Creepy Player Habits - WARNING: reading may require a Sanity Check!

[rgard]

Thank You rgard,
Most of these post have mearly re-enforced my general disgust in humanity but yours made me laugh so hard I cried, two streets away! Thats awsome!!

Z

You're welcome. The weird thing was that there was no discussion like 'hey watch this' or warning prior to launching the first potato. We were baffled as to what he was doing until he stretched the basket to the back of the room.

I told my kids this story and will probably live to regret it.

Rich

 

[Keeper of Secrets]

Despite the rampant property damage the potato story is pretty funny. It leaves me wondering if they had a real problem with the convenience store or if they were simply miscreants who thought random property damage from the privacy of their own home was funny.

 

[The Grackle]

He lets go and the potato is launched. We run to the balcony (trying to hide behind the drapes) and look out and hear a large crash as the potato smashes through the window of a convenience store two streets away. We see the staff run out of the store and look up and down and across the street trying to find who 'threw' the potato.

That's Hilarious!

What's with gamers launching potatoes? I knew these guys who were really into making potato-cannons out of PVC pipes. On weekends they'd go to an outside gun club/gun-range and fire off their cannons alongside the hunters and gun-nuts. You'd think that responsible, firearm-wielding adults would try to stop such shenanigans, but no... They'd ask for a turn shooting it, too.

 

[shadow]

Hearing some of these stories make me wonder if Jack Chick and Pat Pulling were right all along!

Seriously, I doubt that gamers on average are any more maladjusted than the rest of the population. However, there does seem to be something about gaming that seems to attract some rather strange people. Perhaps, the ability to act out one's fantasies and adopt an alter ego is attractive to people who are otherwise socially marginalized in real life. This could be an interesting topic for a thesis!

 

[Orius]

Have you read the RPGNet story about the guy who wore diapers so that he wouldn't have to do breaks during the game session? Or the guy who couldn't be bothered to go to the toilet to take a leak, and used empty milk bottles instead - with hundreds of bottles standing around in the game room?

Ugh. I wanted to read the RPG.net thread, but it runs 75 pages. Yeah, stuff over on RPG.net's a lot juicier than over here (no grannies, I guess), and I might get a bigger laugh out of it, but really don't have the time to go through a thread that long.

 

[Orius]

After about a 1/2 hour, apartment guy's roommate remarks that they are out of potatoes. Roommate then walks over to the same convenience store and buys a sack of potatoes.

That's the funniest part of the story.

 

[Torm]

I wouldn't blame any of these stories on the game - actually, if you were to take any sample of the general population, and a sample of gamers, and compare them percentage wise for any given vice or problem I'd be willing to bet that gamers come out at worst on par, if not actually a little better than the curve.

It is simply that people like these stand out. I've RPGed with probably 100 people - and I've had only ONE that I would describe as creepy - the DM I described.

 

[Voadam]

Hearing some of these stories make me wonder if Jack Chick and Pat Pulling were right all along!

Who is pat pulling?

 

[random user]

Oops I feel silly... wrong thread

 

[jpargeter]

Who is pat pulling?

http://www.tylwythteg.com/lawguide/pulling.html

<sigh> there's always one. or two, or a thousand...

-Jason