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Chomp8645 posted:Gaming is big. So big that you can spend a lot of time playing many different games and still relegate huge markets like Fifa/Fortnite/Mobile/MMOs to a giant nebulous trash pile that's out of sight, out of mind. Gaming is so big, its this big *i am holding my arms out really far apart* this big... times infinity
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Snooze Cruise posted:Gaming is so big, its this big You might think it's a long way down the street to the chemist, but that's just peanuts compared to gaming.
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Sep 20, 2018 18:18
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Snooze Cruise posted:Gaming is so big, its this big https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpsbj0OoeNo
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Sep 20, 2018 18:20
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Sometimes gaming looks small enough to fit on a cat's collar but then you look closely at it and its like MIB where you zoom in and there is another universe in there.
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Sep 20, 2018 18:23
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Snooze Cruise posted:Sometimes gaming looks small enough to fit on a cat's collar but then you look closely at it and its like MIB where you zoom in and there is another universe in there. How big a cat though?
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Sep 20, 2018 18:32
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PantsBandit posted:How big a cat though? 
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Sep 20, 2018 18:36
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Cowcaster posted:hey remember gunbound I was a member of another forum where we all played the poo poo out of it and it ruled It is currently only available as an app in North America iirc :c cheetah7071 posted:It's weird thinking of all the huge gaming markets that are so disconnected from the kinds of games I play that I only know how huge they are from being told. Like sports games and the candy crush/peggle style of mobile game There is an entire market of people buying and trading digital trading cards. Just, pictures of Star Wars characters or baseball players that you can look at on your phone. I have never even come across ads for it personally but it is a huge thing and it blows my mind. codenameFANGIO fucked around with this message at 18:56 on Sep 20, 2018 |
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Sep 20, 2018 18:53
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Fortnite being so big it is causing problems in schools is one of those things I know factually but the knowledge still feels weird.
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Sep 20, 2018 19:17
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chumbler posted:Fortnite being so big it is causing problems in schools is one of those things I know factually but the knowledge still feels weird. I mean is that any different than pokemon causing problems in school in its day
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Sep 20, 2018 19:20
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My niece is in second grade and she says all anyone talks about is Fortnite. When I was that age I was still playing Atari. When I was fourth or fifth grade was when Nintendo blew up. It’s all we ever talked about, but it was NES games in general, not just one game.
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Sep 20, 2018 19:22
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Endorph posted:I mean is that any different than pokemon causing problems in school in its day
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Sep 20, 2018 19:23
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When I was at PAX I was doing the pax pokemon league and one of the gym leaders was a 12 or so year old girl and she just unprompted asked if I played fortnite while I was battling her anyways that's my fortnite story
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Sep 20, 2018 19:23
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Accordion Man posted:Or Dragon Quest where the Japanese government had to stop Enix from releasing new games on school days because all the kids would cut class. It’s also a quest in Yakuza 0 I wanna say
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Sep 20, 2018 19:25
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Pokemon came out after I got into high school. The closest reference points I have are like baseball cards, Golden Eye, and M:TG but they weren't nearly as huge time-sinks back then. Oh I did have a friend who almost dropped out of high school because of Ultima Online. Still peanuts compared to WoW or Fortnite numbers.
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Sep 20, 2018 19:25
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That Dragon Quest thing is a myth though. I think Square Enix just releases them on weekends on their own to be responsible and avoid there actually being a law along those lines.
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Sep 20, 2018 19:26
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I mean I remember being in school and even talking about non-sports games was desperately uncool. Kids who would come over and play ff7 and smash bros had never even heard of video games once they set foot in class. I imagine most schools are dealing with the 'fortnite problem' really poorly but I'm gonna admit I feel vindicated here
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Sep 20, 2018 19:27
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I was at a wedding recently and there was a lot of Fortnite taunts going around. Mostly from some 12-ish kids but some of them caught on with older attendees.
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Sep 20, 2018 19:27
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Accordion Man posted:Or Dragon Quest where the Japanese government had to stop Enix from releasing new games on school days because all the kids would cut class. This is a common misconception, the government didn't force them, they decided to do it on their own after reading stories about it in the papers. still means they were crazy popular tho.
