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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wayside" data-source="post: 948102" data-attributes="member: 8394">Well, I don't remember saying that.  If I was drunk it's possible though.You seem to be glossing: my point isn't that I'm super cool guy and most gamers are insignificant little nerds, it's that I don't have anything in common with most people that game; that no two people necessarily have anything at all in common just because they both play Clue.  That is a fact that does not pass judgement on them.  'Weak' is a pretty common word used for such things.  I think people who wear business suits, like politicians, are weak.  I once told that to a professor who wore suits to his lectures regularly.  That's me.So my lack of common ground with gamers might even include your sexually active socially adept successful friends, though the academics among them, assuming a humanities emphasis, I would either get along with quite well or piss off.The people at my FLGS have never heard of Ulver; or DNTEL; or Thrice; The Rx Bandits; Jump, Little Children; Cat Power; The Postal Service; The Get Up Kids; Further Seems Forever; or literally a thousand other bands, a few hundred of which I listen to on any given day.They don't know Drive Thru Records or Vagrant Records (the biggest indie act labels).  If they're trendy they maybe go to the Warped Tour to see Blink 182 or Green Day.  They listen to KWOD and probably watch MTV.They can tell me as little about Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge (which I expect) as S. T. Coleridge or Arnold (which I expect them to know).  Some of them think they know something about Nietzsche and Freud.  That is annoying.  They can't tell the difference between Kant and Goethe and Schiller; Butler and Sedgewick and Rich; Derrida and Saussere and Foucault; and Barthes would be just lost on them.It is unlikely any of them would ever throw Searle at me in an argument over whether artificial intelligence is possible, or what forms of poetry would evolve in a mute community employing signs exclusively, thus substituting proximity to painting and sculpture for proximity to music.I won't drone on; I think this is sufficient to make my point.  If I was spending more time in Berkeley than Sacramento, I might be more into gaming stores.  My feeling that I have little in common with most gamers isn't ex nihil though; I spent plenty of time in these places when I was in highschool, and that was only a few years ago.  Besides, I have endless other more interesting interests.I wouldn't expect to entertain bolen with my epileptic understanding of supersymmetry either.If someone is looking for a specific kind of gamer girlfriend, I think their identity stakes are already overinvested in this particular pasttime.  That is just a personal opinion.  Date a model, an actress, a piano player, better yet a standup bass player.  Extend yourself.So I take it keg-stands are out?That sounds like a great group.  Don't think I've forgotten about the guy who cried bloody murder because he couldn't get his armor on instantaneously though <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> .Ahh, that phantom argument you think was made.  That 1-10,000 ratio was a number you pulled out of your, err, thin air.  Why are you trying to attribute it to me?Well, I suppose because I don't think of myself as a gamer, and neither does my group.  An FLGS is different than ENWorld though.  I come here because there are tons of decent people and I can expect pretty interesting points of view.  If ENWorld was a shop around the corner, I'd probably kick it there quite often, maybe even try to get a job parttime. In theory no.  I just wouldn't be looking specifically for a gamer girl in the first place.  Or looking at all, actually.err, that was actually the point of the thread.  What hellbender and I are responding to is someone saying "I want a gamer girl," which we find to be a bit off.  We're trying to figure out why in the world someone would limit themself to looking specifically for a gamer girl.  Insane as I am, I'd even take it a step further and question someone who is specifically looking for a person to have a relationship with period.  Are you that uncomfortable by yourself?I can't argue with that, although it can be fun to take one of those 90%, if you see something in them, and help them out of their shell.</blockquote>

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