Weird nerd culture
This post is a quickie follow-up to: Excessivisms, cargo cult politics, and #GamerGate In my previous post I posited that there was something odd about "gamer culture": Hm. There's a problem here: it feels right, like there's an analogous statement for this sort of potentially-toxic cultural attitude. I'm just not sure what the actual connection to video games is. It's not simply owning a lot of games: I own a lot of games (thanks for nothing, Steam sales) but I haven't played most of them (yet) and moreover I don't consider myself a "gamer" per se . It's not simply enthusiasm for games , at least not just any kind of game: one sort of has to be highly enthusiastic for a definite class of games, and maybe even make a show of disdaining other classes of games. And it's not simply skill at playing games , though that is a sort of factor: certainly "gamers" tend to be into the more "hardcore" games. Here...