When did gaming become okay with the mainstream population?

cute and chubbypilled

>girl

When the Big Bang Theory came out and made "le epic nerd culture" mainstream.

PS360 gen was the one to open the floodgates

When did you start giving a shit what others thought and stop just caring about what you personally like to do for fun?

when you stomach is bigger than your tits it's time to put down the fork.

When the Nintendo generation began raising kids

Fpbp. You fucking dickheads know exactly what you're doing when you make threads like this. All fields

when the net IQ passed 80

It was actually the PS2, the Wii was just a fad and the people who fell for it probably never bought another console.

These are all acceptable answers.

2007 then. Everything went to shit after 2007 apparently.

This

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faggot

Halo brought it to the mainstream and CoD was the final nail in the coffin. I can specifically remember pre Halo/CoD and post Halo /CoD. It really blew up around in the mainstream around the CoD4-MW2 era.

unironically because of esports and big streamers like Ninja

reminds me of this pic

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Thats a man

This is also true. Almost every garage sale I go to I almost always find a Wii. Everyone and their Grandma bought one.

>esports stars
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

No one claimed otherwise.

what's her name again? i want to get off

rise of mainstream meteor

good post

This date also coincides with the rise of social media, and the start of the sub-prime mortgage meltdown.

>It's still incredibly uncool to play games seriously, UNLESS you're some sort of esports star.
Korea is the only place this is remotely true

Fortyone Percent

modern warfare 2

even better

When you got popular game series that resonated with the general population. Basically, sports games. People that liked cars and racing cars suddenly had a video game to play (Gran Turismo). People that liked watching or playing the big 4 sports had games to play (Madden, FIFA, 2k Basketball, various baseball games through the years). etc etc.

It hasn't. It's cool to play certain types of games, like CoD, Fortnite, Fallout, etc., but vidya as a whole is still pretty far from the mainstream.

BAZINGA

Sauce?

2007
Thanks to WoW and Big Bazinga Theory

A girl.... AND a gamer? Whoa mama! Hummina hummina hummina bazooooooooing! eyes pop out AROOOOOOOOGA! jaw drops tongue rolls out WOOF WOOF WOOF WOOF WOOF WOOF WOOF WOOF WOOF WOOF WOOF WOOF WOOF WOOF WOOF tongue bursts out of the outh uncontrollably leaking face and everything in reach WURBLWUBRLBWURblrwurblwurlbrwubrlwburlwbruwrlblwublr tiny cupid shoots an arrow through heart Ahhhhhhhhhhh me lady... heart in the shape of a heart starts beating so hard you can see it through shirt ba-bum ba-bum ba-bum ba-bum ba-bum milk truck crashes into a bakery store in the background spiling white liquid and dough on the streets BABY WANTS TO FUCK inhales from the gas tank honka honka honka honka masturabtes furiously ohhhh my gooooodd~

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What the fuck did you just fucking say about me, you little bitch? I'll have you know I graduated top of my class in the Navy Seals, and I've been involved in numerous secret raids on Al-Quaeda, and I have over 300 confirmed kills. I am trained in gorilla warfare and I'm the top sniper in the entire US armed forces. You are nothing to me but just another target. I will wipe you the fuck out with precision the likes of which has never been seen before on this Earth, mark my fucking words. You think you can get away with saying that shit to me over the Internet? Think again, fucker. As we speak I am contacting my secret network of spies across the USA and your IP is being traced right now so you better prepare for the storm, maggot. The storm that wipes out the pathetic little thing you call your life. You're fucking dead, kid. I can be anywhere, anytime, and I can kill you in over seven hundred ways, and that's just with my bare hands. Not only am I extensively trained in unarmed combat, but I have access to the entire arsenal of the United States Marine Corps and I will use it to its full extent to wipe your miserable ass off the face of the continent, you little shit. If only you could have known what unholy retribution your little "clever" comment was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have held your fucking tongue. But you couldn't, you didn't, and now you're paying the price, you goddamn idiot. I will shit fury all over you and you will drown in it. You're fucking dead, kiddo.

source

Yeah. I'm thinking I'm gonna need the sauce.

