As the gaming industry gets bigger and bigger each day the consumers/hardcore gamers still don't get respect from the non-gamers of the world. Not that im saying we deserve respect, but saying that we should not be bashed upon for loving video games so much, and devoting so much time to them. People say that "your wasting your life away playing video games" or "why do you play video games so much go outside and do something" the fact of the matter is gamers do have other hobbies besides video games. People talk to us like its a joke to them, its not like we are all jobless losers who have no friends. I work 40 hours a week and have plenty of friends, it just so happens that I love and devote a lot of time to playing my games. People need to open there minds and realize how big the video game industry is these days with magazines, websites(like this one), and even having a channel on TV! Its very much in the mainstream of the world. Everyone has passions in there life and shouldn't be frowned upon, its like if I said to someone "You play baseball to much why don't you do something else" now that just makes me sound dumb, but if you substitute the word baseball with video games the quote doesn't sound idiotic at all, now why is that? I guess its because anybody can play a video game but not everyone can play baseball but that's not the point. The point of my ranting is video games are much apart of this world and its only going to get bigger and more mainstream then it already is. Will gamers ever get respect? Only time will tell.