For me, growing up, I was around people who saw games as useless and a waste of time, but I loved them

I’ve always been into computers and tech and was called techy and a gamer and each time, it was said with a sort of disgust from the person saying it.

It made me feel like I shouldn’t be friends with the few people like me, and I spent a lot of my childhood staying away from people, and making sure that people didn’t learn that I played games

Even now, I get slightly uncomfortable being called a gamer or techy or any synonym even though people don’t really think that anymore around here.

Anyone else have something similar?

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    26 days ago

    Doesn’t that just mean without a well defined form? Used to grade pearls. Says more about the person saying it (I don’t understand you).

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      26 days ago

      He was referring to the era from which my methods appeared in integration, which is to say there are more modern tricks that I don’t fully understand.

      Years later, xkcd would be reassuring that it wasn’t just me. But it killed my ability to get a comsci degree.