I'm not ashamed!

Not ashamed, eh? I didn't even know I was supposed to be ashamed about half this stuff. So what if I like video games, Harry Potter, Eragon, comic books, and have a MySpace page? Aren't those all "cool" and "mainstream" now?

Sure, when I was in high school you kept quiet about reading the Wheel of Time or playing Final Fantasy VII on a Friday night instead of going out on a date. But from what I can tell playing video games, watching movies about comic book heroes, reading fantasy books, and watching/reading anime/manga is not stuff that you get beat up for in high school now. But then again, what do I know? It has been 10 years since I was a freshman so my knowledge of current high school trends is a little out of date. At this point it doesn't matter what I like or do because most of the other professionals in my field (even those twice my age) like or do the same thing.

So I am going to pretend this thread was created in 1999 and announce what I was not ashamed of back then:

I'm not ashamed that I:
would rather play my playstation than go drink beer with a bunch of jocks
have a geocities page
talk to girls on ICQ instead of the phone
am going to the midnight showing of Episode 1
chose to be in the band and gymnastics rather than play football
still watch Batman cartoons
listen to classical and video game music instead of "cool" music like Backstreet Boys, Ricky Martin, and the Red Hot Chili Peppers...

Woo this is fun!

Finally, back to current times, I am not ashamed that the only reason I even looked at this thread was because OO started it and I remembered chatting with him a lot (as chocobomog) when I first got on GFF back in 2001.

Jam it back in, in the dark.