No. Society creates "Social Rejects".
Why? Because Society marks people with an interest in gaming as "different", but not in a "everyone is uniquely special" kind of way.
I played a lot of games as a child, (edutainment pc games, snes games, megadrive games), but I also had a lot of friends too, and I had no issues in my education, (except in reading, where I was being HELD BACK, because I was too good at it, and apparently, I had to let the other kids catch up. I spent a whole year on the same reading level! God I must've been so pissed when I was younger!), and physical activities.
Primary school wasn't too bad either as everyone was into pokemon, and I played the pokemon games a lot. Yes, I was bullied a little by one bad group, but that was unrelated to my hobby, (they must've been jealous of my capability to learn both year 5 and 6 stuff, (I was in a combined class in year 5, as the numbers were so small)).
Secondary school was horrid though. Gaming had become somewhat unpopular in that specific 5-6 year period, (this was pre to post ps2 and xbox don't forget), and the popular kids had "grown out" of pokemon and videogames, (I only use pokemon as an example, as it was the best tie-in to gamers and non-gamers in my generation).
I remember serveral times when the popular kids would come up to me while I was playing on my gameboy colour/GBA/ DS (well that one guy was still doing it, but he was an idiot!), and pull the cartridge out and try to turn the system of sometimes if I blocked them quick enough.
To them, games were for kids and weird people, and that was what I was branded as.
I was picked on in Sports, excluded from out of school social events, (that continued on all the way to the end of six form actually, but I was wise enough to know no good would come out of their *cough* "parties"), and eventually, straight up avoided me in any particular thing whatsoever.
(And all this hell I went through, was so that those kids could feel more secure about themselves, by persecuting the ones that behaved in manner that their simple intelligence could not begin to understand, nor their ignorance allow them to)
That being said, this "outcast" made friends with some other "outcasts" (many of which were gamers), and we have friendships 100 times stronger than that gaggle will ever make.
Uni's much better though, gaming is just another activity that some do, but most generally don't care about, (they still wouldn't let me make my own gaming society though, >:/).
The only "gamers" I ever see, are shameless imitators that likely ownly own a PS3 or 360, and likely only play COD or Forza on their system, online, while slurring down their headsets.
I'm afraid that if I were to reccomend them Banjo Kazooie: Nuts and Bolts their heads might asplode! XD
