Has this happened to anyone else? You used to belong to a certain group but have since left it, but now that you're out you feel a deep resentment toward that group you used to be a part of.
For me it's the whole gamer/geek culture. Back in HS and my first year in college I was that gamer geek. I could rattle off the differences between Gradius games and argue about which one was better. I could dissect every Final Fantasy element and give laundry lists about why certain installments shouldn't be associated with the rest of the series. Zelda was the best thing since sliced bread and Fallout was hardcore. If Scott Pilgrim was released 3 years ago I'd have been all over it like white on rice.
Now when I see or hear people talk about video games or other facets of geekdom I think it's all so juvenile and wasted time that could be spent on other activities (music, sports, reading, etc). My patience toward it had been weaning for quite some time now, but really set in a few years back. I did my best to ignore it but everyone I knew who was still in that group wouldn't let it go. I'd talk about music, current events, how school/work was going and they'd turn it into what obscure games were coming out, how Nintendo was doing, their favorite games, etc. I'd want to go out and do stuff and they'd just want to stay at home playing Castle Crashers or Halo. This reached a boiling point when Scott Pilgrim came out around my birthday and I was called a freak, insane, and various four letter words first for refusing to see it and then again when I saw it and didn't like it.
So again I ask, have any of you dropped out of a group only to subsequently become annoyed by it?
For me it's the whole gamer/geek culture. Back in HS and my first year in college I was that gamer geek. I could rattle off the differences between Gradius games and argue about which one was better. I could dissect every Final Fantasy element and give laundry lists about why certain installments shouldn't be associated with the rest of the series. Zelda was the best thing since sliced bread and Fallout was hardcore. If Scott Pilgrim was released 3 years ago I'd have been all over it like white on rice.
Now when I see or hear people talk about video games or other facets of geekdom I think it's all so juvenile and wasted time that could be spent on other activities (music, sports, reading, etc). My patience toward it had been weaning for quite some time now, but really set in a few years back. I did my best to ignore it but everyone I knew who was still in that group wouldn't let it go. I'd talk about music, current events, how school/work was going and they'd turn it into what obscure games were coming out, how Nintendo was doing, their favorite games, etc. I'd want to go out and do stuff and they'd just want to stay at home playing Castle Crashers or Halo. This reached a boiling point when Scott Pilgrim came out around my birthday and I was called a freak, insane, and various four letter words first for refusing to see it and then again when I saw it and didn't like it.
So again I ask, have any of you dropped out of a group only to subsequently become annoyed by it?
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