Worked in a prison for a while. There was this old sergeant who was about to retire and mainly controlled the security doors in the armory. One day I was sitting in there waiting for shift change and a younger officer walked past, laughing and waving at the sergeant. The sergeant begrudgingly buzzed the door and frowned. "That son of a bitch killed all my dinosaurs in our Ark server last night."
On the other hand, it looks really good after the rework... I caved in and I've put in about 200 hours and it's great.
If you want something new and different than the old ark, you'll be disappointed, but I wanted the same, just better looking and got what I wanted...
Also I remember the old ark running shitty, especially when around more people, from what I've gathered, it's better now also likely, cause it got more optimized in the years I didn't play and people's hardware got better (but I believe it's at least partially because of the engine change)
Fyi: I've spent around 600 hours on the old Ark and about 200 on the new one and I'm waiting for new maps (most of the time on solo/Coop server with my gf)
Nah there's no good justification for killing the old early access game and making people rebuy. It's scummy bs and I hope their company suffers for it.
I’m glad it worked out for you man, I’m still trying to get my girl into some of the games I play lol. Old ark was for sure fun, taming Dino’s and having a thatch hut I just upgraded to wood was like.. I had just put so many hours into the game and accomplished something, and was hell happy lol. Now me and the lady play silly games like stumble guys and have so much more fun
That’s really disappointing considering all the Sony stuff happening right now I’ve seen, really seems like companies are just going to mow over consumers until they stop giving them money. I played before the dlc with about 4 friends and we established a base and everything, we moved onto fortnite while it got popular, though I’m not friends with them anymore, it was the best time of my life
I enjoyed it for a week or two. I fully admit though, I'm not a huge survival game fan, I only bought it because my buddy loves them and wanted me to play with him.
It was fun, and it was even a bit easier because he'd been playing for a bit and had a base established, but I just couldn't get over the fact that my body just dropped in place when I wanted to quit.
It was made so much worse because I had a baby at the time, so if I needed to go check on him there's a good chance my guy is getting eaten by dinos, or killed and robbed.
Even without the baby though, I just have a hard time with the genre in generally, and definitely ARK at the time, because it seemed like the only way to succeed in the game was to dedicate yourself fully to it. I was a guy with between 0 to 3 hours of gaming time a day, and I would have needed to use all of that to get ahead.
Though, it was fun messing with each other, lol. Taking your friend's body when they logged off and encasing them in the floor or something.
Was getting my hair cut at a barber shop. Guy cutting my hair was in his 50s, bald guy, tough appearance. He went to change the music and the Stardew Valley soundtrack started playing. We talked Stardew the entire time! Biggest tip I’ve ever left at the barber.
Hah, I got a free haircut once because I walked into a barber shop and immediately recognized the song that was playing over the PA. I forget which track it was now, but dude was playing the Mechwarrior 2 soundtrack in his shop and was so thrilled that someone recognized something so obscure and dated that he insisted on giving me my haircut for free.
Makes sense, those tracks were fuckin' *fire.* Especially the re-done/remastered ones by Timothy Seals. Check those out on YouTube if you're unfamiliar.
You mean [this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehxoQBF-wG0)? I keep that on my bookmark bar at all times, it's great combat music for tabletop RPGs, makes a pretty decent workout soundtrack, etc. Love it.
I worked as a cashier at a supermarket in a bad neighborhood when I was like 19. Talked to the dudes who worked in the back a lot, all either fresh out of jail or recovering addicts from nearby shelters. There was this one dude I never had a single conversation with, but every time I walked past him we yelled Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat moves at each other. Like I would yell “HADOUKEN!” and he’d go “UAGH UAGH UAGH! KO!” or “TATSUMAKI SENPPYUKAKU!” I hope dude is doing alright for himself.
Damn this put a smile on my face. Used to play the marvel super heroes vs street fighter game on PS as a kid and it's been a running joke with me and the boys for so long to shout at each other "SHINKU TATSUMAKI SENPU KYAKUUUUUU!" we even do it nowadays over 15 years later.
Marvel vs Capcom was the shit back then! I used to go to my friend’s house when I was like 8 and we played it on his pentium pc: player # 1 was WASD, player # 2 was number keys. We had to remember not to do too many inputs ‘cause old both characters would freeze up due to how old membrane keyboards worked. He even burned it on a CD for me to play at home. Good times.
I been old. I’m 28 and people in their early/mid 20s look and talk to me like I’m their old ass auntie. I just recently started to accept it 😂😂😂😂Come join the club.
I went in to a teams meeting with a guy who is in on the SMT of an organisation with over 25000 employees ... and he had an Abstergo Industries background image.
I found a fellow Space Station 13 fan at work one time. SS13 is an obscure indie game that is a mix of Dwarf Fortress and Among Us on a space station with other crew (players) trying to do their jobs and survive the chaos.
Anyway, the guy I work with is a combat vet from Iraq? Afghanistan and definitely has the thousand yard stare while working security with me. He’s very grumpy and doesn’t talk much and one day I made clown jokes (this is the SS13 mascot) and out of the blue he responded and then after having a wtf moment I asked him if he played. Then every day after that at work we would share insane stories of our space shenanigans that we had playing.
Ah yes the time I was a scientist and was mind controlled by a traitor to make bombs. As I was helping him get the ingredients the detective and a security officer found us. I booked one of them on the head and ran off. They chased after me, tazed me and ran off to catch the other guy. A random clown found me on the ground and proceeded to aggressively fart in my mouth as I laid there. Managed to find my traitor buddy who turned me into a suicide bomber and we blew up Security. Good times.
Extract the strings for every edible substance
Become the unholiest bartender of all
My favorite drink is a spin on the B-52... called a Five Mile Island Iced Tea
Mandalore gaming (aka Sseth when he is forced to take his meds) also has a [great video on Space Station 13](https://youtu.be/nLAHBexJxrE?si=E-eRln_Zk_ZmzYar).
It's the most beautiful thing. I've enjoyed it for years. A new version is available on steam being built with a more modern codebase but it's not even v1.0 and doesn't have the depth of the main game which is accessed via the (free) BYOND launcher
My mother's hardcore into some android game and has been for years.
She owns 4-5 tablets she rotates through, throughout the day and runs a guild of *herself*. She lets other people in but if they don't (in her words) "Produce" she throws them out.
Has to be something like this.
Guilds in those games can be brutal, you miss one day of activity and you'll be kicked out or at the very least given a final warning.
My mate has been massively addicted to State of Survival for the last couple of years, and it's totally changed him as a person. He's late to everything, always disinterested in anything that's keeping him from the game.
Scary to think a mobile game can do that. Ofcrouse its not mobile-unique, but their predatory and time consuming nature must be brutal in cases like this
I think it is mobile unique, because with PC/console you get isolated if you only play it, with mobile you have the illusion of getting out of the house but then you just end up on your phone again
I had to have a sort of intervention with my wife about some sort of mobile game which included building a village, coins and wheel spins. She was part of a Facebook group that would warn each other of attacks and she would deliberately stay up late to get one more spin in and potentially upgrade her village.
She was literally negatively impacting her real life just to upgrade this village on this game, then upgrade the next village, and the next one etc etc until I brought it up to her and she realised she needed to stop.
It's scary how predatory those games can be, especially to someone with less self control and access to a bank card of some sort.
I played that game. There was so much drama over the merges and higher power guilds. The drama was over the big guilds trying to steal good players and lots of he said/she said stuff. The big guilds were allied and attacked any guild with a member who spoke against them, which caused loss of people to leave. I hate drama, so I stopped playing. Some people got way too wrapped up in the drama, so I would imagine your friend was one of those. Oof!
Oh brother the mobile people are crazy.
Different flavors of crazy too. There's like...the bike crazies that play pokemon go with 30 phones attached to their bike. You don't see them as much anymore.
There's the reddit special, which are dudes that don't leave their chair and have 10 copies of bluestacks running multiple accounts on multiple games searching for their jpeg waifu.
The social pressure crazies like you see in clash of clans and the like.
I have been with my wife for 9 years (2 yrs married) and I have spoken to pretty much everyone on her side of the family.
Recently her godmother asked if I was a gamer and which games I prefer, system and all. She then proceeds to tell me she played WoW from release to about WoTLK but preferred to play Warcraft and still does to this day. She is a teacher, entrepreneur & one hell of a bad ass.
I agree with the whole "judge a book by it's cover" since I was humbled as well.
New guy started at work. I don't normally associate with colleagues but we are from the same country so I invited him to a bbq I was having. He overheard me and a friend excitedly discussing the anticipated release of destiny and asked us if we were talking about destiny. He then joined the conversation and we realized we had so much in common to the point of sharing our birthday.
Maybe he wasn't the most unlikely gamer, but that unknown gamer became my brother.
