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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wolfen Priest" data-source="post: 270255" data-attributes="member: 3909">I have to chime in that none of the people I game with fit into the mold of 'typical gamer.'  Granted, they are not as hard-core a gamer as I am (or any of us who frequent this board), but I can honestly say that I definitely don't fit into the nerd mold either.My gamer friends and I hang out with non-gamers, go out to bars on weekends, have plenty of female friends, have no difficulty conversing with females (known or unknown), and furthermore, we don't have any problem talking about D&D right out in public in front of other people who don't game.Most people barely even know what it is, and of those who do, I think they just look at it as something they don't completely understand, or perhaps they've tried it, but don't enjoy it that much.  I think more and more these days, however, people see a huge barrier to becoming a gamer; that barrier is not fear of becoming a nerd but rather the price barrier and the learning curve.  *[primary point]:*When my non-gaming friends & acquaintances walk in on one of our games, they obviously get the impression that the game is too complicated for them to easily learn.  But they don't think we're nerds for playing it.*[/primary point]*Mike Myers is without question THE biggest nerd/geek in Hollywood right now.  I think he feels embarrassed about his roots as a nerd/geek.  Heck, maybe he *did* game with nerds; he wouldn't be the first one!  But just like anyone who is (maybe?) afraid of being considered a nerd, he lashes out at the interminable *them* so that he can distance himself, if only in his own mind.  I don't feel I need to do that.Now adays, I really think the trend (that gamers are geeks) is changing.  I think most new gamers are cool people.  Heck, you have to be! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /></blockquote>

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