Quote from: BrandonKF;748704You're free of the addiction?

-Brandon F.

Yes I am! Took a while, a long period of slowdown but I did break it. Basically I had done everything I could in WoW, there was nothing left for me to prove. My guild raided only at 1:00 AM which I didn't care for, I was wealthy to the point of "I don't care" and was just tired of the whole deal. I sometimes miss it, miss my friends, miss being helpful and useful to people but not enough to go back. Maybe someday, but not now.

Quote from: Doughdee222;748806Yes I am! Took a while, a long period of slowdown but I did break it. Basically I had done everything I could in WoW, there was nothing left for me to prove. My guild raided only at 1:00 AM which I didn't care for, I was wealthy to the point of "I don't care" and was just tired of the whole deal. I sometimes miss it, miss my friends, miss being helpful and useful to people but not enough to go back. Maybe someday, but not now.

The wife and I had 5 accounts between us (2 for her, 3 for me) and now she barely plays (GW2) and I play Guild Wars 2 occasionally (meaning more when I'm not tabletop gaming, and less when I am) , though we went cold turkey and just stopped playing anything for a month or two and I purposefully take a month off every spring from all online gaming just to clear the mind.

I play minimum once per week, usually twice.

Quote from: Rincewind1;748771I game so much at the moment I'm too ashamed to say how much on an RPG forum .

I may be able to challenge you for the title.

I'm in a weekly gaming group.  Now, in May it just so happens that in my new job I'll be working Tuesday nights, when my gaming group meets.  But that's short term.  Despite not "in the last month," fuck yes I'm a gamer.

I found a regular gaming group that meets on a weekly basis in a small town in South Dakota.  I STILL have huge heaps of no sympathy for people who complain that they "can't find a game."

I'm in a weekly gaming group, have been since 1991. We missed last week but we played the week before and we're playing again tomorrow.

I've started playing Magic or board games every couple of weeks as well. I don't play computer games though.

Quote from: K Peterson;748736It is a rather weird definition of "non-gamer".

It's a dumbass definition of non-gamer.

Back when I was single, between camping and backpacking I spent a hundred nights a year outdoors. Now I get in a weekly trip once or twice a year. Does that make me not a camper or a backpacker?

Stupid.

I think I see what pundit is saying; the question isn't "Well, you don't game enough, do you?" but rather a more binary thing: you either game, or you do not game.

Thing is, I have seen posts by people at Big Throbbing Purple (not trying to turn this into a thread about them, just bear with me) where they proudly say "NO I am NOT a 'gamer'!" and these same people will pontificate about gaming, about what is Proper and what is Unacceptable, and so on.

I mean, I think it's fair to say even if you only are getting your game on every month or six weeks, or you've hit a dry spell from a formerly long time of gaming that you're still a gamer.  

But, I think there's folks who have simply given up on gaming either having disavowed it completely or never did in any real sense whose opinions are Fucking Terrible and should never be given any consideration whatsoever.  Those are "bitter non-gamers".  

That's all my opinion though, pundit may have totally different thoughts.

Game weekly (two games on alternating weeks.) Seeing if I can put together another biweekly game for the kids.

I have not gamed since December, due to various other commitments taking up my evenings. Although those should come to an end this December.

If creating characters doesn't count, next week marks the end of a short dry spell.  At the end of the summer it'll probably dry up again.

Quote from: thedungeondelver;748863Thing is, I have seen posts by people at Big Throbbing Purple (not trying to turn this into a thread about them, just bear with me) where they proudly say "NO I am NOT a 'gamer'!" and these same people will pontificate about gaming, about what is Proper and what is Unacceptable, and so on.

I wouldn't call myself a gamer, though, both because I have issues with labels and groupings, and because I don't want to associate myself with the nerdrage that sometimes spills out of it; the "gamer" stereotype is incredibly toxic (And I've seen some shit, hanging around video game forums), and I just want no part of that.

I know that the great majority of roleplayers are nothing like the stereotype, I can probably count the amount of catpissmen I've met on the fingers of one hand, but I'm not interesting in spending my free time reclaiming the word; the nerdrage folks can have it as far as I'm concerned. I love roleplaying games, it would take a lot to get me to skip a session, I'll happily join in a discussion about roleplaying, I just don't like being called a gamer.

Quote from: Ladybird;748879I wouldn't call myself a gamer, though, both because I have issues with labels and groupings, and because I don't want to associate myself with the nerdrage that sometimes spills out of it; the "gamer" stereotype is incredibly toxic (And I've seen some shit, hanging around video game forums), and I just want no part of that.

I know that the great majority of roleplayers are nothing like the stereotype, I can probably count the amount of catpissmen I've met on the fingers of one hand, but I'm not interesting in spending my free time reclaiming the word; the nerdrage folks can have it as far as I'm concerned. I love roleplaying games, it would take a lot to get me to skip a session, I'll happily join in a discussion about roleplaying, I just don't like being called a gamer.

Seconded.
At least where I'm from, the term "gamer" refers to a bloated man-child who fritters his life away playing games because he isn't competent to do anything else.
I play D&D on a regular (weekly) basis, and will run a game when I have the time. But that just makes me a D&D player, not a "gamer."

Not gaming at this time, and its been over 3 years. Last game I played was D&D 4E. I hope to be able to get a Shadowrun game or Star Wars:EotE game started soon.

Apply whichever label you like, you're not bitter non-gamers.  I'm sorry you seem to think that "gamer" is an insult.  I call catpissmen catpissmen and that's that.  You can deal with your own emotional/social baggage.  Call yourselves the Mickey Mouse Club for all I give a fuck; fact is, you game rather than not game.