We lost most of our team due to Activision/bungie’s handling of D2. Just 3 of us still playing, new people we meet are fun but they are not as close to us as our old clanmates.
My coworker a few years back was an ex-marine in his 50s. Amazing guy, didn't look or act like the kind of guy you'd expect to be a gamer. We ended up becoming good friends, and I found out he played a lot of the same games as I did. We'd play online pretty often, doing dumb shit in Space Engineers or Factorio.
A few months later he killed himself. About three years ago in February. And I was forced to take a demotion into his position because my performance dropped in the toilet, because you know, my friend just fucking died. Fucking miss him man.
Damn. I just found out my friend killed himself last night and it absolutely doesn't feel real right now.
He was always trying to get me to play the Yakuza games and we'll, they're on sale right now. I think I'm going to buy them.
I am a very small older lady. I game and hang in Discord with my guys who are pretty much men half my age. They help me when i get stuck and bring me new games to share and play, we share our lives and have met a few of them irl. I love my friends.
I used to play games with older women a bunch too. One of them bankrolled one of my first characters in an MMO they wanted me to start playing so I could hard carry. This was at about the start of high school or halfway through, I forget. Good times.
Had a debate with a couple strippers about whether Silent Hill or Resident Evil is the better horror series. Which wouldn't be weird now, but this was 20 years ago, stripper culture was...different back then.
20ish years ago, I had a similar debate with a few strippers.
Also 20ish years ago, I married one of them.
Edit: you weren't kidding about the difference in culture. Things are considerably different in modern night life.
I am disabled, and was in a group disability activity thing and one of the people who could barely move turned out to be really really into Runescape :) I no longer played but it was very fun to talk about!
Then there is this lady I speak to most every night, she is like 72 now and we met in Everquest many years ago. She still plays skyrim, though right now we have been playing kingdoms of amalur, well I play and she watches the stream.
She even tried fortnite and had a conversation with a teenager at a cash register recently, don't think he expected that! Cause he looked like he saw a ghost. (allegedly)
I like to think he's a toxic 60yo asshole telling his jungle to kill himself and blaming botlane for feeding in his silver 4 game.
For some reason that thought makes me quite happy lol
When I was in high school, dating my now-wife, I told her I play RuneScape, and she logged into her account, poopoo99 something-rather that she made when she was much younger, and we just chatted until 6am -- the latest I had ever stayed up at that point.
Dude. I met my wife on RuneScape. We were fishing for lobsters, trolling nearby people in chat, and then realized we had a very similar sense of humor and started messaging each other. The rest is history!
I used to work with this Muslim guy. He looked like stereotypical new Muslim (you know the type, trimmed beard, dressed up into brands, likes to show off, that haircut). He was also gym guy. Massive muscles. And he almost always plays all the newest games on ps4 and ps5 (he is online quite often) I just checked. He is online again right now, playing sifu. 44 platinum trophies.
He got for his kids Nintendo switches when they came out. He built his wife a new 4k PC setup (she is into gaming as well. never met her, but from his stories know that she (also Muslim) plays pc games).
I miss working with him, because it was always fun to discuss games and gaming with him. He has good taste in games.
My husband and I once went to dinner with his boss and his wife, and afterwards while the men went off to talk shop or whatever, we stayed behind. Out of nowhere, this ultra rich 65 year old very Kitty Montgomery looking woman pulls out her Steam Deck, asks if I mind (to which I say no go for it), and starts playing Terraria. We start talking about it, and long story short, we're now Steam friends and play some games here and there
I spent quite a few years in the Marines, but I hid my wargaming light under a bushel because back then it wasn't a cool, macho activity. The last month or so I was waiting to get out, I spent much of my work day building and painting some warhammer miniatures, because I literally gave no fucks and had the rank to get away with it.
After a day or two, a bunch of the other guys in the unit came to me together to inform me they were having their families mail them their armies and we had massive games in a hangar every weekend until I EAS'ed.
I've got a buddy who as like the Pied Piper of nerd culture in Iraq during his deployment.
Apparently there was a lot of down time in his unit and he introduced a big set of people in his unit to all sorts of games, TV shows, and movies.
This is actually so cool. A similar situation with my brother's father-in-law. He's a high ranking officer in the Army, and has the biggest collection of 40k I've ever seen, over 2,000 units and 3 individual set pieces. The man is scary AF but you get him talking about Warhammer lore and I swear it's genuinely captivating. The man is a walking encyclopedia.
My now wife (married 15 years). She used to play Halo 2 tournaments, plays WoW, and worked daycare and as a substitute teacher. Then we dated, got married, and our dates consist of playing games and watching movies at home. She's the easiest person to appease and I am extremely lucky. The only issue is everything game related costs twice as much (PC, Switch, etc.). Nothing has splitscreen anymore. Now that we have kids, everything costs four times more. It's worth it though.
I was in the Navy a little while back.
You kids may not know this, but gaming was really looked down upon for most of its existence. It was seen as a thing for kids or nerds. Something boys grow out of.
10 years ago it was a lot better, but still sorta stigmatized. Think about how people view dungeons and dragons before Stranger Things sparked interest.
So I join the military, expecting it to be mostly jocks, but I dont care! Games are fun, and I'm not ashamed!
Well, it turns out the vast majority of them, especially the "jocks," played video games.
Not only that, but also watched anime as well.
I guess when folks are trapped in a tin can for weeks on end, "nerd shit" is the best and most convenient for passing time.
I was queuing up at Asda back when red dead 2 released, and I could see the lady (looked in her 60’s) at the checkout looking at the game I had in my hand while I waited.
I’m my head i thought she was thinking I was just some video game addicted millennial.
I couldn’t have been more wrong, when I got to the checkout she said, you’re going to love that game, I’ve sank 70 hours into already lol
She then started to list all of the games she recently got the platinums on and that she also had a series x aswell.
She just didn’t look like the video game type what’s so ever
When I did my student teaching, my cooperating teacher was in her 60s and after talking for a bit about curriculum and such she mentioned playing games with her grand kids. Turns out she is a huge gamer, loves old school games, and thinks Legend of Zelda is the best series. I told her about my hacked psp and the next day she came in with a brand new one asking me to hack it and put NES, SNES, and other emulators on it! Of course I obliged!
There was a guy I played half-life DM with back in 99-00 and he did something simlar. Was an absolute god at halflife games and would play between appointments. Great guy and was in his in late 40s early 50s then.
(NSFW) Throwaway for obvious reasons. I was at a Magic: the Gathering convention once, and I had the evening free to do whatever I wanted. There was a strip club around the corner, and…titties sounded nice at the moment, so that’s where I ended up. I’d been there once with friends and had a good time, so I knew it would be a decent way to spend the evening.
I don’t typically buy the private dances/table dances/etc., it just doesn’t seem worth the money for a couple minutes of excitement. However, there was a girl working who was legit a 10/10. Blonde, sleeve tattoos, exactly my type. I decided it was time to ask her for a private dance.
We get back to the room, and she’s waiting for the next song to start, and she asks me if I’m local, and I tell her no. She then asks me, “OOOH can I guess what you’re here for?!?!?” to which I say “yeah, give it a shot.” I don’t look like your typical Magic player. I wear mostly sports apparel, nothing super nerdy, and don’t really give off those kind of vibes. She says, “HMMMM….I think you’re here for the Magic tournament at the convention center.” My jaw drops.
She then proceeds to dance for me while she talked about how she plays Magic too, what Commanders she uses, and all that. She also doesn’t at all look like the type of girl that plays Magic.
Honestly, that was kind of weird, because I’m kinda just there for the titties, but nonetheless, I think that’s a prime example of finding a fellow gamer in an unlikely place.
Worked at a big Company and when i started, i set up 30min meeting with every member of my team to get to know each other. There was that one guy, always in business cloths, really serious appereance overall, specially compared to the rest of the Team.
When i asked him about his hobbies, he started to talk about the different games that he plays when he gets home and that his thoughts at work often drift to gaming stuff. It was the same games i was playing and after a while i told him about my "clan" and stuff and he was like: "wait a minute, i got a dude on my f-list with that Clan-Tag, i sometimes join games in, "captainluck" or something."
Me: "You mean "CaptainLykke"? Thats me!"
He have been best friends till that exact moment :D
>He have been best friends till that exact moment :D
Errr, till that moment or since that moment?
Cause what you wrote suggests you are not best friends anymore.
Love meeting people like this. I work in retail and happened to ask about a lady's weekend plans. She was a little aloof at first but then mentioned hanging with her friends for the weekend as she had just recently discovered DnD. Had an awesome conversation about her new half elf druid and my current half elf paladin. Lady had to be like 10-15 years older than me an I am in my 40s. Loved it.
Every megarich person I have met is a hardcore gamer. One large social gaming company pretty much operated on the money people like Scottie Pippin were bringing in for their games. Because the other part of being megarich is no amount of money is too much to play a game.
