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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Raven Wintervale" data-source="post: 2625097" data-attributes="member: 37083">Update Part 1Well many of you asked to be update with how things went this weekend so here ya go.I’ve got good news and bad news. I’ll start with the bad news first. Friday night my boyfriend went came over to pick me up so we could go see a movie. Someone suggested leaving out a couple of game books as a way to bring up what my hobby was without “bringing it up”. As I had to work on my PC for Saturday’s game anyway I left a few of my books out my coffee table. I was acutally working on my character when my boyfriend came to pick me up. Naturally he saw what I was doing and asked me about it so I flat out told him I was working on my character for my game on Saturday and that’s what I did every Saturday, iI played role playing games. He asked me if that meant I played Dungeons and Dragons and I said yes it did. He had a very surprised looked which at first I took to be a bad sign. Then said, and I quote, “Wow I never thought you of as a brainy girl.” At first I was so relived that he didn’t flip out or anything that I didn’t really notice what he said. Then, a few seconds later, I realized what he was implying. I won’t bore you with the details but after a twenty minute fight I told him to get out and that I never wanted to see him again. I couldn’t believe some of the things he told me. You know that stuff they say about the “Modern Man” being all sensitive and understanding? Well let me tell you something, it’s crap as far as he’s concerned. I’ve never been so insulted in my entire life. “People who play those games are usually pretty smart.” What kind of BS is that nonsense? What a jerk, I mean the creep actually thought that a Physical Therapist was the same thing as a Fitness Trainer. Why the hell would I be spending my parent’s money to go to college to major in something I could study at Bally’s Fitness? And I’m the dumb one? Then he thought that complimenting my body would help things.I guess that, instead of worrying about whether or not my boyfriend would freak out if he found out I played role-playing games; I should have worried about him being surprised that I gamed at all, since in his opinion I was too stupid to play those kinds of games!After those cracks things just got worse, then “nerd” came out along with some other really nasty comments about gamers in general and my group in particular. Something just snapped inside me and I went off on him. In the end I wound up slapping him in the face and kicking him out. Sorry, I guess I’m still a little angry about it. God, I can’t believe that I wasted three months with that jerk! Well I’m happy that he’s gone. The good news to follow once I get home from work.</blockquote>

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