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Message: <blockquote data-quote="two" data-source="post: 1778356" data-attributes="member: 9002">Gamers are people tooI don't subscribe to the "it's just gaming," philosophy.  It's just gaming, it's no big deal, it's just us having fun, don't mind us.  Let our brains rot.Gaming is gaming.  I don't think you need to take it as seriously as your take a perforated hernia, nor is it however deserving ghettoization.We pretend we are beating up monsters.  Day traders (often) are pretending that they are doing something other than gambling.  Criminals (often) are pretending they are justified in their behavior.  Actors are pretending to be, well, crack addicts with wonderful hair.  The use of imagination, from reading to opera to whatever, does not signal to me something childish or silly.  It can be quite scary, in fact, and very, very serious.  No art is possible without imagination, after all.Have fun gaming, have a blast.  I simply don't see any reason to throw inane pop-culture quotes into the mix.  Unless it is done as some sort of punishment.See?  I mean, they are not "funny quotes" as you put it.  They just aren't.  There is always something better to do with your time than quote quotes, and listen to things being quoted.  I'm not into serious gaming, I'm not into pretentious crap, I am however opposed to nonsense bleatings, particularly when they further some sort of pop-culture paradigm that wallows in its own muck.  Don't quote Gilligan's Island to me.  Why instead aren't you angry?  Why aren't you angry you spent so much time watching that junk instead of doing something, anything?  Don't quote B movies to me, don't try to justify that waste you feel by pushing it onto me, outside of yourself.  Yes, you watched far too much TV, too many bad movies.  Accept it.  It was a waste.  Move on.  It's not funny.  Laughing at a car wreck -- not funny.  Bringing the car wreck up time and again -- not funny.  Keep them out of my game.And if you insist on continuing to quote, well, that just hurts me, leads to me think:  is that it?  Is that all?  Is this humor to you?  Is this funny?  Are you one of the drones?  Are you happy to swill, and spew, and sometime in the forgotten future die?  I don't want to think that of people, I don't like to face it, I don't want to see it.  So, keep it to yourself, if you MUST think it.  Don't depress me.  Don't quote at my table.  Don't.</blockquote>

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