Comments on: The Secret Lives of Closet Gamers http://www.dungeonmastering.com/gaming-life/the-secret-lives-of-closet-gamers The D&D Blog Fri, 10 Feb 2012 20:54:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Steve http://www.dungeonmastering.com/gaming-life/the-secret-lives-of-closet-gamers#comment-11843 Steve Thu, 08 Jul 2010 14:55:55 +0000 http://www.dungeonmastering.com/?p=969#comment-11843 Not only does it have a geek thing to it. A lot of gamers (not all) have bad hygiene, or can be hard to get along with. Some of them have power control issues and the game is their outlet because they created something they feel they should have control over. Including other's characters. Some of them are strange and awkward because they don't have strong people skills to begin with be it that they stay home and play video games and don't interact with others much. Another thing is that people don't understand the game, they think it's too complicated and takes too long. Or that people my age are too old for games like this. That people that play rpg's are immature. Also that people that play this lose their perspective on reality and start to act out their imagination in unhealthy ways. Or that we're warped and would like to stay home and not go to work because of our hobbies. Games like Everquest and WOW, haven't done a lot to improve the image of gamers like myself and I have to admit Everquest back in the day was getting in the way of life and causing me to be angry at the game, and I was probably not very nice to get along with when I lost everything because I could not get to my corpse to loot it or the multiple other corpses while trying to get to the original corpse. So D&D is a lot like politics and religion. You can't just talk to anyone about it. Just like a lot of things in general, people are on a need to know basis. Not only does it have a geek thing to it. A lot of gamers (not all) have bad hygiene, or can be hard to get along with. Some of them have power control issues and the game is their outlet because they created something they feel they should have control over. Including other’s characters. Some of them are strange and awkward because they don’t have strong people skills to begin with be it that they stay home and play video games and don’t interact with others much.
Another thing is that people don’t understand the game, they think it’s too complicated and takes too long. Or that people my age are too old for games like this. That people that play rpg’s are immature. Also that people that play this lose their perspective on reality and start to act out their imagination in unhealthy ways. Or that we’re warped and would like to stay home and not go to work because of our hobbies. Games like Everquest and WOW, haven’t done a lot to improve the image of gamers like myself and I have to admit Everquest back in the day was getting in the way of life and causing me to be angry at the game, and I was probably not very nice to get along with when I lost everything because I could not get to my corpse to loot it or the multiple other corpses while trying to get to the original corpse.
So D&D is a lot like politics and religion. You can’t just talk to anyone about it. Just like a lot of things in general, people are on a need to know basis.

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]]> By: Nathan http://www.dungeonmastering.com/gaming-life/the-secret-lives-of-closet-gamers#comment-7843 Nathan Thu, 30 Apr 2009 00:19:09 +0000 http://www.dungeonmastering.com/?p=969#comment-7843 (quoted from Janna): "That brings back memories of my (brief) stint at a private Christian school. They hosted a ‘haunted house’ for Halloween, and one of the rooms featured a robed guy sacrificing a white-clad virgin with — GET THIS — a D&D game set up in front of the altar. I was like, “Cool, I play that!! Oops.. *claps hand over mouth*” What a riot." Interesting. That's a pretty messed up thing for a private christian school to put together: a room featuring someone sacrificing a virgin... Maybe they should take a look in the mirror briefly. (quoted from Janna): “That brings back memories of my (brief) stint at a private Christian school. They hosted a ‘haunted house’ for Halloween, and one of the rooms featured a robed guy sacrificing a white-clad virgin with — GET THIS — a D&D game set up in front of the altar. I was like, “Cool, I play that!! Oops.. *claps hand over mouth*” What a riot.”

Interesting. That’s a pretty messed up thing for a private christian school to put together: a room featuring someone sacrificing a virgin… Maybe they should take a look in the mirror briefly.

]]> By: Janna http://www.dungeonmastering.com/gaming-life/the-secret-lives-of-closet-gamers#comment-7535 Janna Mon, 06 Apr 2009 19:48:47 +0000 http://www.dungeonmastering.com/?p=969#comment-7535 @ Yugure: I totally sympathize about being a gamer in Texas. As you said, D&D won't turn a normally sane person violent (unless they roll like 10 1's in a row, in which case all bets are off!) If anything, it's that darn devil music that turns kids batty (aka, Country/Western). When will parents learn? @ Yugure: I totally sympathize about being a gamer in Texas. As you said, D&D won’t turn a normally sane person violent (unless they roll like 10 1′s in a row, in which case all bets are off!) If anything, it’s that darn devil music that turns kids batty (aka, Country/Western). When will parents learn?

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