When did gaming become a normalfag hobby? I remember getting made fun of for it in high school
>>748422215Gen 7
When portal and big bang theory happened
The point of no return was when the first Halo released on the XBox.
when girls started playing Dead by Daylight
you still get made fun for it if you play the wrong games
>>748422215Halo and MW2.
>>748422215When mobile game normies got older around mid to late 2010's.Also your pic rel happened to me a lot back in highschool.
>>748422215normalfags were hanging around in videogame arcades before you were born
>>748422215>I remember getting made fun of for it in high schoolisn't time for your nap grandpa?
>>748422215Xbox 360 era.Nintendo 64 is the last era it's still nerdy.But then a bunch of kids grew up on pokemon and discovered halo and cod lobbies rest is history.
with justin.tv and the griftification of the medium
>>748422215Since 7th gen
>>748422215>I remember getting made fun of for it in high schoolDoubtBy the time I was in school, playing wc3 during computer classes, no one ever was bullied for it.My brother was born in 82, and I remember one of his early girlfriends playing some german settlers clone. Again, no problem.So, by 00s it was total normalfag thing. And considering how much older generation played heroes 3 and everquest, more likely even earlyBut, there one exception, if you had no other interests outside of games, then of course people would bully the shit out of you.
>>748422215>When did gaming become a normalfag hobby?Did Amerimutts really get bullied for liking video games? I got my first PC in 1995, talked about games with my friends all the time, and literally nobody gave a shit.
>>748422215>I remember getting made fun of for it in high schoolNewsflash, faggot. You weren't made fun of for playing videogames. You were made fun of because you were ugly.
The nerds and chads when i was in school 15 years ago both came together over classic modern warfare 2We were instead divided by console, weirdly enough the nerds were mostly xbox and the sports chads were on ps3 so i played with them instead. They would still duct tape me to the basketball post at school tho
>>748422661My school drug dealer played digimon world 2 and called me about progress back in the middle school.
>>748422215halo and cod
>>748422215around 2005
Because there was many more cool and fun things to do besides play video games. All with friends. These no longer exist. Going outside as a teenager has the outcome of getting beat up by blacks or stabbed by a muslim. Better to just stay inside and consume home media now.
>>748422215The moment you started calling it gaming instead of just playing video games
>>748422887fucking this.
>>748422318FPBP the thread could've ended here.Coincidentally, gen7 was the gen that popularized online gaming>inb4 b-b-but online gaming existed since the 90sexclusively on PC and very, very rarely on consoles.
>>748423196>zoomer never played online on pc>thinks that online gaming wasn't popular before his first console
>>748422215are you 40 or something?
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>>748422215I'm in my 40s and at no point in my life has anyone made fun of me for playing games. Everyone always played games; I was in the chad friend group in middle school and high school and we were constantly going over to each other's houses to play whatever game.What incels get confused about is that when they get mocked, they think people are mocking them for whatever they're being mocked for. That's not what's happening; you're being mocked for being a loser and the specific thing you're being mocked for doesn't matter, it's literally just an excuse to mock you.
>>748422215>those earings>that choker>girls laughing in the backYep, rape correction is needed.
>>748422215You were bullied for being ugly, not for playing video games. Chads have gotten away with playing games since the 90s.
Redirect every complaint inquiry about /v/ and vidya to >>748422887 henceforth.
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>>748424018yes in this case you will get corrected by them
>>748423985>I'm in my 40s>chad >incels Even if your are truly a 40+ year old, you have the mental capacity of a 9 years old negro that is dying of AIDS. Kill yourself loser.
>>748424142If only
>>748422215Never trust a girl with a couple of other girls behind her.
>>7484222152008
>>748424319I'm sorry the facts make you seethe. Refusing to learn from smarter people is how you ended up as the person you are today.
