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Gamer Hierarchies and the Great Ordning
I might tangentially mention that I game with people if it comes up ("This guy I game with recently won the lottery..."), but I'm never going to go into more detail unless asked. I suppose if someone ever asks me what games I play I'll probably just tell them that they're complicated and expensive.
And FWIW, the difference between Blood Bowl players and fantasy football players is that one group devotes entirely too much time and emotional investment to their imaginary team while bothering everyone within earshot with woeful tales of last week's bad beat, and the other group plays Blood Bowl.
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Msample wrote:
JonJacob wrote: Personally I'm more embarrassed by they hobby than anything else. I don't really go around bragging about my taste in games publicly. If it comes up, fine... but I try to downplay it and present it as a childish thing I just can't let go of.
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When I go to conventions, I just tell coworkers " Went to visit some friends in ( insert convention city name ) . Saves a lot of explaining.
I just tell them I'm going to a nerd festival for games and booze. That always ends the conversation. Pretty much everyone I know knows I'm eclectic in the things I do so very few people ask questions anymore.
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That said:
There are game styles I don't like. Engaged in conversation I'm willing to throw my opinion out there. But I'm not such a pious ass that I lurk the shadows waiting to rank things and shit on things other people like.
Except when I do. Because endless expansions and required stuff that doesn't come in the box (apps!) are bad and if you like them you are also bad and should feel bad. But these are just facts, there's really not anything to discuss there.
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Remind me when I say out loud in a 40k community that 40k doesn't handle suppression at all (their "morale/leadership" rules only handle routing), then one member said I'm wrong because I've never been in under fire. I don't even bother asking back.
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Legomancer wrote: You can always look around a nerd space and find someone worse than yourself because it only gets worse. It's a non-Einsteinian space in which every single point is somehow worse than every other point. In a single day you can hear nerds giving themselves three cheers for being so intellectually curious and open minded and then hear them upset because Domino being black now is "too different" despite absolutely no one giving a shit about black OR white Domino for 30 years.
100%. Every group of gamers finds some reason to think that they're above the others, so it's really a loop, or some giant inscribed polygonal rock-paper-scissoresque thing.
I also think it's funny how playing enough magic or world of warcraft means you effectively speak another language that most people won't understand. It's Klingon with a game attached.
This has just been percolating in my mind a lot more lately since I've A) Opened a game store, and Tried to explain it to everyone from landlords, former co-workers, friends, family, etc.
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