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<blockquote data-quote="Chris Durham" data-source="post: 1565611" data-attributes="member: 19629"><p>There seems to be a defeatist attitude that accompanies the acceptance of geekdom. We've all don it at one point or another: I've been happy to tell people that I'm a guitarist, a martial artist, a software consultant, a skateboarder or a snowboarder; but there's always been a reluctance at admitting I'm a gamer. My friends and I joke about "revealing our shame" to girls we've dated. We know there comes a point in a relationship where you tell the girl "I still play D&D." Actually, this is usually prefaced by "I know this is kind of geeky but..."</p><p>My current girlfriend has gotten me over all that. I had gotten to the point of embracing my geekdom; realizing that it was OK to be a geek. After all there were millions of us. But that wasn't enough. Whenever I tole my girlfriend that deep-down I'm really a geek, she got really upset about it. Truth of the matter is I'm not a geek and neither are most of the gamers I've met.</p><p>A lot of gamers allow themselves to be thought of as geeks by thinking of themselves that way and that does more than anything to feed the myth that RPGs are for geeks. I understand that a lot of us were nerds in high school, but we're adults now -- get over it. Playing D&D is just as valid a pursuit as playing golf, fixing up cars, or religiously watching ESPN.</p><p>None of us should feel that Vin Diesel is validating our lifestyle - just give the man props for not feeling like our lifestyle cramps his style. People saying that he isn't representative of the average gamer are wrong. I'm a gamer. I've been one for 21 years and I'm not a geek.</p><p></p><p>(Sorry if that was a little warm-and-fuzzy-self-improvement-book-sounding, but ...)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Chris Durham, post: 1565611, member: 19629"] There seems to be a defeatist attitude that accompanies the acceptance of geekdom. We've all don it at one point or another: I've been happy to tell people that I'm a guitarist, a martial artist, a software consultant, a skateboarder or a snowboarder; but there's always been a reluctance at admitting I'm a gamer. My friends and I joke about "revealing our shame" to girls we've dated. We know there comes a point in a relationship where you tell the girl "I still play D&D." Actually, this is usually prefaced by "I know this is kind of geeky but..." My current girlfriend has gotten me over all that. I had gotten to the point of embracing my geekdom; realizing that it was OK to be a geek. After all there were millions of us. But that wasn't enough. Whenever I tole my girlfriend that deep-down I'm really a geek, she got really upset about it. Truth of the matter is I'm not a geek and neither are most of the gamers I've met. A lot of gamers allow themselves to be thought of as geeks by thinking of themselves that way and that does more than anything to feed the myth that RPGs are for geeks. I understand that a lot of us were nerds in high school, but we're adults now -- get over it. Playing D&D is just as valid a pursuit as playing golf, fixing up cars, or religiously watching ESPN. None of us should feel that Vin Diesel is validating our lifestyle - just give the man props for not feeling like our lifestyle cramps his style. People saying that he isn't representative of the average gamer are wrong. I'm a gamer. I've been one for 21 years and I'm not a geek. (Sorry if that was a little warm-and-fuzzy-self-improvement-book-sounding, but ...) [/QUOTE]
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