Topic: Ever been judged for what you games you played or music you listened to?

In Gaming I was judged for loving Mega Man. People expected me to play COD, 2K or GTA.(GTA is a great series, but I don't play it every time.
In music, it has always been rock. People want me to listen rap.
Don't know where this will go, but I wanted to see if people related.

Yes. In today's society, cool is the equivalent of playing all those games you listen to above. Playing a Nintendo game or having a Nintendo system will always earn you judgment(unless you're in college or have friends who love the same things you do.) I've never released my gaming preferences except those closest to me. I also purposely lie when people ask me what videogames/ system I play. Music is a different story, and I don't get judged for that. I'm not really a heavy listener to music, and honestly, I never get asked about it.

I can say I've been judged for liking Nintendo games a lot but I've learned what I like is what I like. Also when it comes to music I tend to listen to soundtracks which when you tell people they give a weird look like you've grown two heads.

Sounds like my neighborhood with those expectations. Pretty much It have to be realistic, violent, western type/influence games. You can easily imagine what system they have and games they mostly play. I guess it's for the best since I wouldn't trust most of them near my system (long stories). I keep most of my game preference on the down low, from Kirby to Just Dance and everything in between and out. Unless they have an interest in any of those type of games then I open up a bit more.

As for music, I listen to almost any genre (just like my video game play style) but my peers are mostly into Rap. I don't really get judged on that. Only for not knowing certain songs or artist.

I used to hide it because people would judge me but I dont anymore I tell people the truth when they ask and almost always they either like nintendo to or simply dont care they dont tease anymore besides if someone doesnt like you for who you are why be friends with them real friends are people who know you but love u anyways (also im in high school just wanted to point that out)
as for music people dont typically ask so yeah

Not really. To be honest were I live, most people don't really judge, and are pretty laid back.

Sometimes but that's inevitable since I went to school.

To be honest, I feel I might've had it lucky. In middle and high school, most people were cool that I played Gamecube games or whatever. Even now, it genuinely shocks me that there are actually people out there that are that judgmental. Like, it's gotta take a real high level of insecurity to be butthurt someone likes something you don't, particularly the stupid non-reasons I've seen given.

I would get judged back in high school for playing video games, period. The area I grew up in was pretty rural, so a lot of the student body were truck-crazy hicks who could care less about games. The few who did play video games were guys who only liked to play FPSs (I'm not fond of them) like Halo and CoD. Everyone was too cool to play games on a "kiddie" Nintendo system, and being a female pretty much meant that I wasn't invited on the rare times they did play something I was interested in (like Elder Scrolls). Thankfully, there was a group of Nintendo fans I could associate with in the technology department when I went to college.

In terms of music, this wasn't an issue until my tastes began changing from pop to more of an alternative/hard rock/metal background. I would usually listen to my music privately, but whenever I would express a group I liked, I would usually get a "Who's that?" type of response. It rarely escalated past others' confusion, at least.

My classmates always enjoyed my video games. Specially during the DS era.

As for music, I don't really have a preference.

The only time I ever had anyone make fun of my video game tastes was when I was in college and brought home the original Animal Crossing on Gamecube that I had just bought. My friends liked the Gamecube as a whole, but they thought that game looked silly and childish. Within a week, though, every time I came back to my dorm room from class or somewhere else there would be a random person in my room playing Animal Crossing. I turned them around on that pretty quickly.

Nowadays, my classmates keep telling me that Zelda, Kirby, Pokemon and other Nintendo games are for kids. Yet I remember all of us playing Mario Party DS a couple years ago.
As for music no one has judged me, since I'll listen to almost anything.

Well not really, for multiple reasons. For a start I'm of a slightly older generation and the consoles that were a hit here were different to the ones that were bit internationally. So when I was in the "people judge you for taste" age bracket we were all pretty platform agnostic. Purely because the international gaming market didn't care about what was popular here. At the risk of dating myself, the timeline of "platform wars" was something like this with the "teenage judgement" period in bold.

PC/MS -> PC/SNES -> N64/PS/PC -> PC/XBox -> Wii + 360/PC

Most of us had been Nintendo fans, most of us had been Sega fans and by that point most of us were PC gamers. By the end of High School the XBox was starting to make waves with Halo but it was really still about the RTS. C&C, Age of the Empires and Starcraft. If you had a console? That was cool, but everyone had a crappy PC that they brought to LANs. The only time I remember someone's choice of platform being made fun of? I knew one person who owned an NGage..... and we mostly made fun of it because it was a stupid phone.

