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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Obryn" data-source="post: 4451847" data-attributes="member: 11821">I haven't ever hidden my gaming for any extended lengths of time.  I quite seriously don't worry about it.  It's never defined my social life.  Even though I've moved in circles with plenty of gamers, they've largely been of the socially-competent-fun-to-party-with variety.Back in high school, my buddies and I were known as gamers.  They're still my closest friends.In college, I simply didn't game much, but never hid my love of RPGs, sci-fi, and fantasy.  I played more MtG than RPGs, honestly.Grad school?  I made some of my best friends through gaming - and only because I was pretty up-front about it.Later in life, most of my friends were in various geeky circles through Belegarth.  That's a medieval fighting organization; if you've been to Gen Con and you've seen Edhellen Armories, that was a huge part of my life for 8 years.  Not everyone was into D&D, but it was hardly anomalous.  (I'd say Warhammer FB and 40K were a tad more popular with the Belegarth crowd, though.)When I signed up on eHarmony, I noted gaming in my profile.  And met my wife anyways, even though she is not herself a gamer.Mind you, I don't have big posters of dragons and wizards in my cube at work, but that's mostly because that crap is tacky.  Otherwise, I've never been ashamed of my hobbies and interests.-O</blockquote>