The only thing about the above which saddens me is that, while there is a larger percentage of the population than ever who now gets that joke, only a fraction of it understands where those terms originated. And of that percentage, many of them would never consider playing a pen-and-paper roleplaying game and would be insulted if it was suggested that they share the same heritage of those so-called "nerds" who were indulging in this form of recreation more than three decades ago. It's hard to be a trend-setter.
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I totally understand.
More and more, I think gaming and game culture was better before geeks were cool.
In addition to WoW, I would implicate the Battlestar Galactica reboot and The Walking Dead television shows. The "normals" are jumping on the geek/nerd bandwagon in record numbers! :)
At a wedding one of the groom's friends, who was a friend of mine, was busting on me for playing D&D. He'd already told me how much he loved warcraft and about his characters. He didn't like it when I explained to him, that at least I had the balls to sit around a table with other people and play and didnt' have to use the internet to play an elf.
Wizard of ID
May 20, 2009
was similar in tone,
but funnier.
Interesting... Not a soul that I've met who plays WoW isn't aware of the D&D roots of the game and its terminology. The vast majority of them have never played D&D nor want to play D&D, but they are quite aware of it.
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