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The Steam Deck is changing how normies think of gaming PCs.
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it's definitely a weird term but in more than a few contexts (mostly very online contexts) i've found it to be the only suitable terminology because there's just nothing else which most of the people i talk to will "get" otherwise--it'd be nice to have something a little bit less embarrassing to work with, to be honest lol
I feel like 'layman' would be the perfect word here
without the artificial air of superiority
The group here may be different from most of the people you talk to.
Try:
"the average person"
Or (mostly joking) "allistic"?
"average person" i'm afraid lacks a certain it factor--probably the ironic steeping in terminally online culture implied by even speaking it--that's implied by using normie. i find in many of these circumstances it just seems out of place also. in a semantic sense i'm not sure "average person" maps to "normal person" either, which is another thing
Yeah I'm not sure "average person" works the same.... maybe "median person"? 🤣
The 10% nerdiest people hold 90% of the nerdiness?
But yeah I don't think "average person" works, because it's not a wide enough range and doesn't include the opposite extreme end
"non-normies" is a very small group, in this context non-normies would be the most extreme gamers. The "average people" would not include a somewhat invested gamer, and it also wouldn't include someone who is heavily opposed to gaming, both of which would be included in "normies".
I don't think someone heavily opposed to gaming would be considered a normie, they would be in their own separate extremist camp also apart from the average person.
the it factor you're talking about is "being a dick"
As someone alternative that been active in local gothic scenes I also use "normie" to refeer to people that do not engage with subcultures. I didn't even know it was considered pejorative until this post
I just think of "normie" as the new "vanilla" - every group that uses it, uses it uses it to refer to people who are not a part of that particular group, so its meaning depends on the context but should be self-explanatory and not (necessarily) derogatory.
As a software guy I like the word for its simplicity and ease of use.
Wow.
I cant even right now with this thread. There is nothing wrong with "normie."