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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Silver Moon" data-source="post: 2178710" data-attributes="member: 8530">Disclaimer: This story took place a decade ago and the average gamer appears to have changed some since that time.  My wife and I worked convention staff for several years. We were sitting at the registration table when a middle-aged woman approached us. She explained that her son was attending the convention, and she had forgotten to tell him something important before he left the house. She asked if we might know where to find him. This was a fairly good sized convention, and he had not pre-registerred, nor did she have any idea what type of games he would even be playing. We explained that we would have to go room-by-room looking for him. She said that was fine, adding, "He should be easy to find..." and then went on to describe him: Average height, heavy set, dark hair with a slightly receeding hairline, glasses, beard, wearing sneakers, jeans and a gaming t-shirt, with a backpack full of gaming supplies. We had to explain to her that she just described about 50% of the convention attendees.</blockquote>