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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 RepliesEdited by Psyntifik: 9/22/2017 12:27:38 PMI couldn't bring myself to read that article in full - it just seemed to be repeating itself and whining. I still don't know how to define someone as a 'real gamer'. I don't think it has anything to do with gender, and I refuse to believe it has anything even remotely to do with appearance like the article suggest. I can easily point out people who might not be as much of a game as I am, but that's just stating facts. Just like I'm not as much of a handglider as some people. I can't really comment too much without knowing how to define someone, but for now, the most appropriate response seems to be "Okay, mate. Sure thing." Plus, it's a Kotaku article. So I'm probably gonna go and get a shower.
