Vivaldi wrote:Knowname wrote:seriously I would be embarrassed to be around you o.0 lol... not that it wouldn't be fun, Your personality is just the exact opposite of mine.
You do realize I was joking, correct?
In all seriousness, I first convince people I'm normal, personable, cool guy. After that gets imprinted on their minds, I can feel free to at least be open about, well, any of my nerdy hobbies. Though still without harping on them.
Remember,
you define the impression of the hobby, not vice-versa (insofar as the two are separate things) If you're a personable guy. People aren't going to go "Oh look, he watches anime, what a nerd." They're going to go "he's a pretty cool guy, oh look, he watches anime too. That's coo' "
Or somesuch.
Just about how I go at it
and I totally agree.
Its only as lonely as you want it to be, I didn't flaunt that I love anime or whatever in High School so I was never called a nerd or anything like that.
Nor was I ashamed to bring up the fact that I do like anime, if someone really cared to ask about my hobbies or what I like to watch I told them.
I knew of about quite a few people in a school of about 300+ that liked anime, and a few
I convinced to watch the stuff.
The main anime nerd stereotype I've seen in my last couple years of school was the Naruto head-band shit from Hot Topic =\ and quite honestly it was dumb.
Those were the "anime nerds" that people laughed at and "didn't have any friends".
And no I'm not dissing you if you Cos-Play, I'm just saying in general that the head-band thing was lame.