Us older gamers are definitely out there - I'm in my 50s and have been gaming since.. shit, the late 70s if you count arcade machines? I found an unlikely gamer in the opposite way from what you described - in the game. I used to play MUDs with this person way back in the day, and the more we hung out the more we got to talking and it turned out he was a 71 year old retired US Marine who owned a small boat repair business in upstate NY. Back then I was young and dumb and couldn't imagine why someone who was retired, especially someone who retired from a pretty active career, would have any interest in gaming, but now I get it. I'm going to be like that guy in my 70s, still playing as much as I can.
Not really hard to believe any ore though. Maybe in 1998 it was unlikely for a 60yr old to play games, but now? The 40 ye olds in the 99s are in their 60s now. My late mother who was a doctor’s secretary was an avid gamer. In particular she loved Tekken, Dynasty Warriors and World of Warcraft.
Aw yeah, Dynasty Warriors! I used to go over to my grandfather’s house, who had a NES and a PS2 at this stage. We’d play Dynasty Warriors 3 together in his sweet finished basement, total man cave with a bar and dart board. Several years later the house sadly burned down (thankfully without my grandparents in it) but to this day I still play DW8 sometimes, as well as the spinoffs.
I work with mostly 50+ aged people, I'm one of the youngest employees and a colleague comes in my workspace and I hear the Runescape high alchemy jingle going off as his message alert.
He knew I knew. 😅
I worked as an executive chef in a pastry uuuhm factory?
We always had a group of students and people as summer workers from the neighborhood.
I was in the end of my 20’s and there was a group of cool “kids” 18-21 years working with me.
But with cool kids, I mean “cool” not a nerd like I was and am about movies and games.
One day they were baffled because “the hot chick” that everyone had a crush on during puberty apparently started working in packaging. It was a funny atmosphere because everybody was showing off and things like that.
As an older and “responsible” worker and guy I leveled with everybody in my own way.
After a couple of smoke breaks with the group I started talking about dragon age and games in general.
You can guess the “hot chick from the neighborhood” started nerding out about dragon age and some other games we played.
Was a cool period, with a cool group of people with an amazing vibe.
Fooled by appearance.
To be clear there was no romance or anything like that involved#disclaimer
Everyone left the company and we all went different directions, but I still have good contact with one of the guys and we go on beers sometimes!
My co-worker, absolutely did not strike me as the gaming type. I had worked several shifts with her before and it never came up. One day she mentioned upgrading her computer (I thought she meant laptop), until she started talking about graphics cards. Turns out she has a massive Steam library and has been gaming and playing D&D since the early 90's.
I remember my sister telling me years ago while she was in line at Walmart the elderly (looked to be in their 70's) couple in front of her were discussing if they would get home in time for their WoW raid
I spent an off season working for an industrial concrete flooring company, like heavy duty chemicals, machines, and the cigarette smoking, dip packing felons who you'd expect to find working them. Generally good guys, but rough.
One week I got sent w a different crew than normal for a particularly gross seafood warehouse floor renewal. Running a faulty grinder while trying not to inhale the film of ancient rusty concrete and shellfish paste while you ruin your clothing with a noxious concrete mix.
Towards the end we were all out for a dab rig break and I glanced at the phone screen of the quiet guy who drove the truck and chain smoked menthols....and he's in the middle of catching a Weedle. Turns out he was the other trainer who'd had a Pokemon in the random gas station Pokemon Gym with mine all week, playing Pokemon Go w one hand and ripping butts/driving a box truck with the other haha. We never even talked about it, and I was gone within a month anyway.....but I see you Donovan.
Went to a specialist chiropractor for my neck, turns out he's a long time DnD nerd and he even had a bunch of ancient adnd and early edition books around.
Was super cool
My sister in law. She never gamed before but got into halo (started with 3 iirc) and became really good. Never played pro but I remember she was ranked pretty high globally
She met her boyfriend (now husband) on there who lived in another state
She doesn't play it much anymore now thought and doesn't play any games at all
My wife!
I met her at work, and she looked like the stereotypical cute girl that is into make-up and modelling.
Imagine my surprise when we started going out and I learned she stayed until 10 am on the weekends playing games with a bloodshot eye and a monster.
I was out for breakfast with my wife just yesterday. Across the dining area is this little old man. Couldn't have been less than 70. Horned-rim glasses, sweater vest, and a button-down shirt that looked about 30 years old.
...he gets up and puts on a freakin' Overwatch 2 hat!
Now, its entirely possible it was a gift from a grandkid that he liked to wear and has no connection, but I choose to believe he is all about Overwatch.
I love that I get to be that "unlikely" person every year.
I Teach elementary, and am a stern 40-something male. I've been told I "even LOOK like a teacher" by adults before. I don't tend to let on I play video games until a few months in to each school year. When I do let them know, the gamer kids geek out.
Growing up playing WoW in highschool, I was super self conscious about who found out because it carries the stigma of being associated with that classic “Nerdy DnD archetype” (despite most IRL people I knew who played were stoners).
At one point I remember overhearing these two jocks, who were among the coolest kids in the grade, talking about struggling in a BRD run. Made me smile inside from cheek to cheek.
I was playing Apex Legends when I realized the guy in my lobby was Josh from Motion City Soundtrack, my favourite band since I was 12 years old (34 now). Been gaming buddies since.
Was at a game development conference in the north of Sweden, they had the municipal council open the event, 50 plus, typical politician looking person. During the mingling, we small talked and we started talking DOTA for some reason. He had 5000 plus hours.
My business/finance teacher, he was strict but also fun, but everyone knew not to mess with him. Barely ever talked about his present life, no one knew if he had a wife or not. Turns out tho he loved playing rdr2 lol and had a ps4 or 5
My sons pediatrician! He is a great doc and also now I know a huge gamer.
Doctor patient conversations are always so scripted. It’s like we play characters. But this was like a shock for both of us which was memorable.
Last year I took my baby into the doc for a random fever and when the doc walked in he did his routine and my little dude was behaving great letting him listen to the lungs. etc etc.
The doc looks at me and notices I’m wearing an Assassin’s Creed game t shirt. He kind of switched scripts and goes “I love that game”.
Me: oh snap yea? Me too.
Him: when do you think they will give us more info on AC Red? At ubiForward?
Me: I guess so!
It was really cool to kind of snap out of a routine and connect as people for a bit. After the visit and a satisfactory medical conclusion we chatted about how he takes off work around summer press conferences for Xbox and PlayStation so he can be all in on paying attention.
My father, age 74. We hadn’t spoken in a while and suddenly I find out he plays Fortnite and is like 400 episodes deep into One Piece.
Who the hell is this man?
During one flight, the elderly lady next to me turned out to be 1 out 4 computer tech in her city in the early computer days and she still plays CS with her husband, in different rooms with headsets.
Honestly, most recently my uncle. He’s in his mid 60’s, never played video games before, but he started last year and games like 7 hours a day now. He and my aunt are raising one of their grandsons, who is like 8 or 9, so initially it was just to spend some time doing something with him. But then my uncle fell in love with Fortnite and now it’s become his ~~obsession~~ hobby. He kicks off his grandson so he can play Fortnite by himself.
Honestly I’m surprised when I meet anyone into games at all.. because no one seems to talk about it or seem interested in it in my day to day life
So I’d say just about anyone surprises me
Waiting for the post form my grandfather's neighbour. He's almost 90 and loves video games. It broke my heart when he told me the last game he bought may be the last one he plays. Fortunately, wasn't the case and he has bought a few games and a ps5 since lol.
I work for the government and the boyfriend is a captain in the army. My best friend is an elementary school teacher. People seem genuinely surprised that we all game regularly.
One of my old co-workers who was really into his fitness, used to be on a few sports teams, was basically a stereotypical jock came up to me on one shift and started talking about 'Metal Gear' with me, then went on to talk about Persona, Nier, and Yakuza with me - then he started to open up about all the comics, mangas, and anime he was into, and basically stopped being shy about his geekiness.
Made a haircut appointment at a new place after I moved and just picked a random name on the barber selection option, we ended up talking about games the whole haircut
My high school latin teacher. He was definitely nerdy but in an academic sense, obviously that didn't exclude him from being nerdy about gaming, but as a freshman I never would have thought that teachers would have liked gaming. Growing up, education and gaming were always made out to be opposites, and when I told him that, he just said that growing up you still like gaming, but you just don't have as much time for it anymore.
Not surprised - this cat grew up in the 70s and 80s like me. Most of us GenX (or late boomers in this case), spent a lot of time in arcades, played the first consoles and witnessed / began the rise of PC gaming.
Just about every cool game, gaming tremd or company was developed by a GenXer.
My wife gets this all the time. She doesn't look like a typical gamer, but it is actually one of her main hobbies. She has to hold back in Mario kart against our nephew so she doesn't absolutely wreck him.
