:-) That surprise people get when they realize they severely underestimated someone always strikes positive chord in my heart.

> "proceed to clean everyone's clock."

Rather than proceeding to stare at the screen until somebody takes away your keyboard and plays for you.

If you want to be perceived as a gamer, you can get away with not looking the look -- but you've got to show up ready to play.

You remind me of a time my youngest son was coaching me on Master of Magic. He told me to go into the town with a particular unit "...and wreck his shit".

That's a gamer attitude: Wreck his shit. If you aren't comfortable with it, then you are likely to have trouble with a gamer social environment.