How do you respond do these two statements.

1. Your playing Super Mario Galaxy/Kirbys Epic Yarn/Ratchet and Clank and your friends walks in and says "Why are you playing this shitty kiddy game? Lets put in a real game like that Call of Duty!"
2. You go round your Grandmothers house and she asks what have you been doing today, you say played video games. She then says "You should stop wasting your time playing video games."

I ignore both of those statements.

1. I keep playing the game.

2. If anyone asks what I did that day, I say very broad and general statements, almost never going into details unless they're friends of mine. So very few people know I play a lot of video games.

@SMTDante89: The topic is not what you would do, but how would you react to that statement.

1. Realize those people are not actually my friends because I would never be friends with someone who seriously had that type of mind and promptly remove them from my home.

2. Either start off an argument explaining how everything else is equally a waste of time by saying "then what should I be doing" or say "nah".

1. Piss off COD is for drones

2. Time to put you back in the home

@Hizang: doing is reacting

Punch them both in the face.

1. Who are you and why are you in my house? -reaches for katana-

2. You should stop wasting your time period...seriously, you don't have much left.

1. He'd probably be trolling.

2. "OH GOD GRANDMA GET BACK IN YOUR GRAVE"

1. I mean come on, they may be geared towards a younger audience but that doesn't mean they're bad games!  They're truly fun in their own right!  That's my reaction.
 
2. I would probably be bothered and think to myself "oh yeah, and what did you do today grandma, knit?  Maybe you shouldn't fucking knit so much."

1. Sure. If that's what game you want to play, let's play that.
 
2. Yeah, I know, Grandma. Don't worry, I don't often spend that much time playing them.

Usually a very hard eye roll to both of those.

1. FUCK YEAH BRO *brofist
2. ask myself y im wasting time with my grandma instead of spending it playing COD with my bros

1. "Yeah, bro!" Then go get my shovel and a bag of lime.
2. Say nothing. Then go get my shovel and a bag of lime.

1.I would attempt to explain the merits of the game.

2.Just agree with her. "Yep Grandma, well I was also doing XYZ" to change the conversation.

I'd never be friends with people like that in the first place. And my grandmother wouldn't say that either. If for some reason she did, I'd probably just say one word. "Tetris". She used to stay up all night playing Tetris. She was practically addicted to that game.

You care way too much about what people think of you dude. At least, that shows in your thread making.

1. Grow up.

2. Uhh, yea ... sure.

1. I'd say either sit down and give it a go with an open mind or just deal with it and shut the fuck up, or if you don't quit complaining then fuck off until you stop!

I used to be the kid in 1996 until 2001 that didn't understand that Nintendo games can in fact actually BE really really fun, and had my friend said the above statement back to me I believe I may have switched my stupid attitude down, and it wasn't his fault but he simply said ok and sighed, turning the console off and asking me what I wanted to do instead,

Kids can be such ass holes sometimes.

2. I'd ask her what she thinks of spending large quantities of time in front of her TV just watching it. And then I'd ask her what's so different about what she's doing with her time compared to what I'm doing with some of mine. Then I'd ask her which is more engaging, when where you have to react quickly and make numerous decisions in quick succession OR where you just sit there and let someone else direct how your entertainment goes.

An elderly person asked me this a few months ago and she's since backed off, her original statement was that video games are for children and that men should just grow up and stop playing them.

1. Meh
2. Granma do you wanna play with me?

@Hizang said:

1. Your playing Super Mario Galaxy/Kirbys Epic Yarn/Ratchet and Clank and your friends walks in and says "Why are you playing this shitty kiddy game? Lets put in a real game like that Call of Duty!"
2. You go round your Grandmothers house and she asks what have you been doing today, you say played video games. She then says "You should stop wasting your time playing video games."

1. "Yeah, you're probably right. Mario hasn't really been anything special since 1996. Let me get to a save point and we'll switch."

2. "AHHHHH GRANDMA!? YOU'RE ALIVE????"

1. I don't play COD because it's not based on skill, it's based on time commitment.

2.* Say that video games are the future of media. They had the invention of radio and TV for their generation while we have the internet and video games. In a short time her attitude won't exist because her kind will have died out. Now who's wasting their time?

Edit: *Hypothetically. I never met either of my grandmas before they died or one of my grandfathers. My other grandfather spent the last 20 years of his life getting up, spending the day sitting in a chair in his kitchen then going to bed.

