Mac saves teen from D&D

[Grimstaff]

Flipping around last night. Got to MTV, no videos of course, but I heard "Dungeons & Dragons" mentioned... Anyway, the show was about a guy who gives up D&D for 6 weeks so he can work out, get a makeover, and finally get a date for the prom. He even had a personal "mac"-trainer schooling him on how to flirt. Equal parts creepy and funny.:b

(Guess he never went to cons. Gamer-chicks are the best!)

 

[Lady Firehawk]

Come on... I wouldn't date anything but a gamer guy.

Me, give up D&D to get a date? Pffft... yeah right!

 

[Arashi Ravenblade]

Yeah you couldnt get me to give up gaming for anything, let alone a date (I never even went to prom,{ i was gaming}, went to the after prom though).

 

[MadMaxim]

He must have missed a lot sessions in those 6 weeks. I feel sorry for the guy...

 

[HeapThaumaturgist]

Sometimes it's good to give up something for a while to learn how to do something else.

I'm all for geeky people learning how to interact with people. Learning how to interact with girl-people is really good practice in general for just knowing how to talk to PEOPLE. And everybody needs to learn how to dress well and choose a hairstyle that looks good on them.

I doubt Mr. Geek is going to go out there and suddenly become a hard-drinking, womanizing frat boy ... but I imagine that out of the teeming hordes of GenCon singles out there, he'll be pretty popular with the geek-chicks.

--fje

 

[jodyjohnson]

He must have missed a lot sessions in those 6 weeks. I feel sorry for the guy...

We usually call giving up DnD for 6 weeks - 'The Christmas break'. But that was last year when gaming was bi-monthly. You can count on missing two sessions during the holidays.

 

[WampusCat43]

It will call him back, yes it will...it's always calling, calling, calling...

 

[devilbat]

I suggest young gamers go the route I did. In elementary and middle school, play the sports, socialize and get popular. Pick up gaming in high school, once you've already established yourself in the crowd you wish to associate yourself. That way you have the best of both worlds, and it's easier to convert jocks to gamers, as I was.

 

[Quasqueton]

D&D and girls are not mutually exclusive. I went to 4 proms (I invited a date to one, and the other 3 times I was invited) and didn't have to miss a single game session of D&D.

Quasqueton

 

[Lady Firehawk]

Well... I *AM* a girl, so there. The only girl in my gaming group, but ehhhh... also the only Christian, which sorta puts me out of any of their sights in terms of dateability. (This is where I get screwed over because there aren't too many Christian gamer guys around here... blehhhh. No wonder I'm 19 and have never had a boyfriend. )

I've always been kind of a nerd/geek, so nerd/geeks are what I feel comfortable with. In high school all the loud, giggly preppie chicks just annoyed the heck out of me, and even in middle school I got progressively more bummed out as all my friends grew out of playing pretend (and became preppies, lol) and I didn't. Even the ones who were younger than me, which most were.

So it's really no wonder I ended up getting into RPGs and D&D and such. And I suspect it's at least part of the reason I've been in absolutely no hurry to get a boyfriend or get into the sorts of trouble that other teens were. Much safer to be inside at all hours of the night playing D&D than going out and getting in trouble with the police.