Pwnz plz

October 10th, 2007

A long long long time ago I used to be in gamer denial. Now I can’t be, since I frequently spend ten hours straight in Paradigm, so I guess I can write about gaming without embarrassment or shame.

I wrote a long post on gamers at Strange Joys once; it was about being a girl in gaming, and no, it wasn’t me complaining about how chauvinistic and sexist gaming usually is. I’m working on a follow-up to that. It should be fun.

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So first there was this Numbers (NUMB3R5?) series and now there’s a comedy called Big Bang something about how physicists suck at finding love. I don’t watch TV, but I’m finding this sort of… shift from science = boring and dorky to science = cool amusing. Amusing in a rather bittersweet way — like when someone compliments you and you feel a little stung — because it reminds me all too much of how society’s perception of scientists as brilliant idiots (in that we can cover blackboards with equations but have trouble finding cars in parking lots or making conversation) still hasn’t changed all that much.

Then again, considering the physicists I know, there is really a difference between a postgraduate researcher who practically lives in his lab and a physicist who travels around the world meeting people and having fun. There’s a lot of basis for the common stereotype of the science geek.

I’m just glad I know some science-type people who are interesting, articulate, and can happily sustain crack-filled conversations for hours on end.

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