Going to the thrift shop.
Not owning a Starter jacket/hat.
As well as shouting "bazinga" at them to demoralize them. Kinda fucked
I blame the Gower brothers
Sometimes Emma, sometimes EmmaTM, her fault, cockremover, emmatrademark
Maybe that's cuz there's not a whole lot else to do here and video games were/are expensive
Having video games at home was sort of a bragging thing - my parents not only can afford it, but they bought it for me!
Nerds were ppl that got good grades, were loners, and read books all the time AKA me. 😅
The northern Midwest (in the USA) is also where video games are possibly the most common per capita in the country.
Altho it was also fairly common for jocks to pretend that they were "too cool" to play video games until about 2010, I think?
Well, if I actually told many people about it, Pokemon aside I don't think a lot of kids knew what I played back then.
I hope it normalizes even more.
'Of course I don't wanna play with you, this is safer, stop teasing me'
Mocked in the late 90s and early 2000s for dating people I met online… Turns out I’m living 15 years into the future. If this carries on, VR is going to be a big part of your gaming lives around 2030+
Source: i know what a tick is
As someone who loves runescape adjacent games, I both love and identify with this. We deserve it. In fact, we're asking for it. We're all at least a little bit masochistic.
so what if i run reduvia and the stiletto? is that a problem?
Never a problem to have a fun build
idk if you're not looking for that kinda specific challenge, who cares if the thing you happen to like most is considered cheap or even just bad by random people. As long as it's fun
I also remember when declaring you played Warhammer or D&D was worthy of an instant and complete social exclusion and or a swift beating...
The west (and some other places) has become way better for nerds than it ever was.
Turned out she just wanted to know if I'd run a game for her and her sister. But in the 90s that convo usually went different.
It will still take time for the media to reach books and movies level of acceptance.
Perhaps it's the way I was brought up but this seems more widespread somehow.
I'm from a socially inept/anxious country, heaps of (literally) dark times & an engineer view of life, it's more common over here. Had exchange students & immigrants say that their nerd hobbies are more accepted over here than back home.
Go (nerd) Finland!
Ah, the Moomin! If you ever visit, the Moomin museum is proper grand (& a little dark, but it's Finland so it's to be expected).
Have a good one & hope your coworkers will be cooler in the future!🙏
Trading card games, video games, TTRPGs... it's all mainstream now.
And I still play Runescape :P
15 years later, I am talking to my Nephews about it, and they are talking about it in School while wearing Creeper merch.
https://youtube.com/@pcgaminghelp?si=xP2FQoHqzCeLC-Ww
… the bullying would’ve been deserved lmao