Article about seven things gamers should stop doing.

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"I Resolve Never to Call Myself Hardcore."

In the olden days, nobody played games because there weren't any. Then video games got invented and everyone from Hollywood maverick Steven Spielberg to cantankerous postmodern novelist Martin Amis came forward saying they dug them. As games developed into something that demanded more time and money to get your head around, they became somewhat more of a niche hobby, and not everyone played them any more. Gamers throughout the 1990s asked when their hobby would be taken seriously by the masses. When would we be able to talk maturely about videogames, without stereotyping players as obnoxious nerds?

In recent years, that dream has come true! Loads of people play games now! Surely that is great? No, because apparently those people are "casual" gamers, and instead of being exactly what gamers have been asking for the last twenty years, "hardcore" gamers have to shun and deride them whenever possible, basically acting exactly like... obnoxious nerds. Guys: if you want progress, you have to accept change.

 

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