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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Terwox" data-source="post: 1727843" data-attributes="member: 1044">guess I'm here late, but hey.most of the people I've gamed with have been relatively poor in the social department.a lot of stinky people, a lot of jerks, a few braindead stoners, and a majority of people with some heavy emotional disturbance.I've always sort of seen that as the norm -- you game because something is wrong, basically... you enjoy the hobby because something is lacking.It's just how I always felt about it -- I've also known the people who started dated and quit gaming -- pretty common thing too.But I've made some great friends.  Sure, there's people in my past who smelled like piss and had lifestyles that make me retch, and I wish I'd of avoided some of them outright, but it went how it went.  I miss gaming, I just moved away, and the first thing I feel like I need is a gaming group -- not for an escapist movement, but just because it would be nice to have some friends who I shared a common interest with!Man... some of my favorite people are past 25 year old guys who live alone and have never had a date.  They don't smell, they're perhaps a bit maladjusted, but damnit they're good people and they're my friends!Well, all rambling aside -- just game with your friends.  I'm attracted to somewhat weird people, that's just the way of things, and sometimes it turns out funny, and sometimes you make good friends.  If you don't want to deal with catpiss men, by all means, kick them out of your house, stop talking to them.  I've had some stinky friends, though, and it all turned out great.  A lot of people who are stinky are stinky because they don't have much choice... poverty and all that, simple unawareness, whatever.Anyway, stick to your friends.  Not writing off the weird guy will mean you won't meet any of the true freaky people you want to stay away from -- and for those who have gamers around their kids, no questions asked just don't even consider freaky people IMHO -- but you'll miss some really great people... who just have some problems... maybe just bigger problems than the rest of us.but i'm a psychology goon.  if you've got less tolerance for freakiness, by all means you aren't bad or evil, just accept it and tell catpissers to stop eating out of the litterbox.  have fun gaming, everyone. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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