Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

[CleverNickName]

If you forget that the pizza here is a metaphor, this conversation is really confusing.

And even when you remember the metaphor, it's still a little weird.

"I like pizza just fine, but I wish I didn't have to pick all of the bards off of it."

 

[Cadence]

Is there any joy in getting the big mass of them into a big argument about what kind of Pizza: Chicago vs. other Chicago vs. other Chicago vs. NY vs. Detroit vs. California vs... in the midst of them trying to eat it, and then just go off with a small group to enjoy your pasta?

 

[Cadence]

And even when you remember the metaphor, it's still a little weird.

"I like pizza just fine, but I wish I didn't have to pick all of the bards off of it."

I mean, if you need something to be the pineapple (or fish)...

 

[FrogReaver]

I'll always maintain that the best way to convince someone to join you for a cheeseburger is to cook a cheeseburger for them... not complain constantly about their favorite pizza joint.

Gunpoint works good too.

 

[Thomas Shey]

Absolutely. Cats tend not to do well with even well-behaved big dogs. The difference, like just in size, between a ten-pound housecat and a hundred-pound dog is real--especially to the cat.

I've seen cases where they did, but only when the cat(s) and dog(s) grew up together.

 

[Thomas Shey]

I spent too long keeping up the food analogy while typing my post. lol

But yes... if you don't like playing 5e and want to play something else, you can either keep complaining about 5e on forums which does nothing or you can adjust your expectations for how you find ways to play other games. With VTTs supporting a lot of different games, you (general you) might just have to adjust your willingness to only play in person and learn to use a VTT so you can play games people near you might not be interested in playing. I know my preference is 4 hour sessions and in-person, but my group can't do either with any regular occurrence so we play on a VTT for 2 1/2-3 hours a week which is better than nothing.

I'm only halfway there with you. I mean, honestly, I find 4-hour sessions too short, so much less than that and I'll just take a pass. Which is probably no different than the people for whom its "face to face or nothing" but I'm not going to blame the rest of the world for my having what may be minority wants now.

 

[prabe]

I've seen cases where they did, but only when the cat(s) and dog(s) grew up together.

Makes sense. I know less about dogs, but cats need to be socialized to people when they're a few weeks old; I imagine there's a similar point for dogs, and I can see cats being socialized to dogs at the same time.

 

[Thomas Shey]

Makes sense. I know less about dogs, but cats need to be socialized to people when they're a few weeks old; I imagine there's a similar point for dogs, and I can see cats being socialized to dogs at the same time.

Its always amusing to see as you watch a cat pouncing on a GSD that outweighs them by a factor of six, the turning around and nose-flipping the cat halfway across the room, and then an hour later the two of them asleep with the dog curled around the cat. But like you said, its a thing of early socialization.

 

[gnarlygninja]

My grandparents had a cat and a (very big) dog when I was small and the two got along excellently. The cat was an adult when they got the puppy, and it bossed the dog around up until the day it died. It was always funny to see the little old cat bully a freakishly large German Shepard.

 

[Thomas Shey]

My grandparents had a cat and a (very big) dog when I was small and the two got along excellently. The cat was an adult when they got the puppy, and it bossed the dog around up until the day it died. It was always funny to see the little old cat bully a freakishly large German Shepard.

You apparently get some very odd results when you have a puppy that was, essentially, raised by an adult cat. They apparently tend to grow up thinking of themselves as a big clumsy cat...