Before one gets too far ahead of me and assumes I'm going religion or politics and am in the wrong section, no. Thats not this topic at all. What I mean is have you ever converted (or corrupted) a comic, game or other nerd genre (D&D, Doctor Who, whatever) hater into a fan?
I remember I read comics from about 4th grade through high school and beyond (34 now and still read) and had many friends who weren't comic fans to begin with. I never attempted to convert or corrupt anyone but it seemed my presence alone reading comics was sufficent to warrant a "can I read one of those?" from friends at some point followed by the smiling sarcastic reply "Can you read them? Do you need glasses?"
Of course one guy I knew when I was really young and insensitive as hell kinda got pissed when I asked him if he could read (he couldn't) but I later taught him to read (helped him learn to read, I dislike taking credit for that but he insisted I did it *ugh*) with comics.
But over the years I've somehow converted people to playing D&D or at least taking part in it somehow (designing maps, dungeons, encounters, painting figures and landscapes, etc).
Most or all the people I've converted I feel in a sense I corrupted (with patented evil smile) them because they were avid haters (who'd never actually tried the things they hated).
Anyone have that experience and if you have or have been on the other end, share please!
I remember I read comics from about 4th grade through high school and beyond (34 now and still read) and had many friends who weren't comic fans to begin with. I never attempted to convert or corrupt anyone but it seemed my presence alone reading comics was sufficent to warrant a "can I read one of those?" from friends at some point followed by the smiling sarcastic reply "Can you read them? Do you need glasses?"
Of course one guy I knew when I was really young and insensitive as hell kinda got pissed when I asked him if he could read (he couldn't) but I later taught him to read (helped him learn to read, I dislike taking credit for that but he insisted I did it *ugh*) with comics.
But over the years I've somehow converted people to playing D&D or at least taking part in it somehow (designing maps, dungeons, encounters, painting figures and landscapes, etc).
Most or all the people I've converted I feel in a sense I corrupted (with patented evil smile) them because they were avid haters (who'd never actually tried the things they hated).
Anyone have that experience and if you have or have been on the other end, share please!