I'll save you faggots some time. That's a man in OP's pic. Now stop bumping this shitty off topic thread. All fields

It became mainstream around the 360 era when the Call of duty/ Gears of war college dude bro chads got into it.

i know he a man i just want the goddamn sauce

No one cares. Looks like a girl, that's all that matters.

>believing jewish banking conspiracy
you have to be a straight up mongoloid to believe this. There are also christians and muslims who are behind the top western financial institutions, IMF and energy/oil international enterprises. US spends money on Israel because it's a literal military outpost for the West. If you pay attention to the geopolitical nature of Israel and it's foundation, the Pentagon helped establish it as a foothold.

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2007+

Average earnings for just tournament play is hundreds of thousands nowadays. Streaming will earn upwards of $5 million USD per year from sponsorships ad revenue and donations. normalfags idolize these peoople. Gaming tournaments are shown on disney and ABC for fucks sake.

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Use fucking image search you bumbling retard. Jesus Christ there's no helping you

when men started to retreat from this shit society in their game worlds, creating a primarily male space wherein they could share experiences, humor, and knowledge. this kind of male-space is irresistible to the roast, who infiltrates the male space in a desperate attempt to vy for male attention, and to have her pick of the men, all the while being showered with attention, money, and other help from the desperate males. as the roast infiltrates this male circle, the roast's eternal struggle for attention causes the roast to further attention whore in all possible forms; this is further exacerbated by the fact that the presence of the roast was somewhat rare at the time, causing the roast to feel "special" for being one of the few roasts in this male space. as the roast garners more attention, other roasts are unable to control their jealousy and envy of attention-getting "'''gamer''' girl" roasts and these other roasts join in. it should be noted here that men never attention whored over their hobby, and preferred to stay in darkness and be left alone, as this was a retreat from society. over time, acceptance of the hobby in mainstream opinion grew, as, of course, Women Can Never be Wrong About Anything.

only recently have we approached Roast Saturation, wherein a roast """""""gamer"""""""" is not a rarity and does not gain as much attention as it once did. this is why we are seeing a shift of attention-seeking shifting from positive attention to negative attention, as roasts complain about gender equality in games, representation, toxic masculinity, violence, sexual exploitation of cartoon characters, and so on.

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Xbox started it by catering to dude bros and then

What now, you stupid bitch? Reverse image search isn't the end all be all that you think it is, you raging faggot

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She's really cute tho I wish she did porn but I think that would ruin the appeal.
I think she has this cute nerdy secret-slut vibe that makes her even more irresistible.
I feel bad she gets constant harassment though from both people who are attracted to her and trans hating people.
Anyways to answer your question gaming got mainstream around 1990s or so when the Sega Genesis came out.

I did it with 4 image search sites. It doesn't fucking work retard

Use yandex.
Sherry Kosnaski

imggram.org/profile/sherrykosnaski/4007151650

try yandex next time you dumb newfaggot. lurk for at least 2 years before posting.

You're all fucking retards. Boomers were already playing video games way before you were born. If you think they only started getting noticed by more people in the last 20 years, you're completely clueless. Not to mention, it doesn't fucking matter that more people have noticed video games, so you can shove your hipster opinions up your pimply fat asses.

>using google's neutered search for fucking anything
i dunno buddy, are you sure it isn't?

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OH NONONONONO

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What now retard? Maybe you should turn off some fucking filters you absolute brainlet

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Have sex.

holy shit what a belly

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i found the sauce on yandex. it seems like you are an idiot.

lurk for 2 years before posting.

Work on your reading comprehension, retard.

The NES.

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>replying to quotespammers
stop giving newfags attention

Which faggot were you?

wii

video games were always mainstream retards, ever since the Atari

>tried Yandex before posting
>it literally doesn't work multiple times
>Y-y-you newfag!!
OHNONONONONO NOT MY YANDEX!!!

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read edward gibbon and his decadence of the western roman empire. also bertrand russell's idea that western civilization have cycles (original idea by vico).

