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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Majoru Oakheart" data-source="post: 2178549" data-attributes="member: 5143">You are right, hobbies are not lifestyle choices.  On the other hand, my hobbies are part of my life.See, I'm stuck in a unique situation.  I really like who I am, I like my life EXCEPT for one point.  I don't like the fact that I am completely without female companionship at the moment.  I've had gfs and I'm not a virgin or anything.  But I get lonely a decent amount.  Otherwise, I have lots of friends who I game with multiple times per week.  I go out to movies, play computer games, spend time with my family, play board games.  But, yes, I wish I knew of a female who liked the same things I did.  I actually know only one, and they are engaged to another person in one my my groups.I actually don't get much discrimination from normal people.  I've never been told that I stink or had people not invite me to do something for that reason (that I'm aware of), and as long as I'm not aware of it, it normally doesn't matter anyways.  Actually, this was more posted because of my frustration of being outnumbered in people I know by the vast majority of people who do smoke or drink or do drugs.  By people who like sports, beer, bars, dancing.  I actually may dislike some of that, personally, but I've never really discriminated against people who do that sort of thing.  If I did, I'd be discriminating against 98% of the world, it seems and against 60% of my friends.  I don't like it, but that doesn't mean I hate other people for liking it.As a side note, I just found out one of my coworkers during the day who leaves about an hour after I get in each day is actually a gamer.  I was talking to her about games and such.  Found out that she thinks that D&D is a game for powergamers and hack and slashers and can only be used for that purpose and doesn't really like it.  She plays Vampire: TM, only in LARP form though.  She plays Rifts and WoW.  Of course, she probably fits the "gamer" stereotype as well.  She was overweight, mid 20s, glasses, hairy arms.  I didn't think she looked bad, mind you, I have different sensibilities than most people.  But, still, I'm kind of a hack and slasher myself, and I have a feeling if we talked too much we'd probably end up hating each other anyways.  Sometimes the LARP/table top, Hack and Slash/Roleplayer prejudice is almost worse than the non-gamer prejudice for us.</blockquote>

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