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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Arravis" data-source="post: 949482" data-attributes="member: 327">Doc_Souark wrote:***I think that Human and opposite gender is a given for most of us on this board Arravis. Not that I'm against those that perfer the same gender of course( no need to open that can of worms).***I was being sarcastic, my feeble attempt at humor <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />.Wayside wrote:***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.***Well I enjoy Kode IV, Stuffing Martha's Muffin, Snooks Eglin, Agent Orange, Meg Lee Chin, Cinerama, Frank N' Walters, Nicole Blackman, Golden Palominos, Warlock Pinchers, Wendy Carlos, Tosca and any other thousands of bands, which I listen to everyday that no one has heard of.Everyone has "unique" taste in music. Trust me, this in no way makes you special or better then anyone else. It actually makes you just like everyone else.***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.***Netwerk Records? In Your Ear and Out Your Mother Records?See above. Though I highly suspect that the average gamer (if such a thing really exists anymore) doesn't watch MTV much. It's meaningless either way though.***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.***Let's see, I have a bachelor's degree in Graphic Design with a minor in Philosophy, guess I'm not qualified. Perhaps my two gamer friends here at work don't qualify either: both have a bachelor's in philosophy and a master's in English. I guess they don't qualify. Neither do the rocket scientist and mathematician in our group... yep, clearly they couldn't hold an intelligent conversation. Damn gamers... I'm sure all gamers are dull, dumb and unimaginative.I'm sure you too "think" you know Kant or Goethe, or Popper, or Soho. It's incredibly irrelevant either way. The ability to spout a list of philosophers, artistic concepts or any other banalities doesn't make you special or unique.I don't see any difference between you and any of the "gamers" I know, you sound just like most of them actually. Gaming stores are filled with guys just like you. Well, other then your completely unwarranted arrogance and elitist attitude.You're special and unique, just like everyone else. I recommend getting over it.</blockquote>

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