BECAUSE GAMERS ARE THE ONLY ENTHUSIASTS WHO ARE PRONE TO PUTTING THEIR HOBBY AHEAD OF MANNERS, AM I RIGHT!!!
Seriously, the behaviour described (not pausing the game to text someone back) isn't any different from a sports fan who won't get off the sofa during a game to answer his phone or whatever.
Gamers are just people. They aren't a special section of the population with specific rules and guidelines and should be studied separately from the rest of humanity. They have their good guys and their douchebags just like any other subgroup. If there is any quantifiable change in the behaviour of the average gamer, it's because gaming went from a niche hobby enjoyed by few to a medium that rivals motion pictures in scope and funding, with a vastly broader audience than ever before. So a lot of the new people are douches. Nothing unexpected there.
And young kids are arseholes. You were an arsehole when you were a kid. However, you didn't know it then, so you didn't pay any attention to it and therefore you don't remember being an arsehole. But you were. I was too. And as we get older and stop being arseholes (well, some of us) we start noticing that kind of behaviour, which is why every generation is always bitching about how rude kids are becoming. If that were true, we'd have devolved into road-warrior levels of anarchy by now.
Seriously, the behaviour described (not pausing the game to text someone back) isn't any different from a sports fan who won't get off the sofa during a game to answer his phone or whatever.
Gamers are just people. They aren't a special section of the population with specific rules and guidelines and should be studied separately from the rest of humanity. They have their good guys and their douchebags just like any other subgroup. If there is any quantifiable change in the behaviour of the average gamer, it's because gaming went from a niche hobby enjoyed by few to a medium that rivals motion pictures in scope and funding, with a vastly broader audience than ever before. So a lot of the new people are douches. Nothing unexpected there.
And young kids are arseholes. You were an arsehole when you were a kid. However, you didn't know it then, so you didn't pay any attention to it and therefore you don't remember being an arsehole. But you were. I was too. And as we get older and stop being arseholes (well, some of us) we start noticing that kind of behaviour, which is why every generation is always bitching about how rude kids are becoming. If that were true, we'd have devolved into road-warrior levels of anarchy by now.
