The guy who for the past three years has looked me in the eye and said into the mic, "What am I excited about at Gen Con? Nothing. There is nothing exciting here," isn't excited by the sub-culture?

SHOCK!

Non. Pas possible!

I'm not that into apples. I'd prefer bananas or maybe pears.

Oh! Well then I'm delighted to say I like it just fine!

<3
Jenn, who is a dick

I love you guys.

I don't even know Matt Snyder and I think he's great too.

I can't help it! I'm colorblind!

AHHHHHH

You're just mad because you suck at Jungle Speed.

Dude I'm talking about Jungle Speed, not your masturbation.

Keith, Andy, Judd, and The Subculture are on a set of stairs. Each one is above or beneath another. No two individuals are on the same steps. Based on the following logical steps, please place them in order of who is at the top, and what their order is:

* The Subculture is Beneath Keith.
* Judd is Above The Subculture.
* Andy is Above Keith.
* Andy is Not at the Top.

What is their order, from highest to lowest?

Futurama is on top... It is ALWAYS on top!

OMG! SERIOUSLY?

Oh, wait, it's you, and I am completely not surprised you're a jerk because that would be like being surprised I have penis: "Where'd that come from?!" Yeah, right. Carry on, angry polack!

Of course, I am above all of you.

Bah, this reminds me of the Geek Hierarchy Flowchart, of course: everyone thinks they're above someone.

I mean, wouldn't you/we feel that the subculture was beneath you/us if instead we were talking about bowling, or scrapbooking, or snowboarding, or movies? I know that for my part, I don't relate well to large groups of people defining themselves as a uniform entity. I don't want to be absorbed into a Collective. :-\

Keith, are you our own Bull-dyke with the tight-tight shorts sledgehammer?

http://youtube.com/watch?v=OYecfV3ubP8

:-)

Some of us have multi-faceted personalities.

We're whole people on our own and consider ourselves part of a sub-culture, this is not "instead".

Well, that kinda contradicts what you said up-thread: "Subculture is for people who lack the confidence to forge their own identity from their experiences and the world around them."

In my opinion, I am doing just that, and part of my forged identity is my experience as a gamer, who is also part of the sub-culture, but then you tell me I'm deluded :P

Man, this is really helping me pare down the blogs I follow.

Very happy to. This pond stinks.

I'm trying to remember when I was last impressed by someone going out of his way to tell me that he felt superior to me. It's been a while. I'm afraid I tend to read such declarations and wonder "What are they compensating for?", knowing how often that's what it is. (I use "afraid" honestly because there are cases where it's something other like compensation. Good generalizations aren't always true. It can be simple ignorance or willful denial of one's own position with regard to stuff in the next paragraph, or lots of other things.) *shrug* I like the apples I've got already, thanks for asking, though. I like gaming with people I like and trust (several of the folks I game with have literally saved my life in times of crisis stemming from chronic health problems, which is about as good as it gets, I think), who broaden my horizons even as we share this particular kind of fun together. I've also got some Granny Smiths here that apparently came from God's own orchard, the crunch is so fine.

I also find that I'm less impressed by claims of self-forged identity than I used to be. I'd be impressed by someone who could do it without drawing on the legacy of common language and knowledge, and without the benefits of being well up the ladder from exploited to exploiter. As it is, it all looks like working with other people's stuff to me. *shrug* again, I guess.

I will gladly apologize for the mistaken identification. Sorry about that, and thanks for the correction.