>be on flight >take out modded Vita >kid across the aisle is whispering to his mother about how a creepy old man (23) is playing with his toy >stewardess comes by to offer me a drink, offers soda instead of alcohol >old man behind me kept bumping into seat and laughing >stewardess comes back to give dinner, says she can wait until I'm done playing my game >wait for Uber after flight >play Vita in car >driver with heavy accent tells me about how his kids play Nintendo
>I feel like some people of older generations have just associated any video game console with children
It's not a generational problem. When kids grow older, they'll adopt new attitudes and activities to fit the new mold that's being imposed on them. Since they are kids, they have no life experience to really know what it means to be a teenager or adult, so they'll look for shit like shock humor, drinking and smoking. Companies like to target children because they are a profitable market, between their desire to be seen as older and being easily swayed by marketing tricks.
The 1970s were a time when games were seen as a fad that anyone could enjoy. The 1080s had the rise of home consoles and lots of kids being introduced to games at an early age. It makes sense that it would become a common sentiment to associate childhood with games, thus leading to the mindset that it should be something that an adult should leave behind because it doesn't match the mold that's being imposed.
Animation has the same problem. The 1930s and 40s had a lot of adult-centered shorts with jokes that would never fly in a child centered market. When television took off, animators had to adapt with TV budgets by stylizing their works, opening the floodgates for toyetic character design. Since you didn't had to leave your house to watch tv, kids ended up becoming a pretty popular target audience as they had more free time, leading to toy companies taking interest in animation, too. This evolved into companies specifically developing cartoons for children which resulted in the same mindset of animation being inherently childish unless you subvert it with "mature" shock humor like Family Guy and Rick & Morty (which ironically, are very popular with kids since that's what they think adults like).
Old school Disney was more concerned with innovation and pushing the medium forward. Snow White almost didn't come out because it was such an unbelievably difficult movie to make due to how technologically complex it was for its time. Walt took a massive gamble with it and it paid off, resulting in the golden age. It was around the 1950s when they began to use Xerox technology to save time and Disney took interest in making their movies more child friendly so they could sell more merchandise (Aristocats continues to sell merch to this day).
>disney seemed like it was always made with kids in mind
not really. they had tons of gags for all ages (horse races, characters drinking at a pub, gunplay, defending the fort from injuns, insomnia, cartoons about enlisting and warfare, etc.). also, they weren't the only game in town
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>It makes sense that it would become a common sentiment to associate childhood with games
you're wrong. it's just that >games had nothing to offer to adults. 99% featured cutesy characters, which are seen as childish by adults. at best you had shit like pinball, or you could go play at the casino with the boys >men were expected to provide for the family, not play with toys >men had their own social activities (poker, bowling, darts, golf, football, lawn maintenance, etc.). to break the mold made you antisocial
no, when I'm out and about I want to enjoy being out and about. it disgusts me when people come to my beautiful tourist town and spend their entire time glued to their phones.
>playing Switch at the bus stop 2 years ago >couple of homosexual ass middle school kids show up and start bullying me >"lmao this boomer plays with baby toys!" >one of them slaps me in the face >the other grabs my switch, smashes it on the ground >they snatch my backpack and run off >file a police report >the cops dont believe me and just laugh me out of the building >lost my 500 hour Animal Crossing save with the perfect maxed out village
Frick going outside
I havent played vidya in public since high school >freshman year, bring my GBA to school to calm my nerves >playing Super Mario Advance, using sleep mode between breaks so I can pick it back up whenever I have free time >waiting in 5th period, teacher is running late >decide to cram in some Mario time >wake it up from sleep mode, forgot to turn the sound off after playing it during lunch break >"HHHNNNNGGGGGG" (the characters make this noise when picking up stuff from the ground) >"JUST WHAT I NEEDED!" >class goes completely silent then erupts into laughter >get called Laxative Larry from then until graduation (dumbassess insisted it sounded like Mario was shitting) >get grunted at constantly when walking down the hall's >year book commitee edited my senior quote to say "Just what I needed!"
I still have a severe hatred for handhelds to this day.
Quentin got banned and doxxed, and never came back under a trip
He also got laughed off of Ganker for his high-school mandatory reading tastes and that was enough of an ego blow to keep him away
Modern "handhelds" are all shit. A jailbroken PSP or a DS/3DS I could get, but who would even bother bring a fricking switch out or a steam deck? They're like those old tablets people would pretend were super slim and easy to carry around when in reality they were just cumbersome bricks.
