Playing subspace incognito

[Cylor]

Taken the piss out of them for what? Playing a computer game? What kind of dumbshit luddite friends do you have?

The type of friends that don't know what "luddite" means. And they certainly would not understand subspace. It was the same with WoW, I told people I had a girlfriend that went to a different school that demanded a lot of my time. Weak, yes, but high school politics are ruthless. Although up here I met a mechanical engineering model who spent roughly five hours a day counterstriking (and she tried explaining the ranking system, which I figured I'd understand, having played games before, but it was beyond me). I tried showing her subspace and I never heard from her again, so case in point.

[Jason]

about two years ago, i had a roommate who would play counter-strike with me for upwards of 8 hour stretches, and yet when i would play subspace, he'd ridicule the living shit out of me. never understood it.

anyway, i don't hide anything about myself. this philosophy applies to all aspects of my life.

[Ewan]

My housemates at Uni know (and don't care) that I play this game. I don't think they know I am a moderator though. My friends from home don't know I play it. If they asked I doubt I'd lie, but they're not really the computer type so I dunno if they'd care or not.

[DJSlayer]

The type of friends that don't know what "luddite" means. And they certainly would not understand subspace. It was the same with WoW, I told people I had a girlfriend that went to a different school that demanded a lot of my time. Weak, yes, but high school politics are ruthless. Although up here I met a mechanical engineering model who spent roughly five hours a day counterstriking (and she tried explaining the ranking system, which I figured I'd understand, having played games before, but it was beyond me). I tried showing her subspace and I never heard from her again, so case in point.

Maybe you got her addicted to ss so she doesnt have time for anything anymore :O

[Blood]

heh, Finland and the other Nordic countries are great in a way. using computers, gaming, etc. is not considered geeky anymore. It was considered geeky in my early childhood but lately, the internet is full of all the 'cool' teenage girls. I'd imagine this is the same in much of Europe and in Japan as well. Judging by the way people here are talking, I'm lead to think it's not so in the US?

[Izor]

heh, Finland and the other Nordic countries are great in a way. using computers, gaming, etc. is not considered geeky anymore. It was considered geeky in my early childhood but lately, the internet is full of all the 'cool' teenage girls. I'd imagine this is the same in much of Europe and in Japan as well. Judging by the way people here are talking, I'm lead to think it's not so in the US?

we actually like to play sports

[Blood]

we actually like to play sports

from what I hear you like to be the most obese nation on earth as well

[Izor]

pretty much everyone uses the internet, but not in the way you're talking about if you're comparing europe's usage now to asia's, which is just scary. Pretty soon you'll have babies dying because their parents were too busy playing starcraft for 48 hours straight

[Blood]

Oh well, the only thing I wanted to raise a point on was the development of social acceptance of hobbies related to computers in my home country. Neglecting real life because of gaming or the like is pretty terrifying.

[GuruMeditation]

The US is more "cliquey" then other nations. There's no such thing as middle ground.

Either you only use your computer to check email, of you're a geek.
Either you don't care for sports, or you're a jock.
Either you fly a flag outside your house and vote republican or you're a terrorist sympathiser.

[a2m+]

My parents and brothers know about this game but no one else. A few times different friends caught me playing it and I lie and tell them I just downloaded some random game because I was bored and that I'm deleting it because it sucks. The worst was knowing nitti IRL, he'd come up to me in school and try to talk about shit happening in the game and I'd bug out and yell at him because I didnt want anyone to know how much of a closet nerd I am. And yea what Guru said is pretty much correct to a certain degree... I've been able to maintain my status as "I just use the computer to check my email" instead of being a gaming geek.

[MirrorriM]

My dad will walk in my room sometimes and ask in disbelief: "You still play that game? Why do you like it so much??"

[Cylor]

The US is more "cliquey" then other nations. There's no such thing as middle ground.

Either you only use your computer to check email, of you're a geek.
Either you don't care for sports, or you're a jock.
Either you fly a flag outside your house and vote republican or you're a terrorist sympathiser.

The ones and zeros of our binary world.

[Facetious]

People know, never really occurred to me to hide it. Everyone does shit that's a stupid waste of time, I don't see how using a computer to waste my time is any more shameful than any other way. Very few of my other friends play anything online (a couple play WoW but that's it) but I've never gotten made fun of or anything, my friends just aren't concerned with mocking me for what I do with my free time I guess.

[Vykromond]

People know, never really occurred to me to hide it. Everyone does shit that's a stupid waste of time, I don't see how using a computer to waste my time is any more shameful than any other way. Very few of my other friends play anything online (a couple play WoW but that's it) but I've never gotten made fun of or anything, my friends just aren't concerned with mocking me for what I do with my free time I guess.

This.

The US is more "cliquey" then other nations. There's no such thing as middle ground.

Either you only use your computer to check email, of you're a geek.
Either you don't care for sports, or you're a jock.
Either you fly a flag outside your house and vote republican or you're a terrorist sympathiser.

Whatever. I don't really buy this assessment, but even so, the thing is it all blows over eventually. The kids who are 9, 10 years old right now know more about the internet intuitively than 99.999999% of even the most "wired" people that are my age. All of them, to the last boy/girl, are- at least in this respect- what would have been called a "nerd" only a few years ago.