Nerd life

  I'm a nerd, always have been and always will be. I enjoy listening to things like this live D&D game. I've listened to all the previous games these guys have played and they make the act of playing D&D seem like the fun it can be. I played it when I was younger, unfortunately with people who were more in to how much they could kick monster arse than how much fun you could have playing the scenario. Also add in the fact that I was made the dungeon master a lot of the time and with my broad imagination it didn't turn out so well. Still this is the kind of thing that I enjoy.

  This is part of who I am. I enjoy seeing, if you take the unrealism for granted, where this kind of setup can take people to. The way they react to situations the clearly are impossible in the real world but in your imagination and with no real consequences to yourself other than you might have to reroll a new character (and even then you may not need to). It allows you to try something that you would never even think of doing in the real world and just play with it. I find myself letting lose much more in these kind of situations that I normally do.

  It allows me to express things that just get in the way in real life. I don't get angry about things. It is something that baffles some people when they interact with me. I really don't see the point since it does nothing to fix the situation that could make you angry. I don't confront people either since people will rarely actually rationally deal with the confrontation. It might make me seem like a meek uncaring coward but I don't care what people think about me in general (other than my wife and she knows me). I do what I need to do to make sure I look after the ones I love and don't give a damn about anybody else.

  Still it is nice once in a while to simply act out in ways that I don't in real life. To just mess about with characters and places that simply don't exist other than in someone's imagination or a piece of software. Just because you shouldn't do something in real life doesn't mean you shouldn't explore it to understand it. Trying out something new is fun every now and then.