Reaction to Alyssa Bereznak's Little Episode

As some of you may know, recently a tech blogger named Alyssa Bereznak blogged about having a date with a guy who happens to be the champion of the CCG Magic: The Gathering, Jon Finkel.  If you do not know anything about this, stop reading now, and read this: My Brief OkCupid Affair With a World Champion Magic: The Gathering Player.  Then return here when you are done.

Ok so first I want to make some things clear.  1.  Online dating has its up and its downs.  When you make a profile, you run the risk of having some pretty weird ass people talking to you (weird depending on your own standards of course).  That being said, it is also the internet.  Dating site or not, you can still shape your own personality to be what you want it to be.  I can tell you that I am a Mexican body builder from France who loves to play love songs on a guitar and long walks on the beach.  Yes, I understand that it isn't exactly believable, and that it is an extreme, but still it illustrates my point.  So, online dating you take that risk. 2. I briefly had a Match.com page.  I started out with a very vague profile, only allowing a little bit of my major personal life available because most people that I am attracted to do not exactly like the same things I do.  For example, I am a big time gamer.  When I have nothing better to do, I am not opposed to sitting down for 7 hours and playing a game because to me, playing a game is like watching a movie, only I control the movie. Many girls do not find that in any way attractive, so to put "I am a gamer" into my profile was basically a way to suicide my profile.  And I was right.  After I spoke to a few girls on there, and then started to let them know more about me, they just straight up stopped talking to me.  At this point I was extremely annoyed, and said fuck it, everything is going up there.  Easy way to filter out people who will act that way.  "What does this have to do with anything?" you may ask.  Well, in her blog, Bereznak mentions that he never mentioned that on his page, and she thinks it is a big deal that she didn't know this to begin with.  Tough shit, he didn't mention it because he would like to get at least 1 date out of girls.  Hell it isn't that big a deal.

So Bereznak basically gets all up in arms about Finkel being a Magic champion.  My question is: Why is it a big deal?  Yes, I totally agree that it is nerdy to play Magic.  But, with the way that our society is evolving, everyone does some pretty nerdy shit.  Hell I would go as far as to say writing a blog is nerdy.  And I have no room to talk because as I said, I am a gamer, and I like to paint and play miniature war games.  But so what? Just because we do nerdy things doesn't make us shitty people.  Every girl I have ever dated, and this is no lie, has actually been asked 'How can you stay with him?  He's so nerdy and he's an ass." (I am very aggressive and love to poke fun at everyone, which always makes me look like as ass and people don't like me on first impression.)  They always respond that it is different, that I am such a "sweetheart" and a "good boyfriend" and that if they got to know me, I'm not really not a bad guy at all.  And its true.  I may not be nice to everyone when you first meet me, and I am a hella nerd, but when you get to know me, I'm a good guy.  So maybe Finkel's a good guy, too?  Hell, she will never know now after the stunt she pulled, but seriously, what gives?

The worst part about this whole thing is the fact that in her post she really rips on him for being a nerd and a dweeb and all this other shit just for playing a CCG.  Have whatever opinions you want to have.  If you want to harbor a dislike for nerdy people, fine by me.  But what gives you the right to go home, shell up on your computer, and start tearing him apart and bashing him for playing a damn card game?  There could be much worse things he does in his free time.

All in all, all I have to say is I am a bit annoyed by what she did.  It was unnecessary, and completely unwarranted.  But hey, that's just my opinion.

I Have Returned!!

And so after many days of not being here, I have returned to the blog, in order to put down my thoughts, dreams, and experiences, as well as anything else I can think of.  Game reviews, screen shots (shitty ones at that, as I do not have a capture card for xbox games), pictures of miniatures, the incredibly random ass dreams that I have, tactics, battle reports, really anything.  Of course, I don't have one for today, since I am just now returning, and I don't have anyone watching this either, but lets hope that it changes soon :)