World of Warcraft killed our gaming group!

[Charwoman Gene]

Godwin? it that your head?
Why can't Germans be racist? Unless you are claiming genetic superiority of german stock or impeccable upbringing, I'm sure like everywhere, there are German's who think negatively about people for the color of their skin.
Of course, if Germans are this "special" group with innate "non-racist" superiority, well, umm...

 

[Infernal Teddy]

Godwin? it that your head?
Why can't Germans be racist? Unless you are claiming genetic superiority of german stock or impeccable upbringing, I'm sure like everywhere, there are German's who think negatively about people for the color of their skin.
Of course, if Germans are this "special" group with innate "non-racist" superiority, well, umm...

That's not what I'm saying. However, due to the last 50 years of indoctrination, MOST germans have an abhorrance of rascisim. They don't see themselves as superior - we see a lot of that coming from the locally stationed americans, however...

Egal, as I said, can we stick to the topic?

 

[Kae'Yoss]

Godwin? it that your head?
Why can't Germans be racist? Unless you are claiming genetic superiority of german stock or impeccable upbringing, I'm sure like everywhere, there are German's who think negatively about people for the color of their skin.
Of course, if Germans are this "special" group with innate "non-racist" superiority, well, umm...

No, noone says that Germans can't be racist.
But if you say an obviously non-racist German is a racist, people might assume that you're one of those vacuum-heads that judge today's Germans for events that occured decades before. Those people are, in fact, racists themselves, which is very ironic, of course.

If you take the time to read the whole post, you won't find anything that would suggest that I'm a racist.


Oh, by the way, sometimes, I AM a racist: There's days when I hate the whole human race.

 

[Lord Pendragon]

The problem isn't the game. The problem is that the players in question don't know when or how to curb their conversation regarding it.

An MMO is a shared experience. It's the same as two people who work together talking about work in their off-hours. Since they spend so much time together, they know all the same people, all the same drama, etc.

I have a friend who throws Poker Nights at his house, and invariably a lot of the people who show up used to work together at the same company. The conversation can't help but turn toward people they knew (and hated) at work, workplace drama, etc.

An MMO is the same. People who play often spend a lot of time online "together." They know the same people. They experience the same environment, participate in the same tasks, etc. etc. So when they get together in a social setting, they're naturally going to chat about their common experiences.

Out of our eight-person gaming group (1 DM + 7 players) four of us play City of Heroes. Naturally, we are sometimes inclined to talk about the game that we all share. To bitch about bad pick-up groups, to extoll the virtues of particular powers, or the excellent writing of certain missions, etc. etc.

Courteous individuals will reign in that kind of discussion among mixed company, knowing that those not playing will not find it interesting and be unable to participate in the conversation. But should that not happen, it's certainly not the fault of the game. It's no different than any other shared experience that people can't shut up about in mixed company.

 

[Kae'Yoss]

This shared experience seems to create a lot more distraction than any other I've encountered so far.

 

[Sejs]

This shared experience seems to create a lot more distraction than any other I've encountered so far.

Occam's Razor: That is because you're the one not included in the shared experience.

 

[Flexor the Mighty!]

And I consider your insults to be playful jabs, too. No hard feelings.

Of course. I assumed we were just giving each other a hard time for the fun of it.

 

[Driddle]

What I despise: The slow creep of online gaming short-hand lingo into the RPG environment, ala "Buff," "Aggro" etc. One of the worst developments ever. Absolutely kills the scene for me to hear the elvish ranger come back from a reconnaissance mission to suggest our fighter "tank the mob" of orcs and serve as a "agmag" while the wizard focuses on "debuffing" the orc chieftain.

 

[Kristivas]

Yeah, having alluded to my racism was enough already. And you still don't see it. As you said, it's not worth it. Welcome to my ignore list. I should have done it long before.

I don't see it because it wasn't there in the first place. I haven't alluded to anything, save for your merciless judgement of people who enjoy playing WoW. You totally missed my point and only saw one of the addages I happened to use. I don't care if your German, American, Canadian, whatever. This had nothing to do with racism, it had more to do with passing unfair judgement. As for the ignore list, eh.. I think I'll manage to survive (though it will be tough).

 

[Infernal Teddy]

I don't see it because it wasn't there in the first place.

Funny he wasn´t the only one to see it.