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Ok, fucking stop right there.

Can you first sensibly explain to me (and I guess this goes for Metaru and G-Man too) what's so reprehensible about the term 'Gamer'? Semantically, it means nothing more than 'someone who plays games', of which (of course) there will be subategories regarding to genre or platform fandoms. This is obvious and extremely evident.

Games as a form of media are actually pretty lucky to have that kind of terminology; where in other fields you get 'movie enthusiasts' or 'avid readers' or whatever. Yes, I can say 'gaming enthusiast' instead of 'gamer' (and sometimes I do; for sake of variety), but this undermines people who play games often, but aren't necessarily 'enthusiasts' in the same way that collectors, or retro enthustasts would be.

So clue me in there - why the sore response to it? Is it an issue with being labled or something? Do you just dislike being associated with negative interpretations of people who play games? Well bad news - there are poor stereotypes with every form of media; and just saying you're not a 'gamer' will not stop other people from acknowledging that large pile of obscure JRPGs in your room or that XXL t-shirt with 'Two Girls, 1-Up' on it.

I can somewhat identify with not wanting to be called a gamer, because the term is usually synonymous with fat, sweaty, annoying basement dwellers who use it as a term of endearment (I'M A GAMER, GUYS!).
It's the same reason why I love anime/manga/japan, but hate the term "otaku" because of all the narutards and annoying fangirls who use it to describe themselves yet know nothing about anything.
Same with the term "geek".
It's just annoying as shit.

It's sort of a double standard I suppose, but it's more like when referring to all the people who play games collectively, you use "gamers", but when you're referring to an individual, you use "gaming enthusiast" or something along those lines, if that makes sense to you.


also

the bad translation and odd quirks aside, it's much better and obviously not linear like 1 and 3
but this is another discussion for another thread!!!!!!!!!!!!!

do you actually think "linear" or "not linear" are objective indicators of quality
because thats incredibly retarded

no, but

this is another discussion for another thread!!!!!!!!!!!!!