Nice to meet you, i'm a gamer

[Volafortis]

I talk about it with friends, or when relevant, and everyone knows that I game, but I don't talk about it as obsessively as a lot of people who don't game anywhere near as much as I do, Still, I occasionally throw out references that only gamers would understand, just for fun.

 

[Ninjamedic]

If I'm asked about my hobbies I'll say that I'm a gamer then.

 

[Kollega]

When a person talking to me asks me what do i do in my free time.

 

[Malkavian]

It just comes up in discussion. I don't stare at them with my eyes wide open and say "I like games"

This. The fact that I play vido games is not something a pride myself on, nor do I see it as a personal defect that I have to find the right moment to tell people about. Whenever it comes up naturally, they'll know. It's not really something I think about when I meet people, like I don't think about when I'll mention that I like Ben & Jerrys, or smoking.

 

[Simalacrum]

eh, its not a secret, and I'll tell them I'm into videogames if they ask what I'm interested in, but its not something that I'll just randomly pop into a conversation.

 

[Amnestic]

What a sample conversation may look like:

"So what did you do at the weekend?"
"Hung out, went out Saturday night, played a few games Sunday, procrastinated some work. Usual."
"You play games?"
"Yeah, as far as pass times go it's one of my more favourite ones."

And then we go about our life as per usual.

 

[Artina89]

All my friends know that I am a gamer, but I don't usually tell them, they tend to find out as they get to know me better. A couple of my friends and I talk about games on a regular basis.

 

[SextusMaximus]

I guess it does every now and again, but not all that much to be honest, because frankly not many people who I hang around care.

I don't tend to hide it, there are very few reasons why I do.

 

[JanatUrlich]

A lot of guys like it so I'm not bothered about telling people at all

Quite a few girls judge me for it though haha

 

[BuckBuckton]

I prefer not to mention it, especially at work as most of my co-workers were born in the stone age. If someone asks me about how I spend my free time I'll tell them but I'd never just bring it up randomly in conversation.

 

[DazZ.]

I don't usually bring it up as I don't feel the need to, but no one has ever recoiled in horror because I say I play games, but that's because just by talking to me you realise I'm not the stereotype fat guy who doesn't leave his mothers basement.
[small](However much I feel that way when I go a week without leaving the house playing on games and tinkering with computers, but they don't know about that. =])[/small]

 

[aPod]

Eh,

Most people dont know a damn thing about me except my close friends, and i like keeping it that way. So no i dont really bring it up. My brother though, sheesh all the kid talks about are games, but hey he got himself alittle gamer gal so im proud of him.

 

[Alarien]

I am a gamer and a geek. I see no reason to hide that. As I do not share a lot of interests in common with most mainstream people (I hate most primetime TV, I don't care for sports outside of special events like the Olympics or the Stanley Cup), I sometimes find it hard to get them to understand that I am not going to converse with them about their bullshit interests. Usually if I bring up being a gamer, it's to basically tell them "this is my world, it is not your world, if you don't have anyway to interface with me on this, then we're done here."

 

[Howlingwolf214]

I only tell someone i've just met that I'm into games if I found out that they are into games as well.

Usually it occurs when I notice a game in a shop or something and I'll be like, "Oh hey. That's an awesome game, so Anyway..."
Then they'll be like, "Oh yeah? I played that/Heard about that, it was/sounds _____"

And it goes on from there.

 

[Bloody Crimson]

I say it subtle-like, you know? It comes up in discussion it'll happen. I also obsess over the same few games most of the time. Most of my friends play/used to play video games so it's really not an issue.
People above me said this I know, but I didn't feel like quoting.

 

[bassdrum]

I don't really mention gaming, it doesn't come up much. If it did, I'd talk about it, but I see no reason to do so otherwise. Just because I do something doesn't mean I feel the need to advertise it.

 

[high_castle]

I don't go out of my way to mention it, but I also don't deny it. Of course, I work at a game store, so when the inevitable "What do you do for a living" question comes up, it's usually followed by the equally predictable "Oh, so you like games?" Of course, I'm female, so this generally elicits surprise more than condemnation, followed by the assumption that everything I play must be Wii Fit or Cooking Mama. So...yeah, I don't go out of my way to mention it.

 

[x0ny]

I tend to let nature take its course. For example, someone sees me reading a game magazine, they'll come up and say, "hey you play/interested in that game?" and I'll be like, "yeah, you play too?" and it goes from there, to "what else do you play?".

Or perhaps I initiate conversation with no intention of the conversation going to games. "Yesterday, I was playing on my PC, when there was this huge bang on the window, I looked out and saw this bird lying on its back." If the person I was talking to was interested in games, too, they'd go back to "so what were you playing" after discussing the bird event.