Of gaming, odd bods, dragons and beards
I don't play computer games as a rule, as I sit in front of computers far too much and to be honest I find them a bit tedious. Yesterday however, I took my middle son, who we call the "Beast of Hammersmith" to a local games shop that has a gaming centre downstairs.
In one room there were a load of people playing card games like yugioh and some with small figures so I imagine they were playing dungeons and dragons.
I peered in at them and felt a bit like I had stumbled upon an S&M party in the suburbs. I am not comfortable with the whole Dungeons and Dragons thing on the grounds that it is silly bollocks for odd bods. The only time I was ever convinced to play a game I was thrown out for persistently fighting with the wizard. I seem to remember my character being called "Doug the Dwarf". My mate Duncan said he had good fun playing once but only because he was stoned.
Any how, after we got away from the odd bod card players we were installed in front of two powerful computers and had a very jolly time playing Unreal Tournament against each other. The Beast of Hammersmith managed to kill me at least 400 times.
The staff were very helpful and enthused about bots and what crazy things happen in the on line games; the best type of guns; whether the new xbox was any good and which one of them had the best goatee beard.
They were all really nice although frankly, they could all do with a girlfriend.
Woooosh
2 Comments:
girlfriends are hard on the gaming though mate. real, real hard. its really them or the gaming. and sometimes i do wish i'd have stuck with the gaming myself.
it's a shame you are so judgemental about gamers- especially since you seem to have liked playing computer games - D&D and other rpg's are just the same thing as puter games, only with actualy human interaction. As for the 'gamers need a girlfriend' comment - it's old, tired and innaccurate. I'm a married woman who plays with a large diverse group of gamers, none of which play into the nerd or geek stereotypes non-gamers label us with. Just because we enjoy a different passtime other than sitting in front of a TV, doesn't make us anyone to look down upon, you judgemental xenophobe.
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