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My question is a general one but I guess an easy way to think about it is if you were in high school (or if you are in high school like me) where would you sit in the lunchroom? I hate sterotypes and a human being is never as simple as a jock or a loner but it would be interesting to get an honest assessment from people. Most outsiders to the hobby (at least in my experience) view us as nerds, not to say that there's anything wrong with that but I've realized that it's not blanketly true. A guy in my GW in NYC spends his time when not kicking ass with his Eldar, pumping iron and running track (Dude is buff.) Most people would call me a stoner I guess, as I spend lots of my free time modeling my mind with green stuff (see what I did there).

Feel free to go in depth, I guess what I'm trying find out is the kind of people that play warhammer.

In High school I sat with the Jocks, I played football so it made sense.

Now my friends view me as the intelligent eccentric funny one.

I love the line "it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring." and live by it.

DeathReaper wrote:

I love the line "it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring." and live by it.

Truer words were never said.

As for me, people have tried to label me and consistently fail. I wear black and spikes and band-shirts, but I hang out with everyone and I'm fun to be around, so they can never pin me down as anything in particular. In regard to the nerd who plays 40k stereotype? I wouldn't say I fit in with that by a long shot.

My high school (in last year of collage right now to put it in perceptive) didn't have the stereotypical "Cliques" for some reason (probably because it was a small class, only 150 students).

I think I fit into the geek/nerd stereotype if a little more outgoing, I am after all a self-proclaimed Trekkie and proud of it!

I sat with the other nerds, geeks, artists and musicians in high school. I got harassed by some scrubs because I had long hair and wasn't part of their clique. That's just high school.

Honestly, there isn't one kind of person who plays any given game. All those labels and cliques you're dealing with in high school evaporate pretty quickly once you're out and into something resembling the real world. Sometimes they carry over into college, but people who care about that garbage drop out in the first year.

In other words, all kinds of folks play with tiny plastic spacemen, and while they do trend towards a nerdier type of person 99.9% of the population won't give a damn. As long as you don't run around screaming Warhammerisms and telling people on the bus how much you love gluing tiny guns to tiny hands you'll be fine. In other words, act like a human being and nobody will care.

I hang with the cool kids.

Well I am a complete mongrol.

Played football and tennis (some in college too) in high school, but spent more weekends doing DnD than anything else.

In college I hung with the preps and elitists but always found time to go home once a week to game.

Now I am a married prep school teacher working on a fairly sophisticated grad degree (and raising two wonderful daughters), but run a club for high school students during the school year, and run one of the 40k nights at our FLGS.

As to how people see me, I really don't give it much thought. I try to teach high principles and live by them. High school students love to call out hypocrisy when they see it, and so far, with the Lord's grace, I've been able to live by high but realistic standards and been humble enough to admit my failings and seek to erase them. I like to think people see in me what I want to project, but how can you ever truly know what others see?

In high school most of my friends (who were all gamers) turned out to be labeled ' gifted underachievers' and hung with the hessians. Nowdays I run a construction company, raise 3 great kids (who are occasional gamers), & game with a teacher, engineer, several students (college & HS), a few armed service members and various others. Like was said above, most labels evaporate after school.

I have no idea what people view me as.

I hope that they see me as smart, witty, funny and dead sexy.

Ma55ter_fett wrote:I have no idea what people view me as.

Basically this...
I've been told that I'm funny, smart, scary, interesting, demented, hot, boring,understanding, uninhibited, controlling, free spirited and the biggest A**hole walking the face of the planet, but as far as what others "really" view me as...?...I suppose only those people really know for sure.
...Personally...I see myself as sort of a clown...a very...very angry clown.

I sat with the teachers.... Does that make me weird?

First things first, holy crap its Fitzz!

Secondly, and back on topic, I have people who view me in different lights.

At work they see me as a mostly reliable fellow, I may show up five or so minutes late but I always show up and perform to the best of my abilities.

At school they see me as a creator of horrible puns and overall wise cracker. In fact I made a fellow student relatively upset when I asked him about his relationships in Mass Effect 3, he had given up porn for Lent, and everybody got a bit of a chuckle.