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>>748422215they all owe me rimjobs
as soon as anime became a normalfag's hobby
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>>748424765D E V I L I S H
>>748422863>Going outside as a teenager has the outcome of getting beat up by blacks or stabbed by a muslimUK/US still consider themselves first world btw
Sitting in a corner with other people playing nintendo in high school was lame Playing sony piss station at home screaming in a dark room alone was considered okLock down mind broke most gen z and gen a and boomers, now nintendo is social and snoy is for incels
>>748424876I live in France tho- oh.
Girl walks up to you and says this. What do?
>>748422215Gen 7It enabled the super casuals with Wii It started reeling in multimedia and spec obsessed paypigs with PS(3)60Mass online connectivity and implementation was the beginning of the end for honest practices like backwards compatibility when you can just remove the guts to run a prior game, and charge consumers all over again for the same game
>>748424998Affirmative, please sign these relationship and sex consent contracts. I'll fax you a copy later this afternoon after the baby-making sex.
>>748423985>Everyone always played gamesAre you retarded? Simply looking at sales figures will show you that the market grew explosively when normalfags were lured in with gun & ball games. Unless your "chad group" bought a single SNES and passed it around in class this by definition means not "everyone always played games."
>>748425080>signs sex consent form>it's the same as an EULA and not legally bindinghow do you respond
>>748424998Drop the spaghetti from pocket.
>>748424765Machiavellian
>>748425226Prepare to have your anus raped in court.By me, I prefer anal.
>>748424765>she likes him because he's kind
Instead of being glad that more people accept gaming now you cry and bitch about normies invading your thing. You are a miserable loser faggot who will never be happy in your life and die alone.
When nerd culture went mainstream around 2013
>>748424998>>748422627>>748424643Are Japanese really like this?Just some random classmate that you had never anything to do with comes up to you, says she's in love with you and asks if you want to date?I find that hard to believe
>>748425595Yes, this happens all the time if you're popular.
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>>748422661Bullying is America's national pastime.
>>748424998Turn 360 degrees and walk away
>>748422215>gaming as a normalfag hobby** dudebro shooters, psuedo-RPGs like fallout 4 and skyrim, and whatever live service slop their other friends play (LoL or dota) and at a push mega popular stuff like elden ring (older souls games are ew). normalfags will talk about nintendo stuff only in past tense or if they’re impressing the one non-obese art hoe that likes games. “i totally played mario kart back in the day haha”.i dont even like anime or JRPGs myself but you’ll get that flouride stare if you start talking about dragon quest or whatever.gaming is absolutely not normalfag in of itself. there IS however a huge trove of normalfag GAMES.
>>748425193>Simply looking at sales figures will show you that the market grew explosivelyWhen guys like you kept obsessively playing games into adulthood. Video games used to be a thing for kids and the market grew when it expanded into adults playing games too.I guess it's a third worlder/poorfag thing? I had a NES and a SNES and a Playstation and a N64 and a gaming pc, all my friends had at least a couple consoles. I'm sorry your family couldn't afford to give you a fun childhood but that doesn't mean you need to try to rewrite history to pretend that gaming hasn't always been a normal and acceptable pastime.You know we had arcades all over the place back then too, right? Like that was your fun afternoon activity for the whole family, go to the arcade and play video games.
>>748425794https://www.youtube.com/shorts/0H3ISkauh70
>>748425785Goes hand in hand with their other favorite pastimeSchool shootings
>>748425513>normgroids invade gayming>instead of playing anyyhing good they play valueless assfaggots, snoyslop and ball/gunYeah... great.
>getting made fun of at school.All the chads in my school played xbox and halo, I bet you had a gameboy and played it during lunch time.
>>748422215I don’t know of any guys who would bully anyone for playing videogames. Maybe if you played very babyish ones back in high school but even that’s a stretch. Girls maybe did until the late 2000’s which was when literally everyone including the boys they liked played online multiplayer games. And even then girls would absolutely play games on the down-low.
>>748424998The perfect woman
>>748423382How long was the bus taking you to school, Anon?I'm asking this because it's clear you didn't understand what I wrote.
>>748426267sure if you just want to be used as a semen dispenser by her
>>748422215>tranime>>>/a/
>>748424765That's some 4D chess here.
