Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

[Velderan]

Some of my worst gaming experiences (including a very recent breakdown of a group) are based around one person actively disliking the game that was being played, but deciding to "stick with it" and effectively making the game less enjoyable for everyone else.

Basically. Ever tried playing a board game with someone who is not remotely interested but insists on playing anyhow because everyone else is?

 

[CleverNickName]

Some of my worst gaming experiences (including a very recent breakdown of a group) are based around one person actively disliking the game that was being played, but deciding to "stick with it" and effectively making the game less enjoyable for everyone else.

This is certainly true, but there's different levels of to it.

It's one thing to play a game that wasn't your first choice, but you go along with it and try to keep an open mind because at the end of the day, it's just a game.

It's another to agree to play a game that you know you aren't going to enjoy, but you suffer in silence and try to enjoy other aspects of game night (like catching up with friends, the snacks, the night off work) so that you don't spoil the evening.

And it's something else entirely to agree to play a game you don't like, with the intent to complain constantly and loudly the whole time about it, and make everyone else regret sharing their favorite game with you.

The first two examples are fine, but that last one is a problem. And it's not a problem with the game.

 

[Mannahnin]

Yes, dude, we get it. You will argue your opinion interminably around in circles no matter the opposing evidence. And for innumerable posts after saying one was your final word on the subject.

 

[Bedrockgames]

Yes, dude, we get it. You will argue your opinion interminably around in circles no matter the opposing evidence. And for innumerable posts after saying one was your final word on the subject.

Just PM me next time time rather than vague post

 

[Scribe]

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[overgeeked]

Yes, dude, we get it. You will argue your opinion interminably around in circles no matter the opposing evidence. And for innumerable posts after saying one was your final word on the subject.

Most people seem to think when they say it’s their final word on a topic that means everyone else should stop talking about it. It’s a weird one.

 

[Mannahnin]

Just PM me next time time rather than vague post

Did you do that?

 

[Bedrockgames]

Did you do that?

Lol yes. Kind of. I said I was probably making my last post, but I realized the futility of such efforts lol

 

[payn]

Some of my worst gaming experiences (including a very recent breakdown of a group) are based around one person actively disliking the game that was being played, but deciding to "stick with it" and effectively making the game less enjoyable for everyone else.

I’ve never felt I was a bad bad gamer, but definitely had times my heart wasn’t in it and knew it impacted the experience. As in nothing offensive just sort like an anchor to the group keeping them weighed down. Once realizing this I started politely excusing myself from those situations.

Though, oddly, the last time I did it, folks took it personally. “Why are you breaking up the group?” They kept asking. I told them I was one of 4-5 and not the group. On one hand it felt good to be wanted in the group, on the other it felt bad that they took exception to me stepping aside.

 

[Scribe]

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Man, I'm going to be extremely salty for the foreseeable future.