The "I Didn't Comment in Another Thread" Thread

[overgeeked]

"If you get to talk about a thing you like, I get to crap on it."

That's certainly a take.

 

[payn]

The 4E thread feels like a time machine back to November 5th 2008.

 

[CleverNickName]

Has it been 13 years already? Dang.

 

[Deset Gled]

If someone isn't willing to play your favorite game, then maybe that game is just a bad fit with that person.

If no one, ever, is willing to play your favorite game with you, maybe the game isn't the problem.

 

[Cadence]

Starts reading a thread that sounds kind of interesting, finds a usual suspect with the usual amount of time to continously supply the usual replies, goes back to manually checking several hundred pages of 19th century property records for an ancestor as that might actually be successful.

 

[deganawida]

Apropos of nothing:

• Jubei: Oh, d*** it! It's this hot and damp air. I wish a storm would come so a shower would cool your head.

 

[darjr]

The 4E thread feels like a time machine back to November 5th 2008.

Clearly you don’t understand the rules.

 

[CleverNickName]

Geez. Lots of people really seem to hate their current home game. Post after post, people complaining about their DMs, their players, the rules system they're using, the character they rolled up--you name it, there's someone on these forums complaining about it right now.

It begs the question: why do they keep playing? What keeps them coming back, week after week, to torture themselves with something they so clearly despise?

(My hot take: they don't actually hate those things, or at least not nearly as much as they claim to hate them.)

 

[MarkB]

Geez. Lots of people really seem to hate their current home game. Post after post, people complaining about their DMs, their players, the rules system they're using, the character they rolled up--you name it, there's someone on these forums complaining about it right now.

It begs the question: why do they keep playing? What keeps them coming back, week after week, to torture themselves with something they so clearly despise?

Any number of reasons - feelings of social obligation, peer pressure, wanting to not let down the people they do like at the table, hoping things will get better, thinking a poor game is better than none at all, or sometimes simply habit or inertia.

People in all sorts of social pastimes will often stick it out even when the joy has gone out of it, usually because it's their group, and separating yourself from such a social structure can be difficult and painful.

 

[Evaniel]

Starts reading a thread that sounds kind of interesting, finds a usual suspect with the usual amount of time to continously supply the usual replies, goes back to manually checking several hundred pages of 19th century property records for an ancestor as that might actually be successful.