The Weirdness of Geek
Here’s a letter segment I cut off of a discussion on the Dark Dungeons e-mail discussion group… “Yesterday I was talking to some neighbors and the topic of “Lord of the Rings” came up. I took the opportunity to mention my hobby: RPGs. The response shocked me. They said to me “Hey isn’t that for nerds and weird people?” I ended up showing my neighbors some of my D&D books and explained to them how the game works, then I asked them if they still felt it was geeky. They said “No”. I think the major problem we gamers have is that we are closet gamers. When asked at work what our hobbies are we choke up, feeling that if we revealed what we do for fun we will be ridiculed or scorned. WE seriously need to get out of the closet. There is nothing wrong with our hobby, trust me there are much worse things we can be doing.”
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