>Not FFVII
Uh huh...

You disgrace the architect with such mundane tastes
A true belly spills over her thighs

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correction:
>2016: my paypig orbiters will buy this game for me

?

[Citation Needed]

she's sucking it in in the photo, she's a real slampig trust me

2 years

When boomers gave millennials parental issues.

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>(((christians))) (((muslims)))
imagine defending trillionaire jews who control every aspect of media and information you consume without question and if you dare say anything not endorsed by their (((scientists))) or (((historians))) you could go to jail if you live in a country with less rights for their citizens

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all of them

just doesn't work for me I guess. I got the name anyway so whetever

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>"its a tranny"
>no source posted

thats a trans guy

Read the fucking thread you giant retard

it's obviously not you fucking retard

imagine being this kike-pilled

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...

Holy fuck, how did you fail to cover the fellow’s name TWICE???

lmao imagine being a mentally ill failed-male and also fat and sloppy top fucking lmao

I can’t see my forehead

NORMIE ALERT

wow, didn't know Yea Forums knew about her(him) pretty cool person met them irl and seemed nice but weird considering they post fanservice on instagram

*laughs irishly*

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imagine being this resentful of financially successful people

1988

youtube.com/watch?v=Iel3Ch4Jong

just looked up the first guy, corbat
>(((harvard)))
>first job at (((salomon))) brothers
makes u think

what i am resentful of is the fact that jews are allowed to openly practice nepotism while whites are not.

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>while whites are not
lmfao

it's been rigged from the start you dumb nigger

Gonna need more proof, buddy

whites are the only race under such scrutiny that they cannot practice nepotism

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>When did gaming become okay with the mainstream population?
SNES

>Jews invented the universe
whoa....

probably with the NES. Nintendo saw that PC gaming was only serving hardcore geeks who would actually buy a computer, and that console gaming was a complete shitshow. They designed the NES to be as mainstream accessible as possible. To the point that it came with a plastic robot and was marketed as a children's toy, rather than something for hobbyists.

The NES sold 61 million consoles. Population of the US is around 300 million. Super Mario Bros 3 was revealed to the world in a Hollywood film The Wizard.

the SNES and Genesis, combined, sold 80 million. in the 90's, video game commercials regularly aired on television. Street Fighter II was so mainstream it has a movie (starring a massively popular actor), merch in stores, a cartoon, and a line of action figures produced by Hasbro, as a GI Joe sub-line.

Final Fantasy VII was advertised on the Super Bowl.

the PS2 has sole 101 million consoles.

People played Frogger, Pac Man, Space Invaders, and so on, on arcade machines that were in every laundromat, bar, corner store, and gas station in America. (My mom used to be addicted to Ms Pac Man, back in the late 70's)

Video games have never not been mainstream.

threadly reminder that abdominal obesity is the number one predictive factor in type 2 diabetes

>fetishizing the diseased
have we reached peak weimar?

This but unironically

literally every single powerful group has exercised nepotism throughout history you imbecile

this is true, but how many of those people's kids got into gaming because Granny or Mom bought a Wii for Wii Fit?

and it has been wrong, every time. look, people have been murdering children throughout history. are we going to celebrate John Wayne Gacy, now?

i'm talking about current times, fren. try to keep up

Jews make up around 6% of high ability students. gentile whites make up 60-70% of high ability students (there are a lot more gentile whites than jews).

so if the Ivy League was meritocratic, then jews would only be 6% of enrolments and gentile whites would be around 60-70%. instead ive league enrolment is 23% jewish and 23% gentile white.

there is discrimination against gentile whites and in favour of jews.

unz.com/runz/american-pravda-racial-discrimination-at-harvard/
archive.is/QNRJX

"As I thus analyzed the many dozens of statewide NMS lists, I soon discovered that Jews were far less heavily represented among America’s highest-performing students than I had expected, probably constituting no more than 6% of the national NMS total. The lists of the winners of the top scholastic competitions I had previously examined for Asians produced reasonably similar results."

