Malstrom rants about the hardcore - completely misses the point.

[pearljammer]

tarheel91 said:

Resident_Hazard said:
The gaming snob is something different from a hardcore player.

I consider myself a hardcore gamer. What else would I be? I own 13 systems, love reading, studying, and learning about the industry, and routinely play a wide variety of games, from a variety of console generations.

I'm hardcore and a collector.

There are snobs or elitists to pretty much any hobby. When it comes to Metal, then I've typically been an elitist snob.

A gaming enthusiast?  Going purely by the definition of the word hardcore, you are not hardcore.  You are not part of a small elite group resistant to change.

 

Or the term 'hardcore' could simply mean something entirely different to him. He doesn't have to go by the 'pure' definition.  He claimed to be hardcore and shared what he and MANY others believe the word to mean in this context.

Outside of drug addictions I rarely ever hear the term hardcore meant as resistant to change. I wouldn't call a staunch conservative hardcore simply becuase he or she is resistant to change.

The fact is, many people identify themselves as hardcore, open to change and are not elitists. They just use the word in a different context than say, Sean Maelstrom does. I think people have a right to be offended by these oversimplifications.