The gamer, in it's natural habitat

Well, I guess I'd describe myself as part of the gamer/internet subculture. The one which you reference games or repeat over 9000 a lot. When you spend more time online than you other former favourite past time.

A lot of people see us a s a bunch of nerds. I usually just shrug it off, mainly cause it's usually coming from one of the "cool" kids. Stupid. But we're usually seen by these people as having no life, being socially inept.

But really, when I look into their little groups, they all look the same, listen to the same music, and, as soon as someone gets something new, say, a piercing, the rest follow. Also, I see that most of the jokes they make see to being sexual, mostly unfunny. And in jokes make no sense, not that they would to me. But they start with just repeating one line that has no meaning.

Yet, when I look in most of my group, which we all vary in tastes of things such as games (though mostly FPS), music and TV shows and such, we all have really, really funny jokes. In jokes which usually relate to previous conversations or situations, Youtube videos, blogs, games. Virtually any type of media form, we have a set of inside jokes about it. Mostly when I say gamer culture, I mean PC gaming culture, not console. PC is so much better. Full stop. Most of the culture agrees. There's mostly no 12 year olds on PC.

And yet we're seen as having no fun, as the others define fun (usually drinking and constant parties). Gamer culture is the most funny, the most engaging, the most thoughtful, educated, accepting (hahaha, only sometimes, and if you're not a female) and informed culture I think society has ever seen.

So there, I'm a going go game on for the rest of my life, hopefully. Maybe the culture may die out, but we'll still being cracking jokes, when onlookers are still think that we need to grow up.