It's easy for us to laugh at people who know jack shit about games, but I think I'd be an object of laughter if I ever tried to ask technical questions in a car repair shop. On a sidenote, I once went to a shop (back in Germany) and witnessed a conversation between the shopkeeper and some guy who talked to him about NES-games. The shopkeeper said that he "buys every Super Mario Bros cartridge he can get" because, clearly, "the more I have, the less there are on the market and the quicker prices will increase". Super fucking Mario Bros... lol.
Brilliant! He'd only have to buy 40 million or so to have an effect. I seriously think a very large percentage of eBay users think like that. I saw Super Smash Bros. for N64 for $40 at a game store recently. $40! It has to be one of the most common N64 games out there. $40. People are out of their fucking minds.
It reminded me of this one Scrooge McDuck story by Carl Barks. He asked people to send him every quarter from 1916 they could possibly find, until they are all in Scrooge's possession. He then would sink all quarters but a single one in the ocean and hence own the rarest coin in the world. Brilliant indeed
Something stupid I heard just today: I was in a retro game store, and there was these two kids arguing over consoles and which was better. One of them was so convinced that the Playstation 1 was more powerful than the Dreamcast and wouldn't take no for an answer. Also, back in the past I was in an argument at a gamestore too. Some kid was flat out trying to say Sega was developing a new console and said it was even announced on several websites like IGN. Being the Sega geek I am, I knew he was blowing it out of his rear.
Not particularly overheard but.... I got asked to sing by my mother-in-law. Not a good idea for anyone who values their ability to hear.
Well, not overheard, but rather got asked directly, from people in the US while being there, if in Uruguay (and South America in general) we had stuff like: - Ice-cream - Cellphones - Internet Also, a couple of times I was asked if Uruguay was in Europe, or in Africa.
When told that a microwave oven works by "shaking" water molecules to eat up food, a classmate of mine objected: "But there's no water in milk!". This was a 18 years old girl in science profile, now going to med school. Shows just how bad the scientific culture of most people is.
When i was here for this *beware the word starting with N and ending with A is used a lot in a non racist way* so you dont want this to be viewed at work or around kids. https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=1399170303687286
"OMG I had such a bad migraine. I took 10 tylenol." Me- "I bet your liver will start hurting too, better take some more."
Oh! Oooh! I just remembered this one! I was visiting my partner's old workplace in America, one of his former co-workers had met me for the first time.... She asked me very slowly "Do... You.... Speak.... English? What.... sort.... of.... language.... Do..... You.... Speak.... other.... than..... Australian....?" I was like "Holy fucking shit. You've got to be kidding me. Why is she under the impression that we seem to speak Aboriginal regional dialects?!" I had to resist the urge to slap and laugh my ass off at her. .... Stupidly enough someone also fell for the joke that you can get witchetty grub burgers from McDonalds here and other shit. Also! Tourists falling for the "Drop Bears" here. Seen a lot of stupid people asking locals about shit like that and some of them actually falling for us telling them to put tin foil and plastic cutlery in their hair or beards.
I only remembered because she asked a stupid question on Facebook. XD I had otherwise wiped it from my mind.
We have something like the drop bear here in Maryland, a lovely fictional mix of duck and wolverine, can't think of the name atm but it will come to me. "Quack".
Though most people that don't know Australia are oblivious. Most people think that Kangaroos and other wild animals are found roaming in our cities and that the Tasmanian devil actually looks like the one in the cartoon and are surprised that it isn't. And that we arn't all bad asses like Steve Irwin. Do we have internet, do we have cars and phones? EDIT - On topic though I remember hearing a guy who said he had Direct X 10 on his computer back in 1999.
