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9/22/2017 11:40:17 AM
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'You are not a real gamer.'
As much as I'm not a fan of Candy Crush, Call of Duty, and DOTA2, my condescension to those (sorts of) fandoms is largely self-mocking, and I should be more openly objective about it:
If you like playing videogames, good. Doing anything that makes you happy (without harming anyone against their will) is self-evidently a good thing.
While it's an attitude I'm personally ashamed of, I see it flaunted, brazenly and quite often elsewhere. I'm not calling out you guys necessarily (though many of you), but it's really not very good when people are made to feel excluded from something they enjoy, simply because they go about it a different way than others.
Thoughts?
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6 RepliesAs a "gamer", I don't very well see why anyone would want to call themselves one or be called one anyways... The term doesn't have a positive connotation in my mind. There's nothing wrong with playing games of course, but generally speaking, society doesn't exactly view gamers in the best of lights (understandable to an extent) most of the time. I know that wasn't really what this was about, but eh.
