I just have a story I wanted to tell about this, so here goes.
Basically, about 3 months ago, one way or another, me telling people here and there, my entire school found out I play GE. I told everyone I play, as an excuse to not going out with this girl once, that I wanted to stay home and play GE 'cause I was really good, so anyways, everyone then found out about it.
Basically, this is what I used to fear as a young eliter. I was terrified people would make fun of me and call me a loser for spending hours a day playing an old video game. But this was not the case.
Basically, the next few weeks, I had people stopping me in the halls going "hey, I hear you're really good at 007" and asking me about it, or going "Hey, I saw your frigate video, that tracker bug throw was awesome!"
To be honest, I was quite shocked when people were praising me for my achievements, rather than mocking me and teasing me. One one occasion even, I had two
girls come and stop me to tell me they saw my Goldeneye videos.
Anyways, last week I was at a party, and after drinking (a lot) for the first time I was asked to play GE for a group of drunk people. I did pretty well considering I got facility 50, runway 24, and silo 115 among others. Then the host of the party asked me to beat control SA for him, which he hadn't beaten, and this resulted in a 4:45ish elevator death.
People weren't at all upset I didn't beat the level. They were just really impressed at the playing I had just done. It was really quite different from what I expected, and its not uncommon for people to ask me about why I was looking down or how I did some trick in one of my goldeneye vids, or to just ask me about advice in beating the game.
The funniest thing is, the only people who ever criticize me for "wasting time" or "being a nerd" are guys who game a lot themselves. I'm pretty sure it's because they're jealous of the game-related attention I've been getting around the school lately anyways.
So basically, instead of fearing about people finding out I play GE secretly in my basement for hours a day, they all know I do it, and are impressed by it, not criticizing me at all for what I do.
Anyways, because I've "come out of the closet" in terms of GE playing so to speak, people have started to appreciate me more, and I'm starting to get somewhat of a social life. I guess this is noticeable as I haven't PRed in over 10 days now. It's funny because I feared just the opposite would happen when people finally knew about my GE playing.
So I guess in conclusion, telling everyone about playing GE helped me start to play less. I've definately felt more inspired to do real life stuff recently, and I guess I'm just a happier guy in general.
So, do non eliters know
you play GE? Post if you have any stories or comments and thanks for reading my story.
