We are all ugly and alone...

[Darth K'Trava]

As a general rule, I have found that anyone who considers high school the 'best years of their life' is really not someone you want to know

I'd answer that with a loud, "HELL NO!!!" Because it wasn't "the best years of my life". No friends during high school. I didn't get friends until a couple of years after when I went to my first Trek con and signed up for the local Starfleet chapter. That was the beginnings of my "geekiness reign"...

 

[Darth K'Trava]

Why waste time disliking the term? When you spend your effort railing against those who would label you, you give them power. If you embrace the names they offer up for you, you deny such people that power.

You can be whatever you want. Me? I'm a geek.

Psst: he's still in denial about his "inner geekdom".

 

[JesterPoet]

"Might I suggest CASH, then?"



Quite simply put, your mother is wrong. I was gaming much more frequently than I do now when my wife and I got engaged.

Don't give up what you love for the sake of trying to catch a mate unless a lifetime of resentment appeals to you.

I have to wholeheartedly agree with this. I gamed significantly more than 3 times a month when I was what I assume your age to be, and I can tell you that my "social" calendar in college was significantly more packed than that of many of my jock or other non-gamer friends.

Now if you're not getting out with the rest of your time.... i.e. sitting around playing World of Warcraft with every free hour you have, then there's a problem and your mom might be right. But if you can maintain a healthy social life AND game, you'll be way ahead of the curve.

Psst: he's still in denial about his "inner geekdom".

To be honest, though I think your statement is tongue-in-cheek, I also think it is probably right.

 

[Majoru Oakheart]

My geekiest moment? Probably my whole life. Let's have a short list, shall we?

1) When I signed up for Hypercard Club(Hypercard is a basic Mac programming language) in Junior High because someone told me I could play video games after school there.

2) When I loved programming so much that I begged my mom to buy me a computer so I could program for fun

3) When I started up a BBS on my Mac and spent an entire summer dialing other BBSes and barely leaving my room

4) When BBSes led me to my first role playing group that played once a week from noon to 3 am. We voted on which game to play each week (and played about 2-3 games each week, we'd switch after a couple of hours).

5) When I started up my own games to play DURING the week because 15 hours a week wasn't enough for me.

6) When my DM's mom forced him to change his game to every second week, I started up my own group to fill in the alternate weeks

7) Choosing a gf based on the fact that she played Magic the Gathering

8) Turning down sex to play Everquest and Magic the Gathering

9) Taking Computer Science in University.

10) My crowning achievement, this week I'm going to GenCon.

Wow...didn't realize my entire life could be summarized in 10 geeky points. I am such a geek.

 

[fusangite]

As a general rule, I have found that anyone who considers high school the 'best years of their life' is really not someone you want to know

Well, I hated high school and so did most of my friends. However I do have a very good friend who did have a great time in high school that she has yet to equal. If I had taken your bigoted advice I might never have got to know her and I would have missed out on having a wonderful loyal generous friend. Let's try not to be "reverse bigots."

Being geeks doesn't make us worse than other people. But it doesn't make us better either.

 

[STARP_JVP]

I think the (far too numerous) people who have turned down sex for role-playing or the like have got to take the crown here. Seriously, people - it's just a game!

 

[Ashwyn]

I think the (far too numerous) people who have turned down sex for role-playing or the like have got to take the crown here. Seriously, people - it's just a game!

It's just sex too. Choosing either one of them over the other is perfectly acceptable. Anyone who says different isn't getting enough of one or the other.

 

[warlord]

He has a point. Sex no matter how good is still just sex. Just like RPGs are just games. Unless you play them in steam tunnels under a certain college.

 

[fusangite]

It's just sex too. Choosing either one of them over the other is perfectly acceptable. Anyone who says different isn't getting enough of one or the other.

But the problem here is that we have a community of people much more likely to be short of sex than short of gaming and a set of responses that appears to indicate the opposite. I think that's why some eyebrows are raised.

 

[Rel]

I see no reason to have to choose between gaming and sex. Just combine the two.

Just try yelling, "NATURAL 20, BABY!!" and you'll see how fun it can be. Sex and Gaming: Two great things that go great together.