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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dark Jezter" data-source="post: 1800921" data-attributes="member: 1015">Okay, to answer your question:  No, I don't expect gamers to be fond of jocks, but nor should they be expected to go on bitter anti-jock rants whenever somebody mentions sports.  That just smacks of an inability to cope.Actually, throughout Jr. High and my Sophmore year of high school, I was a typical nerdy kid who would spend his free time reading and gaming.  I would sneer at the jocks behind their backs and act like they were somehow holding me down.  I was a smug, unhappy little man who believed that the popular kids were the source of all my misery.My junior year I took up running and weight lifting, as well as playing sports for fun (although I still didn't join any of the sport teams).  After a while, I found that I felt better, I looked better, my academic performace improved, and the girls actually started paying attention to me.  I also learned that many of the jocks whom I'd conditioned myself to hate weren't such bad guys after all (although yes, a few of them really were jerks).  I still gamed and read books, but no longer were they the only things I did in my free time.</blockquote>