Bryce said...

The Heretic said:
It's complicated, and it is certainly regionally dependent.

When I was growing up in the 80's, there was a brief bit of time when D&D was the IT thing and EVERYONE played it. It was cool. Then it became passe, a pastime for nerds only. You'd get made fun of if you were known to play it. This was especially bad in fashion conscious southern California where I grew up.

My cousins in Wisconsin had it a lot easier. The only issue they had was with parents falling for the Satanic Panic. I chalk acceptance up to the fact that the area is more rural and to it having cultural cachet for being the birthplace of the hobby.

I suppose it's like any subculture, it has its stereotypes. They are rooted in truth (after all, what rock star didn't do drugs and have sex with lots of groupies).
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Heh...man, I remember having to hide my books...play in the shadows! My parents tried to throw my stuff away.
 
Beoric said:
I hear this so much, but most of the people I played with were not "outsiders". Is this experience really that universal?

It was harder to find players than it sounded like it ought to have been from the magazines, but I attributed that to growing up in a much less populous country than the USA.
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Two of the guys I play with nowadays have been playing (together) since they were about 12, and definitely saw it at the time (the early-mid-1990s) as expressive of being nerdy outsiders, and they retain some of that impression about the hobby even today. On the other hand, I, growing up only about 40km away from them and being only a few (3ish) years older, never felt that way.

I would say that in terms of finding players, the only times I've had difficulty were connected to the dislocations of attending and then graduating from university in a college town (moving there not knowing anyone at first, and then my entire group moving away as they graduated and left the town). I'm very happy to play with total newbies tho', whereas a number of people I've met through the hobby really seem to dread the idea of having to deal with people who've never played before.
 
Pseudoephedrine said:
I would say that in terms of finding players, the only times I've had difficulty were connected to the dislocations of attending and then graduating from university in a college town (moving there not knowing anyone at first, and then my entire group moving away as they graduated and left the town). I'm very happy to play with total newbies tho', whereas a number of people I've met through the hobby really seem to dread the idea of having to deal with people who've never played before.
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You're in Ontario, right? Alberta in the late 70s/early 80s was a lot less populous than Ontario in the early-mid 90s.
 
The1True said:
I feel like we have this conversation at least once a year. This forum has been hijacked by canucks...
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Can't even get a fucking frikandel or a decent fries and mayonaise (in a pointed paper sack, not a tray, thank you, we are not savages) around here without slipping in a puddle of maple syrup or stepping in a tray of mexican-fusion poutine. The pleasantly inebriated pub howls of my proud people have been drowned out by a litany of prophylactic apologia and the burring of mooses (meese?). And don't get me started on the fucking ice-hockey games. It is called Ice-Hockey. It is on Ice. Regular Hockey is on a field. Of gras. Fuck.
 
PrinceofNothing said:
Can't even get a fucking frikandel or a decent fries and mayonaise (in a pointed paper sack, not a tray, thank you, we are not savages) around here without slipping in a puddle of maple syrup or stepping in a tray of mexican-fusion poutine. The pleasantly inebriated pub howls of my proud people have been drowned out by a litany of prophylactic apologia and the burring of mooses (meese?). And don't get me started on the fucking ice-hockey games. It is called Ice-Hockey. It is on Ice. Regular Hockey is on a field. Of gras. Fuck.
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A Møøse once bit my sister...
 
Let me try to explain it one more time.

Hockey
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Ice Hockey
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So that's Hockey (notice (gr)ass)
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Ice-Hockey

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Do you understand me you primitive screwheads? Am I getting fucking through to you?

Hockey!
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Not Hockey!

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It's called ice CREAM not eis you heathens! As in I would like some fucking eis in this piss-temperature Coke please!
 
The1True said:
It's called ice CREAM not eis you heathens! As in I would like some fucking eis in this piss-temperature Coke please!
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Phonetically you are on the money but 'eis' is the singular verb form of 'eisen', to demand. You are looking for 'ijs', which is the same word for ice and ice cream, conveniently. We sometimes add the diminuitive -je to the word if we want to indicate a singular ice-cream cone, e.g. 'een ijsje eten.' I would argue that cream is an entirely superfluous second word that can be omitted from the word entirely with no loss of fidelity, try it out!
 
I figured the Dutch usage would be close to the German.

Out of curiosity, does Afrikaans sound as appalling to Dutch ears as it does to the rest of us?
 
The1True said:
In the rapidly narrowing category of Things We Can Mock, I believe the Boers still make the list, along with Newfies, Kiwis, Floridians and Germans on vacation in Ibiza.
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You can actually mock germans on vacation everywhere... I think it's even written somewhere in the Grundgesetz

Only be careful when you mock german cars, german football and the beautiful german language.

Also when me and the family visited the netherlands for vacation my wife warned me that the dutch language might sound strange and funny to my delicate, german ears. Being a gentleman and scholar I dismissed such nonsense right from the start.
Then we crossed the border and I saw an advert on a wall that said: "heerlijk eten voor iedereen" (Fine food for everyone) and my resolve shattered instantly
 
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