Are gamers really that pathetic?

[Dr. Strangemonkey]

Usury is a sin, right?


Americans also seem to benefit from space to grow. Italy is pretty much settled -- every place that could be built on was built on millenia ago, and there's few true 'wild areas', am I wrong? No place that bears and boars could still be lurking?

No comment on the rest of your post or your main points, but...

1.) Dang right it is.

2.) benefits an interesting term, but Italy actually has a pretty healthy for a place that's been settled and civilized for so long, native population of bears and wolves. Even the Romans thought they had been hunted out, but the central mountain chain is so, for lack of a better term, impenetrable that they hid out there until modern times, when the reunification of Italy imposed classically-liberal property laws which killed the local community property based farming systems. The population of those regions moved out and the bears and wolves have had some success moving into the newly depopulated regions.

One more example of how capitalism can be bad for peasants, and good for... ...wolves?

Sorry, that's really tangential, but that area of the world is something my father studies so I've sort of sucked in with growing up.

 

[Kalanyr]

One more example of how capitalism can be bad for peasants, and good for... ...wolves?

Yoinked for my sig.

 

[Lichtenhart]

Yeah, since I've been a scout for 13 years, I've seen my fair share of boar packs. One even crossed our camp once. Near where I live, there are some wolves, but they are a lot less conspicuous.

It's nice to know that less than 40 miles from home there are places where I can see eagles and roe deers.

If we had less summer fires, I'd say our forests are quite well protected.

 

[Roman]

Roman

Absolutely nothing bad about being a virgin; the risks can be nasty, and, frankly, the cuddling was more fun than the nekkid stuff, for me at least.

Besides, if you ever -do- get in a situation, some women will get very very very aggressive about trying to be your first, and it's one huge ego boost, and a good laugh, too. Having a girl get mad at your pants and saying really really bad cliche` porno lines which I won't repeat here has got to be the funniest thing in the world. As I always say, if you run, they chase.

That is hilarious, I cannot stop laughing!

 

[Gnarlo]

That is hilarious, I cannot stop laughing!

I have to agree, it might be the age difference but my first reaction to "Having a girl get mad at your pants and saying really really bad cliche` porno lines which I won't repeat here" is not to think that it's the funniest thing in the world.

Come to think of it, that's not my second, third, or fourth reaction, either

 

[Rel]

My wife is a little "mad at my pants" right now.

IYKWIMAITYD

 

[Incenjucar]

It was especially funny when she pouted at me, slid off the bed, and declared "I hate you forever!".

At various times, I just couldn't figure out which pair of cheeks I wanted to pinch.



Buuut, point is, gamers are not automatically or most-often pathetic-in-regards-to-women as some seem to think. Some of us are international playboys, despite all logic. The internet helps, of course. It's amazing how people will interact with a character who looks infinately better than you, and because they get to know you, have no reaction when they find out that you aren't, in fact, a 6'2" yaun-ti/elf/human/efreet/fire nymph genasi-ish thingie with fangs and magical powers.. okay, I do have the fangs, but they aren't nearly as long...

Frankly, in my case, roleplaying (online in this case) gave me an opportunity to be comfortable with social situations. The trick is to -let- the hormones slip out once in awhile, so that you get the interest to pursue. Or just hope the very first time you let a girl (or boy, depending on taste) in to your room she (or he) thinks your clothes are evil and should die.

 

[Dr. Strangemonkey]

Yoinked for my sig.

My first sig! Hurray!

 

[fanboy2000]

Wow, this thread is really big!

 

[Bauglir]

Well as a 25 year old virgin who's never so much as kissed a girl and lives at home with his parents. I know I meet the criteria.

I'm generally quiet in manner, and get quickly forgotten in large gatherings of people. As a result I came to dislike large gatherings. I don't go out to clubs or just to meet people, instead preferring small gatherings of close friends. I am aware this makes me abnormal (my group of friends is gradually diminishing as people leave and there is noone new coming along) and I hate it about myself.

The situation is self-perpetuating. Due to lack of experience I don't have the skills or instincts to deal with any potential partner that should come along. Those skills are expected, even assumed by this age, meaning I appear weird and stupid - hardly attractive traits, and so the opportunity to change is beyond my reach.

Even so I am not a 'catpiss man'. I look after my hygiene, and I think my company is at least tolerable if not desirable. I don't shake at the mere mention of a girl. I am simply ill-equipped to deal with them on some levels.

I suspect there are as many people like me around roleplaying as there are catpiss men. Perhaps some of the catpiss men started out here and fell into a pit of apathy, no longer caring how they appear to others.