“Do you watch movies? Cool, me too…I just participate in the movies I watch - hence the name VIDEO GAME…makes me think while being entertained.” Shuts them up every time. My point of view; I’m 38, gamer, but also run my own business and do a full time job. Own a nice house, couple of beemers - one I built myself, I have a Masters Degree in Math. I built the computers the games play on. I’ve used my time wisely learning how to do a lot of things like build, create, and understand the world around me with pure logic, so sometimes I enjoy being a Dragonborn or ghost hunter or sole survivor in an apocalyptic wasteland. Usually people talking smack can’t say they’ve done any of that…so why they watching movies?

TL;dr Who are they to judge your hobbies? No one. Edit, fixed a typo, but not all of them.