Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

[Mad_Jack]

"Yeah, well I'm more X than you!" is always such a weird, sad, gatekeepy flex.

Replace X with any subculture, trait, or whatever.

I used to tell people, "Unless you're 8 feet tall or weigh 900 lbs., you are not "The World's Biggest Rocky Horror Fan"..."

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

I wonder if it's even more broad? They aren't actually upset about an old edition of D&D or an older game; they are upset that those days are gone forever.

I remember when The Isle of Dread was the "cool new thing," and I remember when I was the "cool DM," and my friends couldn't wait until the weekend so that they could come over to my house and play for hours--but now? Mystara isn't cool anymore (in fact, I've learned it's rather problematic), my teenage nieces and nephews think I'm an old dork (because I am), and nobody comes over to play D&D anymore (we're on VTT now).

It's bittersweet for me, but I think that for some folks it's mostly bitter. Growing old is uncomfortable and change is scary, and it's hard to make friends as an adult. I think some folks are really struggling with that.

 

[Old Fezziwig]

Hey no fair cross-quoting me from two different threads!

I just happened to read those two posts nearly back to back. Naturally, your second group should be finding and chasing interesting and powerful magic bottles (which they'll occasionally find in trash piles), if only so you can tell your first group all about it. Maybe they'll keep the bottle forever.

 

[overgeeked]

Ah. The toxic positivity of the fandom spreads. What joy. The Precious is perfect. Every aspect and permutation is perfect. You are not a real fan unless you think it perfect.

 

[Ryujin]

I was gonna post this in the "Today I Learned" thread, but it seemed off-topic so I'm dropping it here among the pineapple tidbits.

If you didn't already know: LadyTiefling, aka DungeonMasterKelsey, has a bunch of fun random loot tables for just about any occasion over on her Instagram.

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[Scribe]

Oh man I love this.

Summary of the Amazon DynamoDB Service Disruption in the Northern Virginia (US-EAST-1) Region

aws.amazon.com

I've got a coworker, absolute idiot, who just was dismayed that that outage could happen. I've literally seen errors like that happen in other systems, its zero surprise that this could happen lol

 

[Thomas Shey]

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.

You have to look at other features of the "spaces available to them" to understand why they use them

I've explained why I'm here when I'm not a big D20 fan, and I don't think I'm a troll, so I can understand with people with a higher level of frustration can end up in places that aren't ideal for them.

They aren't really trolls. That implies too much intention rather than what's going on in many cases. Which doesn't mean you should care, but it then means you shouldn't feel surprised it happens, and if you are surprised, then perhaps understanding the dynamic is useful.

 

[RealAlHazred]

Between 11:48 PM PDT on October 19 and 2:40 AM PDT on October 20, customers experienced increased Amazon DynamoDB API error rates in the N. Virginia (us-east-1) Region. During this period, customers and other AWS services with dependencies on DynamoDB were unable to establish new connections to the service. The incident was triggered by a latent defect within the service’s automated DNS management system that caused endpoint resolution failures for DynamoDB... The root cause of this issue was a latent race condition in the DynamoDB DNS management system that resulted in an incorrect empty DNS record for the service’s regional endpoint that the automation failed to repair.

I would bet money that this is a case of "vibe coding" run amok, with insufficient oversight. And I am not a betting man.

 

[Scribe]

I would bet money that this is a case of "vibe coding" run amok, with insufficient oversight. And I am not a betting man.

I'd prefer to believe that people would be smarter than trusting such a critical piece of infrastructure to vibe coding.

 

[Thomas Shey]

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 think this underestimates how some people deal with frustration. Over time, for some people, that's allit needs (and its easy to underestimate how much the game means to some people).