this is literally the only poll we need to understand the Gamer Demographic
everyone hates them and sees everything about them – no matter what it is – as justification to express more contempt for them, as seen in the comments on this post. seems like an accurate assessment
35% is less than half of 50%. there is nothing contemptible or even wrong in any sense of the word about 35% of a group thinking they are smarter than average for the group – it is, in fact, not only less than the number of people who are smarter than average for the group, it is much less than the number of people in general who say they are smarter than average. despite there being nothing wrong with this at all whatsoever in any capacity in any dimension, it is put forth as being self-evident proof of the contemptibility of gamers, and understood by the vast majority of the notes as self-evident proof of the contemptibility of gamers. other people feel and express contempt for them, not for anything they did or did not do, but because it is inherently emotionally rewarding to feel and express contempt for them. there is nothing they can do or not do to stop this from happening, as they are unpopular, and all that is necessary for an unpopular person to be unpopular forever is that they are unpopular. that sounds pretty unlucky to me.
just a reminder that life is not worth tolerating, and life will never be worth tolerating, ever, ever, ever, under any circumstances, in any projected future situation, for any length of time, ever.
You know why the US has basically had blacks turn into their own ethnic group? They realized they would not ascend to the top of the social hierarchy after all that racialized bull the South pulled, among other things. So they defined their own hierarchy.
Gamers also defined their own hierarchy. Outsiders tried to hijack it, but they failed. The world is fragmenting into thousands of hierarchies, and the power of the mainstream ones is weakening. Even among the SJ types that attempted the hijack.
