Gatsu
Shared on Sun, 07/22/2007 - 12:35I don't usually post on the weekends...but I've been thinking about this for quite a while and I could use some input from other people.
Being a gamer since I was 6 or 7....it has always carried that odd stygma that came with gaming. not many friends. At least not many non-gaming friends. Now being 26 that stygma still stands. I can find fellow gamers that are my age...but most of them play stuff I don't like..or do things in their non-gaming activities that I don't care for. Like drink excessively and party alot. I'm not in college anymore either...so theres no social structure I attend on a regular basis except my job. And they are all non-gamers.
I don't mind a good party or a drink occasionally. I'm just not that kind of guy. I don't need alcohol to have a good time.
What makes it ESPECIALLY hard is that I'm in that south...and thats about all everyone seems to do down here. Work, drink and have babies. Then Work and drink some more.
I've got very few friends...maybe 2 or 3. And over this past years I've lost a few. So now I am left with friends that either game (but don't play what I do), or they don't game and begrudge me my gaming time because they don't game. And they prefer to drink excessively at every social gathering.
Other than gaming, art and movies I'm a pretty boring person. I don't like to go to clubbing or drink excessively. I'm more happy with some pizza, soda and a good LAN. But almost no one around here (in the south) understands that.
I don't have alot of options it seems other than to move to a more "gaming oriented" area. But how do you find that? lol. Its not like a huge city would be like "Come Game Here!" or anything like that lol.
Basically its like this. Its hard for me to make friends because I'm a very non-social person. I don't enjoy the social atmospheres around my area other than LANs.
I need some suggestions for finding other gaming recluses like myself. lol.
Gatsu OUT!
Being a gamer since I was 6 or 7....it has always carried that odd stygma that came with gaming. not many friends. At least not many non-gaming friends. Now being 26 that stygma still stands. I can find fellow gamers that are my age...but most of them play stuff I don't like..or do things in their non-gaming activities that I don't care for. Like drink excessively and party alot. I'm not in college anymore either...so theres no social structure I attend on a regular basis except my job. And they are all non-gamers.
I don't mind a good party or a drink occasionally. I'm just not that kind of guy. I don't need alcohol to have a good time.
What makes it ESPECIALLY hard is that I'm in that south...and thats about all everyone seems to do down here. Work, drink and have babies. Then Work and drink some more.
I've got very few friends...maybe 2 or 3. And over this past years I've lost a few. So now I am left with friends that either game (but don't play what I do), or they don't game and begrudge me my gaming time because they don't game. And they prefer to drink excessively at every social gathering.
Other than gaming, art and movies I'm a pretty boring person. I don't like to go to clubbing or drink excessively. I'm more happy with some pizza, soda and a good LAN. But almost no one around here (in the south) understands that.
I don't have alot of options it seems other than to move to a more "gaming oriented" area. But how do you find that? lol. Its not like a huge city would be like "Come Game Here!" or anything like that lol.
Basically its like this. Its hard for me to make friends because I'm a very non-social person. I don't enjoy the social atmospheres around my area other than LANs.
I need some suggestions for finding other gaming recluses like myself. lol.
Gatsu OUT!
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