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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Aikuchi" data-source="post: 2788279" data-attributes="member: 38713">Certainly your own experiences are valid, but I hope you can take mine with some measure of belief when I sae I did not have to wear a t-shirt or 'what' to say who I am.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> I did not say all people from any walk of life were giving me a hard time. Just some, much like a room full of people will always have some measure of tension between slef imposed definitions. As for being angst ridden, I sincerely hope I wasnt. In all fairness, I've had good gaming groups as well that didn't go as badly as those few difficult rpg groups - that should account for something and my persona isn't entirely aversive to gaming groups in general. As you said, in your gaming table, your players and friends are unliekly to give anyone from my background a bad time. It has been so at some of my own experiences that certain groups that have identified me through skin colour, ethnic background and sexual orientation do tend to give me a hard time while playing. This is practiced either through blissfully ignoring my character actions to making my participation have minimal impact. Perhaps, I had a weaker history in comparison and couldnt make much difference to the current groups campaign or party dynamics but outside the encounters, many remarks uncalled for could have been held in reserve or check for civility's sake. I'm also a keen fan of MMORPG's, I board (skate) and design (with some programming) and produce some fairly decent novellas. I do not count my gaming experience as a definition to a catch-all behaviour from a person (nor my own behaciour from a single activity), and as such I believe they have a right to their own opinions which includes ethnic slurs as well. Rude and uncalled for as it may be, I had a choice to walk away and stop gaming with them, which I did. I simply share that I've had my bad experiences. While I'm glad that you've had positive experiences in you gaming days, and hopefully only more so in the future; I'm not entirely sure you;ve had a tough time just being youself in any setting gaming or not and have someone else's prejudices intercede so personally with you own life regardless of whether you wore a T-shirt to advertise. I certainly carry my own.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /></blockquote>

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