tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3251496424644654781.post6439262464866281921..comments2023-09-12T10:29:30.353-07:00Comments on Tales From Midlands: RPGPUNDITBrooser Bearhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08487438364129415650noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3251496424644654781.post-6185955218912073982016-10-08T06:10:28.585-07:002016-10-08T06:10:28.585-07:00Thanks for letting me know. So far I been only get...Thanks for letting me know. So far I been only getting only one or two, that and a live Nigerian scammer, who confused online gaming with reality and tried to cash in on it.Brooser Bearhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08487438364129415650noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3251496424644654781.post-57865121381699572352016-10-05T20:21:14.019-07:002016-10-05T20:21:14.019-07:00Rose is a spam bot not a real comment.
DavidRose is a spam bot not a real comment.<br /><br />DavidThe Dale Wardenshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12864432866927396245noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3251496424644654781.post-61842243377946552016-07-13T07:40:38.622-07:002016-07-13T07:40:38.622-07:00Point being, as it relates to this post?Point being, as it relates to this post?Brooser Bearhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08487438364129415650noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3251496424644654781.post-14243335550745789422016-06-27T22:41:04.543-07:002016-06-27T22:41:04.543-07:00I am starting to witness an interesting trend. The...I am starting to witness an interesting trend. The old adage goes that as soon as adults think something is cool, it automatically makes it not cool for the youth. So it seems is starting with social media. This is inevitable and certainly not necessarily a negative trend.<br /><a href="http://www.dcitltd.com/index.html" rel="nofollow">dcitltd</a>Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10505251828633699388noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3251496424644654781.post-23751327835619702232016-04-15T15:16:46.056-07:002016-04-15T15:16:46.056-07:00Hamster on PCP! I love it! Right up there with Twe...Hamster on PCP! I love it! Right up there with Tweetie Bird on Crack Cocaine! An old buddy of mine. And another pal, who looks like Opus the penguin from Doonesbury. Walking/Jogging after walk and backpacking on your days off will stabilize your emotional state, nature's own Prozac! You already got the company of friends and a wife, so you got all your stress management bases covered. There is that adequate sleep bit, but I am sure you get that, if not, make like bears and learn to hibernate! Have you read the book called Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers? If not, check it out and get THAT base covered as well.<br /><br />Nothing wrong about living inside your head. Look at the wonders it did for Moses and Mohammed! Actually Nerdness has an adaptive value. Consider it the price of freedom from social mores and peer pressure, to which thebeautiful people, the popular set, and the in crowd are absolute slaves.Brooser Bearhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08487438364129415650noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3251496424644654781.post-5217953565844500032016-04-14T15:36:42.994-07:002016-04-14T15:36:42.994-07:00No . . . I am a nerd. I have found a few ways to d...No . . . I am a nerd. I have found a few ways to deal with social situations, but large groups still freak me out. I am about as emotionally stable as a hamster on PCP. I have a hard time talking to people, and even then most of the things that I say tends to scare them. I am both aloof and an over-opinionated asshat, and worse, I am aware of it! I always feel like an outsider, and this is probably self-imposed. I work in the mental health field, so I know exactly how unhealthy my thought patterns are, but as long as I'm still a functional nerd (by my standards, not societies), I prefer to do absolutely nothing about it. My life-skills backup plan, in case everything falls apart is to move out west and be a cowboy, unless I can somehow keep my wife, then we'll go be pioneers! Yeah, I spend too much time dreaming about history and not enough time living in the world that I am actually living in. Did I mention that I was paranoid and an isolationist? I could go on for days LOLRipperXhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03506064393275174920noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3251496424644654781.post-61005431162405654492016-04-13T11:05:13.719-07:002016-04-13T11:05:13.719-07:00I absolutely agree with you.
