Hardcore Gamers

I'm often in awe of the eloquent verbosity displayed by Elysium over at the Gamers with Jobs blog. Today at the bottom of a particularly nice article concerning the path that mainstream gaming has taken, he said something that just hit the nail right on the head. His definition of the "Hardcore Gamer":

We are the cinema aficionados who champion foreign films, the music lovers that only listen to indie music, the literature snobs who talk about Proust and smoke clove cigarettes. As popular culture embraces gaming, it shrugs us old-school gamers off dismissively, and to be honest we're probably better off that way. At least, that's what we should tell ourselves until we figure out how to act cool again and hang out at the popular lunch table.

Sheer genius I tell you.