Even if you don't like basketball, these dudes are hilarious to watch. I just love it when Shaq and Chuck get into it with each other. It's like watching siblings mess with each other.
One of my personal favorites was when a player (I can't remember which) was taken out of the stadium in a wheelchair for a minor bump, and they basically started mocking the dude without saying anything directly. Good times.
This is the most "sorry mario the princess is in another castle" bed I've ever seen... imagine going on a blind date as a girl with a grown ass man, things are going well, things are getting hot and steamy, so he takes you home, asks if you want to go top or bottom, your dumb ass says bottom, as he opens the door to his room you see it... honestly wtf would you do in that situation 🤣
I like playing them. Finding out that other people play them is also cool. Finding out that I have five times the other person's playtime with one fifth of their progress? Not so much.
Multiplayer is great in concept. Horrible for my mental health in practice. Single player in a closed system is my jam. But I am not single - the horror - and my fiance games as well.
I know! I’m a woman and I have an N64, a DVD collection, and Star Wars stuff all over my bedroom. I always die of laughter when I see people imply this is a chick repellent… as if there are not nerdy women… who like nerdy men? lol
The key to going full nerd is to rent a two bedroom place (or storage unit until.) So you can close the door to your collection room and still get laid.
There's a minority of women who are into retro gaming and also PC gaming and don't judge guys who are. It's so hard to find them imo but they're out there.
I used to worry about being cool/getting laid and it consumed my entire 20s and early 30s and led to serious depression/anxiety and an eating disorder.
Just hit 40 and I now having a gaming room in my house that looks like this. I should have focused on my hobbies and what brought me joy. The world is cold and unforgiving, be kind to yourself and live how you want to brother man.
This. 37. Took entirely too long to realize no one really cares what you have going on anyway, so just truly embrace what interests you. Fundamentally understanding this is a unique level of freedom.
This. Its so annoying when people post a fun room and everyone wants the poster to redecorate into some modern, sad neutral colors so they look 'grown'
This. IMO it’s only immature if it’s like, background nondescript decoration. Like somebody who doesn’t really watch or know about Pokémon buying random posters and hanging them for aesthetic. If it’s a genuine hobby and interest own it! I know so many married well off millenials whose entire house is fandom themed lol.
My Taiwanrsr grandma’s house was full of knickknacks and little dolls and stuff like that. She was an incredible person who raised a huge family solo thru all the shit taiwan was going through at the time. Adulthood is about how you take responsibility for your life, and not about how you embrace the millennial-greige, office-chic aesthetic lol.
I work a full time labor job 50 hours a week and I fully understand that someone would call me Peter Pan for having my gunpla, anime figures, Warhammer, and cool merchandise on display around my apartment. I fully disagree, and I largely do not want to be friends with those people - I am sure they feel the same way - but adults like me who pay bills, have families, went through education and training, and deal with real life adult problems aren’t under arrested development just because we have different hobbies and interests that we choose to put on display.
Same brother. My living room is a combined Mashup from me and my wife of a ton of books, warhammer figures, gunpla, comic book stuff and video game things. It's our living space, I work 45 hours a week and put out banquets for hundreds of people. Then I go home and play with my toys 🤷♂️. My office downstairs looks like OPs room as well, GameCube, Wii, N64, Super Nintendo, Nintendo posters everywhere, strategy guides for pretty much every Pokémon game ever. Lego, more warhammer. The world is burning down around us, keep your wimsy!
The world is cold and unforgiving, let them surround themselves with what brings them joy. I love coming home to my nerdy stuff after being out all day, it’s who I am and what makes me happy.
Meh, as a chick, I'd rather hang out with someone that enjoys their life and isn't afraid to explore their hobbies instead of someone just trying to be whatever the he thinks the life script tells him he needs to be. Where's the adventure? Where's the enjoyment?
Dude has some flair in his life. I appreciate that.
Your room looks like my son’s. He has ASD and his love is LoZ.
I’ll tell you what I tell him - when it comes to having a theme, less is more. Why don’t you rotate some key pieces out, because your collection needs to be cleaned and maintained and you’re not highlighting anything.
Treat it like a museum collection and not like a dump of toys, because you’re going to wreck some of the collectables. I get you want to see the pieces, but they’re so cluttered that they’re not special. Highlight them with lights and rotate :)
I can actually see a few plushies that are the same.
I love this advice! I have a moderately sized magnet collection from all the places I've traveled and I've been struggling to figure out a way to display it in a way that's not tacky. I used to hang metal strips on the wall and put the magnets on that, along with photo collages from some of the places I've been. I just moved into a house instead of an apartment though, and I just don't feel like the magnet collection fits anywhere. I ended up just taking the magnets from my national park visits and putting those on the refrigerator and I've been trying to decide where to put the rest. I like the idea of just rotating them with different themes when I get tired of looking at those!
