Brennan, 23, is a scrawny restaurant host from New Port Richey. He said he was so weird in high school "not even the goths would hang out with me."
I just had a mental image of this guy throwing the paper on his coffee-table in disgust and yelling "She called me scrawny!?"
Brennan, 23, is a scrawny restaurant host from New Port Richey. He said he was so weird in high school "not even the goths would hang out with me."I just had a mental image of this guy throwing the paper on the table in disgust and yelling "She called me scrawny!?"
Yeah! I didn't even catch that. That's really got to suck.
Ha, wow, I missed that one. Henry's gonna be peeved. Of course, he IS a skinny lil thing. He's also gay as a puppy in spring, so it may get interesting :)
Well, having lived in the area most of my life, and understood the mentality of the St. Pete Times, which somewhat matches the mentality of the city, the article actually paints a fairly nice picture of DnD, a much nicer picture than the previous one that was written, oh about 30 years ago.
By the way, and I know the guys who were talked about in the article that was published 30 years ago, one of them was called a blonde teen with a pixie look. That statement will probably piss him off if he reads this, but I think Brennan being called scrawny is a whole lot nicer than what my friend was called!
I view it as a good article with a much more positive spin than anything I've ever seen in the past. I have to agree that we need to take people from A to B to finally get them to C. That's just the nature of things. Plus, you've got to remember that the media wants hype, no matter what they're talking about.
It sells newspapers, or tv news shows, etc. Most every news caster that I've ever watched looks to me like they want to be the next guy reporting the Hindenburg. What they doesn’t seem to get is the guy that reported the Hindenburg was freaking out, not sensationalizing, but it just seems like when they go to broadcasting school, the first class in that tract is Sensationalism 101!
Skunk
Oh lord, you're here too?!?!? ;)
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Here's a cool anecdotal story.
Good stuff, and very cool thing to have out there as a positive role of what gaming does to help and inspire people. Thank you, Lilith.
FH
Small(ish) world. I'm in Northeast St Pete, as is the group I play with. Most of our group hails from Tampa though.
cool. Ya'll should join the meetup, we'll keep you posted on happennings in the bay area and such. Plus as we add members, we'll do more group stuff thats not just DnD/RPG related.
There'll never be one ultimate article that turns around the preconceptions & myths that a lot of folks have. I think this article was on the plus side. Sure there's some phrases and comments that add to the 'dork' propaganda but overall I think it demonstrates that this game is 1) Played by adults, 2) Played by people of different walks of life, 3) Is more widely accepted than the average reader assumes.
It's not the best, it's not fantastic...but it isn't one sided ;-) The journalist showed up, checked it out, and reported on it...flavoured by her opinions of course. Now keep in mind; if this is a young female reporter, she probably felt she needed to distance herself from it a bit too...else she'd be branded as a dork as well. By including a few jibes, it's more palatable to a reader letting them know that she's just a normal person with the normal preconceptions of D&D and you know what?...it wasn't that bad.
Sorry, at work so can't edit the above stream-of-conciousness, but I think I got my point across. Thought the article was alright, and enjoyed the slice of another group's table talk. If everyone's having as much fun as this group, mine, and I suspect most of yours (meaning the Paizo community), then this game can only get better & become more accepted.
Game!
J-
So why do you let these people in? Ugh. When I was dpeloyed last year, we played in the gym. 80% of the people ignored us, 10% made snide comments, 5% were curious, and the other 5% asked if they could play, they had dice in thier hootch!!!
And I call everyone a hooker :)
We have an open door policy regarding friends of the family. So, people come over and tease us before going in the other room to watch T.V. or something. It's really only one girl who loves to tease us but more often people will come over and watch us play. It balances out, in the end.
And like Luke's wife, I really am bothered by the stereotype that girls don't like to game. I know it's changing, for the better hopefully, and I'm not a Nazi-Feminist crazy person but I do honestly believe that the game(s) could use a bit more evening of the playing field for both sexes and all races. People need to be able to think creatively and problem solve, which D&D encourages highly.
And I really don't mind being called a dork. I didn't like her negative attitude towards it.
Lillith-that story was very good. It definently was a better representation of the game.
For what it's worth...since I started back into D&D gaming in early 2003 (after a hiatus since about 1993 when I left high school) I've been part of three groups. All three have had me, my wife, and my sister-in-law in common, but all three have either had an equal ratio of men to women, or in the case of the second group had more women than men (4 to 3).
Not one of the women I've gamed with in my adult life feels the negative connotation of being a "gamer geek" or "dork". It's just something that we all enjoy as a fun hobby.
I've never been a dork. Though many women have called me dork affectionately. What does this mean? Am I... could I be... wrong?
Heavy Metal!!!
Den: "Hmm...no hair....biiiig."
John Candy's narration: "I wasn't about to walk around this place with my DORK hanging out!!!"
I saw HM in the movies and then videotaped it off cable TV before it got caught up in a rights fight and didn't appear for a decade. I wore that VHS tape OUT and showed it to everyone who walked through the door.
RIDING STRAIGHT UP (STRAIGHT UP) (STRAIGHT UP)!!!
Weird Queen Lady: "the moon eclipses our love, Den. It is a sign."
Den: "Yes...a sign..."
JC: "I didn't know WHAT this chick was talking about."
You just listed two of my favorite quotes from that movie. The third would have to be (and get the Chong voice right) "Gooood Niborg."