Honestly, you guys pay too much attention to what other people think of you. In public, you are invisible to others, background at best. When riding bus, you never meet same people again and they don't even recognize your existence. I remember how I once scolded some guy having video conversation in bus, reading loud somebody else motivational letter - he didn't even noticed I was talking to him, even when waving hand before his eyes. Reality doesn't exist, it's only them and their inner world.
Dude was probably just focusing on the urge to punch you in the face. I know I would have if you started butting into my business and waving your hands in my face
So did I - because when you are in fricking public transport, reading aloud somebody private motivational letter is unprofessional at best and straight out dick activity at worst.
adult this that fricking who cares. its all pretense. all i ask of anybody is that they don't frick with someone else. if someone can be truly fulfilled by just fricking around all day playing games then they should. if that's not enough then they owe it to themselves to try something else, but its none of my business.
Quentin is still a virgin while Britbong has slayed multiple e-girls and got some tight virgin pussy while quentina spams his shit meme on Ganker for 10 years, TOP KEK!
When you're handsome and Ganker you can do whatever you want and be seen as cool
When you're ugly and fat or weak you're a loser no matter what and doing anything that makes you seem more visible will provoke ire in others because they really just want you to stop existing.
It's situational. If I'm at the doctor's office or something I'll just bring a book because I don't have ADD. If I'm on a long plane flight, I'll bring my Steam Deck and play it during the flight because it's better than whatever goyslop inflight entertainment they have and I'm not paying $50 for internet access on principal alone. I also don't give a frick what is "socially acceptable" and I could care even less what total strangers think of me. I just do what I want to do, when I want to do it and don't pre-filter my potential actions by asking myself "but what will others think?"
>don't pre-filter my potential actions by asking myself "but what will others think?"
What is this phenomena? Seriously. When did people put so much mental effort into worrying about what strangers will think?
Normal social adjustment. Do you realize that if normalgays see you as an adult man playing videogames, they start wishing that someone would kill you?
>Do you realize that if normalgays see you as an adult man playing videogames, they start wishing that someone would kill you?
No they don't. People don't give a frick what other people are doing. If they see a grown man playing vidya in public they might have a passing thought about it and then go on with their lives. It's pure narcissism think that everyone is thinking about you and judging you. It's almost like being an /x/ schizo who thinks they're being gangstalked.
>On a flight >Notice seats have outlets >Neat >Plug in my laptop and boot it up >Launch Xenonauts >Load my save "FRICK REAPER Black folk" >Notice the dude next to me is scowling at me
What the frick was his problem?
>On flight to London, sitting in business class wage pod >Take out Steam Deck and start playing Skyrim Special Edition >Flight attendant comes by to take drink order >"I'll have a vodka tonic with lime, please" >Attendant seems bemused that I'm playing vidya >Condescending smirk couldn't be more obvious >"Did you borrow your son's Nintendo?" >Don't make eye contact >"I said a vodka tonic with lime, please" >Condescending smirk vanishes, goes to make my drink
Remember that these "people" are literally your servants and that you should interact with them accordingly.
This. Have a friend on vacay sharing pictures and he posted one of him lookin' so cool at some posh bar with his fancy coat, but he still had a vidya graphic tee on underneath.
I don't mind if other people play video games in public, they're more than likely getting away to enjoy something outside of their house.
Anyone who criticizes a person for playing a handheld either don't have a smartphone (extremely unlikely, even for old folk), or are extremely moronic (extremely likely).
It wouldn't be Ganker without someone complaining about video games.
There's no point, would be too uncomfortable to actually enjoy any game if I'm not alone, plus it makes me just a bit more sociable not to stare at a screen when there are others to talk to.
bump Ganker NEEDS TO SEE THIS
drop it like its hot drop it like its hot
i got too many of my own problems to care
>be on flight
>take out modded Vita
>kid across the aisle is whispering to his mother about how a creepy old man (23) is playing with his toy
>stewardess comes by to offer me a drink, offers soda instead of alcohol
>old man behind me kept bumping into seat and laughing
>stewardess comes back to give dinner, says she can wait until I'm done playing my game
>wait for Uber after flight
>play Vita in car
>driver with heavy accent tells me about how his kids play Nintendo
>and everyone clapped
none of that would have happened if you had a modded 3DS
>tfw get mistaken for being a teenager anyways
being a twink has its perks i guess. i dont look forward to twink death though
Post tummy
Unless you're above 25 that's nothing to brag about.
