>“Well, OK.” I sensed a disbelief in the guy’s voice. “But do you play shooters?” I remember the silence that filled this space beyond this question. I was hor

>“Well, OK.” I sensed a disbelief in the guy’s voice. “But do you play shooters?” I remember the silence that filled this space beyond this question. I was horrified that anyone could even ask such a thing. Here I was, sitting with my fingers spread across WASD, admiring a game world — and somehow, for some obtuse reason, being assumed to be someone who didn’t know anything about the world or how to interact with it. “I think I better play it for you,” he said finally, prying my hands away and turning the keyboard towards himself. If it had been me, I'd have said "Yeah" as I continued playing instead of refraining from both talk and play until the silence was uncomfortable and then going home and writing an article about how oppressed I was. The poor guy was very possibly just trying to do his job and be helpful. On the other hand, the article she did write made the front page here and it's unlikely that any article about the game itself, however good, would have gotten this kind of circulation. I guess that's why she's a successful journalist and I'm just a gamer.