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Steve Yun posted:My niece is in second grade and she says all anyone talks about is Fortnite. When I was that age I was still playing Atari. I had a sewing class in middle school where the teacher liked me and my friend so we would just do our assignments super fast and then read stuff in game magazines. I think that's where I explained to him what Suikoden was while he was bragging about finally beating Ozma in FF9 (which I already knew because one of his friends told me about it but then swore me to secrecy because he was stoked to tell me). I remember there was an assignment to make a patch that they'd put together with everyone else's and keep adding to over the years and mine was just a chocobo because there was a good picture of one in a magazine.
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Sep 20, 2018 19:29
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i don't know how much of it was news media hysteria but i definitely remember hearing about minecraft causing school disruptions more or less on the same scale as fortnite in its heyday
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Sep 20, 2018 19:29
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Relax Or DIE posted:I mean I remember being in school and even talking about non-sports games was desperately uncool. Kids who would come over and play ff7 and smash bros had never even heard of video games once they set foot in class.  Honestly this kind of owns https://twitter.com/joshe/status/1042118842552655875
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Sep 20, 2018 19:30
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CharlieFoxtrot posted:
There's only like 1/3 of the class willing to make complete idiots of themselves at the mere mention of the word fortnite at least. Though I bet more of them play but are less ridiculous about it
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Sep 20, 2018 19:31
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Taintrunner posted:It’s also a quest in Yakuza 0 I wanna say
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Sep 20, 2018 19:31
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Here is my story from playing video games in elementary school: Nobody would play the metal gear solid games I like. I had a friend who had a MGS2 sons of the patriots t shirt and he didn't even play the video games and I was very angry. This has been a Snooze Cruise Boring Story.
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Sep 20, 2018 19:36
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If kids weren't obsessed with Fortnite they'd be obsessed with some other craze. Who cares? How is it a problem?
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I met my still best friend in high school by bringing in my GBA and playing fire emblem on it
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Sep 20, 2018 19:37
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CharlieFoxtrot posted:
Time for me to finally pick up Fortnite so that I can annihilate these goobers.
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Sep 20, 2018 19:39
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Verranicus posted:If kids weren't obsessed with Fortnite they'd be obsessed with some other craze. Who cares? How is it a problem? I don’t think anyone is really saying it’s a problem, just marveling that it is a whole video game thing that we, a community of people interested in video games, just do not engage with on that level.
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Sep 20, 2018 19:39
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The kid on the left in that video has some serious moves
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Sep 20, 2018 19:40
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CharlieFoxtrot posted:
this is cute 
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Sep 20, 2018 19:43
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Why would that ruin someone's day? Like if that's ruining your day you just might be a grumpy sourpuss that hates things because the kids like it.
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Sep 20, 2018 19:48
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They don't understand my perry mason so i don't have to understand their fortnight hmrph
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i've been having fun with hollow knight again since i got past the white palace and got to explore a bunch of new areas. now i'm just picking up all the random grubs and junk that i missed and doing the grimm troupe stuff along the way i don't feel attached enough to completion to do all the random speedrun challenges and poo poo but i think i'll definitely 112% the game before i finish it
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Sep 20, 2018 19:51
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Fortnite IS a huge problem, because little kids now are having more fun than I did when I was a kid.
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Snooze Cruise posted:Here is my story from playing video games in elementary school: Nobody would play the metal gear solid games I like. I had a friend who had a MGS2 sons of the patriots t shirt and he didn't even play the video games and I was very angry. There was a guy in my class who got MGS2 before me and I kept asking him questions about it because I couldn't get it until my birthday Then I got mad at him because he started talking about a fat guy called "fatman" who skates around drinking wine/planting bombs and I was 100% sure he was messing with me. Tell me what actually happens!!! e: there was an argument with another kid that ended with them yelling "YOU DON'T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT FINAL FANTASY 10" Help Im Alive fucked around with this message at 20:05 on Sep 20, 2018 |
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Sep 20, 2018 20:01
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Obviously he was lying because he drinks a cocktail instead of wine
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Sep 20, 2018 20:03
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Steve Yun posted:Fortnite IS a huge problem, because little kids now are having more fun than I did when I was a kid. Don't worry, the shooting controls are still as bad as F2P shooters were when we were kids
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Sep 20, 2018 20:04
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G67-_dk8-yk&t=19s It's wine, your friend was correct
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f2p shooters didn't exist when i was a kid unless you count like halflife 1 mods
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Cowcaster posted:f2p shooters didn't exist when i was a kid unless you count like halflife 1 mods it was called shareware
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