Every weekday morning when my PSP turns on and starts playing Bombs Over Baghdad in order to wake up me I get ready for school. After taking a shower and eating I proceed to my my glorious education center. Now class at my school starts at 8:15 and I being an average person arrive at about 7:50 a.m. What do I do during this time? I usually fire up my MP3 player and stare at people and judge them. I especially like to judge the prep and jock fucktards who sure love listening to the radio. Hell they even bought that little iPod radio tuner just so they can listen to all the cool music everyone else is listening to. They love having two hands because it means they can hold some Frappuccino in one hand while going through their playlists comprised of Fallout Boy, Lil Wayne, and The Shins.
This is how the majority of my mornings go. Sometimes however I take out my DS or PSP and to play some games. Occasionally one of said jocks or preps will come up to me and ask, "What you playing? I like games. Remember Mario.....yeah he was cool. MAN I'm really good at Madden." Now if I were a huge elitist I would go off on the fuckers and insult them till the 8:10 bell rang. However, I merely say something like, "Uhm...no. I'm playing Katamari Damacy." Then the ignorant person says, "WTF (they don't say what the fuck its cool to l33t speak now :D) is that.....*hysterical laughter* OMG that looks gay. Why's it so colorful? Oh man that shit looks gay nigga."
These are the people I'm talking about.
Luckily by this time the bell has rung and I get to go learn how to balance equations. What does this have to do with Guitar Hero? Well the person I described in the first two paragraphs is the new Guitar Hero player. Guitar Hero has essentially become the Madden of music games. I know what some of you are thinking, "What an elitist prick >:(" but I know in the back of your fucking mind every time you see some tool pick up a video game you become infuriated. You may not realizes it or deny it but you do feel it..
When the Bioshock movie is unfortunately released I'm sure a couple of you will see it, and when you look to your right and see two douche bags who look like they belong to a fraternity you'll see what I'm talking about. The next time you see some old couple buying a Wii for themselves you'll know what I'm talking about. And this fall when you see a group of guys in football jerseys buying Guitar Hero 4 you'll see what I'm talking about.
You can't stand the fact that the assholes who once made fun of you for playing video games are now gamers themselves. Seeing a old grandma try to play Mario Kart makes you shiver. Its the same thing that happened when everybody tried to be metrosexual. Gay people were pissed. After years of being ridiculed and misunderstood people were wanting to be like them. If you were homosexual during this fad you would have gotten pissed also. Its that same feeling you get when some indie band you love suddenly becomes popular and now every also with an American Eagle shirt is listening to them. Sure you're happy for the band but you also feel immense disappointment in what has happened to the band. So yeah fuck everyone who disagrees with me you are all just SHEEP!!
/sarcasm I know the real reason you hate GH4 is cause its a cheap whore now......and is the Madden of music games.
How much of this was sarcasm exactly? I like it when things I like become popular. [sarcasm]Then I can brag about how I was the FIRST person to like that thing.[/sarcasm]
I didn't become a gamer to escape douchebags (ok maybe reality) that's just part of any "hobby." Videogames are fun and appeal to a very large audience. Didn't you know that eventually it would become the largest form of entertainment?
You don't have to love the new gamers to appreciate all the money they are pouring into our favorite game companies. Also I've never cared when a band I like got popular, the music is still the same so who cares?
Why do you have to be like this? Seriously, you're acting like one of those angry videogame nerds who sit in the corner of high school acting like a pretentious jerk. Dude, those people aren't cool or better than anybody else, they are jerks with poor social skills. You don't need to be one. Big fucking deal if those douches play videogames. Who cares? Are they not allowed to watch Star Wars? Can they not read comic books? When the hell did videogames become some stupid club?
Everyone listens to The Shins now? I guess I was too busy not caring about what everyone else is doing to notice.
Also, I like how gaming is becoming more widely accepted, just as long as there's a special niche for the the more hardcore people. I'd love to see older people play the Wii. It almost seems that it has the potential to finally be the things that sets this generation apart from our fears off new media. If older generations can learn to accept, then it's all good in my book.
But yea, I kinda want to punch someone in the face when I'm playing Gitaroo Man and say that it looks like Guitar Hero. Or Halo fucktards.
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I didn't become a gamer to escape douchebags (ok maybe reality) that's just part of any "hobby." Videogames are fun and appeal to a very large audience. Didn't you know that eventually it would become the largest form of entertainment?
Why do you have to be like this? Seriously, you're acting like one of those angry videogame nerds who sit in the corner of high school acting like a pretentious jerk. Dude, those people aren't cool or better than anybody else, they are jerks with poor social skills. You don't need to be one. Big fucking deal if those douches play videogames. Who cares? Are they not allowed to watch Star Wars? Can they not read comic books? When the hell did videogames become some stupid club?
Dude, you're better than this. Deal with it.
Everyone listens to The Shins now? I guess I was too busy not caring about what everyone else is doing to notice.
Also, I like how gaming is becoming more widely accepted, just as long as there's a special niche for the the more hardcore people. I'd love to see older people play the Wii. It almost seems that it has the potential to finally be the things that sets this generation apart from our fears off new media. If older generations can learn to accept, then it's all good in my book.
But yea, I kinda want to punch someone in the face when I'm playing Gitaroo Man and say that it looks like Guitar Hero. Or Halo fucktards.
Funny thing was... you actually weren't :D