Surveys are laggy. What they're trying to say is "new" is actually pretty common.

I see a muscular guy walk in Subway one day wearing a SWAT t-shirt. Ask him if he's ever been on the force and he acknowledges yes, but he quite to pursue a career in IT when someone told him he couldn't do it.

"There's this stereotype of game slackers wasting time, goofing off, that really isn't valid,"

Wow. I'm still in the minority