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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mercurius" data-source="post: 5004051" data-attributes="member: 59082">Yes, I resonated with his story and agree with you about the social marginality of gaming, both then and now. I still get surprise and mocking jokes when people find out I'm into RPGs, especially my students (high school). But what I took issue was his emphasis on this and his only passing mention of RPGs as a creative outlet. To me this marginalizes gaming even further and places all forms of it as "only" a fringe hobby, when for some it is much more, an art even (especially for designers and homebrew GMs). In some ways it comes down to intentionality, or what one "gets" out of gaming. For me it is creativity and imagination. There is nothing pathological about that--and I would even say that it somewhat relates to the pathology of our culture with its lack of creativity, imagination, and a sense of wonder and magic (this relates to Tolkien's assertion that true escapism isn't escape from reality but from imprisonment, and thus a healthy response to an unhealthy context).Completely off topic, but Remus Lupin, did you realize that your user name spelled backwards is "nipul sumer", which could be pronounced as "nipple summer"? ;-)</blockquote>