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This sort of baseless statement happens all the time in our field. Gaming is not technical. Gaming has no relationship with programming, unless you are programm

This sort of baseless statement happens all the time in our field. Gaming is not technical. Gaming has no relationship with programming, unless you are programming games, which is a completely different subset of people. The misuse of "nerdy" to refer to people who consume a mainstream source of entertainment is baffling to me. Nobody would say someone is nerdy for using social media for hours a day, and yet they both require the same amount of technical proficiency. Most people I know who got into the field via gaming were either completely incompetent and have since left, or do not label themselves as 'gamers' anymore.

derefr 10y ago
The common label is "graphics programmers", a.k.a. "demoscene people." There's a large overlap between those and a certain kind of gamer—the ones that create Tool-Assisted Speedruns, for example.
gcp 10y ago
It's a simple matter of demographics. Who are the majority of machine learning researchers? PhD students in CS (aka majority male) between 22 and, what, 26 years? What percentage of male computer science students between 22 and 26 years DOESN'T play games?