To people I know I am not ashamed to tell that I recently bought kirby for the DS for 30 euro's, and enjoyed it. But I only tell when I know the other person is interested too. I don't wanna hear stories about "who won the soccergame today", so why bother those people with nerdie cumputerstories?

To people I just met I only say that I design games when we talk about hobbies, not spontaneously. But I tell them too that in the weekends I walk around as a medieval villager in a history themepark. That compensates the nerd, and makes me slightly crazy.

Oh and to prevent people thinking I'm an antisocial nerd because I make games, I rather tell them that I make stories, and try to visualise it in the shape of a game. They usually have more respect to that formulation .