• baguettefish@discuss.tchncs.de
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    33
    ·
    edit-2
    7 hours ago

    i don’t think many people who played games at the time were heavily invested in gamergate, but the gamergate gamers were a very loud and toxic minority. that’s often who is being talked about when you say gamer, not the average person who plays games. it’s the difference between gamer (neutral) and gamer (derogatory)

    • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      16
      ·
      7 hours ago

      I literally don’t call myself a gamer anymore because I don’t want to be associated with that trash.

      They can have the term, quite frankly, playing video games isn’t a personality but I like the idea of clearly identifying the people that think it is.

      • dethedrus@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        4
        ·
        3 hours ago

        I don’t know how I feel about it.

        I probably game too much, even as an elderly old man. I still call myself a gamer AND want Steve Bannon and all his diet nazis to die in the most humiliating and embarrassing way possible… crushed by frozen poop falling from a plane sounds fun.

        This is what nazis do. Take good or innocuous things and pervert them. All they do is destroy.

        I’ll still keep calling myself a gamer while respecting your desire to distance yourself from scum.