Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

[Thomas Shey]

I’m thinking that they perceive those things as a threat in some way.

Its not that big a reach to in a hobby with a heavy networking orientation to conclude that things you may not like may end up colonizing your available play options in some fashion. Its still pretty useless, but the connection isn't hard to find.

 

[Thomas Shey]

Yeah, and my Dad gets grumpy because no one makes movie musicals or westerns anymore.

The analogies are going to get strained pretty quickly. If all one cares about is "their game, their way", and find eventually that their game is no longer the favorite, and can't stand anything new, or can't find people who play their own game - despite the internet, then yeah, they're going to be miffed. Miffed in comparison to all the people who were unhappy when they weren't able to find other games.

Obviously, there is always going to be someone who feels excluded or is unable to participate as they may have in the past. Be that as it may, there are more OSR alternatives than you can shake a stick at. Naturally, there's D&D in its current incarnation. There are narrative, storytelling games. There's tactical games, you name it. Moreover, I think there's more games right now getting a good amount of traction because of actual plays, YouTube, people learning how to market their games, etc. This hasn't always been the case.

Yeah, but I think the point is, none of that theoretical availability matters if other games or styles have elbowed out the ones you like where you are willing or capable of finding them.

 

[TiQuinn]

Yeah, but I think the point is, none of that theoretical availability matters if other games or styles have elbowed out the ones you like where you are willing or capable of finding them.

It doesn't give one an excuse to behave badly over and over and over in other spaces meant for those games, however. Even if one can't find a game, there are certainly spaces where they can find common ground with people who do play those games, and they can be part of a community around the games they do like. That is most certainly an option for them.

 

[Thomas Shey]

It doesn't give one an excuse to behave badly over and over and over in other spaces meant for those games, however. Even if one can't find a game, there are certainly spaces where they can find common ground with people who do play those games, and they can be part of a community around the games they do like. That is most certainly an option for them.

I'm not talking about excuses; I'm talking about reasons. Frustrated people behave badly; news at 11.

 

[TiQuinn]

I'm not talking about excuses; I'm talking about reasons. Frustrated people behave badly; news at 11.

Is that really a reason for why someone would go into a space not meant for them based on what they like, and actively ignore spaces that are available for them to discuss the games they do like?

To put it bluntly, I don't really care what motivates a troll.

 

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[Ryujin]

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You can, in fact, make something like that appear on errors, plus a whole lot more. Years back there was someone creeping on the website of a female friend that I was hosting the site for. I found the creeper's IP address and set it up so that a picture of a mouse doing the "Mission Impossible" rope hang over a mouse trap showed up, anytime that computer visited the site. I heard that they were freaking out because when they went to someone else's computer, to show them what they were seeing, it wasn't there.

 

[Old Fezziwig]

To put it bluntly, I don't really care what motivates a troll.

An enthusiasm for raising revenue through use-based taxes on roads and bridges?

 

[gnarlygninja]

All resources are finite. Too many boats in an area can make it worse for everyone.

It’s hard to do commercial fishing where people are swimming or water skiing…and vice versa.

Hell, you can’t even have a whole bunch of the same kinds of boats in the same area without causing problems- overfishing, collisions, etc.

In this scenario, obviously become a fisher of men and corner the market on long pork.

 

[Autumnal]