The cringiest things about gamers

[Neet Tokusatsu]

If there's something i can say i openly dislike about gamers, it's that sense of superiority they have, i think we have all seen it in places like reddit, 4chan, forums like ResetEra/Neogaf and social media in general, about how they feel smarter and more mature compared to everyone else, smarter than you average normie, smarter than comicbook readers, smarter than cinephiles, smarter than sports fans etc. the thing is, to me, gamers are the very embodiment of the "consoomer" meme, many people in this thread already pointed that out, stuff like buying the same sports game year by year just to play with an updated roster, buying defective consoles at launch, pretty paying to be a beta tester, buying mediocre games at full price just for the brand attached to it, or worse to "own the haters!", like a lot of people did when they bought Pokemon SwSh.

The older i get, the more negative the word "gamer" sounds to me, nowadays when i think of a gamer, i imagine someone standing in front of a wall with hundreds of games they never play... and Funko pops, lots of fucking Funko pops

 

[Duncan Hills Coffee]

I'm just baffled by speedrunning and the people who do it.
Like Doom speedrunning for example.
How the fuck do you not go insane playing E1M1 literally thousands of times, in the same way, every time hoping that the planets will align and you shave 0.3 seconds of your time?
Even literal autists would get fucking bored doing that.
That's not to mention how speedrunning fans will go on about what a great achievement this exercise in futility is whenever another arbitrary "record" gets broken.

What kills me is just how luck based Doom speedrunning is. People will throw themselves at these levels again and again and again hoping that this one time the enemy might move in a different direction or this other one hits them at just the right angle so they speed up. It's almost fascinating how people will cook up these insane strategies that have like a .02% of actually happening.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

That's just fucking strange because Nintendo component cables are basically universal; you can use the GameCube component cables with your N64 or your SNES, and I know this because my SNES is hooked up with my GameCube component cables. You can buy N64 component cables for $15 on eBay (I just checked) and just use that on your GameCube. Literally the only thing unique about the GameCube ones is that they came packaged with that system and not the ones that came before it.

The people buying them for $130 are ripping themselves off hard.

The Nintendo branded Gamecube RGB cable had a chip for signal processing that the others lacked, or the chip was better, idk it is still ridiculous.

That's especially loony because of the way 3DS downloadables work, since they're attached to your console, not an account. You'll get the exact same content if you hack your 3DS and sideload a .cia of the demo on there, unless you get off to watching things download from Nintendo's eShop.

Or use the FreeShop front-end for PC to download anything directly from the eShop without paying while reaching a level of piracy that I wasn't comfortable with. Downloading a CIA from PirateBay to run in FBI or whatever it was at least took some work.

 

[TenMilesWide]

That's just fucking strange because Nintendo component cables are basically universal; you can use the GameCube component cables with your N64 or your SNES, and I know this because my SNES is hooked up with my GameCube component cables. You can buy N64 component cables for $15 on eBay (I just checked) and just use that on your GameCube. Literally the only thing unique about the GameCube ones is that they came packaged with that system and not the ones that came before it.

The people buying them for $130 are ripping themselves off hard.

You're thinking composite, those go for 15 bucks like you said. Component is the higher end ones with the red, green, and blue connectors. Those were never a thing for the snes or n64, they used RGB.

The cube's component cables are so pricey because the console spits wacky proprietary signals out to the digital port, and the cable had the chip inside it to decode that into standard component video. The cable was only sold through nintendo's online shop, never advertised anywhere, and the port for it was phased out of later gamecubes.

The wii's component cables are more readily available because nintendo realized having a video out connector that didn't output standard video signals wouldn't make them any money.

Luckily for the gameboy player speds, FPGAs and reverse engineering have brought forth some aftermarket cables to convert those wacky proprietary signals into HDMI, Wii component, and VGA. Now they're all free of the ebay scalpers' tyranny.

 

[Pissmaster]

I'm just baffled by speedrunning and the people who do it.
Like Doom speedrunning for example.
How the fuck do you not go insane playing E1M1 literally thousands of times, in the same way, every time hoping that the planets will align and you shave 0.3 seconds of your time?
Even literal autists would get fucking bored doing that.
That's not to mention how speedrunning fans will go on about what a great achievement this exercise in futility is whenever another arbitrary "record" gets broken.

