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Message: <blockquote data-quote="fafhrd" data-source="post: 1770333" data-attributes="member: 18517"><p>The hobby doesn't make these people.  I'd wager that most were sad, lost or broken long before they encountered gaming, as we can see in the case of S.  They game for the same reasons the rest of us do.  It's liberating, expansive, and utterly opposed to the mundane.  The way in which well adjusted gamers differ from those poor souls is that we have something else to go back to and lives to lead when the books close and the game ends.  Who knows, maybe the game provides some joy in an otherwise miserable life.  For that I'm willing to accept them as compatriots in our lil hobby, just not neccessarily at my game table.</p></blockquote><p></p>