So a person who plays tennis 3 times a week is a... hockey player then?
Serious question. What if someone devoted a consistent 3hours of video games every week and considered themselves a gamer? Would you consider them not one under the same criteria?
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Disagree. The word RPG doesn't mean something different than it did before. There is just another type. Just like the horror genre for books equates to something very different than it does in movies. Just a different set of rules for different mediums. the term didn't evolve, it just applies different to different things. Likewise, a video game RPG is not the ssme as a tabletop RPG. They have their own set of criteria.
I will say this though, unlike the vg community, the board game community isn't utterly fucking retarded and confused when it comes to what an RPG is, lol. -
Truth be told, the same can be said for any hobby. But it only seems with gaming that there are so many people who buck the hierarchy of the different phylums. And I think the reason is the entry level point for gaming is so low, the hobby isn't gated the way other hobbies are. You can game on the cheap and don't need to do any research on the subject. Just go down to a pawn shop and buy a used last gen system for $30 bux and that's it. And with it, a ton of individuals starting out on the low end of the "hierarchy." People just don't like to be on the low end of a spectrum. Which i think is the main reason why so many people hate achievements in gaming, but that is another topic for another day. -
Couldn't you literally describe any label that way though? "Irresponsible, lonely, sad," and/r "negligent" individual. Sounds like everything i don't like. And everything being described from someone that doesn't like something. No matter what it is. I mean, is it a surprise that people exist that talk shit about gamers? I've heard this argument. I just don't understand it. -
I find this true in most cases. Its an easy marker. People who do not consider themselves gamers and dont want to be called such... usually are far from being an actual gamer. That said, Ive been on the internet for decades and I have never seen a self-proclaimed gamer be accused of not being one. -
pretty sure it has something to do with me calling out your utter bullshit whenever you shitpost. -
Thread is already starting to spaz out a bit. OMG, there are three pages? I haven't read those yet, lol. But I think it is important to acknowledge there are two types of gamers. One of the consumer side of things, and the other of the hobby side. One speaks of passion and self-interest. The other, purely from a consumer pov...
If someone buys a video game, on a device, they are a consumer in the gaming market and ecosystem. Hence, they are a gamer. One who participates in the demography purely in a factual sense. There is no getting around it, whether they like it or not, they are gamers. And whether we like it or not, they are a piece of the larger pie. Whether you are a hyper SJW type who takes issue with labels and wants the term to be all-encompassing, or an elitist desperately wanting certain others not to share in the same overlapping circle as you... for better or worse, we are all gamers.
The other "type" speaks from a hobbyist point of view that is a little more inclusive. It's just how hobbies and the enthusiasts of the different hobbies work. I have been cave diving before on a tour. Does that automatically make me a spelunker? No. I've drawn a picture before too. Am I am artist? I have played a musical instrument in school. A musician? I'd love to call myself all of these fancy titles, butt hat doesn't make it so. And people exist that pretend doing something once classifies them as a patron of the arts (more so with video games than anything else, it would seem). But there exists a line between consumer and enthusiast we can all agree on.Last edited by isturbo1984; 01-10-2019, 05:24 PM. -
isturbo1984 I forgot why I stopped clicking on notifications from you, and now I remember -
I wonder how many SJWs we can get to denounce labels gathered in the same place? -
If gaming is your primary hobby or one of them (in practice, not just by claiming it) , I consider you a gamer. Of course, I exclude mobile players from this because many people will play something like angry birds just to pass time while out in public.Leave a comment:
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