Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

Thomas Shey · 2026-04-10T20:51:21+0100

Reynard said:
In this case, it is a player that likes smashing the big red WIN button and hates losing even the tiniest bit.

That doesn't really change my point. Its still someone who expects his power-relative-to-setting to be different than the GM/system does. The fact its extreme doesn't change that.

Thomas Shey · 2026-04-10T20:52:48+0100

RealAlHazred said:
Hey, "On Bluesky" is another generalization! It's turtles all the way down!

It's the problem that, in real life, there are no actual generalizations that don't have problems and introduce errors. Because every case is in some way unique and should be handled in its own specific fashion, but that's too complicated for our feeble monkey-brains to do so we have use generalizations and stereotypes to not be overwhelmed.

It doesn't help that just having a general approach is good enough in a lot of cases, so there's not much evolutionary pressure to do custom approaches much.

Thomas Shey · 2026-04-10T20:54:20+0100

Scribe said:
Yes, mostly I was venting out of envy and frustration, I don't even have space for my own computer with my files right now as my house is in disarray.

BUT since I couldn't sleep I sat up and put some notes in my phone, so there's 0.1% of progress.

Hey, for all that my principal is sound (I wouldn't have gotten much of any GM prep over the years if it wasn't), you've always got the problem where you've got so much on your plate that those iterative progressions will be tiny. There's not much help for that.

Reynard · 2026-04-10T21:07:32+0100

Thomas Shey said:
That doesn't really change my point. Its still someone who expects his power-relative-to-setting to be different than the GM/system does. The fact its extreme doesn't change that.

I think it is less a "power level" thing, and a "I'm the protagonist so I get to always win" thing.

dragoner · 2026-04-10T21:27:29+0100

A big high school popularity contest, I guess it is interesting we haven't socially evolved past that point. How we form, and solidfy social relationships.