How badly did the Satanic Panic actually affect you?

TristramEvans · April 28, 2013, 07:46:23 PM

Quote from: Mistwell;650215?

Going to the gym is not in any way related to being a nerd/geek.

No, its related to being popular. As was the rest of that list.

Bedrockbrendan · April 28, 2013, 07:47:03 PM

Quote from: Mistwell;650215?

Going to the gym is not in any way related to being a nerd/geek. You SHOULD be exercising, at least a few times a week, no matter who you are. Being popular, and social, and in decent shape, is not incompatible with geeky pursuits. Being a geek is pretty "normal" these days.

It's good for the brain too. I do my best game writing and preparation when I get in plenty of socializing and exercise in a week. Most of my good adventure ideas hit me when I was out runnning.

Mistwell · April 28, 2013, 07:49:45 PM

Quote from: TristramEvans;650217No, its related to being popular. As was the rest of that list.

What?

How is going to the gym, related to being popular?

It's related to not dying early.

The Traveller · April 28, 2013, 07:52:30 PM

Quote from: Mistwell;650220What?

How is going to the gym, related to being popular?

Everyone who goes to the gym is tanned and six-packed don't you know, like everyone who is rich, and they both spend all their time snorting coke off the tits of hookers on yachts instead of posting on the internet. Or some such.

Mistwell · April 28, 2013, 08:29:46 PM

Quote from: The Traveller;650222Everyone who goes to the gym is tanned and six-packed don't you know, like everyone who is rich, and they both spend all their time snorting coke off the tits of hookers on yachts instead of posting on the internet. Or some such.

Damn dude, I gotta go renew my gym membership. They didn't have those perks when I last went!

flyerfan1991 · April 28, 2013, 08:40:08 PM

Quote from: Mistwell;650229Damn dude, I gotta go renew my gym membership. They didn't have those perks when I last went!

I guess it depends on your gym. The one I used to go to was populated with retirees who would watch Fox News while they were on the treadmill and then bitched about how the world was going to hell because the U.S. was going to socialized medicine.

I had to get out of there before my brain exploded.

Now that I hear that there are gyms like Trav's, I see I was going to the wrong gym all along.

Rincewind1 · April 28, 2013, 09:12:01 PM

:rotfl:
Good luck at finding a gym where people are talking about stuff that won't make your head hurt. Rather than small talk, how much they press and "I'd hit that".

jibbajibba · April 28, 2013, 09:19:34 PM

Quote from: Rincewind1;650238:rotfl:
Good luck at finding a gym where people are talking about stuff that won't make your head hurt. Rather than small talk, how much they press and "I'd hit that".

My gym most people are too busy hitting punchbags or trying to work out what on earth the Thai trainer just asked us to do

Int eh Comdo gym most of the people are skinny indian kids who really want to get buffed before they go to the pool

Rincewind1 · April 28, 2013, 09:25:32 PM

Quote from: jibbajibba;650240My gym most people are too busy hitting punchbags or trying to work out what on earth the Thai trainer just asked us to do
Int eh Comdo gym most of the people are skinny indian kids who really want to get buffed before they go to the pool

Precisely - you hit the gym because you hate your body and want to make it something less worthy of spite, not because you hope to hear an interpretation on Manifest Destiny. That's why it's a good idea to bring a pal with you.

jeff37923 · April 28, 2013, 10:02:45 PM

Meh, I hit the gym after work. There is nobody around at 3am, so I tend to have it all to myself.

Bedrockbrendan · April 28, 2013, 10:04:08 PM

This stopped being about rpgs a while ago.

RPGPundit · May 05, 2013, 09:46:04 AM

Quote from: Philotomy Jurament;649610I had two friends who had to quit our gaming club because their parents believed we were all going to sacrifice to Lucifer or commit mass suicide or something. (One of them was the son of a baptist minister; I remember his dad also Invoking the Wrath of The Lord on the movie, "Footloose.")

It seriously amazes me how these people seem to have no self-consciousness of just how absurd they make themselves look.