"I'm a Hardcore Gamer"

I'm just your average casual hardcore bunny. B)

I'm a hardcore typer... B)

Bibliophile or bookworm, an avid reader and lover of books

Cinephilia is the term used to refer to a passionate interest in cinema

Though perhaps misused sometimes; there's nothing wrong with having a term for a particular interest. If anything, the problem is the use of 'hardcore' in the first place, because it conflates interest in video games with the category that is hardcore (as opposed to casual) games.

get on my level bruh my core is hard as diamonds

Of course it's silly. It's just meant to make you sound better, like you play "real games" or something.

If its anything like a hardcore pornstar I ain't want anything to do with it.

Every noob gamer calls himself a hardcore gamer. I'll place myself in Core Gamer since I haven't like totally dedicated my life into gaming.

IMHO, the term "hardcore gamer" means a person who is willing to invest MUCH more time and MUCH more frustration into the games they play than most of us would.
They don't mind playing games where deaths are permanent or at least severely penalized. They don't mind playing ridiculously difficult games, no matter if that difficulty is intentional or a result of the developers' screw-ups etc.

At some point, such people usually get the false impression that they're "elite" for whatever reason, so the term "Hardcore Gamer" to them means "better than the rest of the losers in the world". Losers here meaning the "casual gamers".

Everyone can call themselves whatever they please, but this is my opinion :)

I've only ever heard two types of people describe themselves as an "hardcore gamer." The first type are those whose lives are falling apart because they spend too much time gaming. The second type are those who proclaim it in the hopes of impressing others because they have nothing more noteworthy going on in their lives. I'm thankful I don't belong to either group.

Butthurt: The Thread.
Who cares in the end... just play them games. If you just want to casually play vidya, do so. If you like a challenge, there's plenty of games that can provide that.
"Hardcore" itself can mean 2 things in my opinion - investing much more time in the game (like it meant in WoW, hardcore/semi-hardcore etc would simply describe the amount of raids in guilds per week and well, in the end, their end goal), or simply that somebunny is playing harder games/is really good at them.

I also think that some people in this thread think that being a hardcore gamer equals being addicted, which isn't the case.

" anyone else find it a little amusing when people say that they are a gamer/hardcore gamer?"
It's 50/50 for me. As stated above it's a different way of saying "I love video games", but any other use of the term "hardcore gamer" is really dumb.

It just means you're not a casual player. I don't see anything wrong with it. I even used it a few times.

I'm so hardcore.

Despite the fact that an unhealthy amount of my life has been spent playing, making, reviewing, discussing or otherwise researching or perusing games and associated media, for some reason I've never liked the label of gamer. Generally it's a harmless term and I'm not outraged by it or anything like that, but I hate when it's used as if it was a meaningful clique.

You're "Hardcore" if you're dumb enough to buy these.

http://www.framesdirect.com/framesfp/Gunnar-pakdsho/lb.html?color=1&affiliate=25&gclid=CJKjw56ltr4CFWYQ7AodHBcA3A

Not really, there has to be an opposite for casual scum. Might as well call it hardcore.

For me, this would quality as someone who is a "hardcore" gamer.

For example, he finished FTL on hard mode with no pause with all 28 ships. If that's not hardcore, I don't know what is.

Nobody says "I'm a hardcore reader" or "I'm a hardcore movie watcher" for the same reason that nobody calls themselves game aficionados or game connoisseurs. It's just lingo. It doesn't mean people don't obsess over movies or books or spend loads of time on them. And since there's no neat universally agreed on definition of "hardcore", assuming that everyone that uses the term are all identifying as part of the same stereotype (whichever one you've chosen) is pretty narrow minded.

People that say that = dumb (sorry for using the other word , i had to look for the meaning and i didnt know that was a pejorative term ... im sorry for that )

Then I'm a hardcore movie watcher, too.

What would you call someone who is hardcore at watching Hardcore Pawn?

Hardcore Hardcore Pawn watcher?