The "Gamers" of today.

So I tend to talk about real life issues and make stupid stories in my blogs. Only once have a actually used a blog to talk about a real occasion and that wasn't even real, it happened in Splatoon! So this time, I'm going to talk about something that INFURIATES ME and this story is completely true.

So yesterday (at the time of me typing this), I went to get a haircut. The line was extremely long, so I decided to kill some time while waiting by getting out my Switch and playing some Puyo Puyo Tetris.

As I was playing, a kid walked up to me and said, "So you're a gamer too?"

I was shocked by how unexpected it was, but I replied, "Uh, yeah? I mean, I've been playing video games for a long time."

"What are you playing now? Is that like a 2D Minecraft?" he asked as he glanced at my Switch.

"Uh, no. It's this action-puzzle game called Puyo Puyo Tetris. It's a crossover between Puyo Puyo, which I've doubt you've heard of, and Tetris. I'm sure you know what Tetris is, right?"

"Never heard of either. Sounds boring though. Puzzles games suck!"

That was the moment where I got extremely ticked off. How the f*** could this kid call himself a "Gamer" when he hasn't even heard of Tetris. Then he has the AUDACITY to say that the game sucks when it's a puzzle game. He's doing so many things that upset me. He's judging a game hasn't heard of (even though anyone who calls themself a Gamer should've as least heard MENTIONED) by associating it with other puzzle games. Unfortunately, I did let my anger take control of me.

"How could you possibly call yourself a gamer when you haven't even heard of Tetris?" I asked.

"
Liking old, obscure games is not cool, dude! They're outdated and have bad graphics and are BORING!" he retorted.

I was infuriated. Enraged. I will filled with rage.

"There is so much wrong with what your saying, kid. First of all, retro games are what got video games to be as awesome as they are today. Second, graphics don't make a game much better. If you're playing video games for the graphics, you may as well stare at a painting or go watch a 4k video on youtube. Third, the older games are not boring. I doubt you've even touched a game that was made in the 80's and 90's. Super Mario Bros, Contra, The Legend of Zelda, Pac-Man, Half Life, and Tetris are ANYTHING but boring. They're classics, and if you think that you're logic is great logic to judge a video game, you shouldn't even consider yourself a gamer." I said.

The kid was shocked and backed away.

Hopefully I taught him a lesson. I may have gone a bit too far, but I couldn't help it. And this isn't even the first time this has happend. I hear children mocking Nintendo for how the Nintendo Switch does not have 4k graphics, or that Mario is for babies. It infuriates me and I can only hope that the term, "Gamer" does not refer to these idiotic losers.

Don't take this too seriously, my blogs are usually over the top and meant to be taken with a grain of salt.
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It's hard to really know how to take this without knowing your age and the kids age. At a guess i'd say your in your 30's and he was like 10. Or how much of it actually happened based on your final comment "Don't take this too seriously, my blogs are usually over the top and meant to be taken with a grain of salt."

Either way i'd say enjoy the games you like on the console you like. Some major Nintendo franchises do suck in my opinion, however others are down right awesome.
 
Tetris isn't even obscure though. They're still making them even today, and puyo puyo tetris is a pretty new game.
Though I do agree with the kid that puzzle games are boring. I enjoy the occasional Puyo Puyo or Tetris Attack/Panel de Pon, but only for short amounts of time, and they get boring quickly. Other puzzle games don't interest me at all.
 
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@mech It's fine to think that Tetris is boring. It's an opinion. However, saying it's boring without even watching gameplay or hearing about it isn't right.
 
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The only lesson he probably learned is to stay away from aggressive old men that are playing with a game console in public. ;-)
 
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@SonowRaevius

Kick! Punch! It's all in the mind!
If you wanna test me, I'm sure you'll find
That all the things I teach ya is sure to beat ya
But nevertheless you'll get a lesson from teacher, now kick!
 
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A gamer is someone who regularly plays video games, I don't see why not knowing what Tetris is makes anyone any less of a "gamer". I couldn't give a damn about Tetris or Contra but here I am, a regular on a gaming forum.
 
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I knew this was going to go downhill the second I saw "gamer" in quotation marks

It does sound like the kid was being a little snotty, but I see nothing unreasonable that he said, at least initially. You've gotta remember that Tetris came out almost 20 years before he was even a THOUGHT, and he was probably relating it to something like Candy Crush just based off of looks.

You could have offered to play a round or two with him, given that the whole purpose of making the Joycon removable is to have two controllers at all times...
 
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You make him sound like a CoD kiddy, yet he is surprised from beeing yelled at by another gamer? *scnr*
How did the other people in your waiting line react to these strange interaction?
 
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This blog made me think of this song:
(yeah, by a Catalan group, sung in Spanish, I know...)



That said, there's always the exception that confirms the rule, but 99% of kids are pretentious arrogant brats that really tests the limits of patience and make you think how these little pieces of shit can eventually turn into people, something really puzzling. /rant (lol, exaggerating much)
 

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