Upgrade your account to a Community Supporter account and remove most of the site ads.

Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="Desdichado" data-source="post: 202472" data-attributes="member: 2205">I haven't found that DMs get more respect (as you say) than anyone else.  IMO, the one's who get the respect are the ones who are charismatic enough to earn it.But that's the way it works in non-gamer culture as well.  Let's face it, gamers are simply a subset of Western culture, not a wholely separate culture.  I can't really find any cultural norm outside gamers that doesn't really hold true amongst gamers as well.  Then again, maybe I don't hang around "real gamers" enough, though.  I've seen some folks that really give me pause at the gaming store every so often...To Henry: LOL!  I know where you're coming from.  I had no idea until fairly recently that there were folks out there who got their rocks off imagining sex with anthropomorphic squirrels either, but I agree: they're certainly a more viable target than gamers for social stigma!  <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" />Although I don't think the personal hygiene deal is as big as most make of it, just plain uncharismatic "jerkiness" is.  I have no idea how many times I've been accosted by some "gamer nerd" in a crowd in a gaming store or other such locale where I've been barraged by an endless stream of very loudly spoken diatribe about something that the person obviously knew very little about, yet somehow felt that their position was so obvious that it was unthinkable anyone could feel otherwise.  Or worse, gaming stories about characters that I obviously care nothing about and tactics that bore me to tears.  Such people are are very difficult to shake, even with not-so-subtle-hints that you have no interest whatsoever in their conversation.  At worst, they are like leeches that follow you around talking at you even whilst you ignore them completely, insult them, and talk over them to other people,  all in a desperate attempt to shake them away.</blockquote>

Verification