Are people here getting angrier?

[BlueBlackRed]

I was thinking that maybe it's also new blood.
Around late spring I noticed a lot of new names. And (to me) it appears that they, but by no means all, have been a bit hotheaded.

But I'm fairly sure it's just the threads I'm visiting.

 

[Dinkeldog]

Frequently when new posters come it takes them a short while to figure out the nature of the community. Some figure it out shortly (this is a great place with a wonderful self-moderating crowd, after all) and are great and valued members of the community! Others, well, when Grandma has decreed that a friend is no longer welcome at the house, all we can do is wish them well in finding a place that has the type of community that they're looking for. Sometimes it's a more rough-and-tumble place like Nothingland or CM. Sometimes it's just, you know, elsewhere.

 

[Thornir Alekeg]

Could be coincidence, but I seem to have noticed that during the summer months in the U.S. tempers seem to be a bit shorter on these boards.

Maybe its all the students with more time on their hands...or more likely the teachers releasing all their pent up rage from the school year (rage at being told they have to wear pants when they teach).

 

[EricNoah]

About the design threads...

I think it reveals a deeper truth about RPG players. We're pretty convinced, as a group, that we could "do it" (design RPGs, write adventures, etc.) better than the pros if only we had the time, resources and inclination. And maybe some of us could.

What that turns into sometimes is an attitude of utter contempt for the designers and the companies. That attitude is always going to put us in the role of "bitchy customer". It's not a very pleasant atmosphere to be in most of the time, in my opinion. Constructive criticism has its place. "The designers were smoking crack" or "they did XYZ just to irritate us" [or to cater to lazy/unskilled/stupid customers], and similar, does not have a place here. Again -- in my opinion.

The 4E threads are a different matter -- as I've said in other threads, I think there's the spectre of this community fragmenting when that fateful day arrives.

 

[Dimwhit]

The 4E threads are a different matter -- as I've said in other threads, I think there's the spectre of this community fragmenting when that fateful day arrives.

I think 'fragmenting' is a mild way to put it. Though there's no reason ENWorld can't cater to all editions, I'm sure things will get bad when that time comes along.

That's why I vent at the Circvs. I've found that being over there makes me much more patient and happy over here. Not that I do that much venting, but it is a good break.

 

[elforcelf]

But I am a flumph! I do not wear anything at all! :\

 

[jonesy]

Only here can a thread about anger turn into a thread about pants and the wearing of them. Which I am.

But seriously, no, I haven't bumped into any angry people. Maybe you should put your pants back on so you won't either (emperors new clothes?).

 

[Piratecat]

(which btw, should be the August off-topic forum title)

Done, and done.

 

[Ambrus]

In a game where we had a lich chasing after us, this comment was uttered. "We shouldn't feel intimidated by him. Every morning he puts on his pants the same way we do: one evil, undead leg at a time..."

But liches don't sleep, don't defecate and have no sexual needs to satisfy so why would they ever have need to take their pants off after attaining undeath? If they never take them off then no, they don't put their pants on in the mornings the way your puny mortal PCs do. Know fear!

On the other hand, considering most liches are clerics or spellcasters (and a fair number of them former females) who wore robes in life, chances are that they've never worn pants and saw no reason to start once they died, so a great deal of liches probably remain pantless for eternity. So there's a clear dichotomy amongst liches; the perpetually pantless and the eternally dressed.

Besides, if a lich were to put on a pair of pants, chances are that it'd simply dimension door itself into them or command some undead lackey to pull them up. I mean, what's the point of sacrificing your afterlife for eternal eldritch power if you have to still have to dress yourself the same way 99% of sentient humanoid beings do?