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a person who'll spend forty hours fleeing imaginary danger to relax after work
means A person who plays games—especially video games—as a serious hobby, often with skill, dedication, and a fair bit of their free time.
from From "game" plus the agent suffix "-er," the same workhorse pairing that turns a worker into one who works. "Game" itself is old, reaching back through Old English "gamen" meaning joy, fun, or amusement—a kinsman of similar words across the Germanic languages. For centuries a "gamer" simply meant a gambler or one given to playing games. The modern sense, fused to controllers and screens, is a much later arrival, blooming with the video-game age in the late 20th century.
- reaction speed
- Pro players react in under 150 milliseconds
- average age
- The median gamer is around 35 years old
- crisis solver
- Foldit players cracked an AIDS enzyme in three weeks
- economy
- Gaming outearns movies and music combined
- hidden athletes
- Esports pros burn calories like race-car drivers
pewdiepie — felix kjellberg, youtube's most-subscribed individual creator with 33m+ subscribers
ninja — tyler blevins, peaked at 250k concurrent twitch viewers in 2018
faker — lee sang-hyeok, league of legends player with 4 world championship titles
pokimane — imane anys, most-followed female streamer on twitch with 9m+ followers