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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Trainz" data-source="post: 1212299" data-attributes="member: 2122">I agree with the concensus (sp?) that gamers are not more gifted than average peep-holes in the domain of intelligence. I, too, have met very different dudes in my gaming past. My best friend, who is also my prime RP'ing partner, is a gifted genius. He's a great computer programmer with undeniable intelligence (coder of <a href="http://www.geocities.com/trainz_ca/ID" target="_blank">Interactive Dungeon</a>). He's a gamer.  I also used to game (a few games only, thank god) with the most absolute moron I have ever met. We still make jokes about that guy 15 years after. He was (is ?) an idiotic despacable guy. No game-balance. Had to lie his way through everything, such was his lack of intelligence. Especially when such lying was unecessary. He's also a gamer. I want to add a little something that is not meant as an attack at all, just a little observation: it is elitist and patently wrong to even consider that some aspect of a given group (such as gamers and intelligence) is better than the common folk.  Being a gamer, computer geek, and especially a musician, I too, sometimes, have that gut feeling that because of what I do and whatever success I achieve because of it I am somewhat better in some aspect than the common folk. As soon as I have that feeling I quiet it down and chase it away. It is wrong. It is not wrong to feel good about yourself, it is not wrong to be glad of your successes, but it is WRONG to think you're better than someone else. Look at my new sig, compliments of the Sigil.</blockquote>

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