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Message: <blockquote data-quote="davewoodrum" data-source="post: 567100" data-attributes="member: 8322">There was one rather bizarre individual who went to a nearby community college that I was taking classes at who was a gamer that I knew who had a thing for my girlfriend/fiancee/live in (who he had seen like a total of 1 time with me out in town)... and was pretty interested to know any and all sexually related details, not that he got much out of me..... but then this same "gentleman" (for lack of better words <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> ) had a thing for anything that moved and was also interested it seems in more deviations.... he was intrigued to meet a friend of mine that I partied with in college, a dominatrix sort of type (okay, I was pretty wild back then...)... particularly because of... well, I've already described her "talents" so you can finish that one yourself.Well, anyways.... yes, he was a gamer but he was also a "not worker" (deadbeat), roam around town to amuse one's self type... hog up the pc lab all day.... bum quarters to play video games.... and ogle every female that passes by.... which he made most of them feel pretty nervous. I guess I should probably be more nervous now if I was to ever bump into him again because the last I heard, it seems that this young man has decided that gender preference, particularly for the opposite, was nothing more than a burden and a barrier... so I think now anyone and possibly anything is open for option. In a nutshell, he was kind of a gamer because it was another day dream that could simply occupy his time and all.Which kind of brings me to the point.... I think that this mis-representation that we see with gamers as "nerdy, socially "retarded" sexists" is that truly our hobby is as every bit as diverse as any other form of entertainment or activity. But since it is an interactive story or rather fantastical "day dream" of sorts that can help some escape from reality or merely pass away the time we get our generous share of individuals that have difficulty with socializing or keeping themselves entertained otherwise... and truthfully too when these characters are combined with a few shy intellectuals who may have quite good intentions and character but simply do not know how to approach a member of the opposite sex, we get a stereotype branded on the majority of the hobby as a whole.Not that I'm saying kill the report... mind you, I love any sort of neat socio-science type of write up, especially if the research has been made and the writer tries to stay as non-biased as possible.... but...There is a truth that we, as hobbyists, do have a tendency to be judged by what is perhaps the "worst" of our groups. At least with the "evil devil/ritual killing" stuff of the 80's, the tv religions were simply fueling an unintentional ad campaign that caused any teenager with so much as a thread of curiosity or rebellion in them want to know what D&D was....  and maybe even buy a book or two.</blockquote>

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