Sich als Gamer zu outen...

...bedeutet den sozialen Abstieg - behauptet zumindest dieser Artikel hier:

To come out as a gamer is still to risk looking a social n00b

Ein echt genialer Artikel zum Thema was es heißt ein Gamer in einer Welt voller Unwissender zu sein - zwar leider auf englisch aber trotzdem richtig gut:

Josh and I settle down to a strangely orange-looking vegetable casserole in the staff canteen. I can tell something's been troubling him.

"So Jack, I'd been meaning to ask you. Are you, like, really into computer games?"

"I suppose so."

He takes a moment to consider this.

"What, as much as Henry?"

Henry, a mutual friend, spends maybe an evening a week on his Xbox 360. He doesn't use Xbox Live. He owns maybe half a dozen games.

"Uh, yes."

"Wow. I had no idea."

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