I was on the subway the other day on my way to a university tutorial and I was brushing up on some key points from my materials using my NintendoDS with Moonshell to read some text files. I still find this a quicker and easier way of getting text on a handheld without any fuss and without relying on Wifi AP everywhere I go.
This guy is standing opposite me with some Apple product and he takes one look at my DS, looks down, grimaces and goes "pfffFfFfFffft!" without even seeing what was on the screen or what I was doing. He then strikes a pose and holds his iPod out prominently, waving it around in front of everyone and nearly hit this old timer next to him in the face with it. It was really disturbing.
I tried to tolerate this and pity the fool, because it's not the first time this has happened but then I caught a glimpse of what he was doing with it. A 'match the same 3 coloured blocks' game, likely a free demo version that came installed on it. I was astonished. If he's going to act like such a turd the least he could have been doing is checking his stock values or browsing Tuscan villas for sale, but no, he's proving he can match 3 of the same colour like some kindergarten toddler can. All I'm doing is reading academic text like a loser while this George Jetson wannabe is blasting through hyperspace into the distant future and putting his intellect on display by matching up colours to beat a high score. I've encountered countless games like this (on the same DS no less) and each time spent about a maximum of 5 seconds with them. These days most of what I do is compose XMs with Nitrotracker and "do reading" with Moonshell.
It seems people think they can just spend more money than you and it doesn't matter what they do with the thing - THEY ARE BETTER THAN YOU and if you happen to not know this little fact then they're more than happy to make a bigger and bigger and bigger deal of it until it causes physical harm to innocent bystanders. It doesn't matter if you create original high-poly models on your 5 year-old desktop PC, someone is always going to have daddy's credit card handy to buy some octo-core monster to screw around with Makehuman or Daz3D for half an hour and spin around to say "loooook what I maaade" like some granny making birthday cards using clipart.
Anyway, got a similar story? This seems to be a common modern social phenomenon as I've seen it happen to others plenty of times too. I'm sure you all have similar stories. Let's face it, these days the moment you buy something, 5 minutes later something more expensive and a tiiiiny little bit bigger and fraction of a crumb more powerful will be placed on the shelf for someone else to buy, and when they do - THEY ARE BETTER THAN YOU!!!
I'm especially interested in cases where delusions of technological superiority has led to a drunken bloody fistfight, if there are any Australians here?
(and what this mentality leads to):-
This guy is standing opposite me with some Apple product and he takes one look at my DS, looks down, grimaces and goes "pfffFfFfFffft!" without even seeing what was on the screen or what I was doing. He then strikes a pose and holds his iPod out prominently, waving it around in front of everyone and nearly hit this old timer next to him in the face with it. It was really disturbing.
I tried to tolerate this and pity the fool, because it's not the first time this has happened but then I caught a glimpse of what he was doing with it. A 'match the same 3 coloured blocks' game, likely a free demo version that came installed on it. I was astonished. If he's going to act like such a turd the least he could have been doing is checking his stock values or browsing Tuscan villas for sale, but no, he's proving he can match 3 of the same colour like some kindergarten toddler can. All I'm doing is reading academic text like a loser while this George Jetson wannabe is blasting through hyperspace into the distant future and putting his intellect on display by matching up colours to beat a high score. I've encountered countless games like this (on the same DS no less) and each time spent about a maximum of 5 seconds with them. These days most of what I do is compose XMs with Nitrotracker and "do reading" with Moonshell.
It seems people think they can just spend more money than you and it doesn't matter what they do with the thing - THEY ARE BETTER THAN YOU and if you happen to not know this little fact then they're more than happy to make a bigger and bigger and bigger deal of it until it causes physical harm to innocent bystanders. It doesn't matter if you create original high-poly models on your 5 year-old desktop PC, someone is always going to have daddy's credit card handy to buy some octo-core monster to screw around with Makehuman or Daz3D for half an hour and spin around to say "loooook what I maaade" like some granny making birthday cards using clipart.
Anyway, got a similar story? This seems to be a common modern social phenomenon as I've seen it happen to others plenty of times too. I'm sure you all have similar stories. Let's face it, these days the moment you buy something, 5 minutes later something more expensive and a tiiiiny little bit bigger and fraction of a crumb more powerful will be placed on the shelf for someone else to buy, and when they do - THEY ARE BETTER THAN YOU!!!
I'm especially interested in cases where delusions of technological superiority has led to a drunken bloody fistfight, if there are any Australians here?
(and what this mentality leads to):-