I’ve always understood this site to be anti-gamer but for some reason I’ve always chosen to blind myself to the fact that many of you are just selfdepricating gamers.

You’re not really invested in the cause.

I feel like I’m in an Alcoholics support group and I’m the only one not drinking while you guys just hate on yourselves.

I feel like a clown, feeling supported by TRAITORS.

I stand alone with a double barrel shotgun surrounded by people double handing gamecube controllers what the FUCK

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36 points

tbh I find it hard to comprehend that some people literally never play video games. I can understand not every day, but never? genuinely incomprehensible to me

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18 points

It’s the same as jerking off vs gooning

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7 points

What

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Some people play games, some are g*mers, some people jerk off, some are gooners

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15 points

Life isn’t very long, most work the majority of the day and only have a few hours to yourself tops. Gaming systems are expensive and associated with nerds. Are you going to play a poorly simulated game rendering of reality or be the game?

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Sure, or dosbox games etc that can be played on absolutely anything, but when a lot of people think gaming systems they think the latest game ads with high end gaming pcs, PS5/XboxX or stronger phone models, not their own phone, their work laptop, etc. That’s far too expensive for a hobby if you only know of the broadest terms possible and don’t have time to look into it seriously. Popular flashy new games that in consciousness needs an investment vs obscure ‘sad nerd’ games they can play on any old thing.

Do pc or console gamers consider phone gamers their siblings? No, there’s quite a bit of elitism, even the can X run Doom jest belies some of this mindset.

Also there’s the appeal of concrete immediate tangible sensual reality and escapism via say cooking, drawing, or knitting etc which all produces something IRL as a result, vs gaming which usually has very little to show minus pixels for all that time spent.

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I will not touch grass, no matter how nice you make it sound

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7 points

Will you touch…pp?

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2 points

Video games got old to me after about 30 years of gaming. I pretty much retired from gaming in my mid 30s. I fire up an old game in an emulator a few times a year and some Words With Friends and thats pretty much it.

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2 points

Gonna be honest in real life all tbe leftists I know don’t play video games. Y’all sound like addicts.

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5 points

What’s this? Gatekeeping leftism? By keeping the scary “addicts” out?

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1 point

I’m a drug addict and I’m proud.

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4 points

they sound boring

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You know there’s more ways to spend your time than staring at skinner boxes all day right?

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