You touched on some ...I absolutely agree with you.<br /><br />You touched on some fundamental social dynamics though, which are so complex as to be almost beyond words, because they run so deep in human society. Don't worry too much about police considering D&D gamers to be a known threat. This is another country (Canada), and is most likely taken out of context. The police may have been trying to console and advise her, where they couldn't proceedd with an arrest or a criminal case. Consider the statistic that any inmate joining a prison gang triples his or her chances of being physically assaulted in prison, and that includes sexual assault. What are prison authorities to do? Advise the newcomers not to join a prison gang and to stay away from those people. Consder a woman who works at a biker bar, who gets physically assaulted (slapped). The police will advise her to find another job, because her current job is not safe. What are police to say to this person, if she recounts to them a long litany of years worth of sexual harassment and innuendo in her gaming group?<br /><br />I think that you mean intellectual, when you refer to yourself as a nerd. Nerdness is a value judgement assigned by the charismatic elite of the group. In any organization or subculture there are two paths to group leadership - Charismatic or Competency based. Most outsiders to the group, including women, foreigners, and minorities, assume that if you are really good at your job, you will make it to the top. That is a fallacy. Technical knolwdge will get you so far. It will not make you a Chief or a CEO, and becoming an exec will be hard. Charismatic leadership emulates being an old boy or part of the in crowd. It is the ability to get people to laugh and to like you, and ability to walk in to the boss's office and freely chat like you are one same level as he or she is. Of course you will get the same effect if you are a CEO's relative getting through nepotism, or if your dad is one of the old boys. There are also people who learn or emulate Charismatic Leadership, and most of the time they look like sleazeball salesmen when they try too hard, and sometimes it works. I prefer my own costume as an Ogre smashing heads. Nerdiness enters this equation, because in order to move up in a group, you have to find someone in the group to put down, bully, or make fun of. The way to the top is to find the one, whom the in-crowd hates and join in the harassment. So, nerdiness is the in-crowd definition of "not cool" and what makes a nerd varies from group to group, from culture to culture. In traditional Russian society, where there was a cult of reading and intellectualism, nerdiness was defined by physical weakness - if you weren't athletic (hard to be fat in society on the brink of starvation), if you couldn't chin up, or drink or smoke in the boys' room, you were uncool. Social environment send people off on some twisted trajectories. Natural instinct is to be oneself and to pursue one's own interests and artistic expression. Some awaken earlier, and start pursuing sexual partners before most others. They may have nothing to offer as a warrior or a interesting being, but they become the masters of the ass and have the most success getting lovers than all others. Most normal people follow the instinct to be themselves and escape into their own little worlds, but a few will worry about such things as not being intimidating so as to be accepted by others, playing at what the others are playing so as to fit in, acting cool, so as to be accepted etc, and these become the proverbial in-crowd, who later, define who is cool and who isn't. The problem with all this is that social oppressing rolls downhill, like raw sewage, and the oppressed and the bullied will look for someone weaker then they to oppress in return. In days of yore, the beggars and the outlaws would oppress the women and child runaways, as we have case in point with this woman among a group of marginalized gamers.Brooser Bearhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08487438364129415650noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3251496424644654781.post-62755511327198410602016-04-08T14:50:27.459-07:002016-04-08T14:50:27.459-07:00I deleted his blog from my blogroll and haven'...I deleted his blog from my blogroll and haven't been to his site since. He offers nothing constructive and I have no idea why he is a talking head. I did read the article that you bring up, but I was introduced to it by ChicagoWiz on his blog (A blogger who is much worthier of the title of Talking Head), and it really upset me. Comments are one thing, many table top players learn communication skills from D&D and games like it, we nerds are notorious for saying dumb things; but what really pisses me off is when people can't keep their hands to themselves. Administrators also have to take complaints seriously, especially when a crime has been committed. <br /><br />What really shocked me is to know that the police consider our community to be a known threat, and dangerous to women. This says a lot. For every crime that has been reported, there is a large percentage that never is. People can claim that it is all lies and manipulation, but the negative responses only serve to further add credence to the stories, and such vehemence on the subject tells us more about the poster of such hate, than anything else. <br /><br />Me personally, I am no longer going to let those kind of comments slide. I think that we owe it to the community to stand up and do what we can to do the right thing. RipperXhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03506064393275174920noreply@blogger.com