Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

[payn]

Jax my late friend had an unfortunate run in with racoons as a young boy. Things got very scrappy. Two dead baby raccoons and one very mad mother that did a number on him. Patched up at vet, rabbies shots, the whole nine yards. For years and years afterwards anytime he saw a cat it was straight to mortal combat. Right up to this very last summer of his 16th year I was pulling claws out of his face from cats dumb enough to wander in the yard.

 

[Ryujin]

Gunpoint works good too.

Ah, a Chicago Deep Dish fan, I see.

 

[overgeeked]

Yeah, fair point. It’s not the pizza’s fault its fans are so badly behaved.

 

[MoonSong]

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...

Heard that the best way to have a cat and a dog is for the cat to be there first. That way the dog doesn't develop jealously of the cat.

 

[Pale Violet Light]

I think the kiwi fruit actually comes from China. Sorry New Zulland.

My grandfather used to call them “Chinese Gooseberries”, which I guess was the name before the war. They aren’t even gooseberries, though they are indeed from China originally.

 

[Deset Gled]

Yeah, fair point. It’s not the pizza’s fault its fans are so badly behaved.

Are we sure?

There are two specific games whose fandom's I find to be aggressively offensive. Bringing them up in discussion has become a red flag for me. The fans who evangelize them have occupied an inordinate number of slots on my ignore list.

But I don't actually dislike the games. I would play them with people I know. I often wonder what the correlation and/or causation is. I have theories, but they're just guesses.

 

[Pale Violet Light]

And sin, young man, is when you treat people as things. Including yourself.

Look Granny, what I do in the privacy of my own home is my own business, thank you very much!

 

[CleverNickName]

Are we sure?

There are two specific games whose fandom's I find to be aggressively offensive. Bringing them up in discussion has become a red flag for me. The fans who evangelize them have occupied an inordinate number of slots on my ignore list.

But I don't actually dislike the games. I would play them with people I know. I often wonder what the correlation and/or causation is. I have theories, but they're just guesses.

All true. And I'll add that I've seen plenty of bad behavior from both the fans and the detractors.

Let people like the stuff they like, sheesh.

 

[overgeeked]

Are we sure?

Pretty sure. Yeah.

The game is an inanimate object, most likely in the form of a book or boxed set. It has no intentionality. It has no consciousness. It's neither haunted nor magical. It's lifeless. Only the people who play it can behave in any particular way. They might be attracted to that specific game because of other reasons, such as a cult of personality of the creator or bigotry or politics or religion, etc. But the game itself can't be at fault. The fan can. It can't be the game's fault for the fans being obnoxious.

There are two specific games whose fandom's I find to be aggressively offensive. Bringing them up in discussion has become a red flag for me. The fans who evangelize them have occupied an inordinate number of slots on my ignore list.

I get that. If I were to do the same for my red flag game this place would be a ghost town.

But I don't actually dislike the games. I would play them with people I know. I often wonder what the correlation and/or causation is. I have theories, but they're just guesses.

Mostly the same. I'm just tired of the One Game to Rule Them All and the inability to get much gaming in without people trying to claw their way back to The Precious.

All true. And I'll add that I've seen plenty of bad behavior from both the fans and the detractors.

Both sides is never really a convincing claim. When you're the dominant culture in an area any kind of criticism, no matter how meek and mild can feel like being personally attacked. At a guess that's mostly what's happening around here. People have the audacity to not love The Precious, so those who do get all bent out of shape.

Let people like the stuff they like, sheesh.

Yep. And let people play the games they like, too.

Trouble is, there's one game hoovering up almost all the time, attention, and players...leaving basically nothing for any other game. And when anyone mentions this, the typical response is some version of "sucks to be you," "sounds like a you problem," or "well leave the hobby then."

These sides are not equivalent.

 

[RealAlHazred]

There are two specific games whose fandom's I find to be aggressively offensive. Bringing them up in discussion has become a red flag for me. The fans who evangelize them have occupied an inordinate number of slots on my ignore list.

I really feel this! Like, I get it, your game is great, yada yada yada. But I don't want to have to hear it every time! They're not like Hero System, which is the best game ever made! Or Champions, the best superhero game based on the best roleplaying game of all time! I haven't talked about those in a while, I think, at least a day, so let me wax poetic about them...