From: c34657b@saha.hut.fi (Tuomas Viljanen)
Subject: Re: A Glossay of Stereotypes (was Hostility in Gamers...)
Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1992 07:50:00 GMT

This was GREAT ! I kinda recognised me in the Lead Pushers and the Bored-
gamers, somewhere in-between. I would like to add more flavor to each group
as like:

Musical taste:

     Droolers: Heavy metal, speed metal, snot metal
     Munchkins: Anything annoying with equivocal lyrics
     Lead pushers: US military marches, Glenn Miller and the Air Force Band, 
                   Richard Wagner (the Ride of the Valkyries)
     Bored-Gamers: Classical music (hey, they don't make music like they
                   used to !)
     Micro-Nerds: Techno
     Compu-Gamers: Is there ? Perhaps computer beeps
     Miserable outcasts: Anything which the others hate

Literary taste:

     Droolers: Comic books, preferably underground, pulp sci-fi
     Munchkins: Conan the Barbarian, girlie magazines
     Lead Pushers: Military litterature, Army regulations and manuals
     Bored-Gamers: Slingshot, Spearpoint, WRG rulebooks, history
     Micro-Nerds: None, except computer manuals
     Compu-Gamers: Computer magazines
     Miserable outcasts: None, perhaps Nietzsche, Stirner or Macchiavelli

Careers:

     Droolers: Game store salesman
     Munchkins: No special, this is a larval stage
     Lead Pushers: Military personnel, engineer, pilot etc technical career
     Bored-Gamers: Game designer, historian
     Micro-Nerds: Macro-Nerd careers, like anything connected with computers
     Compu-Gamers: Game designer at best
     Miserable outcasts: Criminal, politician, lawyer

Famous Comments:

     Droolers: Iaaa ! Shub-Niggurath ! Yog-Soththoth, Chthulu pflagahn
     Munchkins: How many hit points do you have, and what's your THACO ?
     Lead pushers: From the halls of Montezoooo-maaah...
     Bored-Gamers: ...But Phil Barker states in his "Armies of the...
     Micro-Nerds: What is social life, anyway ?
     Compu-Gamers: See that s** of the b**** getting some laser perforation...
     Miserable outcasts: I didn't do it ! He did it !

Possible exits:

     Droolers: Usually none. Some of them may exit into Bored-Gamers or Lead-
               pushers, depending on how smart they are (usually they're not)
     Munchkins: Droolers (usually) or Lead-pushers (rarely)
     Lead pushers: Army or USMC officers, perhaps Bored-Gamers.
     Bored-Gamers: None, this is what it all ends
     Micro-Nerds:  Real nerds, if they aren't that already
     Compu-Gamers: Micro-nerds
     Miserable outcasts: Droolers, Compu-Gamers, Micro-Nerds

Favorite food and drinks

     Droolers: Junk food, coke, cheap wine
     Munchkins: Burgers and fries, coke
     Lead pushers: K-rations, beer
     Bored-Gamers: Gourmet foods often, they don't make food like they used to
     Micro-Nerds: Potato chips, diet coke
     Compu-Gamers: Anything digestible, they don't have any taste organs
     Miserable outcasts: Any food will do if they don't have to buy it them-
                         selves, coke, beer or cheap wine

Why they give gaming a bad name:

    Droolers: By their sole existence
    Munchkins: By their uncivilzeness and obnoxiousness
    Lead pushers: By their militarism, war-happiness and aggressivity
    Bored-Gamers: By their nit-picking style of life
    Micro-Nerds: Nerds just bring bad name for everything
    Compu-Gamers: What ? Is there world outside computers ?
    Miserable outcasts: By their ccheating and lying behavior

Enjoy !
 
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