Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

[Scribe]

"Doctor, it hurts when I do this."

"Well, stop doing that."

Where was this advice an hour ago I ask, I could have avoided hurting my ankle!

 

[trappedslider]

What say you all?

 

[Thomas Shey]

At that point, we're back to the very old joke, which might even be from a Three Stooges or Marx Brothers movie:

"Doctor, it hurts when I do this."

"Well, stop doing that."

I get it, it sucks to want to game in your preferred method and not to be able to do it. But refusing to do it online instead or insisting on doing something that's making you miserable, in the end, is a choice.

An entirely defensible argument. But not the only place people keep telling themselves if they just try again...

I am a forever DM and just decided this week to plonk down $25 to play Mothership for three weeks at a local game store. No idea what the scenario is, if the gamemaster is any good, if my fellow players won't be creeps. It's not my preference -- I prefer the warm cocoon of playing with friends I've known since the late 1990s -- but if I want to play, rather than only GM, I'm going to have to be a little uncomfortable for at least the first session and see how it works out.

I just do have to point out there can be a lot of practical constraints for a lot of people (transportation, time frames) that can make them very slow about doing that sort of thing. I would like to fill out my alternate Saturday (the one that used to be taken up by the game I finally pulled the plug on), but in practice I'd probably have to familiarize myself with another VTT if I wanted to play (the one I normally use is uncommon enough finding a game I actually wanted to bother with on the right Saturday in the right time zone is, let's say, non-trivial) and I'm old and prone to intertia.

Often for people, the great sad truth is that its easier to put up with things and gripe about it online than do the heavy lifting to solve the problem (or find out after you try you still haven't).

The only point I was making is that often this stuff isn't "I'm deliberately trying to wreck the game because I don't like it" its "I'm frustrated and its leaking out, and I don't have what seems like any easy outs." Assuming deliberate sabotage is a bit of a reach as a default.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

The only point I was making is that often this stuff isn't "I'm deliberately trying to wreck the game because I don't like it" its "I'm frustrated and its leaking out, and I don't have what seems like any easy outs." Assuming deliberate sabotage is a bit of a reach as a default.

I was referring to a bunch of people over many years, not any one person. But if we have to start assuming posters aren't telling the truth about their game experiences -- other than, you know, that one guy -- the whole message board falls apart. We kind of have to assume that people are doing the stuff they say they are, even when it seems bananas.

 

[Thomas Shey]

I was referring to a bunch of people over many years, not any one person. But if we have to start assuming posters aren't telling the truth about their game experiences -- other than, you know, that one guy -- the whole message board falls apart. We kind of have to assume that people are doing the stuff they say they are, even when it seems bananas.

Well, yeah, if they say they were sabotaging it, that's a different story. Its when they say "I did X" but someone adds on in their head "because Y" I start to roll my eyes. Internet Telepathy is notoriously poor.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Did I hear ewe? I herd ewe!

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

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The original damned yankee!

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

I aspire to be more than a Cautionary Tale.

Geoffrey Chaucer’s under appreciated sequel.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Gygax doesn't know from complicated.

As someone whose ancestry makes him a walking United Nations, I sympathize.

 

[The Soloist]

Yeah, some people in the "no gaming is better than bad gaming" can't understand people who want to game enough they'll deal with a lot of problems to try and get a game in, and sometimes that's what's required.

We do understand, but at some point we decided, after multiple mental injuries over many years, it wasn't worth it.

My new moto: "solo gaming is better than bad gaming."