In Praise of Cheetos

[The Traveler]

Remember your first games. Maybe you played in the basement. Maybe you played in the school library. Maybe in the local gaming store. Your brother had you try it, or you got drawn in because you were there for Magic cards.

Were you in high school? In middle school? Did you get roped in once you got to college?

Nowadays it might be hard to get a game together. College is long gone. Everyone has real jobs. Maybe the scruffy guy that smelled like catfood still is scruffy and smells like catfood, so the rest of you aren't sure if he fits in anymore. Beards are trimmed or shaved off altogether. Some of you are married.

Still, you were all dorks together. You were all oddballs, and whether you grew out of it or not you remember.

You've tried different games. You've perhaps refined your tastes. You've learned to roleplay more than just killing goblins and taking their stuff.

Still, there's that dork inside you. Maybe he's pudgy, maybe he's skinny. He has a bad haircut and he listens to Weird Al. He's got a slice of pizza clutched in a deathgrip.

He's wondering where the Mountain Dew got to.

 

[shilsen]

I'm in touch with my inner dork so much that he has a restraining order on me.

 

[Dimwhit]

I'm in touch with my inner dork so much that he has a restraining order on me.

I'm so in touch with my inner dork I have to make sure the bathroom door is locked...

 

[The Shaman]

I'm so in touch with my inner dork that I...that I...I...uh...damn, I can't top either of those.

Okay, how about this? Cheetos + blue food coloring = edible purple worm minis.

 

[Ranger REG]

Remember your first games. Maybe you played in the basement. Maybe you played in the school library. Maybe in the local gaming store. Your brother had you try it, or you got drawn in because you were there for Magic cards.

Were you in high school? In middle school? Did you get roped in once you got to college?

High school.

Nowadays it might be hard to get a game together. College is long gone. Everyone has real jobs. Maybe the scruffy guy that smelled like catfood still is scruffy and smells like catfood, so the rest of you aren't sure if he fits in anymore. Beards are trimmed or shaved off altogether. Some of you are married.

Still, you were all dorks together. You were all oddballs, and whether you grew out of it or not you remember.

You've tried different games. You've perhaps refined your tastes. You've learned to roleplay more than just killing goblins and taking their stuff.

Still, there's that dork inside you. Maybe he's pudgy, maybe he's skinny. He has a bad haircut and he listens to Weird Al. He's got a slice of pizza clutched in a deathgrip.

He's wondering where the Mountain Dew got to.

Unfortunately, my inner dork is also my outer dork.

 

[Psion]

He's wondering where the Mountain Dew got to.

I'm older and wiser now.

I drink only diet dew.

 

[Ravenknight]

I agree with everything said in the original post but one question remains. What´s a "cheeto"..?.?

 

[Galethorn]

Wikipedia to the rescue: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheeto

Cheetos are a crunchy, cheese-flavored snack made from cornmeal introduced by Frito-Lay in 1948. They are popular enough that the word "Cheetos" is often used as a generic term for any similar cheese puffs snack food, but it is, in fact, trademarked by the Frito-Lay company.

 

[Ao the Overkitty]

I was in high school. And we didn't start having real snacks at the table until I was in college. Not a caffeine drinker or a junk food eater, so pass the carrots and juice.

As for my inner geek, I let it run free. It's the most effective way I have to embarass the fiancee.

 

[Keeper of Secrets]

For as often as my group seems to gobble down Cheetos it really should get some kind of Gamer Lifetime Achievement Award.