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I love playing games, and I've played games literally every day for more than 30 years. I am a gamer. I'm not going to let people gatekeep me from that, directly through their toxicity, or by proxy from bystanders by conceding the term to those that want to control it.
Yeah, no.
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Fair enough with regards to toxicity and gatekeeping! I can certainly stand behind that, and I hope I didn't imply that there are "requirements" to be a gamer - there is a baggage to the term, assumptions, associations, but I'm not saying anyone should have to conform to that.
It's more like, I don't care about reclaiming that one term for me personally, and I halfway "resent" being defined, being given a label, based on one thing I do. 90% of "gaming" as a hobby doesn't interest me, and what does is usually a subset of other categories that I care more about. It's easier to explain what things I'm actually into, rather than saying I'm a gamer and then listing all the things I don't care about (or actively avoid), easier to find people interested in games within other groups rather than the opposite, etc.
(Sorry for rambling, I'm a bit sleep deprived and probably not as coherent as I think I am.)
Last edited by eldaking on 9 February 2022 at 8:51 pm UTC
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Thank you. That was seriously a bunch of BS as put forward by the terrible gaslighting gaming press.