>>748426462>I click on threads i don't like because i am retardedI'm so sorry for you anon
>>748426243yep, they try to paint this picture like everyone hated "gamers" and bullied them for playing gamesthe reality is that normal people played normal games as a normal hobbythe person who got bullied is the guy in that pic, playing pokemon during lunch with a pikachu tshirtbut autists will never be able to understand that kind of nuance, that what they played and how they played it is why the got bulliedso they just reduce it to>everyone bullied gamers they made fun of me because i played games
>>74842221550% of the western population of men and women between the ages of 18 and 50 are single and without kidsonly 35% of the population in total under 30 years of age have a childand only about 30% are homeowners That means if you are 25, married with more than one kid, and own a house, you don't even make up 15% of the western population. But a 35 year old incel living with parents makes up almost 40% These numbers were flipped in 1980. So to answer you're question, it's a normalfag hobby because most normalfags no loner exist and you are confusing a bunch of people that are just as much a loser as you to being a normal fag.
>>748426462"tranime" website, faggotmany many years ago, long before you even were aware of your own existence, m00t (pbuh) created this website as a competitor to the then premier free speech website, SomethingAwfulin SA, anime was treated as pedophilia and had a containment boardeven that was too much for their mods, when the containment board became too popular, it got deletedall the people from SA then migrated and flocked to 4chan, because it allowed animewe owe the very existence of this website to it, and to shun it demonstrates that you are newfag or a tourist
>depressed balding millennials projecting onto 7th genIt was always you snoyggers with ps1 and especially ps2. Games were giant and mainstream before that too.Stop making that 10 year old girl in you class laughing at your videogame themed shirt that one time your entire personality you forever victim complex virgin.
>>748425513>more people accept gamingDebatable. You don't see the average joe playing something like Nier: Automata or some obscure shit (for normie standard) from the 80s like Contra.They just play whatever is hyped the most with no thoughts behind. That's the same as declaring themselves a movie critic and just watching whatever comes out in theaters.It's not being "more accepted" it's just that modern gaming caters to the lowest common denominator, and this water down gaming elements to make said gaming more accessible.Luckily old games are still there, it's just a bummer that new games aren't developed with the same vision in mind that distinguished vidya up until 2007.
Is this really what high school is like in Japan?
>>748426373What's the problem?
>>748426786If you want to get in the weeds of it, until the 1983 US consoles game crash, no one ever saw games as a loser or outsider thing. Everyone played games and arcades were aimed at young adults. The crash recalibrated the idea that video games were for kids and in tern made it seem questionable if an adult was playing say Zelda or Sonic, it seems more that gaming has just returned to what it use to be in the 1970s where everyone plays games, winners and losers alike, and that it tells you nothing about the character of the person.
>>748426808>b-but they aren't playing MY SCRIMBLOOOOOOS!!!!God stop being such a retarded little cockgobbler. And see how you think shallow normalfagcore games YOU(you) played are actually so cool and art and you are just pissed that no one gives a shit about a shoot&run from the crusty arcade era anymore? And nier shit is literally one of THE normalfag games every girl into videogames has played you fucking autistic nonce.
>>748426760>all the people from SACorrection, the people who liked anime moved to it, and then the rest of SA came to it to ruin it when it became more popular.
>>748427012>le crashWhat you mean is marketing. NES was sold as toy and not electronic and with that the advertising was formed into targeting kids who play toys and it was also weirdly enough decided to market it as for boys toys. Which explains so much of this boards and the xshitter refugees mental issues with females.The same niggas falling for 40s nazi propaganda posters and cola ad posters are also still living in that for boys ad era in their head.
I’d argue GTA 3 brought in a lot of normal niggers to the hobby
>>748426921No, not even close 90% of what you see in books and animation are idealized fantasies of what the 1970s schooling was like and again I want to stress "idealized fantasies" because the reality is most were never like that. It's comparable to how people in the west look at the 1980s Simpsons and just assume what is being shown is what life was like for most American's when the reality is that Homer was never a real example of what life was like in the 80s but a caricature of the ideal as a means to tell stories from it. Same here, you don't have unrestricted access to roofs, means to loiterer in hallways or have friends wispier to you in class.