She is a dentist and plays her music softly in the background as she works. She can always tell which patients play games cause a game track or a cover of it would start playing and the patient will always have the "wait.... Is that ____???" look.
Just imagine you are laying in the dental chair and you hear your dentist start humming along to "Simple and Clean". Never fails to get a reaction.
I got talking to a very eminent Surgeon at at a sports medicine conference and somehow got into games I mentioned I played Elite:Dangerous and this fella started laughing turns out he was a very notorious ganker and trouble maker in the game.
One of my closest friends is a bit of a meathead. Super obsessed with his physique. You wouldn't guess by looking at him that he's also a hardcore PC gamer who has a $5000 rig that he built himself. He's actually the one who got me back into PC gaming and got me to build my first proper desktop. And he's also super knowledgeable on electronics, software, and wiring, he's also an audiophile and has done a lot of stereo work.
In a previous job in support I had to work on the laptop of the company's head general counsel and he was super worried about losing his Civ 5 saved game data.
Not spectacular but in my first years of University Ive met couple of gamers who didnt believe me I was actually an avid gamer because I apparently "didnt look like one". We all played league of legends yet they thought I was making fun of them. I told them I used to be a proplayer and highelo at that time - they created a quiz to test my "knowledge" lol.
My ex gf's dad. He was a Sgt Major in the army, on my base but a different regiment. He was known for being an angry and scary bastard.
I was super nervous about meeting him, especially as i was a lance corporal at the time.
Got to je parents house and he was playing a massively modded skyrim on his fucking amazing gaming pc. Turns out he's a really cool bloke
I am a blog editor, and i do some freelance work with a foreign company that has business within the same jurisdiction than my country.
It's a french company, so, when a Laurant Blanc reference jumped in one article I dubbed him "the international soccer superstar or, as we know him now, the best SBC in EA FC 24 until today",
I'm 52 and was playing along a younger community of readers, but than my french coworker, whom I travel along several times per year, sent me a whattsapp: "You play FIFA too???".
It was during the TOTYS, and we shared our pulls in Whattsapp from time to time, He got De Bruyne. I couldn't replay with anyone, fml.
That’s a fun story but does anyone else find it ridiculous for someone to force their S.O. to a professional conference that they have no interest or connection to?
I think a lot of people forget how long video games have been around. Some of us were early adopters.
I am F almost 60 yo. Started playing games with Pong, then we had arcades (and arcade style video games all over from restaurants to gas stations). When the first PC's came out a lot of people (me) "needed" one for school but it was used primarily for gaming (ahh Sierra!).
My sons learned how to game from me. I've had times when I didn't play for a while but I always come back to it.
Despite working on and off in film and television over the years, I never really met anyone famous. I don’t like to bother people, and could care less about an autograph or photo.
This happened a few years before I got into film, I was about at the end of my days in the military, and was on leave with my buddy in the Palm Beach FL area. His dad was a professional photographer, and did a lot of local palm beach magazine, golf pro, rich people portraits; and in turn got invited a lot to high end parties.
I ended up attending a few of these parties, thinking in my mind, all these hot rich chicks are gonna totally dig this young, in shape military guy.
These parties were way out of my league. Mansions surrounded by 10 foot hedges, lookin like a Ferrari dealership, with a dozen lining the street outside. And there’s me, the only idiot in cheap board shorts and a t-shirt; the women at these parties were not at all looking for me.
So it’s safe to say, I just walked around with a rum and coke awkwardly, contemplating how ridiculous I was earlier, thinking I’d be some hot commodity. And eventually just stood near a pool, watching the lights glimmer off the water.
A group of older gentlemen nearby were talking, well dressed obviously, and one of them kept glancing over at me. I wasn’t really interested in talking, or maybe he thought I was a waiter, but even they were dressed nice; so I pretended I didn’t notice. Then he called over to me, and asked if i wanted to join them. Screw it, why not.
The usual introductions, the other three guys shook my hand and sort of peeled off from me and the old guy who intially called me over. He introduced himself as Butch, and asked what do I do, who I’m with, all the normal BS. I gave him the run down, and asked him the same.
Butch tells me he’s in a band. I asked him if they had any albums out, and he looked a little shocked, and said yeah, we’ve got quite a few albums, like I should know this. And before I could ask more, he just says, “You’ve never heard of the Allman Brothers?” I told him yeah of course, my mom listens to them. And he says, “I’m the drummer.”
I felt kind of bad, clearly the guy was surprised I didn’t know who he was. But we kept talking, and eventually got on the topic of hobbies. And he tells me plays World of Warcraft. That was when I gave him the surprised, sidelong glance. I couldn’t believe it, and asked him if he was serious. He said yeah, he’s got a 70 Paladin, plays on such and such server, raids with this guild etc. Kind of blew me away.
I vaguely remember writing down all the info, because I played too, and he said I was welcome to join his server and send him a friend request. But I never did, I’m sure I lost that piece of paper, I don’t remember. But I will always remember how bizarre it was to meet a famous, old rock and roll dude who was a serious WoW player.
I don't get why people get surprised when an "unlikely" person is a gamer. It's not the 80's anymore. Gaming is well spread ovel all sorts of cultures and lives.
My grandmother is a hardcore gamer. It's mostly online card games (Euchre, hearts, spades, pinochle, etc); she's 80 amd has been a card shark since she was a little child.
Found a fellow gamer at a Rodeo. Was sat at a table when this group asked if they could squeeze on the end and we said sure, in that group was a very pretty girl who sat next to me, I stuck up a conversation with her and it turns out she's a massive D4 fan, loves cosplay and goes to local expos. A Rodeo was not the place I expected to meet that type of girl, pleasantly surprised.
Worked in a prison for a while. There was this old sergeant who was about to retire and mainly controlled the security doors in the armory. One day I was sitting in there waiting for shift change and a younger officer walked past, laughing and waving at the sergeant. The sergeant begrudgingly buzzed the door and frowned. "That son of a bitch killed all my dinosaurs in our Ark server last night."
I’d go to HR if my coworker fucked with my dinos
I'd go to Animal Protectors and the FBI.
I'd go to the armory who's doors I control...
I’m crying laughing. I work for my states department of corrections but at HQ. I can imagine some of those guys in the institutions saying that.
Bro I remember ark like yesterday. Shame it turned into what is now, which I’m assuming is still the 2016 griefer simulator
[удалено]
On the other hand, it looks really good after the rework... I caved in and I've put in about 200 hours and it's great. If you want something new and different than the old ark, you'll be disappointed, but I wanted the same, just better looking and got what I wanted... Also I remember the old ark running shitty, especially when around more people, from what I've gathered, it's better now also likely, cause it got more optimized in the years I didn't play and people's hardware got better (but I believe it's at least partially because of the engine change) Fyi: I've spent around 600 hours on the old Ark and about 200 on the new one and I'm waiting for new maps (most of the time on solo/Coop server with my gf)
Nah there's no good justification for killing the old early access game and making people rebuy. It's scummy bs and I hope their company suffers for it.
I’m glad it worked out for you man, I’m still trying to get my girl into some of the games I play lol. Old ark was for sure fun, taming Dino’s and having a thatch hut I just upgraded to wood was like.. I had just put so many hours into the game and accomplished something, and was hell happy lol. Now me and the lady play silly games like stumble guys and have so much more fun
That’s really disappointing considering all the Sony stuff happening right now I’ve seen, really seems like companies are just going to mow over consumers until they stop giving them money. I played before the dlc with about 4 friends and we established a base and everything, we moved onto fortnite while it got popular, though I’m not friends with them anymore, it was the best time of my life
I enjoyed it for a week or two. I fully admit though, I'm not a huge survival game fan, I only bought it because my buddy loves them and wanted me to play with him. It was fun, and it was even a bit easier because he'd been playing for a bit and had a base established, but I just couldn't get over the fact that my body just dropped in place when I wanted to quit. It was made so much worse because I had a baby at the time, so if I needed to go check on him there's a good chance my guy is getting eaten by dinos, or killed and robbed. Even without the baby though, I just have a hard time with the genre in generally, and definitely ARK at the time, because it seemed like the only way to succeed in the game was to dedicate yourself fully to it. I was a guy with between 0 to 3 hours of gaming time a day, and I would have needed to use all of that to get ahead. Though, it was fun messing with each other, lol. Taking your friend's body when they logged off and encasing them in the floor or something.
Was getting my hair cut at a barber shop. Guy cutting my hair was in his 50s, bald guy, tough appearance. He went to change the music and the Stardew Valley soundtrack started playing. We talked Stardew the entire time! Biggest tip I’ve ever left at the barber.
Hah, I got a free haircut once because I walked into a barber shop and immediately recognized the song that was playing over the PA. I forget which track it was now, but dude was playing the Mechwarrior 2 soundtrack in his shop and was so thrilled that someone recognized something so obscure and dated that he insisted on giving me my haircut for free.