At home they see me as a great kid, I mess up, but overall they hold me in high regard. I've been told that I would be a great father because I'm a great babysitter and its not uncommon for me to take the kids I babysit fishing, teach them new boardgames (just taught them Risk the other day), cook, and in general be awesome.

So I guess I'm a mostly good, reliable, wise cracker who has a chance of being a good father.

Other people don't view me at all, so I don't have to worry about what they see me as.

Great White wrote:The cool kids hang with me.

Spotted a small error there.

People say I'm insane but I don't see it. All I do is talk to the voices in my head.

Blitza da warboy wrote:People say I'm insane but I don't see it. All I do is talk to the voices in my head.

7 out of the 5 voice in my head say I am sane, Majority rules. =o]

I think people view me as a spam bot, but in real life, annoying, confrontational, a jerk, oh wait just like on here =o]

PS I got the ability to hoard useless info, I kick ass on jeopardy ( and 40k fluff) but can't remember what I did yesterday. =o\

My mum thinks I'm awesome.

Barksdale wrote:My mum thinks I'm awesome.

Yeah but she has to say that

I've been called a goth, emo, nerd, stoner, loner etc etc some or all of these things actually apply lol. I tend not to waste time stereotyping peoplw but rather live by the idea of 'if you're good to me, I'll be good to you. If not jog on.'


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I generally hung out with the muso kids at school. That's kind of carried on into later life, though I generally get on with everyone because I make the effort to be polite and friendly in real life.

I sit with eithers the nerd, the Metalheads or my best friend(would sit alone without me).

I was a band geek, and hung with the metal heads/punkers mostly. But I got around to other groups fairly often, I was ok in the jock groups because I power lifted in school, and always got along with the geeks/smart folk. I was that guy mostly.

Insane, mostly mental, lunatic fringe, well meaning even if wearing a boot for a hat, a pool float around my waist, and a bazooka crooked in my arm.

I like the boothat, its a good look for you. Is it a winter boot, or a hiking boot?

Errr, who did I sit with? I have no idea considering there was like 3 groups of friends I moved around to at lunch based on whoever I was in the mood of dealing with. One group was the hardcore handball players (the tennis version), the other was like a mix of hot punk rock girls and pea brained jocks, then there was the last group of tech heads and video game fanatics.

I don't know if any other highschool was like mine but everyone sort of got along unless you were a tosser, but eventually you were forgiven. So it wasn't too bad, if you thought you were better than anyone else then you were just up yourself. It was always funny watching the earlier grades trying too hard to make a name for themselves and just end up looking like little turds.

At highschool I was the quiet lad, and also the butt of some jokes until one day I snapped and beated the crap outta one of the jocks, then they left me alone in my quietness. I was "semi" """popular""" because I could draw somewht decently, but was mostly people around me wanting to get free drawings; not falling for that didn't helped there xD

Now, depends who you ask. To my family, I'm eccentric, at work they say I'm a crazy genius (not because I'm smart per se but because I learn somewhat fast and if I don't know how to do something, I don't fear the "trial and error" method. My friends will just say that I'm insane and was born a couple centuries late. Of course that's what they say in my face... sometimes I wonder what they really think, sometimes I wonder if I want to know ó.ò

I hung with a couple of other tech-minded guys in school.
I wasn't a gamer, or a Goth (but I did wear a lot of black - but that was a utilitarian choice - it showed less dirt) but listened to Goth, 'metal' and "Rock' music (it was the early-mid 80s, so metal was still Iron Maiden or Sabbath, Motorhead or Metallica (the good years). I didn't wear a trenchcoat. Or cargoes.

We hung out in the library or the 'shop (practising our electronics and soldering).
As to what others view me as or have viewed me as ...

Let me say that one of my essays would get me mandatory counselling these days (and the black clothing wouldn't have helped, or the interest in electronics AND chemistry/explosives).

I was shocked, shocked I tell you, when I opened this thread and did not find a link to an online quiz.

Basically people think I'm a fething arsehole.

The loner for the most part. i Preferred the computer lab aat school over social contact. Everyone at highschool was shallow and conceded. I hated hanging out with them because they knew nothing beyond those walls.