Quote from: S'mon;879765But what if you're terrible at both?

I was going to say "learn to do it, it gets you more games and more dates"...but the Cult of Done is a good start;).

Quote from: S'mon;879764...almost always the gaming comes first, friendships later. From what I see I don't think that's hugely uncommon among us nerds, especially when one arrives in a strange city where you don't know anyone.

People seem to follow two methodologies. One method, the one you describe, is to look for gamers* to game with and then see if you like them as people or can at least tolerate them while gaming. The other is to start with people you already like or the friends of people who you already like and can at least tolerate and then see if those friends or friends of friends enjoy gaming. Some people use both methods more or less equally, but I think most of us tend to use one method more than the other. And some folks seem blind to the fact that there actually is another approach.


* By gamers here, I mean people who are already familiar with the game in question or familiar with similar games and who are likely to frequent game stores, game groups, or gaming internet forums or sites and to self-identify as "gamers."