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

[Old Fezziwig]

I don't mind all the pumpkin spice stuff in fall. My only real objection is the pumpkin spice/fall season spray they douse a lot of stores with (you walk into Stop N Shop and it hits you like a wave of rotting pumpkins). But my critique is not of pumpkin spice itself, rather of how this mysterious spray smells like its lesser, decomposing cousin

The smell of rotting pumpkins is the smell of fall. God, I miss Massachusetts.

 

[Scribe]

I need a "Popular Opinion" thread.

 

[Thomas Shey]

I think there is this kind of break. People who mostly play with the same folks for long periods and people who play with a wide group of folks or even strangers.

I think, if I look, I see people with a consistent small group tend to internalize a lot and thus not have to think about a lot that people with a large group or even strangers have to think about and make part of the process of gaming.

Maybe if its a small very isolated group. I played with most of the same people for decades, but I'm still pretty clear that there are people with vastly different wants and needs when it comes to games, and have been for, well, quite a long time.

 

[Hussar]

Maybe if its a small very isolated group. I played with most of the same people for decades, but I'm still pretty clear that there are people with vastly different wants and needs when it comes to games, and have been for, well, quite a long time.

I get that. But there are definitely people who, for some reason, seem utterly incapable of looking beyond their own experience.

 

[darjr]

How Lenasian of him.

 

[Thomas Shey]

I get that. But there are definitely people who, for some reason, seem utterly incapable of looking beyond their own experience.

Well, some people were so in one bucket for so long that they just internalize that's how its done (or should be done) everywhere. I had the advantage that while I got in the hobby very early, I also shifted to other games early and bounced around a lot. Even though these were all trad games and the like, the assumptions of mechanics and intended play are different enough between OD&D, RuneQuest, Champions and things like Aftermath, it firmly lodged in my head that "games are different, and what people get out of games is different."

 

[Scribe]

You can like pineapple, you can desire to change the dish and include pineapple.

That does not mean that the dish comes with pineapple. Its actually steak. It is not pineapple.

 

[darjr]

Steak?! On PIZZA?!

 

[Scribe]

Steak?! On PIZZA?!

No no. A steak dinner, but sub out the steak and its pineapple. Which is fine, if one wished to eat pineapple, but dont call it a steak dinner.

 

[Deset Gled]

I get that. But there are definitely people who, for some reason, seem utterly incapable of looking beyond their own experience.

The ones that I find most problematic are those that somehow try and turn an inability to look beyond their own experience into some sort of rhetorical device. As if the fact that their opponent is unable to force empathy onto someone counts as failing to prove their point.