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<blockquote data-quote="Gothmog" data-source="post: 4454572" data-attributes="member: 317"><p>I used to be more quiet about my gaming habits, having grown up in the buckle of the Bible belt and dealt with some intolerance. Mostly from the whacked-out Bible thumpers who had no idea what they were talking about, but sometimes from "normals" as well. However, that pretty much vanished around here in the early 90s. When I got into college, I was open about my gaming habits, and I met a lot of people who had never gamed before but who were interested or intrigued by gaming and gave it a shot with me. Probably 75% of them stuck with it for quite a while, and several people I still game with are ones I "converted".</p><p></p><p>My free time for gaming dwindled a lot when I was in grad and medical school, but I was still open about it. I'd come into lab with a game book to read during down times in my experiments, and my advisor was curious about it, so I ran a short solo adventure for him one afternoon. His response: "If this had been around when I was a kid, I would have been obsessed with it!" <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /></p><p></p><p>Since graduating with my PhD/MD in Neuroscience, I've never hidden it. I work as a professor at a university now, and I pretty routinely surf ENWorld in my office, have gaming books out, and sometimes I'm even paining minis on slow Thursday afternoons (and yes, I still get all my work done). Nobody cares, and a LOT of students seem intrigued by it. I don't mind being labeled a nerd- its who I am. In fact, I'm a full-on, self-professed NERD. Heck, I wear Mythbusters t-shirts to teach classes, and when students have downtime, they sometimes visit my office to watch DVDs I have of Futurama, Mythbusters, Venture Bros., etc. Some students are surprised I am a nerd (I guess I don't look like it), but once they know, they tease me about it in a nice way, and think its cool. And even though its not surprising to many folks, science profs are pretty much ALL nerds, each in their own way. I don't get any flack over it at all.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Gothmog, post: 4454572, member: 317"] I used to be more quiet about my gaming habits, having grown up in the buckle of the Bible belt and dealt with some intolerance. Mostly from the whacked-out Bible thumpers who had no idea what they were talking about, but sometimes from "normals" as well. However, that pretty much vanished around here in the early 90s. When I got into college, I was open about my gaming habits, and I met a lot of people who had never gamed before but who were interested or intrigued by gaming and gave it a shot with me. Probably 75% of them stuck with it for quite a while, and several people I still game with are ones I "converted". My free time for gaming dwindled a lot when I was in grad and medical school, but I was still open about it. I'd come into lab with a game book to read during down times in my experiments, and my advisor was curious about it, so I ran a short solo adventure for him one afternoon. His response: "If this had been around when I was a kid, I would have been obsessed with it!" ;) Since graduating with my PhD/MD in Neuroscience, I've never hidden it. I work as a professor at a university now, and I pretty routinely surf ENWorld in my office, have gaming books out, and sometimes I'm even paining minis on slow Thursday afternoons (and yes, I still get all my work done). Nobody cares, and a LOT of students seem intrigued by it. I don't mind being labeled a nerd- its who I am. In fact, I'm a full-on, self-professed NERD. Heck, I wear Mythbusters t-shirts to teach classes, and when students have downtime, they sometimes visit my office to watch DVDs I have of Futurama, Mythbusters, Venture Bros., etc. Some students are surprised I am a nerd (I guess I don't look like it), but once they know, they tease me about it in a nice way, and think its cool. And even though its not surprising to many folks, science profs are pretty much ALL nerds, each in their own way. I don't get any flack over it at all. [/QUOTE]
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