Makes you think (possibly lacking in the making sense department)
Yesterday I found myself at a Magic the Gathering tournament with my soon to be roommate Nick. This is the second tournament of this scale that I have been too, normally tournaments that I attended have been much larger in scale. It was greatly different from the ones I had been to previously in terms of player makeup. It seems as if every unsavorable stereotype of Magic player crawled out of the woodwork to play in this. The hideously obese, the kid who looks like he's going to murder someone, the kids who were constantly squawking over something or another magic related. The only reason I showed up was to play cards and while this seems to be the modus operani for most people who showed up, a select pathetic few veiwed this as a social ever. While I'm not condemning being social at such a gathering, it seemed like this was the only social interaction these people got and that the biggest draw of this tournament was that they could talk to other people on a common ground.
Mu condemning these people is kind of hypocritical, considering at this point in my life I'm a near shut-in, but at the same time I can talk to people in other contexts than forced interaction. At the end of the day though, when only the best players were left, most of the socially inept were no longer in attendance. So this leaves me to believe that this social retardation is a manifestation of a lack of intelligence, I say this as it's damn near impossible to win magic games without being able to think and analyze. Again this comment is slightly hypocritical in regards to myself as well, as I was not in contention for top 8, but at the same time two of my three losses came at the hands of players who did find themselves in the top 8 and that third loss was the one that knocked me from contention. Anyways, this is just the sociologist in me analyzing people to death, I'll get over it.
In other, more exciting, news, Mely is going to be here tomorrow. She's going to pick an apartment to live in next year and sign all of the paperwork, after which we will head to Pennsylvania for a wedding of a friend of hers. I'm exicted at the prospect of getting to spend some time with her.
Mu condemning these people is kind of hypocritical, considering at this point in my life I'm a near shut-in, but at the same time I can talk to people in other contexts than forced interaction. At the end of the day though, when only the best players were left, most of the socially inept were no longer in attendance. So this leaves me to believe that this social retardation is a manifestation of a lack of intelligence, I say this as it's damn near impossible to win magic games without being able to think and analyze. Again this comment is slightly hypocritical in regards to myself as well, as I was not in contention for top 8, but at the same time two of my three losses came at the hands of players who did find themselves in the top 8 and that third loss was the one that knocked me from contention. Anyways, this is just the sociologist in me analyzing people to death, I'll get over it.
In other, more exciting, news, Mely is going to be here tomorrow. She's going to pick an apartment to live in next year and sign all of the paperwork, after which we will head to Pennsylvania for a wedding of a friend of hers. I'm exicted at the prospect of getting to spend some time with her.