I always figured it's a vaguely competitive thing for the everybody-gets-a-trophy crowd, considering there are hundreds of thousands of video games out there and you can become the world record holder of some random indie game absolutely nobody gives a shit about if you put in some effort.

There's this fucking webcomic I saw once that I lost track of, drawn by either K.C. Greene or the Eegra guy, where they make fun of speedrunners where they show a kid playing Nintendo, and then the FBI shows up and says something like "You're the world record holder at Pugsley's Scavenger Hunt, we need you to come with us" or something. I wish I could find that again.

Luckily for the gameboy player speds, FPGAs and reverse engineering have brought forth some aftermarket cables to convert those wacky proprietary signals into HDMI, Wii component, and VGA. Now they're all free of the ebay scalpers' tyranny.

Huh, I didn't know that. Well, thank goodness, paying huge prices for component cables of all things is infuriatingly stupid.

Speaking of which, I remember finding out other things like the Game Boy Player's disc and the broadband adapter for the Gamecube are also weirdly expensive, too. Game Boy Player's disc I understand, since I'd imagine they get separated when a Gamecube's sold second hand and they forget to detach the GB Player unit itself, but the broadband adapter's gotta be exclusively for hacking by now.

I guess Gamecube's like a hobbyist system for people willing to spend a decent chunk of change just to avoid using a Wii, for whatever reason.

 

[Kurtis Trent]

Talk about self-hating gamers:

Edit: the dog didn't deserve this.

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[Gravityqueen4life]

Talk about self-hating gamers:
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that fucking dog meme is the cringest thing on this thread.

 

[Berrakh]

Fanboys. Fanboys are scum of the Earth and responsible for the garbage we get because they will buy anything as long as it is part of their favorite series or console. Fanboys are subhuman manbabies that are fucking disgusting.

This. Every time I like something it without fail has awful fanboys attached who, and I know how this sounds, like it for the wrong reasons.

 

[-4ZURE-]

The fact that tons of well known gamers cannot be normal it rather bothersome.

When I say this, I don’t mean the kinda socially awkward. Those people are fine and to be expected. It helps that many of them can also correct themselves easily. For this I’m going to pretty much say all of AGDQ, and a lot of Twitch are responsible.

I think key examples would be Twitch’s deer girl. She is now a major player on Twitch, and that honestly shows how little standards gamers have. Let’s just forget the trans thing as that is not the issue. This girl‘s issue is the weird deer kin show she puts on. She ears grass which is awful for teeth and has her friend pet her until she’s wet. She spends her streams moaning and getting aroused when treated like a deer. Is this seriously the standard gamers are at now?

I can go on about AGDQ, as I think we have all seen the cringe card game. Or I can bring up the attention seekers who either won’t shut up or stop everything as they talk about dying from cancer in the middle of a run. Then there are also the runners who take things way to seriously and don’t provide any entertainment.

The biggest issue with gamers is really the outcast culture that surrounds them. This mentality is why politics and weirdos run rampant in main stream gaming culture. In a way, gamers accept to little and too much at the same time. We have the far left gaming that cannot understand that identity does not make some of these people any less hard to watch as they blame the trans part of people like deer girl for being what makes her off putting. In reality, that is on the lowest end of the spectrum. On the other hand, you have a right side that hates all and likely perpetuates the left’s idea of hateful gamers in the first place. It also doesn’t help that gamers being “outcasts” let’s in things like furries, collides with the weird cinephiles and animation community members, and has huge ties with the commentary community. Gamers are great in that they are for everyone, but at the same time now most of its advocates and icons are MovieBob tier or worse. It feels like one can rarely find gamers that aren’t weird in a way pertaining to politics or furries, etc.. It also means the further you go the worse it gets, which is likely why everyone on this thread hates speedrunning and competitive as these people are always strange and have a million excuses for being so.

 

[Psyduck]

More hilarious than cringy, but the downward spike in viewership and subs after any female LP'er uploads a vlog about her boyfriend

 

[AbyssStarer]

Anytime somebody talks about buying something some faggot comes up and has to be like WhY dOnT yOu PiRaTe

 

[TenMilesWide]

Anytime somebody talks about buying something some faggot comes up and has to be like WhY dOnT yOu PiRaTe

Well, why don't you pirate?

 

[Duncan Hills Coffee]

Well, why don't you pirate?

I don't pirate mostly because I don't know where to look and I'm really paranoid about downloading anything off those sites. I know it's probably safe, I just don't want to deal with it.