>>748426243>>748426640>haloYou guys are just too young. These guys are right: >>748422347 >>748422375
>>748427130You are just saying the same thing as the other anon. Nintendo of America wouldn't have sold it as a toy if the crash never happen, the documentation of events shows as much.
No one ever "bullied" me. I was the weird loner no one talked to. No one dared make fun of me to my face though. Probably talked shit about me behind my back, but whos more pathetic? The guy who wrote everyone off and wanted to be alone, or the person who talked shit about that person?
>>748427130Stop and ask yourself why NES was sold as toy anon. They didn't come to that conclusion from no where, the 83 crash is what made them change the look of the system in western culturres to look like a VHS player and created ROB to go with the light gun. The crash is necessary for the kiddifcation that happen with gaming in the 1980s.
>>748427256buddy my friends and i would get together to play mario kart on the SNESyou got bullied for being a loser not because you played gamesgetting bullied for "playing video games" makes as much sense as getting bullied for watching tvyou personally got bullied for the specific games you played, not for playing games periodyou dont get bullied for watching tvyou get bullied for watching my little ponyif you cant understand the difference then you may be autistic
I introduced the bully and the bullied in my school to Video gameThey're yelling at each other over misplay instead of fighting
>>748422215You must be a old ass boomer that went to high school in the 70s or 80s because in the 90s and 00s gaming was cool. I imagine by the 10s and 20s you were looked at as a poorfag if you didn't have a PC or console.
>>748422215>I remember getting made fun of for it in high schoolgaming was always acceptable, however this is 100% true for anime. post-covid it's fucking everywhere and shows themselves are getting more and more westified
>>748427036>shallow normalfagcore games YOU(you) played are actually so cool and artI'm fairly sure I've never even given the intention that I played such retarded ass games, if you need to push your narratives into your opponent's moouth to have any semblance of a point, that's on you.>you are just pissedI'm actually just disappointed>no one gives a shit about a shoot&run from the crusty arcade era anymoreaka: normies. they always existed, you know? back in the arcade era they were playing FIFA arcades or Virtua Striker.>And nier shit is literally one of THE normalfag games every girl into videogames has played>sales: barely 10 milEA Sport: FC 2026 sold 9 million IN A WEEK, Anon: https://www.shanethegamer.com/research/ea-fc-fifa-sales-analysis/EA Sport: FC 2025 sold 19 million up to when this article was published: https://www.kitguru.net/tech-news/mustafa-mahmoud/ea-sports-fc-25-has-sold-almost-20-million-copies-on-playstation-alone/while Nier: Automata took roughly one month to sell one million:https://www.eurogamer.net/nier-automata-sells-1m-copies-in-a-monthFor a semi-unknown japanese game releasing world wide that's an enormous goal.So I stand by my point that normies are the biggest force in driving sales. It's only normal corpos try to cather to them with shit games.>you fucking autisticWe're on /v/. It was autist home before your kind invaded.>noncecan't have a debate without offenses? What are you, 9?
>>748427597it really depended on where you lived to how people treated you with it. That said 70s or 80s would have had no push back, because those were very social times for gaming and what lead to the 1983 crash because the demand was so high that they were both careless with badly produced products overshot what the market would put up with in terms of system platforms offered. It's likely why you will never see a true gaming crash again because the hardware market is so small now.
>>748427597True, i remember girls bringing their Sims 2 to school to give it to a friend in 2004
>>748424765Why must you hurt me anon. I was spending today blissfully unaware of never having had any female attention towards me with good intentions
>>748427597Something tells me you fail the Sally–Anne test
>>748427681>gaming was always acceptablet. born after 2000
>>748427840I mean, you clearly didn't need the attention if you could be unaware of it yes? Remind yourself that: you didn't care to the point you never knew it was a thing so why care now?
