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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Desdichado" data-source="post: 204017" data-attributes="member: 2205">Teflon, I'd agree.  The people I game with aren't "gamers"; they're people who game, among other things.  I hardly know any "gamers" from the sense that that's all they do.I think the "binning" of folks just doesn't work.  I don't consider myself a geek.  The hobbies that I have that are "geeky" I've never considered geeky.  Sure, I like science fiction and fantasy, but most blockbuster movies these days are science fiction or fantasy, and so are a lot of bestsellers at the bookstore.  Sure, I'm a big Star Wars fan, but 99% of the people I talk to have seen all the Star Wars movies several times and consider it as much a part of our culture as baseball and apple pie.  Does this mean that geekdom doesn't really exist, and that what is labelled as geeky is actually mainstream?I don't know.  Gaming is probably the only hobby I have that I feel is geeky.  I have no problem talking about Star Wars, for instance with people I work with, but talking about D&D does make me a bit incomfortable to talk about.  Maybe that's because of my age and the stuff that was going on with D&D "back in the day" but I feel like that's the only "geeky" hobby I have that truly is seen as geeky.</blockquote>