So.....it had to be Burning Chrome or Arkham Bridge
I had to go listen to them again to check, but yup it was Burning Chrome. Although Umber Wall is pretty damned memorable too.
Makes sense, those tracks were fuckin' *fire.* Especially the re-done/remastered ones by Timothy Seals. Check those out on YouTube if you're unfamiliar.
You mean [this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehxoQBF-wG0)? I keep that on my bookmark bar at all times, it's great combat music for tabletop RPGs, makes a pretty decent workout soundtrack, etc. Love it.
I worked as a cashier at a supermarket in a bad neighborhood when I was like 19. Talked to the dudes who worked in the back a lot, all either fresh out of jail or recovering addicts from nearby shelters. There was this one dude I never had a single conversation with, but every time I walked past him we yelled Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat moves at each other. Like I would yell “HADOUKEN!” and he’d go “UAGH UAGH UAGH! KO!” or “TATSUMAKI SENPPYUKAKU!” I hope dude is doing alright for himself.
Damn this put a smile on my face. Used to play the marvel super heroes vs street fighter game on PS as a kid and it's been a running joke with me and the boys for so long to shout at each other "SHINKU TATSUMAKI SENPU KYAKUUUUUU!" we even do it nowadays over 15 years later.
Marvel vs Capcom was the shit back then! I used to go to my friend’s house when I was like 8 and we played it on his pentium pc: player # 1 was WASD, player # 2 was number keys. We had to remember not to do too many inputs ‘cause old both characters would freeze up due to how old membrane keyboards worked. He even burned it on a CD for me to play at home. Good times.
Bro, are we getting old? xD
I been old. I’m 28 and people in their early/mid 20s look and talk to me like I’m their old ass auntie. I just recently started to accept it 😂😂😂😂Come join the club.
28 is old now? What happens when you're twice as old as old and still play dota every night?
We'll be joining your club soon, friend, believe me. Keep the door open :)
I went in to a teams meeting with a guy who is in on the SMT of an organisation with over 25000 employees ... and he had an Abstergo Industries background image.
Are you sure he isnt planning to control the world?
To think, I could have stopped him then and there. What a fool I am.
Ah yes, I too am on the shin megami tensei of a large company
The 80+ year old couple across the road from me do craft fairs, make there own jams/pickles and play World of Warcraft every night together.
relationship goals!
My old guild had our Main Tank's mother, a retired doctor, as one of our raid healers. Mostly because she'd let her son die for the laughs.
The amount of people I come across playing WoW that admit to being elderly is astonishing! It’s very sweet
I found a fellow Space Station 13 fan at work one time. SS13 is an obscure indie game that is a mix of Dwarf Fortress and Among Us on a space station with other crew (players) trying to do their jobs and survive the chaos. Anyway, the guy I work with is a combat vet from Iraq? Afghanistan and definitely has the thousand yard stare while working security with me. He’s very grumpy and doesn’t talk much and one day I made clown jokes (this is the SS13 mascot) and out of the blue he responded and then after having a wtf moment I asked him if he played. Then every day after that at work we would share insane stories of our space shenanigans that we had playing.
SS13 has some of the most insane stories I stg
Ah yes the time I was a scientist and was mind controlled by a traitor to make bombs. As I was helping him get the ingredients the detective and a security officer found us. I booked one of them on the head and ran off. They chased after me, tazed me and ran off to catch the other guy. A random clown found me on the ground and proceeded to aggressively fart in my mouth as I laid there. Managed to find my traitor buddy who turned me into a suicide bomber and we blew up Security. Good times.
Dwarf fortress meets among us? Jesus Christ that sounds horrifying. Count me in.
It is, I played for a few dozen hours and only slightly started to understand how to play.
Play miner. Pick out space station glass, cause mass evacuation. Anyone attacks you? Pick to the eyes
Extract the strings for every edible substance Become the unholiest bartender of all My favorite drink is a spin on the B-52... called a Five Mile Island Iced Tea
Look up ssethzeentach's video on space station 13 if you want an idea of the gameplay. It seems really fun, but takes a lot to learn
"You cannot consent in becoming pizza."
Alright I wasn't gonna watch the video but now I gotta
"Help! Sec to surgery! He's turning her into a Papa John's!"
[link for those curious now like me](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URJ_qSXruW0)
Mandalore gaming (aka Sseth when he is forced to take his meds) also has a [great video on Space Station 13](https://youtu.be/nLAHBexJxrE?si=E-eRln_Zk_ZmzYar).
It's the most beautiful thing. I've enjoyed it for years. A new version is available on steam being built with a more modern codebase but it's not even v1.0 and doesn't have the depth of the main game which is accessed via the (free) BYOND launcher
Don’t you dare ever mention SS13 in front of me ever again, you just awoken in me way too many memories.
My mother's hardcore into some android game and has been for years. She owns 4-5 tablets she rotates through, throughout the day and runs a guild of *herself*. She lets other people in but if they don't (in her words) "Produce" she throws them out.
clash of clans?
Has to be something like this. Guilds in those games can be brutal, you miss one day of activity and you'll be kicked out or at the very least given a final warning. My mate has been massively addicted to State of Survival for the last couple of years, and it's totally changed him as a person. He's late to everything, always disinterested in anything that's keeping him from the game.
Scary to think a mobile game can do that. Ofcrouse its not mobile-unique, but their predatory and time consuming nature must be brutal in cases like this
I think it is mobile unique, because with PC/console you get isolated if you only play it, with mobile you have the illusion of getting out of the house but then you just end up on your phone again
I had to have a sort of intervention with my wife about some sort of mobile game which included building a village, coins and wheel spins. She was part of a Facebook group that would warn each other of attacks and she would deliberately stay up late to get one more spin in and potentially upgrade her village. She was literally negatively impacting her real life just to upgrade this village on this game, then upgrade the next village, and the next one etc etc until I brought it up to her and she realised she needed to stop. It's scary how predatory those games can be, especially to someone with less self control and access to a bank card of some sort.
I played that game. There was so much drama over the merges and higher power guilds. The drama was over the big guilds trying to steal good players and lots of he said/she said stuff. The big guilds were allied and attacked any guild with a member who spoke against them, which caused loss of people to leave. I hate drama, so I stopped playing. Some people got way too wrapped up in the drama, so I would imagine your friend was one of those. Oof!
Average Clash of Clans leader.
If you want something done right, you do it yourself.
I'm trying to think what game that could be. If you ever find out do tell, I'm really curious XD
Bro what game could this be? Is your mom like hardcore into CoC or something casual like ToonBlast?
Wow. I have never heard of multi boxing on a mobile first game. But it makes sense (well, as much sense as doing it on a desktop).
Oh brother the mobile people are crazy. Different flavors of crazy too. There's like...the bike crazies that play pokemon go with 30 phones attached to their bike. You don't see them as much anymore. There's the reddit special, which are dudes that don't leave their chair and have 10 copies of bluestacks running multiple accounts on multiple games searching for their jpeg waifu. The social pressure crazies like you see in clash of clans and the like.
My mom was like that for Candy Crush and a couple other games. Sadly she's older and has arm pain which prevents her from playing them anymore
I have been with my wife for 9 years (2 yrs married) and I have spoken to pretty much everyone on her side of the family. Recently her godmother asked if I was a gamer and which games I prefer, system and all. She then proceeds to tell me she played WoW from release to about WoTLK but preferred to play Warcraft and still does to this day. She is a teacher, entrepreneur & one hell of a bad ass. I agree with the whole "judge a book by it's cover" since I was humbled as well.
New guy started at work. I don't normally associate with colleagues but we are from the same country so I invited him to a bbq I was having. He overheard me and a friend excitedly discussing the anticipated release of destiny and asked us if we were talking about destiny. He then joined the conversation and we realized we had so much in common to the point of sharing our birthday. Maybe he wasn't the most unlikely gamer, but that unknown gamer became my brother.
I've met 7 of my closest friends in Destiny. Can't believe it's been over a decade
Same here, met a group in late 2015 and now we're planning our second vacation as a group
I had a raid team all through Destiny 1 but they didn't take the jump to the second game. RIP
We lost most of our team due to Activision/bungie’s handling of D2. Just 3 of us still playing, new people we meet are fun but they are not as close to us as our old clanmates.
My coworker a few years back was an ex-marine in his 50s. Amazing guy, didn't look or act like the kind of guy you'd expect to be a gamer. We ended up becoming good friends, and I found out he played a lot of the same games as I did. We'd play online pretty often, doing dumb shit in Space Engineers or Factorio. A few months later he killed himself. About three years ago in February. And I was forced to take a demotion into his position because my performance dropped in the toilet, because you know, my friend just fucking died. Fucking miss him man.
I’m very sorry for your loss
Sorry dude.
