Has anyone ever had to hide their power level while at work or at any other social gatherings...

Has anyone ever had to hide their power level while at work or at any other social gatherings? People at work today where talking about how they used to always play N64 all the time when they were a kid and haven't touched a game since. Meanwhile, all I do when I'm not at work is play video games.

Imagine going through life pretending you’re a boring weirdo instead of just a weirdo

God forbid you actually relate to someone else and make a friend

WHAT 9000!!?!?!

>while at work or at any other social gatherings

yes 100%. imagine you said "Yea I still play nintendo today right now Im going through Super mario Odyssey"
Talk about your interests with people who share them, not literal normies at your workplace

>coworker wants you to check out there youtube channel

>Talk about your interests with people who share them, not literal normies at your workplace
This, nothing wrong with revealing your power level with certain individuals that might share the same interests.

The trick is to limit your powerlevel, not hide it altogether, especially since gaming is mainstream as all fuck nowadays. Talk something about some relatively new/popular game at first instead of immediately launching into a grand autistic retelling of the tale of how you pilfered all the butter in Swadia during your latest run in Warband.

>completely master Soul Calibur 4
>friends come over to play vs mode
>afraid of scaring them off
>butt mash my controller in slow mo
>”good times, user”

I've got my co-workers convinced I'm some kinda party animal (I'm much younger than most of them). Really, the most intense thing I do is play Overwatch and drink some beers.

I'm not an autistic redditor soyboy so I don't have to hide my power level. Unless you mean hide it from the canadian government.

No, you need to understand you are SICK when likeminded soyboys get together you get shit like deviant art. You are pathetic enablers who will make each other even bigger losers than you are.

>student wants you to check out her Youtube channel

Noone ever has to hide their power level.
The mistake a lot of idiots make is thinking flaunting it is the same thing. It's not. Not in the slightest.

My powerlevel violates international law.

>wear expensive trendy clothes
>wish it wasn’t social suicide to wear $15 vidya t-shirts everywhere
>screaming internally

Prove it. Get yourself taken into custody and have your lawyer post the articles pertaining to your case in the ICC.

the people at my job are like 80% women
the rest of the time, I'm with my friends or alone, so I don't need to hide shit
my GF knows basically everything I do besides what kind of hentai I look at (can't really go around talking to the girl about shota), so I don't need to hide much there

I do it to avoid you freaks who don't know how to keep it hidden. Almost every gamer I've met in person:
>Weird or retarded, believes in dumbass shit and/or doesn't understand basic social norms
>Smells like shit, bad hygiene, no self awareness, god awful fashion sense, and I don't know the first thing about fashion
>Annoying, unable to hold conversation or express themselves. Doesn't pick up on subtle social cues. Echoes what you say to them or is stubborn as hell about their own opinions

Why fucking bother

If they shame similar interests to me, I don't mind showing off my power level. In every other case I'll just tell them what they wanna hear, like "yeah X game still holds up after all these years!"

i never leave my room, so i dont have to deal with those situations

LMAO, scrubs...everyone knows my power level because all I do at work is play games