When I lived in Colorado, I went to all of the conventions in Denver and I had at least two solid game nights each week. I very rarely spoke to anyone who was not, in some shape, a gamer. During that time, I somehow managed to forget that we the people were viewed by the rest of the world as the filthy unwashed mass possessing no redeeming value whatsoever. I did tech support for a living there, which is another unwashed mass entirely, despite massive overlap.
I was genuinely shocked to see the faces of my coworkers at the teashop when I launched into a discussion about the finer points of why I thought 2nd ed. AD&D was preferable to 3rd and why, exactly, I hated Wizards of the Coast with a group of customers. They were all wearing DragonCon shirts or some other variant, from a succession of years. They were all funny looking, in the manner of all gamers.
Maybe it is because gamers are funny looking and most of them can't match an outfit to save their lives-- I've known enough of them who showered every day, but it's never changed the fact that America hates gamers. We stuck together in Colorado, formed tribes and shaky alliances. Us against the world, baby, and that's just the way it is.
Let us know if, despite the UNCLEAN! UNCLEAN! -ness you'd like to do something (with G. really, obviously, but hey I'm talking here) non-eventful. He could use some cheering, too.
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Date: 2004-10-13 05:17 pm (UTC)I was genuinely shocked to see the faces of my coworkers at the teashop when I launched into a discussion about the finer points of why I thought 2nd ed. AD&D was preferable to 3rd and why, exactly, I hated Wizards of the Coast with a group of customers. They were all wearing DragonCon shirts or some other variant, from a succession of years. They were all funny looking, in the manner of all gamers.
Maybe it is because gamers are funny looking and most of them can't match an outfit to save their lives-- I've known enough of them who showered every day, but it's never changed the fact that America hates gamers. We stuck together in Colorado, formed tribes and shaky alliances. Us against the world, baby, and that's just the way it is.
Let us know if, despite the UNCLEAN! UNCLEAN! -ness you'd like to do something (with G. really, obviously, but hey I'm talking here) non-eventful. He could use some cheering, too.