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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nisarg" data-source="post: 1732004" data-attributes="member: 19893">Yes, it is a foolish and contradictory behaviour to say that the hobby owes you a social life, while gaming with people you dislike.But are you implying that people should game only with people who are already in their social circle? Or just that they shouldn't complain?My own perspective is this: I don't game with anyone I dislike, but the majority of the people I game with are at the same time people that I feel no need to include in the rest of my social life. I don't need them to be in other parts of my life, because I fill the other parts of my life with other social pursuits.  Thus, I don't feel the need for gaming to give me a social life.To me the fundamental problem is not gaming with strangers; it is allowing other gamers to do things to you or others or your group that you would never tolerate in other social situations, out of a misguided idea that you can't "pick on" a fellow gamer or that your gaming group/club/FLGS/convention would fall apart if you held gaming to the very same social standards that you would any other kind of group/club/place of business/convention.The problem is not complaining that gaming doesn't give you a social life, its depending on gaming to do so in the first place; which in turn makes you unwiling to do anything that might threaten the peace of your "social family" of gamers.Well then I really do have to wonder why you are even posting to this thread?Nisarg</blockquote>

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