I hate the word ‘Consumer’ or I mockingly call it ‘CONSOOMER’. Because that’s to imply everyone in the world is just cattle, but with wallets. We’re no longer customers. We’re consumers now. And a consumer’s purpose is to consume shit, whatever is put out there. Got money? Shut up and consume, it’s what corporate interests and capitalism itself thrive on. Consume and consume.

  • FluffyToaster621@lemm.ee
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    35
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    1 year ago

    “Gamer”, despite being a basic description of someone who plays video games often, has always felt wrong to use or be called.

    Doesn’t help that it’s only really ever used ironically or to mock someone, and if it’s not that, it’s used to advertise overpriced and mid-tier PC peripherals that could be used as makeshift flashlights.

    spoiler

    Not that RGB lighting is bad, but it always feels like it’s used to justify insane prices for stuff that either doesn’t last that long, or malfunctions often.

    • eratic@feddit.uk
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      21
      ·
      1 year ago

      I think it’s because “Gamer” make it part of your identity, instead of a hobby or something you do. It’s like when people call me a cyclist, it makes it seem like it’s the only thing I am when in reality I just use a bike to get around.

      • Ben Hur Horse Race@lemm.ee
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        19
        ·
        1 year ago

        I knew a physics professor who also did tours reading his poetry internationally. in an interview he was asked if he felt he was a physicist who did poetry or a poet who does physics, and he said when he’s driving he’s a motorist, when he’s walking he’s a pedestrian, when he’s tucking his kids in he’s a father. the idea of an umbrella identity is restrictive and is for other people to put you in a category

    • Poob@lemmy.ca
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      3
      ·
      1 year ago

      If someone calls themself a gamer I know they don’t have much else going on. This is from someone that plays games.