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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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.