Help me with my research paper: Survey #3

[the Jester]

Yes, because I have nothing to hide and don't really care what others think. To what extent? I'm hard core, mang. I geek out in public all the time. You'll often see me packin' gaming material to read while I do whatever else it is that I am doing.

 

[Ashrum the Black]

Yes, if it comes up in the conversation. But it isn't something that I would generally bring up myself otherwise. After gaming for the last twenty years I've gotten a little tired of the "So, you play THAT game huh?" comments from folks that want to make themselves feel superior by stepping on somebody else.

-Ashrum

 

[wedgeski]

I will proudly and confidently describe my gaming to anyone who expresses an interest. I don't otherwise flout it though, in the same way I don't flout anything which would probably bore the pants off anyone who wasn't inclined to listen in the first place. If a person's interest seems genuine I will, without fail, offer to run a game for them so they can experience roleplaying first-hand. I get taken up on that offer maybe 10-20% of the time.

I'm not remotely troubled by any negative connotations which some people may choose to attribute to it, and like most geeks, I'm guilty of a certain sense of satisfaction that comes with knowing I enjoy something which so many other people have never heard of, or just don't 'get'.

The concepts of 'admitting' or 'denying' or 'hiding' that I play D&D just don't even come into it. It's just a hobby, something I do in my leisure time, the same as a hundred other hobbies I've indulged in over the years!

 

[KB9JMQ]

If it comes up I have no problems talking about it.
Sometimes in a conversation I will mention something that is gaming related without realizing it and they may cue on that or not.

 

[freebfrost]

Sure, if someone asks about my hobbies, or my weekend activities (and I gamed that weekend), or something similar, I'm more than happy to talk about it. As Piratecat so eloquently put, I try not to bore people however.

I don't actively push my hobbies on others however, so I'm not actively promotion gaming while at work, for example.

 

[Festivus]

I do, but I don't volunteer it unless it comes up in the course of conversation. I also don't hide the fact that I game. I carry a d20 die with me where ever I go (is that too geeky?), and regularly wear t-shirts with some sort of fantasy-slanted art/text on it. My computer at work has a picture of Snapper as the desktop wallpaper and there is usually some sort of gaming/fantasy literature at my desk at lunchtime.

My wife usually is the one who brings up that I play D&D to strangers at a party, even though she herself doesn't game. It isn't unusual after that admission (from her) that the closet gamers all come out and start talking with me about gaming.

 

[freebfrost]

Visit me at http://www.zackfamily.com

Festivus your computer link isn't working on your site, so I was wondering what software are you running over there? I'm just curious.

Thanks!

 

[Valesin]

I talk about it all the time. I take time off from work for Cons and let everyone know what I am doing. My screen savers are all D&D related so before a presentation at work (university, not corporate) they aften see an Astral Stalker or a fiend (the marilith from HotA may be a bit much though with the barely-hidden breasts). I work on my game during lunch in the conference room and try to answer any questions that people may have (most still do not 'get it'). Several people at work who either played D&D in high school or who dabble with D&D related computer games ask me how it is going and often want details ('What does a rakshasa do?' 'Why would a magic-using creature have an eye that kills magic?')

I am kind of a cheerleader for D&D but I don't volunteer much, I wait for them to ask. And someone inevitably does.

 

[Sejs]

Admit to, yes. Advertise, no.

If someone is interested in what I like to do, what my hobbies are, etc - I tell them. If they don't want to know, then I don't tell them. *nod*

 

[Nifft]

It doesn't come up very often.
When it does, I don't lie about it either.
But I'll admit there's a bit of shame.

-- N