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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I didn't bother to finish the article. As far as I'm concerned I'm not even a gamer. I'm just a guy who plays video games as one of his hobbies. As much as I enjoy video games, I would rather be out camping, hiking, fishing, shooting or riding ATVs any day over playing video games. These things take more planning and setting up than turning on a console where I currently live, so they get a backseat for now. Anyways my point still stands.