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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Reynard" data-source="post: 5271940" data-attributes="member: 467">Actually you're not. You're pulling the same "gamers are smelly, oblivious mouth breathers" BS that non-gamers pull and I think it is reprehensible -- especially so as a gamer.See, you didn't say there was this one guy at the game store who was like this -- yes, we all have experience these people. What you said was the game store made the poor choice of putting the games near people that actually played them, so you had no choice but be in the same space as those vermin.You can pretend you are being clever or targeting the store or whatever, but the fact is you are insulting the members of your own community in the worst way: by subjecting them to the stereotype of the other that we, gamers, have had to deal with for a very long time.Perhaps you are a new gamer and you don't remember what the post "scare", pre "geek chic" years were like. If that's the case, I would caution you to use more tact when describing members of your own community. If that's not the case, I am simply calling you out on it, because it is entirely inappropriate.</blockquote>