Coffee Talk #335: Gaming at Odd Times or in Odd Places

Have you ever played games at an unusual place or an odd time? I’m talking about something that others might find inappropriate. Look at the picture above, for example. Three of my friends whipped out their…

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Have you ever played games at an unusual place or an odd time? I’m talking about something that others might find inappropriate. Look at the picture above, for example. Three of my friends whipped out their Nintendo DS systems during a wedding. Some people would consider that rude. (To be fair, there was no alcohol at this wedding.) We honestly didn’t think anything of it, but the picture makes it seem a bit strange.

So how about it? Ever play games at a hopping bar or during a…I don’t know…a funeral? Perhaps you’ve interrupted a job interview to make a Scrabble move on your phone. Share your unusual gaming stories today (please)!

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33 thoughts on “Coffee Talk #335: Gaming at Odd Times or in Odd Places”

  1. Having a strange problem with Time Warner Cable. I can't pull up my site on using the service. All other sites work. My site works fine using Verizon LTE. Perhaps it's a DNS issue? As expected, Time Warner and my web host were absolutely useless in solving this problem.

  2. I was at a stand up comedy show and all the lights where dim except for my face because I was knee deep in Wordfeud (scrabble) and I could tell that the comedian was getting pissed off, but it is not my fault that he wasn't funny.

  3. I play games at damn near every wedding we go to. I make it a rule to not do it during the actual ceremony but during the reception I have no such rules. Of course this doesn't happen if I know the people and am boozing it up with them.

    Earlier today I was actually playing Collision Effect at the dentist while in the chair. Had another wisdom tooth removed today. Pain pills and video games for the rest of the week. Woot.

    1. I didn't want to say anything about it honestly. I was never an Edge fan, so this is good news as far as my character preferences are concerned. If the injury is real, I wish him the best.

  6. One of the last times I ever played Pokemon was at one of my ex-girlfriend's graduation ceremony. I saw a little kid behind me also playing on his Gameboy Advance and so I went all the way out to my car to get the Gameboy connection cable I just so happen to drive around with and then back into the arena and then turned around and challenged him to a Pokemon battle.

    Despite the disapproving looks from the kid’s parents and my ex-girlfriend's family, the kid was playing some other stupid action game, so I looked like even more of a loser than normal.

    Fail.

    -M

    2. I have to agree with Smartguy. When I first got Pokemon you got made fun of if you had a game boy but not Pokemon. It's almost a mandatory game for the system the way it's been marketed and the success it has had.

      2. lol sounds like fun. I feel like Parry the Platypus or Dr. Venture now that I have a nemesis, haha. And any guesses would depend on what system it's on. hmmm. Also, I'm always a horrible guesser.

      4. lol that would have made things…interesting. Can't critique her actual knowledge of pokemon or the franchise, mostly just her one article. Honestly though from different sites I've read you and Carolyn have set the bar pretty high for my expectations of a writer's knowledge of Pokemon.

      5. Yeah…we are pretty intense with our Pokemon knowledge.

        Right now I'm just killing time before the PS3 mystery event. I'm under embargo, so I can't say anything until tomorrow morning.

      6. That's what I like about it though. Other writers give intensity with other game franchises, but Pokemon seems to not get that same intensity or care from other places—so it's refreshing for hardcore fans to feel like the writers actually care about the game. Not simply talk about how the first gen. is the same as the 5th gen., etc.

        Can't wait to hear about the mystery game tomorrow.

  7. I have my DSi with me all the time so I'm not really sure which times are inappropriate recently. I plan on having it with me and playing during a wedding reception at the end of next month, it was also with me when I went to my fiance's company Christmas party even though she wouldn't let me play it. The party was boring enough that I wanted to though.

    The one place I can't bring myself to actually play my DSi though is when I get dragged out to the bars. It could just be me, but I find bars to be some of the most boring places on earth. If I'm going to drink I prefer to do it in my own home or a friend's home where we can do something else too. So I'm extremely bored, especially when it's with my fiance's friends, but I usually only use my phone and iPod touch constantly because I feel I would be judged or ridiculed a little too much if I played my DSi.

    1. @BSU

      Indeed. I have always preferred an icechest with a bbq pit or crawfish pot, and a good back yard when it comes to drinking with friends.

      I also like this one bar on the lakefront called Barley Oak that has a good selection of beers. They allow ppl to bring their dogs as well. I'm a big dog lover so it's a nice perk. Then again…this place is only different from my backyard in the fact that I don't live on the lake.

      1. @SG

        There are a couple bars I like, more like pubs though—literally several hundred kinds of beer on tap from all over the world at one of the places. The conflict there is they have this amazing root beer on tap as well, better than anything I've ever gotten at a store. So anytime I go there I have to make a choice between beer or root beer.

        A nice backyard full of food and beer sounds like a much nicer evening than an overcrowded bar and annoying DJ's that plays the same several songs on repeat every hour, all while charging way too much for a drink.

  9. Eh, I don't think I've taken my DS Lite to an odd place to play. It goes with me practically everywhere, even when my best friend gives me a face lol. Unless you count going to the bathroom with it odd.

    1. that's a standard I think everyone with a portable game system has upheld since the birth of the handheld.

      1. I would never take my DS into the throne room. To "dirty" of a place for something so sacred to me.

        @Topic

        I used to play my DS in the middle of class during high school. /Nostalgia time loop in my head right now…

        Hard to believe I've had it for almost seven years now.

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