QUOTE(cptkleenex @ Jan 1 2012, 15:36)

One of my friends just mentioned their highlights from 2011 on Facebook. Among them were getting a new job, getting closer with her boyfriend and just typical stuff. One of her highlights was Halo Anniversary though. I said "if a video game is part of your highlights for year, it was not a noteworthy year", to which one of her friends replied "I guess that just shows us you aren't a real gamer". Fucking nerd labels... how I hate them.
QUOTE(cptkleenex @ Jan 1 2012, 15:48)

True enough but it just seems that it's the group that most often wants to create those labels using things like "true" and "hardcore" all the time.
Those aren't nerds. The term you're looking for is "pompous douchebag."
If playing Halo Anniversary was the qualification to be a "real gamer," I'd be ashamed to call myself one. If beating Binding of Issac and loving every second of it was a qualification to be a "hardcore gamer," it'd be a group too small and far-flung to be worth joining. I do wish I was a member, though. Soon, maybe.*
A gamer is anyone who plays games. My grandmother who plays pen-and-paper Sudoku is a real gamer. Discriminating between types of gaming to the point of excluding people is just stupid.
Edit:
*: I played [
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Baroque long enough to see the ending credits. That's got to count for something.
This post has been edited by FourThirteen: Jan 3 2012, 09:50