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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kristivas" data-source="post: 2740585" data-attributes="member: 34179">What's wrong with that?  After I got divorced, I spent about a year doing the same 5 things.1.  Eating2.  Sleeping3.  Watching TV4.  Gaming5.  Reading/WritingHow would that make me inept to game with you (assuming I didn't disagree with some of your rules and wanted to)?  I wasn't depressed or sad, I just didn't feel like doing anything else.  When I did game, I didn't come to the table sullen and sad, I came playing the role of whichever character I was playing..  which sometimes was..  uh..  sullen and sad..  YET, that was just role playing!Not everyone that's been to prison would come to your house and steal all your silverware while assaulting your spouse and beating the HELL out of your dog.  I had a good friend of mine, we'll call him Mike (because that's his first name haha), whom I knew before he went to prison.  He didn't come out wearing a bandanna with a nazi tattoo on his behind and talkin' slang all the time.  He came out the same way he went in, though perhaps a little wiser.Perhaps you might feel uncomfortable about having an ex-con in your house, and that's all good.  I have children and would also think twice about who I let in my house.  However, there are 2 things I'd like to point out..1.  He didn't HAVE to mention it to you on the application.  The only people he/she has to inform is an employer, land lord, or neighbors.  Being honest usually indicates that the aforementioned person probably isn't too bad of a guy.2.  You posted it here as though it was an obvious statement that this person shouldn't be allowed to game with you.  That's pretty discriminatory, and you might have missed out on a decent gamer.  High and mighty attitudes like that can really steer interest away from our hobby.</blockquote>

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