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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Elf Witch" data-source="post: 5830961" data-attributes="member: 9037">As long as people continue to hide the hobby and worry what other people think then gaming will always have the stigma that there is something wrong with it.I have been playing since the game came out and far more people are accepting about it today then they were back then. I have not encounter for a long time  people who still think the game is an occult device to lure in people to corrupted their souls.A lot of hobbies get poked fun at in the media for laughs and it is just laughs. The whole Get a Life meme from Star Trek is one of them. Yet their are a lot of people who freely admit to being a Trekkie.  NASA was filled with people who became interested in space and working in that field because of watching Trek.There will always be people who make fun of something they don't understand or judge people badly because of it. Hiding it just gives fuel that they are right and there is something wrong with it.I cannot imagine being involved with a person who would taunt me because of my hobby or look down on me. I could not live with a person who treated me like that it would in my case destroy any love I felt for the person. I am not sure why you brought this topic up and then shared what your buddies do. Did you not think people might have opinions on it and those opinions might be of the this totally messed up kind. Or were you hoping for validation?</blockquote>