Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

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[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Don't you dare have fun in my presence.

 

[Umbran]

Some of my fellow gamers are... terribly disappointing.
(not from this site, thank goodness)

 

[dragoner]

1st deal of the day is done, was an interesting experience.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

... for the most part, I think that the people here suffer from what I call variola stultorum anonymorum, which seems to afflict the internet. In other words, if you meet them at a gaming table, they are likely to be kind, inclusive, open-minded, tolerant, curious, and willing to try all sorts of games and generally fun to play with.

Get them behind a keyboard, however, and they will retreat to the smallest hill of an extreme preference and happily die defending it, with extreme rhetoric and anger while mocking any and all perceived enemies ... and possibly allies.

I joined a gaming group and was a member for 3-4 years. But there was one guy who never warmed up to me. He was never overtly rude to me, with the exception that he never shook my hand.

I figured it out when he missed a couple sessions for “militia training”.

 

[CleverNickName]

I figured it out when he missed a couple sessions for “militia training”.

Eeew.

 

[RealAlHazred]

I am not familiar with this. Was he training on matchlocks?

 

[Ryujin]

... for the most part, I think that the people here suffer from what I call variola stultorum anonymorum, which seems to afflict the internet. In other words, if you meet them at a gaming table, they are likely to be kind, inclusive, open-minded, tolerant, curious, and willing to try all sorts of games and generally fun to play with.

Get them behind a keyboard, however, and they will retreat to the smallest hill of an extreme preference and happily die defending it, with extreme rhetoric and anger while mocking any and all perceived enemies ... and possibly allies.

On the other hand, there are a few the do complain about all the real terrible life gaming experiences that they have had that repeatedly failed to meet their exacting standards.

If you find that no matter where you go, there is a problem .... then you might need to look closer to home to find the problem.

I tend to believe that the real person is the one you see when there are no consequences to their actions.

Something about Oscar Wilde and masks...

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

 

[Willie the Duck]

I tend to believe that the real person is the one you see when there are no consequences to their actions.

Something about Oscar Wilde and masks...

Having spent two decades or more in the sobriety community, my perspective is that I'm not convinced there's a 'real' person. There's the person at their lowest; the person at their highest; the person where there are no consequences; the person where there are plenty of consequences; the person who's too stoned to recognize that actions have consequences; the person just coming out of surgery and basic inhibitions are entirely absent and it's not clear that fear of consequences is the gatekeeper that's been removed; the person who just underwent actual torture and did/said what they were convinced nothing could make them do. Is one or the other more 'the real' them? I'm definitively not sure.