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nycpunk1:
1. A question based on todays comic post-- what exactly is "ass" time? I assume it's pretty long, but I got to admit, I'm unfamiliar with this term.

2. Why is it that RPG's, computer-based or otherwise (a la WoW), automatically peg you as a dork, geek or weirdo? I mean, it's not like we're all in high school, waiting for the cool girls (or boys) to notice us. Can't we get by this by now?

2a. What exactly is the link between above games and indie-rock? For example, if I was to tell people at an indie club that I loved D&D, there'd be not a single blink. But if I was to tell them that I was excited that my fantasy football team was kicking ass, they'd look at me like I just anally raped the collective members of The Arcade Fire. What the hell is the difference? [Disclaimer: I have no clue about either Warcraft or the NFl, in any form, so don't argue on those points, it'll be pointless]

SuperPablo13:
I'm in college still waiting for the cool girls to notice me...

Se7en:
My kid brother plays word of warcraft, and very seriously. So i can say that you DO have to be a geek to play it!

I dont mean geek as in the insult, or the generic term for someone who knows a computer from their elbow, but as a person with the kind of mindset neccesary to fill their head with massive quantities of trivia and information, and do it for FUN.

I cant speak for D&D, but i know that playing WoW competitively involves absorbing massive amounts of information, juggling stats, strategising, researching, even some pretty heavy duty maths and programming if you really want an edge.

People who do this are geeks. Its a good thing though, because for every million geeks that obessively plays world of warcraft or collects tram tickets or whatever.. theres one that goes and invents the lightbulb.

As far as i can see, indie rock is a pretty geeky thing too. The indie rock nerd digging through piles of dusty LPs in a tiny record shop that smells of pot isnt really any different from the guy hunched over his screen playing WoW 20 hours a day, or the train spotter on the platform in his anorak.

It must be the joy of discovering new things, researching and analysing that endears indie to the geeks. What other type of music can you imagine appealing to that sort of person?

Catfish_Man:

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I cant speak for D&D, but i know that playing WoW competitively involves absorbing massive amounts of information, juggling stats, strategising, researching, even some pretty heavy duty maths and programming if you really want an edge.
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What I've found with D&D is that the more you actually understand the game and are good at playing it, the less like this it is (story and character development come to the front, and then you switch to playing Mage ;) ). It does have a metric assload of rules though, which tends to attract really technical gamers like you describe above. That's one reason I've found that the people I prefer to play with are all theatre and writing geeks, rather than the computer geeks (despite being a computer geek myself).

Se7en:
Doesn't seem to be the case with WoW. There are very few real roleplayers, and a lot of people that would otherwise be playing RTS games. My kid bro is so uncreative in that respect that he has to get me to name his characters. (Stumpy the level 60 gnomish warlock and Kneecap the level 40 gnomish rouge)

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