"The evidence of the recent NMS semifinalist lists seems the most conclusive of all, given the huge statistical sample sizes involved. As discussed earlier, these students constitute roughly the highest 0.5 percent in academic ability, the top 16,000 high school seniors who should be enrolling at the Ivy League and America’s other most elite academic universities. In California, white Gentile names outnumber Jewish ones by over 8-to-1; in Texas, over 20-to-1; in Florida and Illinois, around 9-to-1. Even in New York, America’s most heavily Jewish state, there are more than two high-ability white Gentile students for every Jewish one. Based on the overall distribution of America’s population, it appears that approximately 65–70 percent of America’s highest ability students are non-Jewish whites, well over ten times the Jewish total of under 6 percent."

>and it has been wrong, every time
get into a position of power first and maybe your opinion on the matter will have significance

you're resentful towards a group of people who are very powerful at this time and that's it, they aren't operating any differently than any other group of powerful people, and you wouldn't operate any differently either if you were capable of amassing that kind of power

2006 with Nintendo motion controls and their push to appeal to a wider market. It was around this time that Halo 2 was growing massive and Halo 3's historic launch was imminent. In this time period girls began to treat video games as acceptable culture - whether it was marketing or their free will, I don't know.

Makes you think that the irish are disproportionately treated in america, yes.
That's why they're all on wall street.
Death to micks.

>ou're resentful towards a group of people who are very powerful at this time and that's it,
strawman; not an argument. try again, sweaty

Sports games and the yearly CodBlops mostly

seriously... fucking kids always think they are the center of the universe. They world could not have possibly existed before they were shat out into it!

Jesus, I can't believe people forgot about Xibit putting Xboxes in everybody's cars on "Pimp My Ride", back in 2000.

M: Muh
U: Muh
H: Muh

D: Dick
I: Dick
C: Dick
K: Dick

your argument is just "they are powerful and i don't like it" so fuck off

based health conscious user

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hold off on judgement until you see pics without the make-up, low resolution, and photoshop.

>your deception skill has increased

Trans

strawman; not an argument.

No, it's that they are an ethnically and religiously based clique that supports itself to the intentional exclusion of others, that is disproportionately wealthy and powerful compared because of this.

hudat

Capitalism dumbs everything down to the lowest common dominator to capture the widest market and profits, and in the process cheapens and degrades the artform and aesthetic.

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What if you're wrong and the real enemy is not the Jews, but the wealthy in general? What seems more realistic to you,
>There is an international Jewish conspiracy that has permeated all levels of society for thousands of years
or
>Wealthy people in power use their authority to keep said wealth and power by exploiting the poor
We get taught that nobility used to do this all the time, and you think now that "all men are created equal" this trend should end? Get out of here, the Industrial Revolution saw factory owners pitting poor white workers and poor black workers against each other by inciting racial tension, it was the wealthy that funds Globalism, it was the wealthy that get free passes from jail due to bribes or "Affluenza," it is the wealthy that live in gated communities hawking multiculturalism on the TV. Many Jews are wealthy, but not all of them, and not all wealthy people are Jewish.

his instagram account.

when mobile games became a thing to do on the shitter

the jews make up the majority of the wealthy

>There is an international Jewish conspiracy that has permeated all levels of society for thousands of years
i choose this one

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riddle me this, batman:
>what is 2% but also 40%?

oh... just dicovered that Ivy Leagues are bullshit, have you? Racist? no... the word you are looking for is "Legacy"

if your dad went to Harvard, you get preference over another kid. if you dad gives the school money, you get preference. Rich elites keep all the good stuff for themselves, while the institutions put on a face of fairness to keep from being exposed as frauds.

also, white people crying about discrimination brings me joy. each one of you shits who whine about "th' Joos" will whip around and shit on a Black or Mexican, in a heartbeat. You don't care about equality. you just want more people to screw over.

unironically redpilled

MOMMY

>she

moron

and? "they are powerful and i don't like it" lol you fucking hypocritical piece of shit

>will whip around and shit on a Black or Mexican, in a heartbeat
lmao i wonder why

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>and? "they are powerful and i don't like it" lol you fucking hypocritical piece of shit
strawman; not an argument

I thought this thread was going to have sexy women in it. Was politics the real objective the entire time?

you can't stop gods chosen bro, they rich you aint

you're a broken record, learn to fuck off when you're told off

He can live in that fantasy since he'll never met her.

the West doesn't need a military outpost in the
Middle East. they would still sell us their oil even if Israel didn't exist, we are their best customers. think about it, don't be ignorant. we've fought a lot of conflicts that benefited Israel, with very little or no benefit to us.

true dat.

