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<blockquote data-quote="jeffh" data-source="post: 1434569" data-attributes="member: 2642">Had a guy do that to me IN FRONT OF A GIRL WE WERE BOTH TRYING TO PICK UP about a year ago.&nbsp; Aargh!&nbsp; Here was someone so bad with women that striking out wasn't good enough for him, he had to drag me down with him. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f621.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":mad:" title="Mad&nbsp; &nbsp; :mad:"&nbsp; data-smilie="4"data-shortname=":mad:" /> I tried to change the subject, repeatedly, but I don't think he would have known a hint if it had jumped up and down in front of him wearing a &quot;HINT&quot; t-shirt while shouting &quot;I'M A HINT!&quot;.&nbsp; I then did a bit of comparison of gaming styles, having given up on the girl, because he was *STILL* going on about it.&nbsp; That interested him, which at least meant he would shut up and listen periodically.Back to the subject of the thread.&nbsp; I don't hide my gaming at all; the above incident was the only time I've been the least bit embarassed by it since I was about eleven, and that was more at the *type* of gaming my would-be rival had been into than at gaming itself.&nbsp; I mentioned it to a prof and he's since brought it up in class, so about a hundred of my fellow students are aware of it from that, along with pretty much anyone who knows me at all well.&nbsp; I find that the two most common reactions to it are utter indifference, and curiosity as to what the heck it is, with mistaking it for a computer game coming in a strong third.&nbsp; Rarely have I gotten a negative reaction, and when I do I can usually defuse it quite easily, typically with about two sentences of actual rebuttal and a witty one-liner.&nbsp; (A lengthy lecture is worse than useless in that situation.)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="jeffh, post: 1434569, member: 2642"] Had a guy do that to me IN FRONT OF A GIRL WE WERE BOTH TRYING TO PICK UP about a year ago. Aargh! Here was someone so bad with women that striking out wasn't good enough for him, he had to drag me down with him. :mad: I tried to change the subject, repeatedly, but I don't think he would have known a hint if it had jumped up and down in front of him wearing a "HINT" t-shirt while shouting "I'M A HINT!". I then did a bit of comparison of gaming styles, having given up on the girl, because he was *STILL* going on about it. That interested him, which at least meant he would shut up and listen periodically. Back to the subject of the thread. I don't hide my gaming at all; the above incident was the only time I've been the least bit embarassed by it since I was about eleven, and that was more at the *type* of gaming my would-be rival had been into than at gaming itself. I mentioned it to a prof and he's since brought it up in class, so about a hundred of my fellow students are aware of it from that, along with pretty much anyone who knows me at all well. I find that the two most common reactions to it are utter indifference, and curiosity as to what the heck it is, with mistaking it for a computer game coming in a strong third. Rarely have I gotten a negative reaction, and when I do I can usually defuse it quite easily, typically with about two sentences of actual rebuttal and a witty one-liner. (A lengthy lecture is worse than useless in that situation.) [/QUOTE]

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