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Im never shy to show off my gaming pride, you can see me walking down the street in a Gears 3 T shirt on any day. I don't care what people call me, they just can't handle the awesome that is the gaming culture ^^
I currently have posters of various games that I have collected including Crysis, Metro 2033, Gears 3, RE5 and darksiders. 
But what about you guys (and gals), do you have any posters or T shirts to show off your gaming pride?

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#2  Edited By Regal

The word pride seems really out of place here. Enjoying something isn't or shouldn't really be considered an achievement of the sort that makes pride reasonable. So no, I don't have any badges of honor in that regard. Though I wouldn't avoid it as a topic of conversation and I occasionally talk about games (books, film and other culture usually lends itself as better and more natural subjects to speak of in my experience.). The relevance of music and games to anything I generally wear or talk about with others have never really been significant.  

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#3  Edited By shiftymagician

I got a couple of posters from events that sometimes have a focus of gaming, however I dress normally and a rather clean room.  However people who know me already are aware of my keen interest in games, though some here in Australia still have that silly misconception that games are still toys or just for kids.  They will learn eventually.

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#4  Edited By Jeust

 The word pride seems really out of place here. Enjoying something isn't or shouldn't really be considered an achievement of the sort that makes pride reasonable.    

Here we come to this again. Raining in someone else's parade with a condescending speech.  
 
It may not be considered an achievement, but enjoying something and standing for your tastes can be a reason to feel pride. 
 
Personally I don't use any game related clothes, and don't have any posters, still I know people that have loads of token from games and movies. 
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#5  Edited By NekuSakuraba
@Gladiator32 Where do you find gamie posters? I have only ever found a Kingom Hearts one but nothing else.
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 I believe that there ideas that games are just toys are because they lack the knowledge and understanding (yes I've been watching the persona ER) to see how much effort is put into games and how they can impact on people. My pride in games is to show them as an entertainment medium, not just some toy but that can actually evolve into an art form or even a culture by how they can effect a persons thinking and understanding of the world. People find my posters and clothes as stupid because of their ideas as they are just toys. If i was wearing a T-shirt promoting Metallica for example things would be alot different.    

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@NekuSakuraba:  I Find em all of Ebay and sometimes I can score them off retailers. Some I found in gaming magazines.
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#8  Edited By fearthephins

I do have certain articles of clothing that link to video games. Actually at the moment I am wearing an N7 scarf... showing my love for Mass Effect :)

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#9  Edited By RVonE

I'm proud when I've successfully completed a difficult game or part of a game. I'm not proud concerning games or 'game culture' as such.
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#10  Edited By oatz

No, not really. The only gaming-related things I own are the game cases and consoles. Only really been playing WoW this past year.

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#11  Edited By nintendoeats

I own many game shirts, and my netbook is decked out in some serious ways. But I rarely wear t-shirts these days, so its kind of irrelevant. If anybody walked into my room they would we drowned in game stuff, but it doesn't really leave the house much unless I whip out my Famicom Game Boy Micro to play Tetris.
 
I did see a guy wearing a great N7 sweatshirt which I totally need to obtain.

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#12  Edited By Faint

at the moment i just have up red dead, gta 3 and vice city posters that came with the games. i really want a gigantic ffx poster however. (fanboyism x 324023048234)

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#13  Edited By nintendoeats

If we are talking about posters, I have them crawling up onto my ceiling. Not as many as I once did, but I only took down really ugly ones. I also have a few that I'm planning to get mounted or framed, like the one that comes with Sam and Max.

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Besides my room/house full of gaming posters/action figures/and the likes I usually wear gaming T-shirts anyway.
Be that my old clan t-shirt, Devil May Cry, Unreal Tournament or Zelda shirts. A shirt's a shirt.
If people get to wear their way to common shirts with stuff like RNL8 1998 POWER TEAM (aka random gibberish) on it, I get to wear my gaming shirts =P
 
Oh and I have a Triforce earring I sometimes wear!

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#15  Edited By nintendoeats

Hmm, every once in a while I think about getting a gaming tattoo. I am officially hijacking this thread and transmogrifying it into the "what would be an awesome but practical gaming tattoo?" thread.

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#16  Edited By KarlPilkington
@nintendoeats: A tattoo of Wrex's face from Mass Effect...on your face.
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#17  Edited By Rattle618

Why would I care about showing what I do with my free time?

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#19  Edited By nintendoeats
@Rattle618 said:
" Why would I care about showing what I do with my free time? "
So that you can meet other people who are also interested in it. Sometimes they might even be female, who knows!
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#20  Edited By Rattle618

Well I dont play games to meet people, for that I do other activities much better suited for that purpose, I think you are kind of screwed if you rely on gaming to meet chicks, but that´s me.

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#21  Edited By monkeyking1969

I wear a button down oxford shirt, khaki pants, and brown leather shoes to show my gaming pride.   Okay, I'll admit it on occasion I wear a sweater vest too, but I try not to show off my GAMING paraphernalia too much with such ostentatious displays of knit cotton & wool.

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#22  Edited By melcene

Here's what all I have: 
 
World of Warcraft logo t-shirt 
World of Warcraft  alliance t-shirt 
Rock Band Logo t-shirt 
Rock Band 2 Logo T-shirt 
Guitar Hero Logo t-shirt 
Guitar Hero "You Rock" meter t-shirt 
Sacred 2 t-shirt  x2  (got for free)
Fallout New Vegas t-shirt  x2 (got for free)
Video Game Voter's Network t-shirt  (got for free)
Video Game 2011 rally t-shirt  (got for free) 
Rift (new mmo) t-shirt x2 (got for free)
Nintendo of America t-shirt
 
And a t-shirt with a vision test on it but rather than the normal letters it's all gamerspeak. 
  
I might be forgetting some. 
 
When you've gotten so many for free (and all the RB and GH ones were super cheap) I don't see the problem with wearing them.  I don't care if people know what I enjoy doing in my free time.  Also:  my friends LOVE getting the instrument t-shirts for their particular instrument. 

And there are totally other shirts and whatnot that I would pick up.

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#23  Edited By Meltac
@nintendoeats said: 

So that you can meet other people who are also interested in it. Sometimes they might even be female, who knows! "

.. oh god    
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#24  Edited By Jimbo

I don't mind going out wearing a shirt with ketchup and/or semen on it, but even I draw the line at wearing a shirt with Gears of War on it.

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#25  Edited By Arbie

I'm not proud of playing games for a hobby, or ashamed of it, I guess I just couldn't care less if someone thought badly about me for it. I own a number of game related t-shirts which like every other outfit I wear I usually pull on whilst half asleep and don't even realise I've got it on unless someone points it out. Which often happens with my WoW Horde t shirt. Good on you for not caring about showing off a sometimes negatively perceived hobby!

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#26  Edited By EpicSteve

Game T-Shirts are always too big. I'm not too big a fan of wearing graphic T Shirts regardless. Gaming is just a hobby, not really anything you would be "proud" of. Everyone plays video games these days.

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#27  Edited By Chris2KLee

I have a few gaming t-shirts, bought one recently to celebrate my love of Monster Hunter. Never hid my love of video games, never saw a reason why.

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#28  Edited By hexx462
@Rattle618 said:
" Well I dont play games to meet people, for that I do other activities much better suited for that purpose, I think you are kind of screwed if you rely on gaming to meet chicks, but that´s me. "
It's not screwed up if it works...*
 
 
*Unlikely, unless you're at PAX.