Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

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I forgot to pay my rent on time, so i had to pay a late free

on a somewhat related note I saw this on my FB feed

 

[Mad_Jack]

As we all know, GMs are infallible noble creatures with everyone's best interests at heart,

Well, I am a unicorn...

Does anyone play D&D with people they actually like?

I never play with people I like. There's far too much chance I'll break them.

 

[Gradine]

It only now just occurred to me that I mixed up Ralph Bakshi for Don Bluth, to my eternal shame, and now I can't even edit my post to fix it

 

[Maxperson]

I'm a card-carrying member of the [rhymes with 'cloak'] crowd

Broke? That's what my cards make me.

 

[Meech17]

I do that exclusively, as a rule. Do people not?

There was a thread on one of the D&D subreddits a long time ago where a DM was asking about some weird annoying thing a player was doing, and someone asked them about how their relationship with the players were. The DM admitted that they didn't consider any of the players friends. Rather, they were just people in the game that they played with. It was no different to them than the team members you're randomly assigned in a online multiplayer game.

The thread derailed at that point and was just dozens of people dumbfounded at the idea that this DM wasn't friendly with their players, and even more bewildering, they had no desire to become friendly with them...

I'd imagine it's very much a fringe case, but these people do exist.

All jokes aside, I really wonder this every time threads go on and on about players needing to be protected from bad DMs and DMs needing to be empowered. Just play with people you like and don't be a jerk and whatever is in the books doesn't matter. It's not hard.

I think the biggest problem is when there's a player that's "That Guy". I've found this to be less of a problem as an adult but thinking back to all of my various friend circles as a teen/young adult there was usually that one friend who rubbed everyone the wrong way just a little. If you had just met them, they probably wouldn't make it into the friend group, but in this instance they're grandfathered in because you befriended them years prior. Perhaps at that time they weren't so abrasive, or perhaps your standards and tolerance levels just developed with age.. Likely a combination of both.

I think there's a lot of groups that have "That Guy". This isn't someone that when they have to miss game night you secretly feel a little relieved. At the same time though, they're not so awful that you want to kick them out of the group.

 

[Meech17]

Broke? That's what my cards make me.

I've been playing a lot of paper Magic: The Gathering lately. I'm getting into both Standard and Pioneer so I've been purchasing a lot of singles.. My girlfriend was questioning all the envelopes showing up in the mail, and I put her at ease when I showed her the pack slips and how most of the cards cost less than a dollar.. Many less than $0.50. She also enjoys opening them, despite not having an interest in the game itself..

Just gotta hope she doesn't open any of the expensive orders

 

[Mannahnin]

(Well, I think sauerkraut is delicious anyway. I'm a big fan of fermented foods, and making them has become a(nother) hobby of mine. If you like kraut on your hot dog, try it with kimchi next time: it's especially good on a smoked pork sausage with a splash of sriracha.)

My favorite local cocktail bar does small plates, including an East Meets West all beef dog with kimchi, house pickles, gochujang and sesame seeds. I get one almost every time I go there.

It only now just occurred to me that I mixed up Ralph Bakshi for Don Bluth, to my eternal shame, and now I can't even edit my post to fix it

I saw that. You have my condolences. I also missed out on the opportunity to correct you, so I lost Internet Pedant Points.

I think there's a lot of groups that have "That Guy". This isn't someone that when they have to miss game night you secretly feel a little relieved. At the same time though, they're not so awful that you want to kick them out of the group.

Derek!!!!

 

[Mannahnin]

Still traveling. Wanted to share my recommendation for a show.

I recently binged a show called Fantasmas on Max. If you know who Julio Torres is, or love surreal comedy that is really intelligent, I can't recommend it enough. I spent the first half of the first episode thinking, "Huh. Someone must have put a whole bunch of acid in my gin," but once I was vibing it, this six-episode limited series was one of the best things I've watched recently.

If you’ve ever wondered why Q isn’t placed with its avante garde friends, X, Y, and Z at the end of the alphabet, or if you always thought that national treasure Steve Buscemi needed to play a letter of the alphabet (but in a non-Sesame Street kinda way), run …. don’t walk, to the coolest show this side of the clear crayon.

Sounds good! Also reminds me of something I've been hearing in clubs the last few years:

 

[Gradine]

I also missed out on the opportunity to correct you, so I lost Internet Pedant Points.

My sincerest goondolences

 

[Thomas Shey]

I think the biggest problem is when there's a player that's "That Guy". I've found this to be less of a problem as an adult but thinking back to all of my various friend circles as a teen/young adult there was usually that one friend who rubbed everyone the wrong way just a little. If you had just met them, they probably wouldn't make it into the friend group, but in this instance they're grandfathered in because you befriended them years prior. Perhaps at that time they weren't so abrasive, or perhaps your standards and tolerance levels just developed with age.. Likely a combination of both.

It can be more complicated than that. You can have a gaming group full of people who bring a lot to the game: creativity, drive, engagement with their characters and more--but also perennially bring problems. As you note, your tolerance for these things can just erode over time.

I've mentioned it before, but I had two long-time gaming groups I played with (some members of which I'd literally been playing with for over 40 years), and finally peeled back away from one of the two. It wasn't that they were doing anything radically different than they've done for years (and the newest people in the group I've been playing with for at least a quarter century), but just that I couldn't deal with certain irritations about dealing with them regularly in a game context any more. I sometimes miss them (this included my single longest time remaining friend), but it was the right choice and it became pretty clear it was the right choice after a couple months.