No wonder everyone's all stuck up in here

[eastriver]

Worst. Article. Ever.

[Quicksilver Signs]

We all know a few collectors or dealers who think they know everything about grading, are up on every hot comic and look down on ignorant noobs. Basically the mainstream looks at them as king mess of turd island.

[Comicopolis]

Click bait as news print.

[goldust40]

The contempt is rife in that article - "geek convention".

[Bookery]

The contempt is rife in that article - "geek convention".

 

The senseless slaughter of so many chickens. Oh, the humanity!

 

[vaillant]

it turns out that everything 'geek' from the past actually was cool all along.

[Gatchaman]

A number of years ago, I was on a Magic: The Gathering forum, where the heavy discussion was on players actually making purchases in the store they choose to play in for free. It was said that in the Pacific NW there are a lot of players who think they are gods of players and think that the stores should be paying them to play in their stores and they are above supporting the stores they play in.

 

A game store owner, friend of mine, told me that his store was riddled with players who though they were "elite" and would look down on other players and even be rude to them.

 

If you did not play the same games as them, or even play the same cards as them, you weren't as good as them. They would actually snub their noses at you.

[The Black Hand ®]

I used to get beat up for being a geek. Now we're apparently all narcissistic.

 

I don't see you as being a geek or getting beat up a lot.

[Underground44]

Geek is the new black.

[01TheDude]

A number of years ago, I was on a Magic: The Gathering forum, where the heavy discussion was on players actually making purchases in the store they choose to play in for free. It was said that in the Pacific NW there are a lot of players who think they are gods of players and think that the stores should be paying them to play in their stores and they are above supporting the stores they play in.

 

A game store owner, friend of mine, told me that his store was riddled with players who though they were "elite" and would look down on other players and even be rude to them.

 

If you did not play the same games as them, or even play the same cards as them, you weren't as good as them. They would actually snub their noses at you.

 

you see this attitude quite often if you play any on line free roll poker tournaments.

[Murphman13]

Wait, what??!

 

 

The old saying still holds. "Any publicity is good publicity."

[Jaylam]

A number of years ago, I was on a Magic: The Gathering forum, where the heavy discussion was on players actually making purchases in the store they choose to play in for free. It was said that in the Pacific NW there are a lot of players who think they are gods of players and think that the stores should be paying them to play in their stores and they are above supporting the stores they play in.

 

A game store owner, friend of mine, told me that his store was riddled with players who though they were "elite" and would look down on other players and even be rude to them.

 

If you did not play the same games as them, or even play the same cards as them, you weren't as good as them. They would actually snub their noses at you.

 

Yeah, so, if this happens to Magic players and geeks as the article suggests, just think what happens to you if you have real wealth and power like, say politicians, world leaders, corporate executives and so on and so on. The haughty, self important, elitist attitude runs rampant.