>and every tendie stood up and clapped
Adult women are actually friendly when they see me play videogames 🙂
>Adult women
mom
>I feel like some people of older generations have just associated any video game console with children
It's not a generational problem. When kids grow older, they'll adopt new attitudes and activities to fit the new mold that's being imposed on them. Since they are kids, they have no life experience to really know what it means to be a teenager or adult, so they'll look for shit like shock humor, drinking and smoking. Companies like to target children because they are a profitable market, between their desire to be seen as older and being easily swayed by marketing tricks.
The 1970s were a time when games were seen as a fad that anyone could enjoy. The 1080s had the rise of home consoles and lots of kids being introduced to games at an early age. It makes sense that it would become a common sentiment to associate childhood with games, thus leading to the mindset that it should be something that an adult should leave behind because it doesn't match the mold that's being imposed.
Animation has the same problem. The 1930s and 40s had a lot of adult-centered shorts with jokes that would never fly in a child centered market. When television took off, animators had to adapt with TV budgets by stylizing their works, opening the floodgates for toyetic character design. Since you didn't had to leave your house to watch tv, kids ended up becoming a pretty popular target audience as they had more free time, leading to toy companies taking interest in animation, too. This evolved into companies specifically developing cartoons for children which resulted in the same mindset of animation being inherently childish unless you subvert it with "mature" shock humor like Family Guy and Rick & Morty (which ironically, are very popular with kids since that's what they think adults like).
idk man disney seemed like it was always made with kids in mind
Old school Disney was more concerned with innovation and pushing the medium forward. Snow White almost didn't come out because it was such an unbelievably difficult movie to make due to how technologically complex it was for its time. Walt took a massive gamble with it and it paid off, resulting in the golden age. It was around the 1950s when they began to use Xerox technology to save time and Disney took interest in making their movies more child friendly so they could sell more merchandise (Aristocats continues to sell merch to this day).
>disney seemed like it was always made with kids in mind
not really. they had tons of gags for all ages (horse races, characters drinking at a pub, gunplay, defending the fort from injuns, insomnia, cartoons about enlisting and warfare, etc.). also, they weren't the only game in town
captcha PHD N0
I already work 10 hours a day and study for an additional 4, what else the government wants from me?
>It makes sense that it would become a common sentiment to associate childhood with games
you're wrong. it's just that
>games had nothing to offer to adults. 99% featured cutesy characters, which are seen as childish by adults. at best you had shit like pinball, or you could go play at the casino with the boys
>men were expected to provide for the family, not play with toys
>men had their own social activities (poker, bowling, darts, golf, football, lawn maintenance, etc.). to break the mold made you antisocial
TAKE THAT BIATCH!!!! FUS RO DA!!!
>calls pink salmon
That's cope and unironically gayer than just calling it pink.
I'd unironically buy the new pink joycons if they weren't overpriced. I like pink.
Pink is humanity’s favorite color, if you believe the testing.
Literally me. Whats the original?
man frick you
its a good life
At this point, it's just too difficult to change. I got dealt a bad hand, I've just gotta ride it out until it's over.
Yeah I gave up on life already.
Oh god oh frick, it's fricking over, they made a wojack for ME, I'm not an unique individual anymore, I'm a fricking stereotype!
Sounds a lot like me.
How do I not become this guy? I feel like I'm on the edge of a cliff.
Same boat, trying to figure it out myself. Just wanted you to know you're not alone.
I'm so glad I don't play in public lol
people hope you are never in public
that's what they said when they saw you pull your switch out of your Mario backpack
Kek, these guys, always breakin' balls
no, when I'm out and about I want to enjoy being out and about. it disgusts me when people come to my beautiful tourist town and spend their entire time glued to their phones.
>playing Switch at the bus stop 2 years ago
>couple of homosexual ass middle school kids show up and start bullying me
>"lmao this boomer plays with baby toys!"
