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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cyronax" data-source="post: 5111887" data-attributes="member: 822">I keep it to myself around coworkers and acquaintances. I work in a pretty conservative office environment where everyone also knows everyone's business .... so I tend to keep my gaming affiliations private. I love poker so I can often substitute the word 'game session' for 'played poker' if it comes down to it. A recent example highlighted why its good not to flaunt too much about your geeky side. I was commenting about how I'm obsessed with the Iron Man movie and 'recently' (as in 2-3 years ago) started buying certain comics again ..... well it was a passing conversation, but some random and older coworker who was well-removed from the original conversation said he'd heard 'I still read comics.' It came off like I was an idiot or immature ... and I know revealing myself as a hardcore GAMER would be ten times more of a stigma. What's really ironic though is the fact that there is no stigma for certain video games. Mass Effect-style RPGs, FPS games, sports games, even guitar hero, etc. WoW's stigmatized a little, but not like D&D. Around non-work types that I know well ... I'm pretty open about it. But I still hide the gaming books when I bring a new girl back to the apartment. Anyway, based on past periods of my life of being an open gamer, I know that some stigmas never die. <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/blush.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":blush:" title="Blush    :blush:" data-shortname=":blush:" /> <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/ponder.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":hmm:" title="Hmmm    :hmm:" data-shortname=":hmm:" />AT LEAST the stigma that we are all pagan devil worshipers has largely fallen by the wayside. That was a big deal in the early 90's when I first started gaming in middle school. C.I.D.</blockquote>

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