 

[Harbinger of Kali Yuga]

The cringiest thing is how "gamer" is an identity, mostly of overweight manchildren and edgy not-super-duper-attractive women, engaging in a perpetual childhood of mindless entertainment and corporate intellectual property. Rarely do they appreciate anything of real art, cinema, literature, etc. I know I sound pretentious, but it's all the same shit with them. Learn how to play the piano or discover 80s funk and soul music or whatever, just try to be a more diversified person. If the piece of "art" that made you cry the most in your life was the Aeris death scene then you're a fucking faggot that needs to grow up.

 

[Agent Abe Caprine]

The anti-emulator crowd. They go around acting like emulators are illegal even though that isn't true. Never see them have a problem with DOSbox or any other computer emulators. Just console ones. When they aren't wishing Sony won the lawsuit against Bleem, they're outraged over one teeny tiny crumb of emulator showing. Oh no, a mouse cursor over Panzer Dragoon! Litcherally shaking right now!

No one in their right mind wants to spend 1000 dollars on a CD that's rotting.

 

[TenMilesWide]

The anti-emulator crowd. They go around acting like emulators are illegal even though that isn't true. Never see them have a problem with DOSbox or any other computer emulators. Just console ones. When they aren't wishing Sony won the lawsuit against Bleem, they're outraged over one teeny tiny crumb of emulator showing. Oh no, a mouse cursor over Panzer Dragoon! Litcherally shaking right now!

No one in their right mind wants to spend 1000 dollars on a CD that's rotting.

I can sorta understand the idea of preferring original hardware for a couple reasons but diehard "original media" types are nuts. If I mod my saturn to run burned CDs it's still original hardware, the same code is running, there's literally no difference, get the fuck off my back.

 

[Pissmaster]

I can sorta understand the idea of preferring original hardware for a couple reasons but diehard "original media" types are nuts. If I mod my saturn to run burned CDs it's still original hardware, the same code is running, there's literally no difference, get the fuck off my back.

Isn't there a problem with Sega Saturns having universally failing lasers, so the only way to play those games on original hardware after a while will be through some kind of SD card mod thing? So you'll only be able to play pirated games?

But yeah, I agree. Some consoles are flat-out just better through emulation. Many old computers with built-in controls have shitty keyboards, just look at the Spectrum:


(find the space bar and imagine trying to seriously type on that)

And then you've got like the SNES which has been so thoroughly researched that we've got cycle-accurate perfect emulation now, and stuff like SNES9X that generally just works and has been ported to everything. I really don't care about collecting SNES games because it's just a worse experience playing on an original cartridge, and I've lost more than enough save files in RPGs to ever bother playing another one on a platform where I can't copy my saves to my computer.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

I can sorta understand the idea of preferring original hardware for a couple reasons but diehard "original media" types are nuts. If I mod my saturn to run burned CDs it's still original hardware, the same code is running, there's literally no difference, get the fuck off my back.

They seem to have the idea that if other people can pirate and play those games it monetarily them devalues them, like Panzer Dragoon Saga, instead of creating broader interest in those titles. Yeah, collectors and board-hoarders are the cringiest because of that.

The games themselves haven't been sold for 20+ years.

 

[AnOminous]

Isn't there a problem with Sega Saturns having universally failing lasers, so the only way to play those games on original hardware after a while will be through some kind of SD card mod thing? So you'll only be able to play pirated games?

But yeah, I agree. Some consoles are flat-out just better through emulation. Many old computers with built-in controls have shitty keyboards, just look at the Spectrum:

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(find the space bar and imagine trying to seriously type on that)

That was the good Sinclair keyboard. The other one was this abomination.

 

[Sir Wesley Tailpipe]

That's just fucking strange because Nintendo component cables are basically universal; you can use the GameCube component cables with your N64 or your SNES, and I know this because my SNES is hooked up with my GameCube component cables. You can buy N64 component cables for $15 on eBay (I just checked) and just use that on your GameCube. Literally the only thing unique about the GameCube ones is that they came packaged with that system and not the ones that came before it.

The people buying them for $130 are ripping themselves off hard.

The GameCube component cable had the necessary chips for progressive scan output in the plug on the cable as a cost-cutting measure for the system, and the chipset is proprietary and has never been cloned, hence the price. Then they decided not to sell them at retail, hence the scarcity.

That is why they are so expensive, if you can find them.