One day at a public school:
Pokemon player: "Hey everyone! I play pokemon!"
Guy: "Hahahah!! You play pokemon!? Pokemon is so stupid!!
Pokemon player: "What makes you think that?"
Guy: "Well, you know, it's just stupid. That's what my friends say."
Pokemon Player: "Have you even played the game?"
Guy: "I don't need to play it to know that it's stupid"
Pokemon player: "I've earned big scholarships by playing it. Now collage won't be as expensive. How many scholarships do you have again?"
Guy: "Umm, uhhh. Well, whatever, I'm going to tell all my friends about this!"
Pokemon player: "About what exactly? The fact that I am socialized with kids other that my own age?"
Guy: "No, th-"
Pokemon player: "The fact that I have other friends outside the classroom?"
Guy: "B-
Pokemon player: "The fact that I have a self sense of accomplishment, of winning with something that I made myself?
Guy: "..."
Pokemon player: "The fact that I have a wonderful website to go to for Pokemon called Pokebeach? P)"
Guy: "Wh-"
Pokemon player: "That's what your going to tell them, huh?"
Guy: "Um, well, no. I was goin-"
Pokemon player: "Tell you what. I'm going to tell all of my friends that Football is stupid.
Guy: "Football isn't stupid!"
Pokemon player: "In your opinion."
Guy: "Yeah, but in your opinion Pokemon isn't stupid."
Pokemon player: "Exactly."
Guy: "..."
Pokemon player: "..."
Guy: "It's still stupid."
Pokemon player: "Sure it is."
But really, who cares about what other people think about you? You don't keep the fact that you play Football from your friends.
I look at it this way:
If they make fun of what you like to do,
they aren't your friends.