HOWEVER!!! Capitalism has always been used to fund unprofitable boondogles, passion projects, and public works that will never turn a profit. People shit on the Catholic Church for crushing free thought, but forget how many artists were sponsored by church officials. The same thing happens, today. Massive publishers will put out drivel for the lowest common denominator, but also fund incredible indie games and weird auteurs like Hideo Kojima.

Pure art does not pay. you need to keep the lights on, while you are working on your Magnum Opus

Honestly, what the fuck happened to Google's image search? It's total dogshit. I've seen Yandex recognize the face of a person and pull up different images of the same person. Is Yandex using a KGB database or something?

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i am simply replying to your posts with the correct counter. you shout out baby-tier logical fallacies in support of your tribe, but this isn't reddit, we will shit on you for such here, newfag.

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Halo 1, FIFA, GTA:SA, CoD4, LoL

I’d say those five games popularised gaming in the mainstream.

And the wealthy had been shitting all over the poor every chance they could even before the Jews "infiltrated" their circles. You're being an obedient little lapdog for those blueblooded fuckwits by focusing attention away from the gross accumulation of wealth in the hands of a select few - attack them for their hoarded wealth, not whatever creed they might follow.

>B-but 40%!!!
So you want to ignore the 60%? Oh let me guess, they're " in on it" and that means they're "just as bad" as the Jewish Cabal - listen to how insane that sounds, listen to how maddening it is. People know wayyyy too many poor or well-to-do Jewish people to find this argument that "The Jews are trying to ruin us" seriously, but you know what they'll actually turn their ears towards? "1% of the population owns 60% of the world's wealth."

That is the fact that caused Occupy Wall Street, and I think if that fact was brought up again it would accomplish significantly more in this age of social media.

google wants to restrict access to non-mainstream opinions, and as such have heavily hamstrung their search engine in recent years. it is becoming more and more difficult to find exact matches, and to find search results to niche information

>So you want to ignore the 60%?
>2% make 40%
>and 98% make the other 60%
imagine being this niggered

since at least the NES

>i am simply replying to your posts with the correct counter
very true, you are replying as if my argument isn't an argument, so you can feel like you've won, because you're a slimeball whose argument is hypocritical moralism in a nutshell

I never understood gaming being treated as a taboo. My parents would tell me I've been playing too long if it was for like 3 hours while they keep the tv on about 10 hours a day.

You're not winning any hearts and minds by posting disingenuous tripe like this as though it's the silver bullet to "win" your argument. This isn't a "race" thing, this is a "wealth" thing, and the longer you make it a "race" thing the more you play into the hands of the wealthy elite who profit off pitting whites against blacks and blacks against whites.

>this
morons love their boogeymen and massive conspiracy theories because it is comfortable. it is easier to hate this amorphous "other" that is always just around the corner and out of sight. You never have to actually confront what does not exist.

Losers invent scapegoats because their tiny egos can't accept that THEY are responsible for their own failures. Look at suicide rates. White men are at the top. Blacks and Latinos don't kill themselves. when they look around at their shit lives, they know Whites are to blame. They know what the challenges are, and they strive to overcome.

Whites only have this shitty, stupid meme of hooknosed jews pulling the strings. and when that fantasy evaporates, they have no one to blame for their own failures, but themselves. so, over the edge they go

Who is screwing you, White man? nobody else but your fellow White man

Old people don’t understand new things.

Presumably when we’re 50 we’ll be scolding our kids for spending 3 hours neurolinked into their pleasure pods instead of doing something wholesome like playing violent video games.