This weekend I got to get my geek on at a LAN party. It was very similar to the one I told you about months ago. One of the topics of discussion that came up around the time of the party was the fact that non-gamers just don't understand the idea of a LAN party. They wrinkle their faces and poo-poo it as if it were some colossal waste of time and somehow beneath them, or they just tilt their head and ask "lan what?" They will never understand, just like I'll never understand Tupperware parties. Passion Parties, now that I get, but I digress.

There are many reasons I enjoy the occasional LAN. It's a chance to have fun both cooperating and competing with friends, as well as hang out and shoot the shit over pizza and pop. This time I realized a new reason I enjoy this kind of gathering. A LAN party is the only time and place where, when discussing with others a woman who we generally find unattractive, I can get away with describing her as "Having rolled a 6 for her Charisma score" and be greeted with laughter instead of uncomfortable silence.

It's good to be a geek.

On only a tangentially-related note, I think Peter and Lois Griffin know what I mean. See here.