Video game players. VIDEO GAME PLAYERS

the term "gamer" is pure cancer
let it burn

Agreed, it's the gift that keeps on triggering.

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I was for this until it became an advertisement campaign.

No I'm pretty sure that's actually exactly what it does. It's not like it was Shattered Horizons or something with unique mechanics and he struggled with those, he was struggling with the fundamentals of 3d games in a game with no uniquities to it, moving and operating the camera simultaneously.
Doesn't work with cars, doesn't work with games.

daily reminder these are the same faggots who get triggered when you say they aren't really nerds or Gone Home isn't really a video game. selective language control, the ever popular tool of Marxists, at its finest.

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Shitposting is the only FUN game left.

As someone who has just got done spending 4 years of their life doing a video game design course in university, I must say that I find the idea of changing the term gamer to player to be rather insulting. The term player is actually a dev term to refer to a theoretical person playing your game. Its used when not referring to an actual person, but the idea of a person. Gamer comes with the rest of treating someone as an actual person, player doesn't

Spotted the critical theorist enablers. It's been an innocuous word for ages and has always been used in conjunction with player. Context matters. You use "player" in specific instances of playing a game, "gamer" when describing it as your hobby. Saying you're a "video game player" doesn't roll off the tongue like just saying "gamer." And just saying "player" isn't enough, as it's already a word with many applications.

It's the journalists and academics that are trying to turn "gamer" into Oldspeak because they can't help but overthink everything in society and then use their subjective analysis as reason to deconstruct it then reconstruct it to fit their world view. It's the destruction of words. Unifying all words into a single word that lacks nuance and value.

As cancerous of a term you think it might be, DO NOT give them the power to redefine words.

I never liked the term "gaymer" anyway and would never call myself one.

Yes, it does.
It means that they don't know how to play video games at all and are thus not qualified to review them in a professional sense.

There's no issue with the word gamer. The fucking Japanese use the English term gamer.

Anyways this guy is an idiot.

Are they even trying to pretend that they aren't just all friends?

Fuck off, retard.
Gamers now = corporate whores who play only the hyped AAA shit so they can be hip.

So is player when used in the same context.

Cute, when you find as many "hardcore players" as there are "hardcore gamers" then maybe you'll have a point.

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#Thisis4thePlayers

I don't give a shit what sony says.
Surprised anyone does.

In the case of this ad, "players" could make sense because it's specifically about PlayStation users, not gamers in general.

Guess what happens.

Sony fails, what else can happen

Sony bragged about doing jack shit and is lauded as being pro-consumer.

Thanks to, wait for it, braindead gamers!

So we should play the newest indie to be hip?

So you're talking about the people or the term? You really want to do the euphemism treadmill? As soon as you replace whatever word you think is problematic the next will immediately have the same problem. Don't be a moron.

For starters you can stop worrying about being hip.

Which will be replaced with braindead players.

No, it won't. Sony has no pull.

Said the guy that thinks it is hip to shit on hip. You know what people call you? A hipster. You know who else is a hipster?

Please do go on.

Sony isn't doing it alone. It has help from the shit-eating game journalists.

get a load of these jokers. if you want to talk about video games and expect your articles to be taken seriously you should at the very god damn least understand how video games work, said video did not display that at all

it was like if you handed your grandpa a controller and told him to go at it. you know what though some old man would probably do better at any video game if he spent a bit of time on it and was enjoying the game because he probably understands that you don't talk about things you don't understand as if you do understand it, and if you want to succeed at things you have to invest time in it

on top of that, a video clip like that actually undermines the gameplay. if you like new-doom or not isn't a factor here, NVIDIA was able to put out a gameplay clip that showcases things that would make the game look fun, polygon makes it look like a game where you play as a drunk man with a gun

God I hate the word hipster.

Used to be I was just a guy who hated everything and didn't want to know what anyone else is doing. Never watched Pew de whatever the fuck. Jim q something? DOTA, some kind of new designer drug? And then apparently overnight I was a hipster.

Can we use "elitist asshole" again? That one I liked.

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combating the dilution of words by adding more words would be like like fighting a fire with gas.

My fucking sides. Who do they think they are, the Washington Post?

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this threads going to leave me in stitches

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So I know Polygon doesn't fall under the Gawker apron like Kotaku, but I'm curious, does anyone know how that second lawsuit is coming? When is the Gawker empire dying?

Fucking hate that shit.