>one of them slaps me in the face
>the other grabs my switch, smashes it on the ground
>they snatch my backpack and run off
>file a police report
>the cops dont believe me and just laugh me out of the building
>lost my 500 hour Animal Crossing save with the perfect maxed out village
Frick going outside
meds, now
not an argument
wait, a couple of 12yos beat u up?
it was the diamond dogs
Saw a kid playing game on his phone the other day, didn't feel any different
That's because he's a kid and it's a phone. You're a 30 year old man with a dedicated handheld.
saw a young girl with shorts the other day and it made all the difference
>young girl with shorts
disgusting
>go outside
>do something that you can already do indoors
Just say you want attention you gay
No, I discuss the great gatsby.
No, i slather oil on my body and run
I do actually, and i look exactly like that and i think like that, i tip my fedora to passing women and im literally never going to stop.
I use vid related in SDVX
It's also an arcade game so it's in public anyway
when im in public i try to make normies uncomfortable.
i'm sure you don't have to try
I don't really go anywhere in public that isn't involved. The only places I take my Switch are on airplanes or if I am a passenger on a road trip.
im playing a RPG next to you and im going to wear headphones, b***h
I dont play games period.
>when pablo can only afford beans every week
Do you watch streamers?
do you need me to?
based
No because I don't like handhelds
I do and I don't care. A lot of people play games in public transit that isn't dangerous. Phone games count.
I havent played vidya in public since high school
>freshman year, bring my GBA to school to calm my nerves
>playing Super Mario Advance, using sleep mode between breaks so I can pick it back up whenever I have free time
>waiting in 5th period, teacher is running late
>decide to cram in some Mario time
>wake it up from sleep mode, forgot to turn the sound off after playing it during lunch break
>"HHHNNNNGGGGGG" (the characters make this noise when picking up stuff from the ground)
>"JUST WHAT I NEEDED!"
>class goes completely silent then erupts into laughter
>get called Laxative Larry from then until graduation (dumbassess insisted it sounded like Mario was shitting)
>get grunted at constantly when walking down the hall's
>year book commitee edited my senior quote to say "Just what I needed!"
I still have a severe hatred for handhelds to this day.
Is this real?
do you need it to be?
go away loser.
Sure I do as long as there are no Black folk or schizos around
Whatever happened to Quentin anyway
got caught with cp on their pc like every other loser that is non anon
Quentin got banned and doxxed, and never came back under a trip
He also got laughed off of Ganker for his high-school mandatory reading tastes and that was enough of an ego blow to keep him away
Are products like these for sois?
Airplane/airport is the only "public" place I play portable games
Modern "handhelds" are all shit. A jailbroken PSP or a DS/3DS I could get, but who would even bother bring a fricking switch out or a steam deck? They're like those old tablets people would pretend were super slim and easy to carry around when in reality they were just cumbersome bricks.
Just play on your phone like a normal adult. Imagine bringing something bigger than your phone just to play games
I play Marios and Zeldas on full volume in my Nintendo Rehabilitation Clinic t-shirt and triforce tattoo on display.
If you want to play nintendie games outside just emulate.
People in public dont care when I play games. But the terminally online who never go in public do.
i read books on the trian becuase of my massive fricking huge brian
I dont play in public.signs of addiction
Honestly, you guys pay too much attention to what other people think of you. In public, you are invisible to others, background at best. When riding bus, you never meet same people again and they don't even recognize your existence. I remember how I once scolded some guy having video conversation in bus, reading loud somebody else motivational letter - he didn't even noticed I was talking to him, even when waving hand before his eyes. Reality doesn't exist, it's only them and their inner world.
Dude was probably just focusing on the urge to punch you in the face. I know I would have if you started butting into my business and waving your hands in my face
So did I - because when you are in fricking public transport, reading aloud somebody private motivational letter is unprofessional at best and straight out dick activity at worst.
I would if i didn't live in a concrete jungle.
i play ero games in public
adult this that fricking who cares. its all pretense. all i ask of anybody is that they don't frick with someone else. if someone can be truly fulfilled by just fricking around all day playing games then they should. if that's not enough then they owe it to themselves to try something else, but its none of my business.
Quentin is still a virgin while Britbong has slayed multiple e-girls and got some tight virgin pussy while quentina spams his shit meme on Ganker for 10 years, TOP KEK!
It's time for bed dom you don't want mommy to bust out the paddle again do you?
Quentin post a picture of you standing next to a girl who isn't your mother.
When you're handsome and Ganker you can do whatever you want and be seen as cool
When you're ugly and fat or weak you're a loser no matter what and doing anything that makes you seem more visible will provoke ire in others because they really just want you to stop existing.
the 3DS is a retro handled now.
