Thread 723251743

>Tfw coworkers start talking about videogames
>They have actual good taste

Nothing about them is different. You just stopped letting the contrarian hipster cult of /v/ control your personality.

>>723252016
I was going to say something else, but basically this comment embodies the crux of what my response is. It is a silly think to be surprised about something so arbitrary, and self dependent, rather than substance dependent. Whether somebody or another has good taste is arbitrarily determined...by whether or not you feel they do.

>>723252187
There is still a difference between someone playing actual games as opposed to just fifa/warzone.

>>723251743 (OP)
yeah dude like dark souls brother hell yeah

>>723251743 (OP)
Never happened

>>723251743 (OP)
yeah bro i also like apex legends and elden ring
or whatever

>>723253270
I fucking wish that was the case instead of just warzone every time.

>>723253589
Spoiler: I don't like any of the games either one of us mentioned

>coworker and I play mostly the same vidya
>he starts talking shit, "man we should 1v1 sometime soon, how about tonight?"
>tell him no, repeatedly and nicely, over the course of a week, making up excuses
>slap the fucking shit out of him
>he doesn't want to play anymore and goes off on some 8 month long JRPG journey
Listen DPS tards, sometimes just a single sentence from you is all we need to know.

>video games are a pretty normal hobby nowdays
>still feel embarassed to talk about them with other people

Anyone else feel like that? Even when coworkers start talking about vidya i still feel awkward.

>>723254257
Yeah. Video games may be normal but so is being a fat virgin, so...

>>723251743 (OP)
in my case they all play mobile games

>>723254257
playing videogames is normal
being a fat retarded balding manchild is not

>>723254257
Only for a handful of popular games. Start talking about anything that's even slightly obscure or nerdy and they'll think you're retarded.

>co-worker asks if I play video games
>tell him he wouldn't recognize any of the ones I play
>assures me he is pretty hardcore and would probably know
>he didn't know any of them

>>723251743 (OP)
>coworkers have good vg tastes but won't talk to you because of your uncle Barry/loner/freak reputation

Those mlp porn wallpapers were maybe slightly too much

>>723251743 (OP)
I've thankfully never had the hangups about telling people what video games I liked that a lot of /v/ros do. I'm almost always the guy with the best taste in the room, but that's because I am me. Of course I think I have the best taste.

The only truly uncomfortable vidya conversations I've had were pretty much always just people who wouldn't take no for an answer when I declined to play Call of Duty with them.

All my coworkers are 40+ and don't play games.

>>723255147
>I'm almost always the guy with the best taste in the room, but that's because I am me. Of course I think I have the best taste.
that's what everyone thinks though. The last time I talked about vidya IRL was a coworker who wouldn't give up trying to get me to play Star Citizen with him, every day for fucking months.

>>723251743 (OP)
>Vidya games?
>At this time of year
>In this part of the country
>Localized entirely in your workplace's breakroom?

One coworker thought the cutscene from Jurassic Park was actual gameplay and another thought he almost beat Red Dead 2 but he never got past the tutorial. I work with insane people.

>>723254947
What games did you say that perplexed this allegedly "hardcore" coworker?

>>723254257
my coworker vidya discussions are always like this family guy cutaway
>what games are you playing right now anon?
>oh you know, ive been playing inscryption, elden ring, new vegas and (some random indie game)
>......
>do you know what those are?
>.....
>i mean, im also playing [the newest fps] (im not actually)
>oh sweet!! dude thats epic we should play sometime, last week were we at joes house playing and blah blah blah
https://youtu.be/QrGfaMLupVk?t=2

i told my coworker that i was playing sliksong and he responded by saying he wanted to play more "campaign games" (sic)

>>723254947
>yeah bro I like obscure music
>I listen to primus

>>723254257
I had this experience at work the other day. Some girl asked me what the fuck I do when I'm not working since all people know about me is that I like music and play guitar. I ended up saying fuck it and told her I've been playing videogames, dragon quest and final fantasy tactics specifically.