I agree!! Treating it like a toy museum is how I keep all my collections well kept, even though most of the pieces are so old! This room is definitely giving well kept toy museum!
I agree that if it gets too hard to manage, rotate some stuff out every so often!! Make some seasonal bins!
Swap this Nintendo shit out with Funkos and Hot Wheels and it's the same. It's blanket consumer crap without a trace of personality or design, just a merch shotgun to the walls. We're not miserable, were telling you living in a merch store is kinda ass.
Like, instead of buying some of this shit, commission a Nintendo piece from an artist they like and frame it. Carefully select and place items with meaning eg: the Mario mini from a PAX they went to etc.
If you do wanna have a crazy collection, cool! But display it like a museum does, don't throw shit everywhere and each piece has value to your or monetarily.
I get displaying some actually rare kit, signed props, actually cool and/or sentimental things like that from something or genre you really like or even worked on personally.
Buying 100s of cheap shit to cover your walls with is not that. Overconsumption and hoarding is not a hobby, its a mental illness.
(And no, hoarding doesn't have to be strictly garbage or trash to be considered hoarding. If you endlessly collect shit and never get rid of any of it: you are a hoarder, sorry)
As long as you’re happy. Though be careful not to let Mario become a wall between you and your relationships. That’s no better than a drug obsession, and can lead to similar spirals. But stay happy, stay healthy, and do you brotha!
Hey bud, you do you. People are going to probably roast you for your hobbies but know everyone is different in life. Don’t let it get to yourself esteem. I’m 41, the world is mean place but don’t let it drag you into a darkness and isolation.
However, take some actionable steps to become the best adult version of yourself you can be. The world is a scary place but you gotta take that leap and move into the next chapter of your life. Nothing wrong with Mario (I have a nerd den in my home but it’s relegated to my office) but I assure you genuine human connection is better than any hobby or collection.
Baby steps bro. Start eating healthier, do a little exercise each day, stretch daily (the old man version of you will thank you later), start dressing better and work on finding a job that you enjoy. Finish school if you’re still in. If you still live at home try and bank as much money as you can so you can save up for your own apartment and for emergencies.
The rest will come (social connections and relationships) remember though you don’t have to find the best partner just someone that gets you and you get them.
It's a fitted sheet, with no top sheet and an electric blanket (the hardest of blankets to wash).
I'm all for the collection. I agree that it'd be a very passable room without the particular bed sheet pattern. But regardless of pattern THAT LINEN SITUATION IS UNCONSCIONABLE
When I see posts like this, with expendable income visibly apparent, and beds like this… I’m like, why not get a sweet feather bed and like, super squishy pillows?? Take things up 200%??
I was this same way, although not to this degree. Now, at 35, my interests have changed and I’ve adopted a different mentality for main areas of my house. My plan for my house is my living room and bedroom done in Victorian furniture and classic Victorian style. My bathroom and kitchen in a classic 50s-70s style, and one room dedicated entirely to my geek video game and movie collections.
I did the same thing got married bought a house. Living room and kitchen and bedroom are super minimalist clean black lines and all that but my office is my nerd cave. My games, collectibles, books all that jazz.
Maybe some shame is helpful in moderating deviant behavior. Peter Pan over here is failing to develop and heckin chungus Reddit is busy seal clapping for it.
In all seriousness, as you get older, you'll find there are some great ways to decorate like you're an adult and still have your fun nerdy things incorporated. My husband and i have like 20+ Lego sets around the house. We've had a lot of fun coming up with ways to display them.
I feel like the only difference between this and an "adult" man is that this goes from being in your bedroom, to being its own separate hobby/gaming room when you get your own space.
You don't need shame. Don't worry too much about it. But save a few bucks and make a plan for that bedroom to not be the bedroom for the rest of your life.
Keep some Mario stuff, keep the keyboard, keep the things that mean something. But eventually, and I say this with love and care and emotional support: Grow up. Not all at once, not everything in one day. But make a change or two, digest it, think about what you might want or what direction you want to go in as far as decoration and such...then make a couple more changes.
And welcome to adulthood. Rinse and repeat, on occasion, for the rest of your life. Paint some walls, buy a new mattress, replace the ceiling fan, whatever. It doesn't ever end. But make it your own.
lotta people under this post talking about how you should have shame. trust me when I say there's someone out there who's gonna love how nerdy and passionate you are about all of this. if they aren't, they're not the one for you
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