At the end of the day, all of these things you mentioned (with the exception of gamer rage quit vids on Youtube; I laugh my ass off watching them, but deep down I know these dudes have very apparent anger issues and should probably get some help for it before it becomes a threat to a loved ones safety) are hobbies that people around the world enjoy - including many of us here, no doubt. And there's no age limit to stuff like this as well - I'm what I consider a "grown ass" woman in her 30's, but I LOVE toys like POPs and collectible figures, plushies, etc. My dad was the same way, and he was in his early 70's! I'd rather be this way than some dried up prude, serious all the time.
On the subject of Nintendo, they've always had this stupid label of being "for children" which has always rubbed me the wrong way, because the people that parrot this garbage clearly don't know that if it weren't for Nintendo coming along in the mid 80's, with Atari on its death bed (the real one, not the husk we have now) gaming as we know it would have probably faded into obscurity. And all these "hardcore" gamers can talk badly about Nintendo, but the fact of the matter is they are the only gaming company still innovating and making interesting and, most importantly, FUN games that anybody can enjoy, which I think is becoming a rare thing to find in gaming nowdays - seems like every game now has the be 24/7 competition, "git gud EZ" online multiplayer shit that, for me at least, quickly gets to be mentally exhausting and unfun (I'm so glad The Sims series hasn't gone multiplayer...yet. God I hope it doesn't, for the very reasons I mentioned).