In terms of music? Well I'm sure it happened but I didn't really experience much of it. I mean I have a pretty diverse taste of music now but when I was a teenager? I was listening to whatever everyone else was listening to. Spiderbait, Silverchair, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Smashing Pumpkins. Whatever. I had friends who were into stuff like NOFX and Ramnstein. So I was also into that. So it wasn't really something I saw. Again, the only time I saw it? I had one friend who made fun of the fact that I liked Silverchair by signing the Lyrics to "Love your Life".... but it was playful banter and that was about as far as it went.

Well I mock my mates for having no girlfriends and taking their frustrations out on cgi hookers in GTA. Does that count?

Yeah, a lot. Everyone expects me to play Call of Duty, NBA, Madden, GTA, and nothing else. I hate that video game opinions are transferred so much faster now because of the Internet. Now everyone has an idea of what a great game is so they won't play anything else. When recommendations were given by word of mouth, it was much better because people were more like individuals rather than people who look up what everybody plays and follow suit. Like, I didn't even know that the Gamecube was the worst selling console from its generation. I loved it nonetheless. Amazing games came out for that system. Now, if I say that I have a 3DS and I love it, people look at me weird. When I had a Game Boy Color, people would be interested and ask questions instead of quickly dismissing it. People used to think Mario was cool. Now it's a kid's game? It's rated E for everyone, which includes me. And about the music thing - yeah, people make fun of that too. Some people will go as far as to call me gay for listening to a woman sing a song, which is so stupid because being gay isn't something to be ashamed of. Or some will make fun of my taste in rap. Some will make fun of how I like Japanese music.

But you know what? I like myself. I like my music and games. If people like to make fun of me for it, I don't get hurt by it anymore. Why should I care about what someone thinks about me? If I'm happy with what I play and what I listen to and if I'm happy with myself, that should be all that matters. I'm not gonna cry over something a stranger said to me. I don't care about them so their words can't hurt me. Even my friends' words can't hurt me because I love myself the way I am and I'm proud of it.

This is probably a good part of the reason why "wars on taste" weren't really a thing I saw in High School. Not everyone had broadband at home, a majority of people (myself included) were still on dial-up. So most information was spread either via word of mouth or from whatever was said in magazines, on TV or radio. If you liked a track odds are it was because it was popular and it was popular because it was loved by a particular station. Because that was the easiest way, sometimes the only way to come across new music. It's not like now where you have youtube, spotify and so on.

With games because we were all PC gamers and it was the early 2000s? Well you can imagine. You'd hear chatter, give a particular someone $5 to cover the cost of the disks and a bit extra. Come back the next day and you'd have a copy of GTA. Or you'd turn up at a LAN and they'd want to play a game you didn't have, oh look, now you have it. And it was the same with music to some degree. If you were friends with someone you'd burn some tracks onto a CD for them. That's how everything happened. The legality of it all? Well, very sketchy. But there weren't many arguments about people's taste because we were all into the same stuff.

Infact the only thing even remotely close to a console war was the age-old PC gamer argument about brands. Is AMD or Intel better? At that point in time it was a pretty tough fight. I was definitely on the AMD side of the fence. But even then it didn't matter because we were still all playing the same games.

Yes.

Don't be silly, I'm the one who judges. People come to me and show off their tastes, and I decide whether they are cool or uncool. The cool are released, back into the wild, while the uncool are destroyed so that they may never breed.

I like to think I'm doing god's work

I dont know because I dont really care what other people think.

What, like in real life?

My brother once mentioned "weird Japanese s***" as a genre I enjoy. So... no, not really.

Not until pretty much now, which is ironic, I grew up with and around kids who had N64, GameCube, GB, GBA, and then when I was in high school it was something to hide and be embarrassed about if you had a DS for some reason, probably because at the time it brought to mind, Pokemon or Mario Kart, which was seen as nerdy, but everyone loved the Wii and bragged about having one? High schoolers are stupid and have no logic.
You were never made fun of for having Xbox or Playstation things.
Somehow the jump from Wii/DS to WiiU/3DS has really turned gamers against where they came from, now people suddenly hate Nintendo and reject it around me. Although the weird thing is I know more people with WiiUs than 3DS systems, and they actively use them!

As for music, I use to all the time be made fun of but now people make me bluetooth my phone into the speakers to play MY music. Who gets passed the aux cord? ME. I don't even want to be the DJ and they make me because I have the good music. Nothing changed, I have the same 80's 90's music as I did as a kid and now people like me for me. Once again, stupid high schoolers....