1) Flip them off and keep playing. Plus, if they want to play COD why did they come over? Shouldn't they be back at their own place with their own console leaving me the fuck alone? Plus, I'd be wondering why my friends would want to be playing COD since that's not their type again.. But the first two parts hold true for someone else with friends that would play COD.

2) I wouldn't have spent the whole day playing games if I was then also going to go to my grandma's place because both are so far away from me it would be pretty much impossible for that to be true.

1) I knock his/her fucking teeth out.
 
2) "Yes gran, I promise." Been saying that for years now.

1. I do not surround myself with idiots.

2. I dont care about people´s opinions of myself or my activities, therefore they tend to be out of the loop, besides nobody walks in on me cause I live alone :)

1. Fuck you, it's fun. Then I'd turn it off anyway because sitting there playing a game by yourself when you have company is just rude.

2. It's not a waste of time.

1. I'd say " Racist all games are equal in my eyes"

2. "Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh Zombie!!!!"

1. *Laugh*

2. *Laugh*

1.) Laugh in her face and call her an ignorant slut.

2.) Tell Grandma to stop wasting her time being so old.

ignore the first one its like someone saying i dont like pixar movies because im to old for them -___-.

2nd one just ignore it that not from your generation they dont understand and they might change i once had a person in my family who thought like this but then she saw how almost all people of my generation play video games then she began to understand.

just make sure not to shut yourself off from the real world either if i had a choice between hanging with friends and playing video games id choose the former.

When I was chatting with a friend the other day and brought up Rayman: Origins (and he is a gamer, just without the internet aspect), he immediately dismissed it and claimed not to care how well received it is; as far as he was concerned he needed to know nothing other than it was a Rayman game.

Pissed me off quite a bit, considering the great time I've been having with it.

@Hizang said:

1. Your playing Super Mario Galaxy/Kirbys Epic Yarn/Ratchet and Clank and your friends walks in and says "Why are you playing this shitty kiddy game? Lets put in a real game like that Call of Duty!"
2. You go round your Grandmothers house and she asks what have you been doing today, you say played video games. She then says "You should stop wasting your time playing video games."

1. I say I still have "a kid inside" that I like to appease every once in a while. Yes I also like Pokemon.

2. It's my passion, the time you spend watching tv or movies; i'm playing games. Basically sitting in a chair like you just doing something different.

I feel like the first situation doesn't happen as much as the second one. But they both are steadily declining in occurance as games are more and more accepted.

I'd say someone is insecure and asking questions on the internet to find justification. ;)

If my grandmother told me to stop wasting time with video games, I would ask her how much TV she watches. Boom.

So much grandma hate in this thread, It's unnerving. You'd think you guys were talking about Patrick.

For both tell them to go do one.

Well, maybe not the second one but my nan moans at me for similar reasons and I just ignore her and it seems to work.

An alternative to alienating your friends is to play CoD with them until you come across one of those mentally unstable 12 year-olds who call everyone fags and tell your friends that their 'real game' sucks.

I'd be like "WHATEVER man, Suck Cannon sucks up enemies and shoots em out as ballistic ammo. If that's not fuckin genius then I wanna know what is!!"
 
In both scenarios.

1. Instead of adding anything of value to the thread I correct the usage of "your" to "you're".

2. See 1.

@Hizang: 1. I don't have any friends that immature but I would imagine I wouldn't stay close friends with someone like that. If I had to argue for them I'd just say good gameplay is for all ages and HECK everyone loves pixar so how can you not love RnC!

2. Yes grandma! (respect your elders son!). Then I would go play games.

1. You are not my friend anymore. Plotformers are better than FPSes.

2. (No idea, my Grandma plays games herself so I've never dealt with that sort of thing from her)

1. Fuck you

2. Fuck you

1. Tell them that Call of Duty sucks and that they should be playing Battlefield 3.

2. Tell her that I enjoy the hobby and don't think its a waste of time.

I tell both parties to go fuck themselves.

1. Oh, this? This is nothing, no, no, this is . . this is for my little brother (*you don't have a brother*) hum . .cousin . .yeah .. for my little cousin. Please don't hit me.

2. Yeah, yeah. Hey, you have 20 bucks I can take?

1. I'd say that I need to save my game first and then we'll play COD.

2. I'd say, "Yeah, I know," while understanding that it's not worth turning it into a discussion.

@Video_Game_King said:

I tell both parties to go fuck themselves.

Why do you play that shitty kids game Fire Emblem? Put in a real game like Shining Force!

Edit: :P

1-Tell them to suck it.

2-Never argue with grandma. Smile and agree.

*scratch head*