Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

[Snarf Zagyg]

GURPS

Screw it.

Let's all play tiddlywinks and tell people that is the one true RPG to rule them all!

 

[trappedslider]

Screw it.

Let's all play tiddlywinks and tell people that is the one true RPG to rule them all!

Calvinball.

 

[Thomas Shey]

Yeah, this is absolutely the root of all the fighting. It's all about hearts and minds.

Yup. I mean, you can't entirely move away from the network effect in RPG gaming. Its why even people who would really rather be playing all kinds of things but D&D end up playing D&D; because its the low-hanging fruit.

But my point is, you need to get what you want out of it, or your just going to be in a cycle of annoyance.

I don't entirely disagree, but there's a lot of space of "I'd really rather be playing X, but I'd rather play Y than not play at all." The problem is when someone had gone beyond that but just can't acknowledge it (and at the other end, people who's tolerance is low enough that they can't recognize someone who still is within the "rather play Y than not play at all" but has enough problems they want to vent about it).

 

[Scribe]

Yup. I mean, you can't entirely move away from the network effect in RPG gaming. Its why even people who would really rather be playing all kinds of things but D&D end up playing D&D; because its the low-hanging fruit.



I don't entirely disagree, but there's a lot of space of "I'd really rather be playing X, but I'd rather play Y than not play at all." The problem is when someone had gone beyond that but just can't acknowledge it (and at the other end, people who's tolerance is low enough that they can't recognize someone who still is within the "rather play Y than not play at all" but has enough problems they want to vent about it).

Yeah, everyone's second favourite (or only available) game and all that, I get it. I'm just looking around lately at all these other options and going 'man, why have I been paying any attention at all to people who just dont get it, they can take a long walk...'

If one doesnt care, and is happy enough to play whatever they can get, more power to them, but its just not for me when there is so much out there that is so much better.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Screw it.

Let's all play tiddlywinks and tell people that is the one true RPG to rule them all!

For me? HERO.

 

[Hussar]

I don't get the whole negativity thing. I just don't.

I mean, I was pretty vocal about not liking The Acolyte. I liked the first couple of episodes but the next three just turned me off and I haven't bothered watching the others. I might get around to it, I dunno. I just didn't like the show. And, after voicing my opinion, probably more than I should have, I dropped out of the thread and stopped posting because, well, why keep yucking in someone's yum?

And people who are now doing donuts on the grave because the show has been cancelled? Yeah, they 100% suck. Those are crap people. Look, I might not like the show, but, I'm not going to suddenly be happy because other people can't watch it. Who has so little self esteem that the only way they feel good is by crapping on other people's fun? I just don't get the negativity.

I hope Disney changes their mind and does another season. I really do. I most likely won't watch it, but, that's fine. I have other stuff I can watch.

I just cannot understand people who need to jump into EVERY SINGLE THREAD and bitch about WotC. Dragging up stuff from the past that's already been resolved or probably wasn't true in the first place in order to "prove" that their dislike of WotC is somehow justified. As if you ever needed a justification for not liking something.

I find myself confining myself to a couple or three threads on En World now because I just cannot be bothered with the constant stream of negativity. Fandoms suck.

 

[overgeeked]

Yeah, everyone's second favourite (or only available) game and all that, I get it. I'm just looking around lately at all these other options and going 'man, why have I been paying any attention at all to people who just dont get it, they can take a long walk...'

If one doesnt care, and is happy enough to play whatever they can get, more power to them, but its just not for me when there is so much out there that is so much better.

Yeah. It’s a real pain that I can’t scare up enough interest in the games I actually want to play most times but there’s so much interest in a game I don’t want to play that paying people to run it is now fairly common.

 

[MarkB]

Calvinball.

Urgh, too many rules disputes, and when you try contacting the authors for clarification they just laugh at you.

 

[Ryujin]

Yup. I mean, you can't entirely move away from the network effect in RPG gaming. Its why even people who would really rather be playing all kinds of things but D&D end up playing D&D; because its the low-hanging fruit.

I don't entirely disagree, but there's a lot of space of "I'd really rather be playing X, but I'd rather play Y than not play at all." The problem is when someone had gone beyond that but just can't acknowledge it (and at the other end, people who's tolerance is low enough that they can't recognize someone who still is within the "rather play Y than not play at all" but has enough problems they want to vent about it).

Normalize the way some Southerners talk about sodas, for RPGing.

Server - OK, what sort of drink would you like with that.
Customer - Could I get a Coke?
Server - What kind?
Customer - Sprite.

Substitute D&D

Potential Player - OK, what sort of game are you playing?
GM - D&D
Potential Player - What kind?
GM - Shadowrun.

 

[Hussar]

Gonna nope out of that conversation. Just not worth it.