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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Alaska Roberts" data-source="post: 202629" data-attributes="member: 1055">DISCLAIMER - this is a personal observation that is completely my opinion.  Ahhh, this has to be one of my favorite topics.  The Geekdom of Gaming.  I’ve done a lot of different types of jobs, in a lot of different places in the world, and the one thing that has remained consistent throughout my travels, is the Geekdom of Gaming.  I believe there are a few different types of gamers out there, and I’m not speaking about Role-players VS Roll-Players.  I’m talking about Closet Gamers, Out Gamers, Used-too, No Clue and Totally Against.  The Totally Against person – hates us, hates what we do, thinks we are one step above slime.  BUT has never actually played, or played once and had a bad experience, and are still taking it out on gamers everywhere.The No Clue person – Has never gamed, doesn’t know anything about it, and may or may not be open minded about the whole concept.  Some are, some aren’t, either way its better than the above choice.Used Too Gamers – “I played that in high school/college” some are willing to try it again, most are not and think gamers of age, are immature and childish.Out Gamers – (disclaimer – this is a complete stereo type.) These are the ones with the reputation, IMHO, the dirty, smelly gamers, who still live at home, wearing an old TSR shirt, and don’t care who knows that they play (insert game here).  These are the ones that people see lurking in the dark corners of the mall or park or wherever, know about and base what they know about all of us as a whole.Closet Gamers – Me.  I wear suits to work, dress up to go to the club on Friday, and play softball with my company. I play “Cards” with the boys on Thursdays, and never talk about gaming unless someone else brings it up, and I wait to hear what category above they fit into before I say anything. If I want to talk games I always have the ENWorld Forums.Now, as I said before, this is all just my humble opinion.Edited a word mix up.</blockquote>

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