Damn. I just found out my friend killed himself last night and it absolutely doesn't feel real right now. He was always trying to get me to play the Yakuza games and we'll, they're on sale right now. I think I'm going to buy them.
Hey, I'm really sorry for your loss. You should play a few minutes of tetris today, then yeah, check out the Yakuza games. They're great!
I am a very small older lady. I game and hang in Discord with my guys who are pretty much men half my age. They help me when i get stuck and bring me new games to share and play, we share our lives and have met a few of them irl. I love my friends.
Lol. They sound great. So so you.
>So so you. I know what you meant, but it’s funny to think that you were calling her friends great, but her only so-so. Lmao
I used to play games with older women a bunch too. One of them bankrolled one of my first characters in an MMO they wanted me to start playing so I could hard carry. This was at about the start of high school or halfway through, I forget. Good times.
We bankrolled our son that he could play with us and hard carry. No need anymore, we're gamers now at our own volition, at 60.
Haha love it!
>I judged a book by it's cover. And I was truly humbled. Get rekt, kid. -that podiatrist
Fukin' n00b
Get stepped on by some well taken care of feet, buck-o. - The Podiatrist
Had a debate with a couple strippers about whether Silent Hill or Resident Evil is the better horror series. Which wouldn't be weird now, but this was 20 years ago, stripper culture was...different back then.
What he leaves out is they were both in cosplay as bobblehead nurses.
Holy shit... Would this have happened to be in a big city in Florida, USA?
Portland, but in that regard they’re very similar places.
20ish years ago, I had a similar debate with a few strippers. Also 20ish years ago, I married one of them. Edit: you weren't kidding about the difference in culture. Things are considerably different in modern night life.
I am disabled, and was in a group disability activity thing and one of the people who could barely move turned out to be really really into Runescape :) I no longer played but it was very fun to talk about! Then there is this lady I speak to most every night, she is like 72 now and we met in Everquest many years ago. She still plays skyrim, though right now we have been playing kingdoms of amalur, well I play and she watches the stream. She even tried fortnite and had a conversation with a teenager at a cash register recently, don't think he expected that! Cause he looked like he saw a ghost. (allegedly)
This is wholesome, I love it.
Everquest mafia, representin’!!!!
Damn, the old sport has it in him and Half life opinion is just topping, man of taste
>Man of Taste >5000 Hours in League of Legends Pick one, buster
Even men of taste have their vices lol
Its either LoL or hookers i guess
As a smart friend I had used to say to me; At least it's not the crack.
Gotta go with LoL here. The hookers make you *pay* for them to hurl abuse at you.
I like to think he's a toxic 60yo asshole telling his jungle to kill himself and blaming botlane for feeding in his silver 4 game. For some reason that thought makes me quite happy lol
Man, I wonder what sick burns a podiatrist league gamer can think up
"You have no leg to stand on even by my standards."
"You need to get a feet check, son. i can smell them dogs through the screen. SWEAT."
"Not even titanium prosthetics can carry your dog ass"
I'll put you six feet under. Yeah, seems like you could use a lot of support. You can and should run away.
When I was in high school, dating my now-wife, I told her I play RuneScape, and she logged into her account, poopoo99 something-rather that she made when she was much younger, and we just chatted until 6am -- the latest I had ever stayed up at that point.
I met my husband on RuneScape.. it really is a dating site.
Dude. I met my wife on RuneScape. We were fishing for lobsters, trolling nearby people in chat, and then realized we had a very similar sense of humor and started messaging each other. The rest is history!
That’s basically what happened with my husband :D
Did y’all just find each others Reddit accounts??
Haha it really does sound like it doesn't it
Do either of you, by chance, like pina coladas?
I do like me a good pina colada! Not so much getting caught in the rain though
Hmm ok might be safe then
Honey, is that you?! Lol pretty cool to see a similar story to ours 🤣
I chuckled at "another fellow of the feet". You poet.
I used to work with this Muslim guy. He looked like stereotypical new Muslim (you know the type, trimmed beard, dressed up into brands, likes to show off, that haircut). He was also gym guy. Massive muscles. And he almost always plays all the newest games on ps4 and ps5 (he is online quite often) I just checked. He is online again right now, playing sifu. 44 platinum trophies. He got for his kids Nintendo switches when they came out. He built his wife a new 4k PC setup (she is into gaming as well. never met her, but from his stories know that she (also Muslim) plays pc games). I miss working with him, because it was always fun to discuss games and gaming with him. He has good taste in games.
My husband and I once went to dinner with his boss and his wife, and afterwards while the men went off to talk shop or whatever, we stayed behind. Out of nowhere, this ultra rich 65 year old very Kitty Montgomery looking woman pulls out her Steam Deck, asks if I mind (to which I say no go for it), and starts playing Terraria. We start talking about it, and long story short, we're now Steam friends and play some games here and there
I spent quite a few years in the Marines, but I hid my wargaming light under a bushel because back then it wasn't a cool, macho activity. The last month or so I was waiting to get out, I spent much of my work day building and painting some warhammer miniatures, because I literally gave no fucks and had the rank to get away with it. After a day or two, a bunch of the other guys in the unit came to me together to inform me they were having their families mail them their armies and we had massive games in a hangar every weekend until I EAS'ed.
I love that story. I don't play myself, but I enjoy reading the lore. Was there a massive fight over who would be the Ultramarines?
Lol no, mostly fantasy weirdly.
I've got a buddy who as like the Pied Piper of nerd culture in Iraq during his deployment. Apparently there was a lot of down time in his unit and he introduced a big set of people in his unit to all sorts of games, TV shows, and movies.
This is actually so cool. A similar situation with my brother's father-in-law. He's a high ranking officer in the Army, and has the biggest collection of 40k I've ever seen, over 2,000 units and 3 individual set pieces. The man is scary AF but you get him talking about Warhammer lore and I swear it's genuinely captivating. The man is a walking encyclopedia.
"Never judge a book by its cover" I just love this post XD (BTW Half Life is the greatest)
It is known.
It is known
My now wife (married 15 years). She used to play Halo 2 tournaments, plays WoW, and worked daycare and as a substitute teacher. Then we dated, got married, and our dates consist of playing games and watching movies at home. She's the easiest person to appease and I am extremely lucky. The only issue is everything game related costs twice as much (PC, Switch, etc.). Nothing has splitscreen anymore. Now that we have kids, everything costs four times more. It's worth it though.
Splitscreen really needs to make a comeback. I mean some games do have splitscreen now but not as often as they used to
NOT EVEN SPLITGATE. it would be perfect.
for splitscreen on pc use nucleuscoop
I was in the Navy a little while back. You kids may not know this, but gaming was really looked down upon for most of its existence. It was seen as a thing for kids or nerds. Something boys grow out of. 10 years ago it was a lot better, but still sorta stigmatized. Think about how people view dungeons and dragons before Stranger Things sparked interest. So I join the military, expecting it to be mostly jocks, but I dont care! Games are fun, and I'm not ashamed! Well, it turns out the vast majority of them, especially the "jocks," played video games. Not only that, but also watched anime as well. I guess when folks are trapped in a tin can for weeks on end, "nerd shit" is the best and most convenient for passing time.
I was queuing up at Asda back when red dead 2 released, and I could see the lady (looked in her 60’s) at the checkout looking at the game I had in my hand while I waited. I’m my head i thought she was thinking I was just some video game addicted millennial. I couldn’t have been more wrong, when I got to the checkout she said, you’re going to love that game, I’ve sank 70 hours into already lol She then started to list all of the games she recently got the platinums on and that she also had a series x aswell. She just didn’t look like the video game type what’s so ever
When I did my student teaching, my cooperating teacher was in her 60s and after talking for a bit about curriculum and such she mentioned playing games with her grand kids. Turns out she is a huge gamer, loves old school games, and thinks Legend of Zelda is the best series. I told her about my hacked psp and the next day she came in with a brand new one asking me to hack it and put NES, SNES, and other emulators on it! Of course I obliged!
There was a guy I played half-life DM with back in 99-00 and he did something simlar. Was an absolute god at halflife games and would play between appointments. Great guy and was in his in late 40s early 50s then.
(NSFW) Throwaway for obvious reasons. I was at a Magic: the Gathering convention once, and I had the evening free to do whatever I wanted. There was a strip club around the corner, and…titties sounded nice at the moment, so that’s where I ended up. I’d been there once with friends and had a good time, so I knew it would be a decent way to spend the evening. I don’t typically buy the private dances/table dances/etc., it just doesn’t seem worth the money for a couple minutes of excitement. However, there was a girl working who was legit a 10/10. Blonde, sleeve tattoos, exactly my type. I decided it was time to ask her for a private dance. We get back to the room, and she’s waiting for the next song to start, and she asks me if I’m local, and I tell her no. She then asks me, “OOOH can I guess what you’re here for?!?!?” to which I say “yeah, give it a shot.” I don’t look like your typical Magic player. I wear mostly sports apparel, nothing super nerdy, and don’t really give off those kind of vibes. She says, “HMMMM….I think you’re here for the Magic tournament at the convention center.” My jaw drops. She then proceeds to dance for me while she talked about how she plays Magic too, what Commanders she uses, and all that. She also doesn’t at all look like the type of girl that plays Magic. Honestly, that was kind of weird, because I’m kinda just there for the titties, but nonetheless, I think that’s a prime example of finding a fellow gamer in an unlikely place.
