Do you get Pissed when everyone thinks your their personal tech support?

[Calandale]

c'mon! It's a game system with kiddy games and a remote! and people are giving each other death threats over it. It's just a game system it's not Soylent Green.

Why do you ppl think that a FAMILY system means kiddy? Im 35 you know.

Anyway, Nintendo Wii is people.

The wii is actually very popular among older people.

[DirtDawg]

That's a very good point. 

I don't mind helping people with things that I know, though.

I think I may be the same in some ways. I don't mind helping someone I care about with things that I know.

I get more annoyed when I don't know something and the ones who do won't freely share their knowledge.

That happens at work sometimes and there is NO excuse for lording knowledge over people.

[El]

It can get frustrating for me because I'm not that good with computers, but I guess I seem to be- but only to people with very minimal computer skills, relatively speaking.  This results in people asking me questions that I have no idea how to answer because I'm not sure how to explain things, and I'm not sure how much needs to be explained.  (Like, it's kinda rough to help someone who needs to be shown how to follow a hyperlink to a FAQ.)

[Alex179]

I am used to it, as most of my family asks me computer questions.   The majority of them are computer illiterate, other than my grandfather (85 year old man who can program in machine code lol).  My friends are mostly more than just tech savvy, as I know some of them from classes I took towards my current IT degree and certifications.

[DirtDawg]

c'mon! It's a game system with kiddy games and a remote! and people are giving each other death threats over it. It's just a game system it's not Soylent Green.

Why do you ppl think that a FAMILY system means kiddy? Im 35 you know.

Anyway, Nintendo Wii is people.

The wii is actually very popular among older people.

Yes it is. We have sold hundreds of the fucking things and we could have doubled that if Nintendo had supplied us with our requested numbers.

They fucking ration them DELIBERATELY, to build a market frenzy!!

I think of it as mainly an old persons' game console, too. We have everything for it, but I see the parents spending more time at the demos than the kids. The kids want them because the "other kids" all have them. Again, purchased by the parents. "Get off your ass and do something! ... OK, you can have a WII"