>>723256995
I just tell most coworkers I play a lot of videogames since the alternative is telling them I have like forty guns.
Unless it's a coworker I want to avoid, in which case I tell them I have a shitload of guns

>>723256890
Primus is obscure music now man. It's not the 90s anymore. Most zoomers have heard one song by them at most

>>723257345
...but you have heard of me.

>>723256612
Team Fortress 2
Chivalry
Civilization 4
Europa Universalis

>>723254923
I think the disconnect is because of how people actually engage with the medium. For some people they're genuine hobbyists that play a wide variety of genres and likely engage more with singleplayer games that give you engagement through narrative or mechanical mastery. For the average person, they're more likely to play multiplayer games like shooters and really engage more with socialization and games are just a really convenient medium to accomplish this. So for them, the games aren't something they want to talk about themselves, but instead they want to talk about the experiences they have in life and had in the game during their social experiences.

>>723257345
>tell slightly younger coworker that I listen to Beck and Cake when he asks what my favorite bands are
>figured he'd at least know their really big songs but I have to show them to him
The dude was only like two years younger than me

>>723257601
Grim

>>723257523
Fascinating. I doubt you pressed him further for what the guy meant by "hardcore" what do you think he meant? Those games aren't even obscure. Genuinely baffling how people pretend they'll likely know things they won't.

>>723257601
I'm 25 and i literally only know Beck and Cake because of Mission Hill

>>723256662
where the FUCK is jab all amphibians I thought that was coming out two months ago

>>723254257
I work in a hip college town right down the street from a comic shop. It's fucking weird seeing all these young hotties buying comics, manga and all that nerd shit. You can just tell they where the queen bees of high school that would have never given me the time of day if I was their age. Specially to since I have to date again and finding some actually hot girl in to nerd shit, only to find out she isn't like the nerd girls I grew up with is fucking heartbreaking and aggravating.

>>723257856
I'm 32
I figured he would at least know Loser, The Distance, or Short Skirt/Long Jacket

>>723257601
I really do like a girl with a short skirt and a long jacket.

>>723257776
My males co-workers are all extremely normal so *hardcore* probably meant he played Skyrim once or twice instead of just Mario Kart, Fifa and CoD.

>>723257523
Europa and Chivalry I can forgive, but TF2 and Civ are baffeling. Even my fucking old lady neighbor knows what Civ is.

>>723251743 (OP)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pk-Oq8iYtVA

>>723251743 (OP)
I wish this would happen. One co-worker only plays Nintendo stuff, the other has three kids and probably doesn't game much at all anymore, and the third plays nothing but Hunt: Showdown. I can't talk about RPGs or old school FPS's or anything with them it's lame.I work in a fucking video game store too.

>>723258094
At this point. I pretty much think that if somebody doesn't emulate or admits to having grown up with Japanese games on 6th gen consoles or below then they're 95% likely to just not really engage with the medium beyond FotM or AAA trash.

>>723251743 (OP)
I play HOI4 and CK3 openly at work. Anyone walking by my desk has probly seen me playing. None of them care.

>>723258343
HOI4 I can understand, but CK3 has nudity

>new coworker realises I', the IT guy
>cool! you play LoL?
I've never uttered a "NO" so fast before

>>723257987
That's just called getting old. Get used to it.

>>723251743 (OP)
I wish this would happen to me, but all my coworkers are girls who just got their bachelors and are starting their first ever job.
None of them are real videogame addicted losers like me. I just want a bro who at least has played Demon's Souls or something, the best I can talk about at my work is Zelda or Counter Strike.

I'm in the opposite situation here, I have a giga-autist coworker who won't shut the fuck up about Dark Souls 2.
nice guy, but could shower a bit more

>>723257987
>been into goth girls all my life
>when i was a teenager goth was pretty much dead
>now that im a boring old adult theres goth babes everywhere, but they're half my age

Zoomers have no idea how lucky they are

>>723258381
Hardly. I play on 5x speed and can just instantly close any romance schemes.