It's situational. If I'm at the doctor's office or something I'll just bring a book because I don't have ADD. If I'm on a long plane flight, I'll bring my Steam Deck and play it during the flight because it's better than whatever goyslop inflight entertainment they have and I'm not paying $50 for internet access on principal alone. I also don't give a frick what is "socially acceptable" and I could care even less what total strangers think of me. I just do what I want to do, when I want to do it and don't pre-filter my potential actions by asking myself "but what will others think?"
>don't pre-filter my potential actions by asking myself "but what will others think?"
What is this phenomena? Seriously. When did people put so much mental effort into worrying about what strangers will think?
Normal social adjustment. Do you realize that if normalgays see you as an adult man playing videogames, they start wishing that someone would kill you?
>Do you realize that if normalgays see you as an adult man playing videogames, they start wishing that someone would kill you?
No they don't. People don't give a frick what other people are doing. If they see a grown man playing vidya in public they might have a passing thought about it and then go on with their lives. It's pure narcissism think that everyone is thinking about you and judging you. It's almost like being an /x/ schizo who thinks they're being gangstalked.
>letting peer pressure from normalgays (incl. Ganker users) control what you are and aren't allowed to enjoy
lol, lmao even
>If I'm a the doctors office or something I'll bring a book because I don't have ADD
>I don't give a frick what is "socially acceptable"
Lol
>doing thing A instead of thing B because you'd rather do thing A means you care what people think
Room-temp IQ detected
Just imagine this guy without the ds, you'd have the exact same thoughts about him, admit it. The handheld is irrelevant.
>On a flight
>Notice seats have outlets
>Neat
>Plug in my laptop and boot it up
>Launch Xenonauts
>Load my save "FRICK REAPER Black folk"
>Notice the dude next to me is scowling at me
What the frick was his problem?
>On flight to London, sitting in business class wage pod
>Take out Steam Deck and start playing Skyrim Special Edition
>Flight attendant comes by to take drink order
>"I'll have a vodka tonic with lime, please"
>Attendant seems bemused that I'm playing vidya
>Condescending smirk couldn't be more obvious
>"Did you borrow your son's Nintendo?"
>Don't make eye contact
>"I said a vodka tonic with lime, please"
>Condescending smirk vanishes, goes to make my drink
Remember that these "people" are literally your servants and that you should interact with them accordingly.
it wouldn't look nearly as bad if he dressed his age.
This. Have a friend on vacay sharing pictures and he posted one of him lookin' so cool at some posh bar with his fancy coat, but he still had a vidya graphic tee on underneath.
Adults do it just fine, even successful ones.
Notice the lack of fedora and graphic tee, and also the well-rounded physical shape and good looks.
whats he playing?
Castlevania X
Based because its a PSP
Cringe when it's a switch
No, I masturbait in public
based me too
I'm jacked too so no one even tries to stop me
>most replies are trying to clown on OP
a telling sign that most 20-30 year old "men" here still need to bring their toys when they go out
cool opinion bro
how much can you bench though?
Nah, in public, nothing is more interesting than people. Plus, tuning out your surroundings in public is dangerous.
I don't mind if other people play video games in public, they're more than likely getting away to enjoy something outside of their house.
Anyone who criticizes a person for playing a handheld either don't have a smartphone (extremely unlikely, even for old folk), or are extremely moronic (extremely likely).
It wouldn't be Ganker without someone complaining about video games.
There's no point, would be too uncomfortable to actually enjoy any game if I'm not alone, plus it makes me just a bit more sociable not to stare at a screen when there are others to talk to.
I play Pokemon on my GBA on public transport and don't care if normalgays or Gankertards think I'm cringe, correct.
I can't anymore. For some reason it's hard to focus on games when out in public.
I saw a dude once reading berserk manga on the train and he was skimming through the sex scene with guts and casca
he also had fairy tail ringtone
I don't even go out in public unless I have to. Frick going out in public.
No, but browsing imageboards in public is even more pathetic
>be in grocery store line
>browsing /v or /tv
>look over your shoulder when scrolling past e-girl thumbnails
Nah, I browse Ganker in public instead
imagine caring what doomscrolling smartphone cattle think. seriously go outside. just played 5 hours on my deck today in public
>imagine caring what doomscrolling smartphone cattle think
fricking this
I would rather be seen jerking off to gay porn in public than be seen watching tiktok
playing a game is fine