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I was at work yesterday and while I was sitting around the break room eating my lunch, a couple friends of mine started talking about MMO's. Now, I play them, and I'm sure all of you do or have played them, judging by your choice of forum, so let me ask you this.

Do you feel as retarded talking about them around other people as I do? I typically find that talking about video games in large groups of people to make me sound like a total fricken tard. It's almost to the point where I don't even like being around other people when they talk about them, especially when they get into specifics, such as details about a raid on grummus, or trouble with an epic quest, or some KSing they have experienced or whatever the case may be. Am I alone in this or is it a common thing to consider gaming a guilty pleasure that you are uncomfortable discussing in real life?

Probably. I'll talk about it with folks I know game. But if they're people there who don't, they quickly become bored. I consider it a matter of courtesy to try to stick to topics that everyone is interested in. That is in regards to any conversation, not just gaming.

However, I have had people come in mid-conversation and gotten some pretty strange looks. For some people it seems gaming is as much of a faux pau as *************

Ironically, I don't mind discussing ************ either...

Depends on how you talk about it.

I can sit down with someone and talk casually about WoW. Happened the other day at this guys house. He is a friend of a friend. Was over at his place and I saw he had WoW manual laying out. I started chatting about it with him small talk like and some of the other people there were like "what are you talking about?", and I just responded, "just some nerd game I play' and people were like "Otay" and no one paid it any mind.

Then there are times when you have a person that is just way to f[b][/b]ucking into it and it shows when they are talking. They are the type that get the "what a ******* nerd" look.

It is all about being unattached and nonchalant. Saying "oh yeah I play that game, its not to shabby. What class are you in it?" is a lot different that "OMG You play? What is your class?! How are you specced, dont you just hate the way Ironforge Lags it is almost enough to make me play a nightelf /sigh!!!:

I take offense at the incorrect spelling of the act upon which I have based the majority of my research. Gaming is way more taboo than ************* though. I know because I'd be willing to do it in public with no remorse, and talking about games never gets you in with the ladies, but just the mention of stroking it drives them wild.

Well, I'm going to go rub one out, now.



















Not even a tinge of regret. Best decision I've made all day. Don't I look cool?

[quote]It's not incorrect. When you get as good at it as I have, it becomes "***************************

I had a feeling that was what was going on here. I bow to your superior technique and strategy.


Need a protege? I've had a feeling recently that I've taken ************ as far as I can solo.

And talking about your gaming hobby in public makes you a pariah.

It's not incorrect. When you get as good at it as I have, it becomes "***************************

My SO was surprised to find out that even with consistent and great sex, I still ********** often.

I try not to put a whole lot of effort into what other people think when eavesdropping in on my conversations.

I was atually introduced to EQ by my boss at work (Hi Topsy!!) it's pretty common to find a small group of people he corrupted to be sat around at lunchtime talking raids and stuff since it got pretty widespread in that office.

If people ask what we are talking about we usually reply "Some game" pretty vaguely and close the circle on them.

However the one and only time i talked about it on the ship was when one of said bunch came onboard for some reason and we chated casually for 30 mins or so over lunch as i did some paperwork he needed doing.

The girl i work with spoke to me about it the next day and said she couldn't understand anything and that it was almost a different language.

I suppose most hobbies are like that.

I guess what I'm more concerned with and feel stupid about is the situation where I'm sitting there chatting up a game with a friend or two at a table at lunch, and then hyper active super gamer man comes in and talks way too loud, getting us looked at funnily by many many people in the room. Then again, I live in BFE so it shouldn't really matter to me what most of the people think, at least I have all my teeth :)

I like to make sh[b][/b]it up when I find people eavesdropping on a conversation.

...... yeah, I was surprised she even had a knife. Something must have snapped. By the time we got back to the party, things were just crazy... I've never seen so much blood.

You can catch a few people off guard if ya do it right. And its a ******** of fun watching the older peoples' reaction.