As a laughably ill-adjusted and barely stable person, I still find your reasoning sound. I just remember getting the game explained to me in 2nd grade and literally zoning out to the episode of power rangers from the day before the whole time
plus, y'know, guys running around and playing with their balls. it really just writes itself
seriously, though: my take is that not all socially maladjusted types rp, but that a good chunk of rpers are socially maladjusted, if that makes any sense? there are a lot of socially maladjusted people and not all of them find their way to our corner of the internet. some of them hole up at home and hoard newspapers. some of them become laughingstocks on the internet. some of them congregate to laugh at laughingstocks on the internet (and feel better about themselves). it's just such a bigger demographic than our relatively small population
in my older age i've caught myself wondering about the relationship between social failures and the internet, kind of a "chicken and the egg" kind of riddle. the internet being full of slobbering basement dwellers is nothing new but one wonders if there were always this many of us and we were all just hidden in our basements, or if the internet has a detrimental effect on one's ability to interact with others socially. i think i read once that china actually has academies where parents send their kids to "de-internet" them when they start shutting themselves off from their families and playing wow or whatever 24/7. maybe we ought to give the idea a closer look
ayrt
plus, y'know, guys running around and playing with their balls. it really just writes itself
seriously, though: my take is that not all socially maladjusted types rp, but that a good chunk of rpers are socially maladjusted, if that makes any sense? there are a lot of socially maladjusted people and not all of them find their way to our corner of the internet. some of them hole up at home and hoard newspapers. some of them become laughingstocks on the internet. some of them congregate to laugh at laughingstocks on the internet (and feel better about themselves). it's just such a bigger demographic than our relatively small population
in my older age i've caught myself wondering about the relationship between social failures and the internet, kind of a "chicken and the egg" kind of riddle. the internet being full of slobbering basement dwellers is nothing new but one wonders if there were always this many of us and we were all just hidden in our basements, or if the internet has a detrimental effect on one's ability to interact with others socially. i think i read once that china actually has academies where parents send their kids to "de-internet" them when they start shutting themselves off from their families and playing wow or whatever 24/7. maybe we ought to give the idea a closer look