>>280845
I don't know if it was rural flyoverstan or what, but...all my life until maybe 10 years ago, JRPGs were a very niche thing within the already niche thing of playing videogames.
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>>280849
>The modern internet is filled with tards and faggots who should not be taken seriously. If you do you'll hear that anime was always made for Americans.
>>280906
>those people didn’t play the classics, they’re mostly posers.
Yeah, the thing that fucks with your head being terminally online is it kind of fucks with your perception of what is actually real out there or not, demographically speaking, as loudmouths like Anita Sarkeesian unfortunately seem dominate.
Statistically speaking, cities kind of fuck with your perception as well, as I've run into people saying stuff like, "X is really common" when it's like 5 or 1% of the pop (e.g., gays). It's easier to see 1% as "not common" when you live in a town of <1000 when that comes out as 10 people, only 3 of which are really serious about it, as opposed to a city of 100k where 1% is the size of the small town I was just talking about earlier in this analogy.
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>>280863
>eventually highschool had 4k students so youd be able to find any type of person from magic card goobers to people who had never touched a game in their life
I was inna high school of maybe 200 students. So, like I said, two of us played games, and everyone else played sports, drank/smoked, or hunted.
>>280878
Ah, they're all mobile "gamers?" I'm oddly disappointed :/. I mean, the dream amongst the nerds back when was that you'd have a gamer gf, but it was kind of recognized as a statistically unrealistic fantasy. So, when I was hearing otherwise in the past few years, I started thinking, "Hey, maybe the next generation has something going for them." But, I guess not.
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>>280901
>Maybe your area just wasn't very cultured in video games.
>>280923
>I guess it depends on where you lived.
My hometown felt like how foreigners or Hallmark movies imagine smalltown America to be: drug-fueled parties, wannabe football stars, and nobody plays videogames because only dweebs do that. It basically checked all the stereotypes.
>I mean the real D&D by Gary Gygax, not what those faggots at WoTC turned it into later on.
I had[/have] to go a couple counties over to find people who play[ed] D&D.
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