I'm in my late thirties. Played a lot of video games when I was a kid through college and a little after. But this whole idea of there being a "gaming culture" or how being a "gamer" is a major part of peoples' personalities just seems weird to me. Not even a complaint, just an observation.
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So, oftentimes football (soccer in the US) ultra fans will form the base of right-wing paramilitary organizations.
Since the US doesn't have football ultras, I don't know if G**mers would take their place, or if it would be American ThrowFootball fans. Probably the NFL fans, I can't imagine a G*mer Brigade breaking down my door.
"can’t imagine a Gmer Brigade breaking down my door."
That is, until a streamer is egged on by his followers to swat you for ghosting or teabagging or whatever other gamer terms I barely know of in my gen-X mind.
, especially those who follow the professional league, are probably way less fash than g*mers.
I meant to say NFL fans, sorry stupid Amerikkkans stole the word football for a sport that almost entirely uses the hands.
No that's what I meant, people who follow the NFL tend to be less fash than g*mer types, at least in my experience.
I've seen a few fashy football fans, but mostly they're liberal, "apolitical" (so conservative), or the "I don't like Colin Kaepernick kneeling" chuds.
So I agree with you, I just had a picture in my mind of NFL chuds being Nazi street troops, but the G*mers would be more idealogically motivated to be Brownshirts (I mean Nazis, I have no ill will towards the Cleveland Browns).
This is definitely more of the "American football" types than gamers. Gamers just want to not have human contact, be fascist online, and think themselves superior. All because of the amount of time they dedicate to grinding out some bs game that has no real life impact other than taking up the time they have on this earth for some dopamine hit to their brain. Then a very select few are able to do it well enough to somehow make a living off it. In this regard it's basically the cryptocurrency of sports. If you catch one in public they will (most of them anyway) just do their best to avoid you and/or any real conflict.