I liked it when vidya companies didn't play pretend and called their audience "Gameboys".
Easily it can be seen why that fell out of use as it is both gender and age specific.
"Gamester" was enjoyable but some clearly found it too similar to the word gangster.
'Player' is the most appropriate by far to me.
The natural verb related noun kin to:
Some do but some take offense to it because people who play sports and conventional games are also frequently called players.
Also has ebonic connotations as a person who can easily seduce women.

Gamer is as intelligent as:

If I had to choose a label for one who puts together puzzles I'd use the word puzzlist.
Some do apparently but others hold the word puzzler in higher regard.
If it had to end in "er" like others I'd say "Piecer" but that more refers to a person who makes patchwork fabric.

Is interesting to see that there is a desire by some to turn "gamer" into a slur by the same people known for trying to tout it.

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I prefer videogamer enthusiast

I prefer the term "Electronic Entertainment Connoisseur"

Now if you'll excuse me, I have some virtue signaling and fart sniffing to do

are you hype for the Electronic Entertainment Exposition?

Golfer
Archer
Reviewer
Swimmer
Banker
Gambler
Broker
Shooter (this was an actual military term for an infantryman)

Look I get it, it's a braindead nickname and most of the community reflects that as well. However even if the community choose and accepts another nickname it is still going to have connotations of being a braindead consumer whore eventually, because that's the heart of this community.

That's exactly what he means by "giving them the power to redefine."

Too bad the word now accurately describes those who identify as "gamers".

"Gamer" is a fucking stupid term and I have always used player over it. I only went along with it last year because that idiot Adam Baldwin coined the hashtag and we had to run with it. You don't call enthusiast novel readers or movie-goers "bookers" or "moviers" do you?

The fucking Japanese rape the English language around every corner, that doesn't mean we should encourage them or join in.

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some words can have "er" at the end some can't

words that can have er at the end are verbs
gamer only kind of works if you count game as a verb like gaming.
thats why reader works and booker doesnt

You still don't get it do you? Doesn't matter what the nickname is, it will be used for marketing AAA shit when the term is popular enough. Using another term doesn't solve the root of the problem. If it did then 'being special' wouldn't mean called a retard.

If you want solve the issue of gamer, you have to kick the retards out, not by doing some pr nicknames.

Golfing, swimming, and surfing all fit in that rule and also use the er suffix to describe a person that engages in it.

In fact "gamer" is a term we expressly tried to avoid using in the GG "dossier".

swim and surf are both verbs. Golf is kind of like game so i guess it works, im not an english major

And you don't get that I'm not fucking talking about what AAA marketer shits do? I'm talking about what the consumers of video games have done to the word.

BOOKER, CATCH!

The word "Gamer" was way too problematic shitlord, it carried connotations like misogyny and racism, you're just video game players now

My point still stands, even if you manage to successfully call yourself "Electronic Entertainment Connoisseur" or someshit, then people who called themselves 'game' will follow suit. Then "Electronic Entertainment Connoisseur" will mean "corporate whores who play only the hyped AAA shit so they can be hip.". Your issue isn't the name, but the retards themselves. Find a way to get rid of these retards to solve your 'gamer' problem.

Sweet, so far they haven't.
Greatest story ever told, bro. Really.

Why does this read like something a mobster would write, i mean it reads like some warning/blackmail. It wouldn't surprise me really.

Fuck off hipster faggot

Why are you calling me a bundle of sticks?

So your entire argument is 'neva been done befo' even thought there's a fucking term for it happening, euphemism treadmill.
So you're just bitching for bitchings sake then.

You're making shit up about how they're going to pollute a new word and somehow I don't see it. If you want, wait for it to happen, hold your breath even.
Oh, I'm sorry, was your 'advice' about "getting rid of these retards" a serious one and not simply shitty trolling?

Isn't the real issue that you guys don't want to be grouped in with the majority of retards who play games? Just make up your own super secret title to call yourselves so that you can be distinguished from the usual gamer monkeys.

I am tempted to tweet #Notyoursheild at these Vicks just to trigger them

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Eeyup these idiots are really fun to fuck with
But are they seriously trying to pull the "Gamers are dead" thing again?
Worked so well the last time

#4thegoyim

they seriously don't understand that if they don't play video games they have no say on videogames, it's like having a morbidly obese nigger giving you fitness advice

You know why there are so many fucking insults for the word retarded? It's because people want identify people who have that condition, but don't want to be an insult. Then people start using the terms as insults because no want's to be a fucking retard, so they then they use another term. It doesn't take a fuck genius to figure this shit out.
How the fuck am I supposed to take"You're making shit up about how they're going to pollute a new word and somehow I don't see it." When it's actually fucking happened everywhere else. You have to just trying get a rise out of people or a braindead idiot to not to see it.

