Yes, games are very special for me. I spend alot of time reading about them, commenting about them, planning my purchases and playing them. It consumes most of my free time. I'm not afraid to say im addicted to games, but its in no way an unhealthy hobby to have. Its about as big as it would be movies or TV series, or comic books, etc.

It also doesnt make you someone lonely because of it. I met several aquantancies, including my significant half playing games online. Its in no way anti-social. Doesnt mean it should stop you from going out to the movies or with a friend sometimes.

I'm at work so the video (youtube I assume) is blocked.

Regardless, I don't consider myself a 'gamer' more a collector of games although I do enjoy playing.

People here would label me a casual gamer, although my wife tends to think I have a gaming 'issue' because I'm forty+ and still play games (of course she plays Just Dance and some mobile games but those don't count for some reason)

I call myself a "games enthusiast", i go through stages of playing games constantly,to casual gaming and non stop socialising. I like to think i have the right balance.

Tagging for later.

Yes I consider myself a gamer....but this video is ridiculous. Taking an adventure on Skyrim instead of going to a vacation on another country....yeah no. 

What a loser

He's not a gamer - he's a child running away from reality who has yet to create his own adventures and would rather buy them off the shelf of gamestop.

I'm a gamer, in the same way people are photographers, or artists, or musicians etc in their spare time. I have a very critical approach to games but never let them get in the way of reality, unlike mr. basement-dweller in the video.

The kid sounds addicted as hell. It's actually kind of sad because it sounds like he has no social life beyond being with imaginary characters. I enjoy games but it isn't my life either. He seems to take things way to seriously so if that makes you a gamer sure then go ahead, im not one then.

I by the way don't tell people I'm a gamer.  I just tell them I like games and I only tell people that I know well.

Who gives a rat's fuzzy end-quarters about what term gets used? I play video-games, so yeah, I'm fine with 'gamer'. I'm certainly not going to type out "people who play video-games as a hobby" every single time, not when I can just type 'gamers'.

People make way too big a deal over stuff like this. It's just a word used to represent more words. That's all. "I don't want to be called a gamer because they're bad and they have no lives and blah blah blah," is just people assigning their own narrow-minded values. Is a 'gamer' someone who lives in their basement and plays 18 hours a day? Sure--but so what? It's ALSO the guy who plays a few hours on the weekends, or who plays a hour or so after work. Why? BECAUSE THEY ALL PLAY GAMES.

It's kind of annoying the way people use the term to separate themselves or make themselves feel superior. "Oh, I'm not a GAY-MER because I have a life!"--oh shut the fuck up. That's like saying you're not a human being because Nazis happened. Stop being sanctimonious and deal with it.

It's just a word for people who play games. That's all. Kind of like the term 'drama queens' for those who get all huffy over simple descriptive words.

I argue the opposite. People who use the word "gamer" are consciously advertising the fact that they play video games to everyone, as if it was a source of pride, rather than other people labeling people who play games as "gamers" as a source of shame.

The only thing I'll give is maybe a video game lobbyist? But I feel like people who self proclaim themselves as gamers (and game journalists who use the term a lot) are the ones who make the term really prevalent.