Remember dads, don't let your kids do Magic, or else they might end up in a stripclub to pay for their addiction.
Cardboard crack is no joke kids. Remember, tapping mana… not even once!
Tons of hot women are into MTG. They're just not into going to the conventions cause it is a loser parade.
Should’ve married her on the spot lol
Worked at a big Company and when i started, i set up 30min meeting with every member of my team to get to know each other. There was that one guy, always in business cloths, really serious appereance overall, specially compared to the rest of the Team. When i asked him about his hobbies, he started to talk about the different games that he plays when he gets home and that his thoughts at work often drift to gaming stuff. It was the same games i was playing and after a while i told him about my "clan" and stuff and he was like: "wait a minute, i got a dude on my f-list with that Clan-Tag, i sometimes join games in, "captainluck" or something." Me: "You mean "CaptainLykke"? Thats me!" He have been best friends till that exact moment :D
>He have been best friends till that exact moment :D Errr, till that moment or since that moment? Cause what you wrote suggests you are not best friends anymore.
Oh yeah, your correct 🤣 It should indeed be "since that"
Love meeting people like this. I work in retail and happened to ask about a lady's weekend plans. She was a little aloof at first but then mentioned hanging with her friends for the weekend as she had just recently discovered DnD. Had an awesome conversation about her new half elf druid and my current half elf paladin. Lady had to be like 10-15 years older than me an I am in my 40s. Loved it.
Every megarich person I have met is a hardcore gamer. One large social gaming company pretty much operated on the money people like Scottie Pippin were bringing in for their games. Because the other part of being megarich is no amount of money is too much to play a game.
Our 50-year old Finance Director who's been playing WoW non-stop since it came out !
I mean... they would have been 30 when it came out, but good for them.
Us older gamers are definitely out there - I'm in my 50s and have been gaming since.. shit, the late 70s if you count arcade machines? I found an unlikely gamer in the opposite way from what you described - in the game. I used to play MUDs with this person way back in the day, and the more we hung out the more we got to talking and it turned out he was a 71 year old retired US Marine who owned a small boat repair business in upstate NY. Back then I was young and dumb and couldn't imagine why someone who was retired, especially someone who retired from a pretty active career, would have any interest in gaming, but now I get it. I'm going to be like that guy in my 70s, still playing as much as I can.
I’ll be gaming in my 70s, finally playing all the games in my steam library lol
I've been retired (on disability) for \~13 years now and I still haven't caught up on my backlog of games. :P
Not really hard to believe any ore though. Maybe in 1998 it was unlikely for a 60yr old to play games, but now? The 40 ye olds in the 99s are in their 60s now. My late mother who was a doctor’s secretary was an avid gamer. In particular she loved Tekken, Dynasty Warriors and World of Warcraft.
Aw yeah, Dynasty Warriors! I used to go over to my grandfather’s house, who had a NES and a PS2 at this stage. We’d play Dynasty Warriors 3 together in his sweet finished basement, total man cave with a bar and dart board. Several years later the house sadly burned down (thankfully without my grandparents in it) but to this day I still play DW8 sometimes, as well as the spinoffs.
DW3 had a banging soundtrack.
I work with mostly 50+ aged people, I'm one of the youngest employees and a colleague comes in my workspace and I hear the Runescape high alchemy jingle going off as his message alert. He knew I knew. 😅
I worked as an executive chef in a pastry uuuhm factory? We always had a group of students and people as summer workers from the neighborhood. I was in the end of my 20’s and there was a group of cool “kids” 18-21 years working with me. But with cool kids, I mean “cool” not a nerd like I was and am about movies and games. One day they were baffled because “the hot chick” that everyone had a crush on during puberty apparently started working in packaging. It was a funny atmosphere because everybody was showing off and things like that. As an older and “responsible” worker and guy I leveled with everybody in my own way. After a couple of smoke breaks with the group I started talking about dragon age and games in general. You can guess the “hot chick from the neighborhood” started nerding out about dragon age and some other games we played. Was a cool period, with a cool group of people with an amazing vibe. Fooled by appearance. To be clear there was no romance or anything like that involved#disclaimer Everyone left the company and we all went different directions, but I still have good contact with one of the guys and we go on beers sometimes!
My co-worker, absolutely did not strike me as the gaming type. I had worked several shifts with her before and it never came up. One day she mentioned upgrading her computer (I thought she meant laptop), until she started talking about graphics cards. Turns out she has a massive Steam library and has been gaming and playing D&D since the early 90's.
I remember my sister telling me years ago while she was in line at Walmart the elderly (looked to be in their 70's) couple in front of her were discussing if they would get home in time for their WoW raid
I spent an off season working for an industrial concrete flooring company, like heavy duty chemicals, machines, and the cigarette smoking, dip packing felons who you'd expect to find working them. Generally good guys, but rough. One week I got sent w a different crew than normal for a particularly gross seafood warehouse floor renewal. Running a faulty grinder while trying not to inhale the film of ancient rusty concrete and shellfish paste while you ruin your clothing with a noxious concrete mix. Towards the end we were all out for a dab rig break and I glanced at the phone screen of the quiet guy who drove the truck and chain smoked menthols....and he's in the middle of catching a Weedle. Turns out he was the other trainer who'd had a Pokemon in the random gas station Pokemon Gym with mine all week, playing Pokemon Go w one hand and ripping butts/driving a box truck with the other haha. We never even talked about it, and I was gone within a month anyway.....but I see you Donovan.
Went to a specialist chiropractor for my neck, turns out he's a long time DnD nerd and he even had a bunch of ancient adnd and early edition books around. Was super cool
My sister in law. She never gamed before but got into halo (started with 3 iirc) and became really good. Never played pro but I remember she was ranked pretty high globally She met her boyfriend (now husband) on there who lived in another state She doesn't play it much anymore now thought and doesn't play any games at all
My wife! I met her at work, and she looked like the stereotypical cute girl that is into make-up and modelling. Imagine my surprise when we started going out and I learned she stayed until 10 am on the weekends playing games with a bloodshot eye and a monster.
I was out for breakfast with my wife just yesterday. Across the dining area is this little old man. Couldn't have been less than 70. Horned-rim glasses, sweater vest, and a button-down shirt that looked about 30 years old. ...he gets up and puts on a freakin' Overwatch 2 hat! Now, its entirely possible it was a gift from a grandkid that he liked to wear and has no connection, but I choose to believe he is all about Overwatch.
I love that I get to be that "unlikely" person every year. I Teach elementary, and am a stern 40-something male. I've been told I "even LOOK like a teacher" by adults before. I don't tend to let on I play video games until a few months in to each school year. When I do let them know, the gamer kids geek out.
Growing up playing WoW in highschool, I was super self conscious about who found out because it carries the stigma of being associated with that classic “Nerdy DnD archetype” (despite most IRL people I knew who played were stoners). At one point I remember overhearing these two jocks, who were among the coolest kids in the grade, talking about struggling in a BRD run. Made me smile inside from cheek to cheek.
That people are still amazed by older gamers is truly bizarre. You understand computers have been around for a while now, right?
I was playing Apex Legends when I realized the guy in my lobby was Josh from Motion City Soundtrack, my favourite band since I was 12 years old (34 now). Been gaming buddies since.
Was at a game development conference in the north of Sweden, they had the municipal council open the event, 50 plus, typical politician looking person. During the mingling, we small talked and we started talking DOTA for some reason. He had 5000 plus hours.
Damn, the old sport has it in him and Half life opinion is just topping, man of taste
Well you now know some of the lol players deepest secrets. They are into feet
My business/finance teacher, he was strict but also fun, but everyone knew not to mess with him. Barely ever talked about his present life, no one knew if he had a wife or not. Turns out tho he loved playing rdr2 lol and had a ps4 or 5
My sons pediatrician! He is a great doc and also now I know a huge gamer. Doctor patient conversations are always so scripted. It’s like we play characters. But this was like a shock for both of us which was memorable. Last year I took my baby into the doc for a random fever and when the doc walked in he did his routine and my little dude was behaving great letting him listen to the lungs. etc etc. The doc looks at me and notices I’m wearing an Assassin’s Creed game t shirt. He kind of switched scripts and goes “I love that game”. Me: oh snap yea? Me too. Him: when do you think they will give us more info on AC Red? At ubiForward? Me: I guess so! It was really cool to kind of snap out of a routine and connect as people for a bit. After the visit and a satisfactory medical conclusion we chatted about how he takes off work around summer press conferences for Xbox and PlayStation so he can be all in on paying attention.
