Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

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[Mad_Jack]

Rather, they were just people in the game that they played with. It was no different to them than the team members you're randomly assigned in a online multiplayer game.

Actually, a lot of my 2nd Ed AD&D gaming groups were like that - we weren't friends and had little in common outside of the game. Most of the time, each group member was only familiar with two or three of the others before the game started.
There was a large extremely-loosely-connected web of gamers in the area, mostly guys (and women) who you sort of knew from the FLGS and/or had played with in a pick-up game or two before...
Whoever wanted to start a new group would usually get two or three of their friends/acquaintances/usual players together and then some of them would "know a guy" looking for a game.
I got into probably half a dozen different games because I was swapping war stories with some random person at the FLGS or a bookstore and got invited into their group, and three separate times I literally wandered past a game in progress, stopped to watch, and was handed a character sheet.

 

[overgeeked]

Not here.

Not all heroes wear capes.

 

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Not here.

Not all heroes wear capes.

 

[Thomas Shey]

Actually, a lot of my 2nd Ed AD&D gaming groups were like that - we weren't friends and had little in common outside of the game. Most of the time, each group member was only familiar with two or three of the others before the game started.
There was a large extremely-loosely-connected web of gamers in the area, mostly guys (and women) who you sort of knew from the FLGS and/or had played with in a pick-up game or two before...
Whoever wanted to start a new group would usually get two or three of their friends/acquaintances/usual players together and then some of them would "know a guy" looking for a game.
I got into probably half a dozen different games because I was swapping war stories with some random person at the FLGS or a bookstore and got invited into their group, and three separate times I literally wandered past a game in progress, stopped to watch, and was handed a character sheet.

Among other things, there were people who played primarily at game clubs, and not necessarily under the same GM all the time (this being the period where hard-edged "campaigns" that didn't permit walk-ins weren't necessarily the default case).

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Sounds good! Also reminds me of something I've been hearing in clubs the last few years:

This makes my inner teen happy!

(But only in a gloomy, I’m dressed completely in black but it’s not a phase way.)

 

[DrunkonDuty]

Still traveling. Wanted to share my recommendation for a show.

I recently binged a show called Fantasmas on Max. If you know who Julio Torres is, or love surreal comedy that is really intelligent, I can't recommend it enough. I spent the first half of the first episode thinking, "Huh. Someone must have put a whole bunch of acid in my gin," but once I was vibing it, this six-episode limited series was one of the best things I've watched recently.

If you’ve ever wondered why Q isn’t placed with its avante garde friends, X, Y, and Z at the end of the alphabet, or if you always thought that national treasure Steve Buscemi needed to play a letter of the alphabet (but in a non-Sesame Street kinda way), run …. don’t walk, to the coolest show this side of the clear crayon.

Thank you for the recommendation. This looks like it's 100% my sorta show. And it's even available in my region!

I had to google WTF a Zima is.

Part of the magic of old Marvel comics in the 80s and 90s, to us in the UK, was wondering WTF a Reeces Pieces was, or a Hostess Fruit Pie. Now that magic is gone

Same here in Australia. Nowadays you can buy US sweets at US themed sweet stores, and even in some regular supermarkets. Tasting them has definitely taken the magic away.

Sounds good! Also reminds me of something I've been hearing in clubs the last few years:

Did someone just invent the 80s?

 

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Turns out murder is okay if you dislike the target ¯\(ツ)/¯

 

[Deset Gled]

on second thought, let's not go there

 

[Senior_WotC_Janitor]

return the shopping cart to the corral? Or do you leave it next to the parking space?

Why I would return a shopping card to a pen for livestock I have no idea.