QUOTE (psychophipps @ Jul 10 2014, 09:54 PM)

It's not so much elitism (what about being a 39-year-old D&D geek is "elite"?), it's about the fact that I used to be able to say "gamer" and my fellow gamers would ask me what RPGs or board games I play. Now I say, "Yeah, I'm a gamer" and they ask me if it's X-Box or Playstation (because PC video game players don't really count, I guess). I haven't owned a console since the Genesis (Mega Drive for you Europeans).
You might not mean it as elitism, but it's certainly still some ugly "gatekeeper" stuff. You're not in charge of who gets to be called a gamer, who's a "real" gamer, etc, etc. Don't be that grouchy guy telling the kids to get off your lawn, and how
real gaming means carrying a sack of books uphill both ways in the snow and rolling your own dice by hand.