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Game master arino said:
Every minute spent doing a 60 page political treatise on your favorite game is a minute that could be spent actually playing it and having fun. Its the same shit with the starship troopers fandom.
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Problem is, tabletop games are typically multiplayer games. So when people aren't with friends, they tend to type a lot. I know, I've done it.

Starship Troopers, I'm not so sure. That whole series was always meant for political treatises. The author of the book meant it as a respectful treatise on military power, and the movie was meant to be a satire of fascism, although ironically enough, it made the fascists look cooler than 40K ever did, especially since their society doesn't seem to lack for wealth, and fighting their enemies are perfectly justifiable. It's like if the Imperium of Man's populace was as wealthy as Monaco or Luxembourg.

I mean, co-ed showers where the ladies freely show their naughty bits to their male comrades while talking about future career choices? Sign me up!
 
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Eldar faggot said:
It's so easy to find stuff like this I don't know why there's not more of it. Doesn't have to be big name creators, tabletop is so full of the autistic it's full of funny crap. I don't have a lot of free time to spend arching reddit content or I would do more.
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Tabletop has always attracted weirdos, troons and lefty fags are merely the newest flavor. Fat, stinky, pedantic, fedora-wearing neckbeards were at the game table long before they took up computers.

I quit playing D&D in the early 90s after neckbeards started playing (their interpretation of) "hot women." One particularly disgusting specimen at an open game night at FLGS looked at me and said, "My character is rubbing her huge breasts against your arm and whispering seductively in your ear..."

It had been building up for awhile, but it was at that moment it became clear that I wasn't having any fun. I liked the idea of the game, but the game itself was usually a disappointing exercise in tard-wrangling and I hated 99% of the people who played it. I walked out.
 
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Game master arino said:
Every minute spent doing a 60 page political treatise on your favorite game is a minute that could be spent actually playing it and having fun. Its the same shit with the starship troopers fandom.
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Agreed. Internet essays on how 40k is fascist or mocking fascism is about as dumb as a 15 hour video analysis of pokemon plot lines.

How many ways can you have fun with starship troopers? It's a cool universe and I'm not well versed in the model options. I would like to know more.
Butcher Pete said:
Tabletop has always attracted weirdos, troons and lefty fags are merely the newest flavor. Fat, stinky, pedantic, fedora-wearing neckbeards were at the game table long before they took up computers.

I quit playing D&D in the early 90s after neckbeards started playing (their interpretation of) "hot women." One particularly disgusting specimen at an open game night at FLGS looked at me and said, "My character is rubbing her huge breasts against your arm and whispering seductively in your ear..."

It had been building up for awhile, but it was at that moment it became clear that I wasn't having any fun. I liked the idea of the game, but the game itself was usually a disappointing exercise in tard-wrangling and I hated 99% of the people who played it. I walked out.
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Those smelly neckbeards haven't gone any where. The tard wrangling is still an active part of the hobby for people interacting in the wild. That's what made me ask the question. If you're active in any game store or club you should have personal tard wrangling stories, tard melt downs and smells you will never forget burned into your brain. Those stories are about the community, not reviewing books by WOTC with a side of nigger gnomes.
 
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Eldar faggot said:
Those smelly neckbeards haven't gone any where. The tard wrangling is still an active part of the hobby for people interacting in the wild. That's what made me ask the question. If you're active in any game store or club you should have personal tard wrangling stories, tard melt downs and smells you will never forget burned into your brain. Those stories are about the community, not reviewing books by WOTC with a side of nigger gnomes.
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Most of my experience has been online, so while I have some edgelord stories, a few Fuggo Fujo stories, none of them are particularly great, and solidly "you needed to have been there". The absolute banality of shitlording, like being the guy who scheduled the trains going to auschwitz of WWII stories.
Shitlib filtering was usually done before the campaign started (the Fugos both were friends of existing players and allowed to bypass normal screening to make their inviter happy; never again) and Edgelords were warned off and shut down when they started to get 2edgy4me. They either said nothing or did what you can expect the usual edgelord response would be when they persisted and got disinvited and encouraged to find a game that would be a better fit for their play style.

