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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Set" data-source="post: 3514030" data-attributes="member: 41584">Given the social interactions required, I've found that the 'weirdos' tend to get weeded out pretty quickly.  If anything, going out with a bunch of gamers, as compared to going out with a bunch of co-workers, I am *less* likely to be embarassed, or have to worry about police intervention, or having to take Bob's keys away, or trying to convince the girl he's bothering from kicking his butt while he's struggling to punch her for the heinous offense of having the good taste to tell him to go pound sand...When I was working at the post office, I saw a *heck* of a lot more social maladjusts shuffling through their lives who aren't nearly 'together' enough to go over to somebody's house and sit around a table for four-eight hours playing make-believe.  I've seen gamers with issues, but they don't get invited back.  I don't babysit (grown-ups anyway), or offer sage counsel or a shoulder to lean on (for people I don't know).I'd rather hang with people who get in fights in their imaginations than the ones who do it in real life, yanno?</blockquote>