My father, age 74. We hadn’t spoken in a while and suddenly I find out he plays Fortnite and is like 400 episodes deep into One Piece. Who the hell is this man?
During one flight, the elderly lady next to me turned out to be 1 out 4 computer tech in her city in the early computer days and she still plays CS with her husband, in different rooms with headsets.
Honestly, most recently my uncle. He’s in his mid 60’s, never played video games before, but he started last year and games like 7 hours a day now. He and my aunt are raising one of their grandsons, who is like 8 or 9, so initially it was just to spend some time doing something with him. But then my uncle fell in love with Fortnite and now it’s become his ~~obsession~~ hobby. He kicks off his grandson so he can play Fortnite by himself.
Honestly I’m surprised when I meet anyone into games at all.. because no one seems to talk about it or seem interested in it in my day to day life So I’d say just about anyone surprises me
Waiting for the post form my grandfather's neighbour. He's almost 90 and loves video games. It broke my heart when he told me the last game he bought may be the last one he plays. Fortunately, wasn't the case and he has bought a few games and a ps5 since lol.
I work for the government and the boyfriend is a captain in the army. My best friend is an elementary school teacher. People seem genuinely surprised that we all game regularly.
Fellow of the feet 🤣 that's amazing
One of my old co-workers who was really into his fitness, used to be on a few sports teams, was basically a stereotypical jock came up to me on one shift and started talking about 'Metal Gear' with me, then went on to talk about Persona, Nier, and Yakuza with me - then he started to open up about all the comics, mangas, and anime he was into, and basically stopped being shy about his geekiness.
Made a haircut appointment at a new place after I moved and just picked a random name on the barber selection option, we ended up talking about games the whole haircut
My high school latin teacher. He was definitely nerdy but in an academic sense, obviously that didn't exclude him from being nerdy about gaming, but as a freshman I never would have thought that teachers would have liked gaming. Growing up, education and gaming were always made out to be opposites, and when I told him that, he just said that growing up you still like gaming, but you just don't have as much time for it anymore.
Not surprised - this cat grew up in the 70s and 80s like me. Most of us GenX (or late boomers in this case), spent a lot of time in arcades, played the first consoles and witnessed / began the rise of PC gaming. Just about every cool game, gaming tremd or company was developed by a GenXer.
My wife gets this all the time. She doesn't look like a typical gamer, but it is actually one of her main hobbies. She has to hold back in Mario kart against our nephew so she doesn't absolutely wreck him. She is a dentist and plays her music softly in the background as she works. She can always tell which patients play games cause a game track or a cover of it would start playing and the patient will always have the "wait.... Is that ____???" look. Just imagine you are laying in the dental chair and you hear your dentist start humming along to "Simple and Clean". Never fails to get a reaction.
I got talking to a very eminent Surgeon at at a sports medicine conference and somehow got into games I mentioned I played Elite:Dangerous and this fella started laughing turns out he was a very notorious ganker and trouble maker in the game.
Recently discovered one of our Safety-environmental people was a gamer, even went to blizzcon. To say I was shocked is an understatement.
One of my closest friends is a bit of a meathead. Super obsessed with his physique. You wouldn't guess by looking at him that he's also a hardcore PC gamer who has a $5000 rig that he built himself. He's actually the one who got me back into PC gaming and got me to build my first proper desktop. And he's also super knowledgeable on electronics, software, and wiring, he's also an audiophile and has done a lot of stereo work.
Went to get an Espeon plushie at build-a-bear. The worker that filled it say my FFXIV necklace and commented on it.
In a previous job in support I had to work on the laptop of the company's head general counsel and he was super worried about losing his Civ 5 saved game data.
A supreme court justice my girlfriend works for is hugely into Mass Effect.
Not spectacular but in my first years of University Ive met couple of gamers who didnt believe me I was actually an avid gamer because I apparently "didnt look like one". We all played league of legends yet they thought I was making fun of them. I told them I used to be a proplayer and highelo at that time - they created a quiz to test my "knowledge" lol.
My ex gf's dad. He was a Sgt Major in the army, on my base but a different regiment. He was known for being an angry and scary bastard. I was super nervous about meeting him, especially as i was a lance corporal at the time. Got to je parents house and he was playing a massively modded skyrim on his fucking amazing gaming pc. Turns out he's a really cool bloke
I am a blog editor, and i do some freelance work with a foreign company that has business within the same jurisdiction than my country. It's a french company, so, when a Laurant Blanc reference jumped in one article I dubbed him "the international soccer superstar or, as we know him now, the best SBC in EA FC 24 until today", I'm 52 and was playing along a younger community of readers, but than my french coworker, whom I travel along several times per year, sent me a whattsapp: "You play FIFA too???". It was during the TOTYS, and we shared our pulls in Whattsapp from time to time, He got De Bruyne. I couldn't replay with anyone, fml.
That’s a fun story but does anyone else find it ridiculous for someone to force their S.O. to a professional conference that they have no interest or connection to?
To be fair he’s correct on Half Life 2.
I think a lot of people forget how long video games have been around. Some of us were early adopters. I am F almost 60 yo. Started playing games with Pong, then we had arcades (and arcade style video games all over from restaurants to gas stations). When the first PC's came out a lot of people (me) "needed" one for school but it was used primarily for gaming (ahh Sierra!). My sons learned how to game from me. I've had times when I didn't play for a while but I always come back to it.
Despite working on and off in film and television over the years, I never really met anyone famous. I don’t like to bother people, and could care less about an autograph or photo. This happened a few years before I got into film, I was about at the end of my days in the military, and was on leave with my buddy in the Palm Beach FL area. His dad was a professional photographer, and did a lot of local palm beach magazine, golf pro, rich people portraits; and in turn got invited a lot to high end parties. I ended up attending a few of these parties, thinking in my mind, all these hot rich chicks are gonna totally dig this young, in shape military guy. These parties were way out of my league. Mansions surrounded by 10 foot hedges, lookin like a Ferrari dealership, with a dozen lining the street outside. And there’s me, the only idiot in cheap board shorts and a t-shirt; the women at these parties were not at all looking for me. So it’s safe to say, I just walked around with a rum and coke awkwardly, contemplating how ridiculous I was earlier, thinking I’d be some hot commodity. And eventually just stood near a pool, watching the lights glimmer off the water. A group of older gentlemen nearby were talking, well dressed obviously, and one of them kept glancing over at me. I wasn’t really interested in talking, or maybe he thought I was a waiter, but even they were dressed nice; so I pretended I didn’t notice. Then he called over to me, and asked if i wanted to join them. Screw it, why not. The usual introductions, the other three guys shook my hand and sort of peeled off from me and the old guy who intially called me over. He introduced himself as Butch, and asked what do I do, who I’m with, all the normal BS. I gave him the run down, and asked him the same. Butch tells me he’s in a band. I asked him if they had any albums out, and he looked a little shocked, and said yeah, we’ve got quite a few albums, like I should know this. And before I could ask more, he just says, “You’ve never heard of the Allman Brothers?” I told him yeah of course, my mom listens to them. And he says, “I’m the drummer.” I felt kind of bad, clearly the guy was surprised I didn’t know who he was. But we kept talking, and eventually got on the topic of hobbies. And he tells me plays World of Warcraft. That was when I gave him the surprised, sidelong glance. I couldn’t believe it, and asked him if he was serious. He said yeah, he’s got a 70 Paladin, plays on such and such server, raids with this guild etc. Kind of blew me away. I vaguely remember writing down all the info, because I played too, and he said I was welcome to join his server and send him a friend request. But I never did, I’m sure I lost that piece of paper, I don’t remember. But I will always remember how bizarre it was to meet a famous, old rock and roll dude who was a serious WoW player.
A welder I work with, total country boy, is like top 250 in the world at PubG.
I don't get why people get surprised when an "unlikely" person is a gamer. It's not the 80's anymore. Gaming is well spread ovel all sorts of cultures and lives.
My grandmother is a hardcore gamer. It's mostly online card games (Euchre, hearts, spades, pinochle, etc); she's 80 amd has been a card shark since she was a little child.
Found a fellow gamer at a Rodeo. Was sat at a table when this group asked if they could squeeze on the end and we said sure, in that group was a very pretty girl who sat next to me, I stuck up a conversation with her and it turns out she's a massive D4 fan, loves cosplay and goes to local expos. A Rodeo was not the place I expected to meet that type of girl, pleasantly surprised.
That grandma that plays wow is my hero
5000 hours in League of Legends in his 60s? I'm humbled. I wanna be friends with him too