Confidence Without Mastery: The Ball-and-Gun Gamer Phenomenon
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A Washington Post column argues that the term 'ball and gun gamer' captures a broader trend in gaming culture: people speak with the confidence of expertise about video games without real knowledge, turning participation into authority and shaping discourse around shooters and sports games as a symptom of wider cultural patterns.
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‘Ball and gun’ gamers and the plague of uninformed expertise The Washington Post
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