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<blockquote data-quote="Teflon Billy" data-source="post: 203984" data-attributes="member: 264"><p>King Stannis has summed it up beautifully. </p><p></p><p>When I first moved to the "Big City" from my hometown, I joined up witha gaming group of <em>incredibly</em> cool people. Successful game designers, stage actors and particle accelerator techs were in the group.</p><p></p><p>We met weekly, and switched off on GM'ing duties. All were capable of speaking on a variety of topics and were interesting, fun people with other hobbies.</p><p></p><p>I thought to myself: "Gaming isn't what I thought it was. Cool people do it. My hometown group was an anomaly"</p><p></p><p>Then I went to Gen Con and had <em>every single one</em> of the gamer stereotypes confirmed beyong any shadow of a doubt.</p><p></p><p>Hygiene issues were first on the list. The number of people who stunk "like a guy eating a block of gorgonzola cheese while getting a perm in the septic tank at a slaughterhouse" were too numerous to count.</p><p></p><p>Lack of social skills were next on the list. I gave up talking to anyone but friends of friends, because I just <em>did not</em> have the strength to listen to another one-sided conversation about some goof's favorite character..</p><p></p><p><strong>Some goof</strong>: "...and his name is Bone-Gar and he's a 75th level fighter with a magic bow +5 that let's him <em>Plane Shift</em> at will and...</p><p></p><p><strong>Me Interrupting</strong>: "What game world do you guys use?"</p><p></p><p><strong>That Same Goof</strong>: (Pause w/Blank Stare)...and he killed a Bahamut Dragon , but raised it and madei t his steed and..."</p><p></p><p>Etc.</p><p></p><p>And who can forget the old guys with their t-shirts up over their bellies complaining that "me and my kind" had ruined gaming (I'm assuming they had me pegged as a White Wolf Exclusive gamer, I wasn't--I played only GURPS at the time<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />--but it colored my opinion of these "Bearded Gits".</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>The people who I liked at Gen Con I liked a lot (the original WotC crew: Peter Adkison, Jesper Myrfors, Anson Maddox, Andy Rusu), The Freelancers I came with (Nigel Findley R.I.P, Fraser Cain) and a lot of the White Wolf crew (names escape me, it's been years; Chris and Travis?)</p><p></p><p>...but they were a miniscule percentage of the attendees.</p><p></p><p>Maybe this shouldbe in the Gen Con thread.</p><p></p><p>I've rambled too long.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Teflon Billy, post: 203984, member: 264"] King Stannis has summed it up beautifully. When I first moved to the "Big City" from my hometown, I joined up witha gaming group of [i]incredibly[/i] cool people. Successful game designers, stage actors and particle accelerator techs were in the group. We met weekly, and switched off on GM'ing duties. All were capable of speaking on a variety of topics and were interesting, fun people with other hobbies. I thought to myself: "Gaming isn't what I thought it was. Cool people do it. My hometown group was an anomaly" Then I went to Gen Con and had [i]every single one[/i] of the gamer stereotypes confirmed beyong any shadow of a doubt. Hygiene issues were first on the list. The number of people who stunk "like a guy eating a block of gorgonzola cheese while getting a perm in the septic tank at a slaughterhouse" were too numerous to count. Lack of social skills were next on the list. I gave up talking to anyone but friends of friends, because I just [i]did not[/i] have the strength to listen to another one-sided conversation about some goof's favorite character.. [b]Some goof[/b]: "...and his name is Bone-Gar and he's a 75th level fighter with a magic bow +5 that let's him [i]Plane Shift[/i] at will and... [b]Me Interrupting[/b]: "What game world do you guys use?" [b]That Same Goof[/b]: (Pause w/Blank Stare)...and he killed a Bahamut Dragon , but raised it and madei t his steed and..." Etc. And who can forget the old guys with their t-shirts up over their bellies complaining that "me and my kind" had ruined gaming (I'm assuming they had me pegged as a White Wolf Exclusive gamer, I wasn't--I played only GURPS at the time:)--but it colored my opinion of these "Bearded Gits". The people who I liked at Gen Con I liked a lot (the original WotC crew: Peter Adkison, Jesper Myrfors, Anson Maddox, Andy Rusu), The Freelancers I came with (Nigel Findley R.I.P, Fraser Cain) and a lot of the White Wolf crew (names escape me, it's been years; Chris and Travis?) ...but they were a miniscule percentage of the attendees. Maybe this shouldbe in the Gen Con thread. I've rambled too long. [/QUOTE]
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