Haha you know how to greentext how cool!

If you only partake in your hobby a handful of times a year, then maybe it isn't your fucking hobby and you aren't a fan - you're a random fucking faggot that only wants to try it out before fucking off again for a month or two. Trying to appeal to such trash is one of the cancers behind the industry.

I once dated a librarian with a motor neuron disease. She'd never played a 3d game or held a modern controller, but she wanted to play Murdered: Sole Suspect. (idk why)

so i taught her how to use the controller how to hold it all that. She got it in about fifteen minutes.

Kuchera had twice as long during the video to figure out the controllers as a disabled librarian who had never even held the controller before, and he did worse than she would have.

I never liked the word gamer anyway. It always remind me of faggots who only play FPS and have neon green lights in and on everything hooked up to their PC.

Ironic shitposting is still shitposting.

Kou Shibushawa doesn't get the praise he deserves.

Unfortunately, we got tons of them recently, burying every topic involving these feminist-Marxist ideologues wanting to subvert games.

So? I don't call myself a gamer. Even before GG I thought that was a retarded word. You don't call a football player a sportser, you call them a fucking football player.

I wonder if Inafune will be getting the same amount of praise after Mighty no 9 releases. I could never get into Mega Man, so I'm more worried about Onimusha.

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It's just a Portmanteau of Games Player, how hard is this to understand.

ITT:

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Go be a normalfag someplace else.

THE TERM GAMER HAS BEEN REMOVED FOR EVER
WHAT DO YOU CALL A GUY HOW PLAY VIDYA NOW ?

come up with a new term anons

A faggot.

You just say they play videogames you retarded cunt

Chinese electronics operator.

Someone who plays video games

A proud National Socialist.

A VIDYAER OF COURSE!

It's gamers

Thanks for confirming that self-entitled "gamers" are the cancer ruining the industry.

t. buttmad escapist

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Inafune is right about his since MN9 is just a dream at this point or a nightmare

That's not what spaghetti is you fucking nu-male shitstain.

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why are animefags the only ones who bother giving GIFs a palette instead of using the default one?

Calling yourself a player is like calling yourself a pimp.

Pretty much this. Although we usually just call the retards casuals and retards.

So what brought you to Holla Forums?

Umm you know right that Washington Post is the Kotaku of Newspapers

Thank you, I'm fucking sick of these retarded drones who just repeat everything they see typed on Holla Forums.

Just imagine if your parents called themselves televiewers, how fucking stupid would that sound?

Tv isnt a activity though, I dont bat an eye when someone says they are a golfer for example

Uhh… what? I'm certain GG has nothing to do with it.

unless GG stands for "git gud"
I agree with the article tho

Ben Kuchera is truly the platonic ideal of all insufferable nu-male faggots. Fuck that guy.

His name even sounds like cuck

Is this because the footage of a Polygon journo being absolute shit at the new Doom came out?

That "news" site is as credible as Slaon, And by that I mean it is shit

well good thing nobody ever uses the word gaming to describe the act of playing a videogame or you people would look like fucking retards

Well said. In matters of conversation, whoever defines what everyone's words mean has all the power.

How is it that half the people responding to this are such big fucking faggots? Everything he said was right.

Pretty much spot on.

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If you want to be a pedantic fuck, you can always use "Ludophile" (Ludusphile?)

"Footballer"

I guess this also means no one ever uses the term "reader", "fisher" or "gardener" to describe a hobbyist, either.

Have you considered growing up? Once you mature past the mental age of 14 and stop caring about what you label yourself as, life gets a whole lot more bearable.

They want to widen the base of people who buy their shit.

Capeshit had the avenjurs.
Fantasy has Gay of thrones.

And now gaming is being debased by the assasins creed movie, Warcraft movie. I'll bet you any money we'll see a call of duty or Dota/LoL movie before 2019. And you should be angry.

The things that assholes used to give you endless shit about in school is now being debased, and these assholes will claim that they are also 'fans' and 'gamers'. THEY ARE NOT. Stand up for your hobby. Casuals, normalfags will make every game a button mashing contest if you don't.

Words are part of the fight. They want to destroy words like 'gamer' 'casual' and 'hardcore'. They want us to be the same as fools who actually think CoD and Assasins creed are good franchises. DONT LET THEM LOWER YOUR ESTEEM.

What are you, a fucking casual? Minus 50 DKP for you.

You now realize who you share this board with. Notice who was quicker to answer and dismiss? They're not there to disprove, just deny discussion.