The Elfish Gene - Another attack on gamers
Hussar said:
That's a good point. I'm probably not your stereotypical gamer myself, but I have many memories of hiding the hobby. One thing I've realilzed is that far more people than I ever though either play, or have played. My oldest friend was the football quarterback on his high school team, and I never mentioned anything about the game to him. Until one day, visiting him after being away for a few years, I noticed the rack of Drizzt novels on his bookshelf, and the booted up copy of BG II on his computer. Other friends in University I hid the hobby from, only to learn afterwards that they themselves played, but had hid the hobby from me. We were already friends, and to find out that they play also was cool. In my office, a tonne of my coworkers either currently play, or have played before. Most of us had no idea about each other's interest in the game, because people are so busy hiding it.
Admittedly, the passtime is kind of silly. Pretending to be elves and dwarves and such, on the surface level, does seem weird. But I look back on it, and it gave me an outlet for my creativity, taught about teamwork and preparation, and helped keep me out of drugs and stuff during my teenage years. None of these are bad things.
Maybe the book will be funny...so long as it doesn't perpetrate stereotypes.
Banshee
Tequila Sunrise
Adventurer
Ugh, this is disgusting. Elfs? Dwarfs? Learn English syntax before you write a review!
mhacdebhandia
Explorer
Heh - are you high?Nifft said:
I'm no fan of cricket, but I do live in Australia, where we are presently hosting the English team for the traditional Test cricket series for the Ashes. You can't get away from cricket!
There are ten full members of the International Cricket Council - Australia, England, South Africa, India, New Zealand, the West Indies, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Zimbabwe, and Bangladesh - representing roughly 1.58 billion people, or about 24.3% of the world. That's about 5.25 times as many people as there are in the United States.
Cricket is the most popular sport in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka, which total about 1.44 billion people. It's also the dominant sport here in Australia and in the British Caribbean, the West Indies. It's the second most popular sport in the world, after soccer.
mhacdebhandia
Explorer
Tolkien invented the "-ves" plural for "elves" and "dwarves".Tequila Sunrise said:
I prefer it myself, despite disliking Tolkien, but "elfs" and "dwarfs" are not incorrect plurals.
Cthulhudrew
First Post
Hussar said:
I don't know what you're talking about. I don't game.
Sound of Azure
Contemplative Soul
Nifft said:
Sure there are real, living ones. Our Prime Minister has made "liking cricket" a condition of citizenship in our country.
It is pretty popular around much orf the commonwealth, though. Personally I mainly like it when we can kick the butt of the old Motherland... like we just did. You are right, the book does look good. I guess I was exasperated by the hand-wringing and panic that seemed to be shown initially in the thread and didn't read the review thoroughly enough. :\ I'll have to keep an eye on it.
pogre
Legend
I have never understood why some gamers care if the game is popular or dies. I have the core rules, I have the ability to bring non-gamers into my gaming group. If WOTC ceases tomorrow we will keep playing. If the hobby dies with us, that's ok. I don't see a lot of people throwing Tali dice around these days either.*
*Unless they're playing FVLMINATA of course!
*Unless they're playing FVLMINATA of course!
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