>>74842791998 actually. literally every guy in my class played video games
>>748427950life gets lonely the older you become and videogames as coping mechanism start to lose the effect
>>748428002luckily you87 myself, in my school it was like 10 people in the whole high school
>>748428057yeah but mediate on why you are even feeling that loneliness. It can only effect you if you haven't been striving for a life you wanted to live, otherwise you should be able to manage it easy.
>>7484222152004 because of San Andreas and Halo 2. You might get made fun of periodically from 2005 through 2008 but then by 2009 it was certified normie tier after Modern Warfare 2.
>>748422215mid-late 2010s had a few gigantic popular titles that literally every normalfag has at least heard about, and then covid happened forcing everyone to stay indoors against their will for 2months~2years depending where you lived. the same shit has happened to other nerd hobbies. D&D and some other tabletops are normie as fuck too, plus anime is all full of extreme normies. Warhammer is starting to head that way too, shit's starting to get mainstream.
>>748422215Videogames and other nerd hobbies died and became infested by normalfags sometime in 2010s
You just have to play old games like warcraft 3 custom games the ultimate dragon ball z tribute tournament remake rebirth reborn alpha gamma version 0.1337z
How do I cope with never experiencing teenage love (or any kind of love)
>>748427563I was one of the popular kids at school, I had girls I never talked to come to me to confess. I literally hid the fact that I played games and watched anime.If you didn't get bullied for it, you just had something to offset that. You have no idea how much you nerfed yourself by being open about playing video games and watching anime in the 90s.
>>748422215>he thinks he was made fun of for liking animecute
>>748428910You go outside and find your love now
>>748428929>If you didn't get bullied for it, you just had something to offset that.yeah it's called being a normal personi'm sorry you peaked in middle school but in the real world>I literally hid the fact that I played games and watched anime.this is beta shit every single timei'm gonna give you some life advice, ok?pay attentionwomen literally do not care what you doplease understand thisif you are comfortable and confident in anything you do, women will like itthe only time they care is when you're a beta bitch ashamed of playing games and trying to hide it from peoplethey easily pick up on that shit and that's when they start looking down on you>I had girls I never talked to come to me to confessyeah you and everyone else buddyi'd bring girls back to my apartment where i had tables covered with plastic anime girl figuresowned it and none of them cared, they always came back to get fucked againhad a couple girlfriends say they didn't like the more lewd ones, like>why do you need that when you have meliterally laughed at them>what, you're not jealous of my plastic girls are you?every single interaction with women is a shit testwhen they try to question you, make them feel like they're stupid for even tryingthey will love you more for it
>>748422215Right around Fortnite's peak.
>>748429728caveat to this wall of text: you need to be attractive first to be able to do all this shit
>>748429976nopethat's how fat ugly comedians get hot girlfriendsconfidence and positivity compensate for almost anythingthe reverse being that a lack of confidence and pessimism will you fuck even if you're attractive
>>748430074once again citing famous celebritiesthat shit are exceptions
>>748428910Teenagers still exist though
>>748430289and?you're not allowed to interact with them
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>>748430456hey I didn't start the retarded antipedo moral panic that has been going on for 20+ years now where messaging a minor means you raped them
>>748429728I don't know what to tell you. You are just blind to how the world works.>peaked in middle schoolCool ad hominem. But I have certainly achieved much more at this point in life than I did in middle school. I have a lot more to be proud of currently than "girls would come to me to confess".The fact that you think that every guy had a bunch of girls come to them to confess is proof you don't know how bad some guys have. We were the 9 and 10s that most girls had to fight for, the 7s and 8s might have one girl come up to him, and the rest were fighting for the scraps or given up entirely. 'Have confidence' is a death sentence to most men, since they don't have the looks, the fame, or power to pull it off.>>748430074>comediansYou mean people who are famous/rich? If having confidence was enough, you would see a bunch of indians pulling the confidence card and winning girls over. Instead the opposite is the norm.