>>723258472
talk to them about The Sims

>>723258728
There's a random event for adamites or adamite adventurer

>>723258761
>no mood effect

>Co-worker always going on about Destiny and trying to get me into it
>Constantly buys the newest hot thing (super giga deluxe pre order edition) plays it for half an hour, then goes back to Destiny
On one hand, its his money and he's free to do so. On the other, he's a fucking retard who is everything wrong with this industry.

>Guy at work starts talking about setting up his own MAME arcade in his house and all the games he's using
>Some other faggot comes in and starts talking about Battlefield 6 and completely derails the conversation

>>723258264
>spoiler
What's that like? Any interesting stories?

>>723251743 (OP)
My labmates in Japan had great taste in games. Now I'm in America with 1 labmate who plays games, and he thinks E33 is the best thing ever and refuses to play old games or mechanically heavy games.

>>723257345
If I've never heard of primus (I'm not a zoomer), does that make me obscure?

>>723259629
It's not too crazy a job. Tweakers come in and try to sell us dirty games that are damaged. Sometimes cool stuff comes in though. Got a boxed Super Famicom game (Bahamut Lagoon) for cheap from there. One time someone pretended to like Fromsoft games because he was dropping a resume off, and when I asked him if he played King's Field he got all awkward, let the resume, and then just left lol.

>>723259272
Ask him how he feels about being one of the 5 people who still play that game.

>>723254972
>Co-workers can't appreciate a nice pony pussy
It was pony pussy, right?

>everyone knows I’m a giga autist gamer who spends Saturday nights playing videogames alone in his room
>have coworkers around my age who are also gamers and sort of half-normalfag/half-based
>none of them ever talk to me about vidya or invite me to play with them

>>723254257
Yes because I'm not telling anyone I've put multiple thousands of hours of my life into a completely pointless hobby that is nothing but raw escapism

>>723254541
I'm taller and in better shape than my coworkers, but still feel embarrassed talking about video games

>>723259997
Imagine being a self-loathing gamer.

>>723256662
>Playing elden shit and trans vegas
I wouldn't want to associate with you either

>>723255402
>that's what everyone thinks though.
Yes, that was my point.

>>723259824
Maybe just not American or remotely interested in rock or metal.

>>723256662
normie fps's are unironically better than roguelike deckbuilder trans indieslop

>>723259970
Do they play any games you'd like, anon?
I can never help myself and immediately shut down whenever anybody asks me about playing shit like Warzone and Apex.

>>723254257
This is why I always hide myself in Steam with Invisible. I'm too autistic to admit to my friends, that all I do in my free time is play vidya

Only coworker at my last job who played games is 10 years younger than me. I'm closer to his dad's age than his. Don't work there anymore but we're still friends. He's a good guy and we've both learned about games we probably would not have played if not for learning about them from each other.

>>723251743 (OP)
>tfw your coworker starts talking about "vaccine injury awareness"

>>723260149
>>723260276

>>723260646
so you're on the right and coworker is on the left?

>>723260646
Rightists are not human. They are literally nigger cattle NPCs that are programmed by their capitalist overlords. Genetic waste.

>>723260951
>>723260646
>>723260465
discord link, trans sisters?

>>723259824
They were pretty big in the late 90s but if you were on the younger side back then it'd be easy to miss. You'd probably recognize some of their more popular songs if you heard them

>>723261083
you forgot your soijak sis

>>723261083
https://discadia.com/server/TPUSA/

>>723254257
>nowadays

They always have been, videogames are literally pop culture

>>723262052
KEK

>>723260181
Wrong.

>>723254972
It's not like if someone likes the same game as you, you're going to inherently get along with them. People who play and enjoy the same games also get into conflict with each other or at the very least, aren't inherently friendly, as this place shows.