| extremeloco said: You two are just the type of people i like.Year after year people buy call of duty's or any other generic FPS (ahem medal of honour) , and while i play games like Demons souls, everybody plays cod/fifa. This is really terrible as they dont have a confidence or gaming taste of their own, they just follow others and buy the old big yearly franchises. Games like ucharted 2 deserve 10 million sales and they dont get em, its truly sad to see how most gamers have ended em these days
They're all Stupid lemmings |
That's just how it is with mainstream entertainment. Due to peer pressure, people are made to feel like they are out of the loop socially if they don't play the latest popular blockbusters. Personally I find that my tendency to have tastes outside the mainstream makes it very difficult for me to relate to people socially. And as a result, I have little need to socialize with people and I have poor social skills (except when it comes to socializing with like-minded geeks). That has started biting me in the ass as I got older. I've figured out that in this world, if you want social success (and social success is usually required if you want a decent career. Contrary to popular opinion, poor social skills can hurt your career advancement even in stuff like IT), you have to be a well-rounded enough individual to build rapport with people in your everyday life. Yes believe it or not, playing Call of Duty can indirectly lead to a better paying job. If you delve into popular entertainment, you get along better with the popular guys. If you end up having more positive interactions with popular people (read: people with great social skills), your social skills will eventually naturally increase. Your social skills increase, so does the positive impression you make to your boss and other employers. If you are totally cut off from mainstream pop culture, you end up like a geek like me. lol (I'm not totally cut off but relatively so. I used to be much less in the loop with mainstream entertainment back when I didn't give this shit any thought).
Yeah I painted a very dreadful, shallow picture of humanity. But that's the nature of the social world. Humans are incredibly shallow creatures (a fact that has taken me a long while to come to terms with and fully accept). It's why even the geeky guys will probably ignore the unattractive girl with the killer personality. Instead of choosing the woman that's going to be the best life-long companion and mother, we choose the one that gets our dick hard. And we wonder about the 50% divorce rate. Just like how humans follow their genitals, humans tend to follow the crowd.
