Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

[CleverNickName]

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.

I can understand people feeling disappointed about not being able to find new content for the older editions of D&D. I'm in this camp: I love the old BECM rules and the Mystara setting, and it makes me sad that those days are gone forever.

I can't understand people being angry about it, though...or worse, getting so bitter about it that they try to stop anyone from playing, buying, publishing, or even discussing anything else: even the ones that are all but identical to their favorite older edition. I'm not out there clicking Ignore every time someone mentions OSR, or arguing with people about Shadowdark or whatever. I'm happy to let folks play whatever they like playing.

There has to be more to it than just the game, otherwise it just doesn't make sense. What are they really angry and bitter about? What are they really feeling threatened by?

 

[Scribe]

There has to be more to it than just the game, otherwise it just doesn't make sense. What are they really angry and bitter about? What are they really feeling threatened by?

I mean if its about Shadowdark, I couldnt tell you. Anyone against Shadowdark, is an enemy of joy.

 

[dragoner]

Make your own setting, then you can only be disappointed in yourself. Wait ...

 

[Scribe]

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lol everyone knows that post is in bad faith, except for the folks you are dog whistling to.

 

[MoonSong]

Don't you like it when somebody undermines their own point, not by anything they say directly, but rather by just being an awful person?

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

There has to be more to it than just the game, otherwise it just doesn't make sense. What are they really angry and bitter about? What are they really feeling threatened by?

There are people in this world for whom their social world is currently in a state of contraction. The game might be their major passtime. Or only.

I personally have very few friends at age 58; my social circle has contracted greatly over the past decade. But that doesn’t bother me much. I’m majorly introverted, and have a bunch of ways to entertain myself without having regular personal social interactions.

But that’s not how most people react to social isolation. While they’re not common, anger & lashing out are probably more normal than my own experience.

 

[Scribe]

There are people in this world for whom their social world is currently in a state of contraction. The game might be their major passtime. Or only.

I personally have very few friends at age 58; my social circle has contracted greatly over the past decade. But that doesn’t bother me much. I’m majorly introverted, and have a bunch of ways to entertain myself without having regular personal social interactions.

But that’s not how most people react to social isolation. While they’re not common, anger & lashing out are probably more normal than my own experience.

Funny this kind of just came up.

I was a the local shop, looking over things, and another older guy strikes up a conversation, invites me to game nights, talking about the games being played. I let him go on his sales pitch but internally?

"Yeah but I dont like that game, I would never play that game, I used to play that game, but its trash now..." and on and on.

So yeah, people sometimes do actually want 'their' game, 'their' IP, 'their' hobby, to not be changed in ways that degrade the experience for them.

Because for guys getting older? That circle keeps shrinking.

Thankfully I am like you, and couldnt care less if I have a game to get to, I've got my wife.