The "best" story is... for a VOIP game, I mandated a "You play the gender you sound like. GM decides what you sound like" policy for a game that had a Tranny slide through; their character had some caution markers, but I wanted to hit player count.
There was an individual session zero where I went over their sheets, asked some bullshit pseudo-personality test questions - really more of a tech shake down to made sure their audio wasn't shit and they could connect to map tools. Naturally they were most displeased when I clocked them as the guy and said they were going to have to change their gender to male.
"But I'm a woman!"
"You sound like a guy though, and GM decides. Its pretty impressive. Anyway gender shouldn't even matter because..."
*CALL ENDED*

I got an angry PM after that, not even a full bloviation just a snippy mail about how could I force "her" to play a male character and they'd never play in any game with me in it ever again. Its possible it was just some Baritone PCOS sufferer.

Actually in a lot of my early experiences, back when I still thought I could punish players into having fun the correct way, I'd probably have been the neckbeard the story was about.
 
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Speaking of community watches, I started a gamefinder discord that got mild attention before promptly dying. A lot of people flake when they see the basic idea / rules channel.

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I guess this is also a shill post to try and get prospective GMs posting game ads. Here is the server link: https://discord.gg/dFeBVZ4yBH

I'm running a fantasy pbp right now and plan to run a game based on conspiracy theories and schizo-posting in late January 2022 but my games aren't really normal affairs for those who just want the book.
 
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Green Door Red Panic said:
Speaking of community watches, I started a gamefinder discord that got mild attention before promptly dying. A lot of people flake when they see the basic idea / rules channel.

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I guess this is also a shill post to try and get prospective GMs posting game ads. Here is the server link: https://discord.gg/dFeBVZ4yBH

I'm running a fantasy pbp right now and plan to run a game based on conspiracy theories and schizo-posting in late January 2022 but my games aren't really normal affairs for those who just want the book.
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I would join but I'm worried you glow and you're trying to counter signal the nazi femboys to attract the rare edgy nazi femboys.

How good is discord at mauling wrong think discords like this now?
 
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Eldar faggot said:
I would join but I'm worried you glow and you're trying to counter signal the nazi femboys to attract the rare edgy nazi femboys.

How good is discord at mauling wrong think discords like this now?
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Furry Jews (Or Jewish Furries I don't remember) are collecting your text logs and client information and storing it. If you use too many gamer words and there is a report, they'll still come for your server as I understand it. And if anyone does anything Minecraft related they will hand over your data without even a court order; ACAB but the glowies are your friends apparently.
 
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Someone's using historical revisionism to increase the legitimacy of the nu-word "freakshit", however, the automated record will set this liar straight. This series of sounds started being used in its modern context in April 2018, no matter which variant combination of characters is associated with it. There were earlier references to "freak shit" (with the space), but it was in the broad context of meaning "(derogatory synonym for 'stuff') for freaks", not "(derogatory synonym for 'stuff') that is a freak". The last reference to freakshit before 4/20 was a reference to extraterrestrial food products.
And in related news there's now a Perchance generator for nu-words! (archived discussion thread)
 
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Someone's using historical revisionism to increase the legitimacy of the nu-word "freakshit", however, the automated record will set this liar straight. This series of sounds started being used in its modern context in April 2018, no matter which variant combination of characters is associated with it. There were earlier references to "freak shit" (with the space), but it was in the broad context of meaning "(derogatory synonym for 'stuff') for freaks", not "(derogatory synonym for 'stuff') that is a freak". The last reference to freakshit before 4/20 was a reference to extraterrestrial food products.
And in related news there's now a Perchance generator for nu-words! (archived discussion thread)
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I honestly don't mind the use of the term “Freakshit,” as I feel it a rather prominent issue in modern tabletop where it seems everybody wants to play some sort of monster race, beastfolk, or lolsorandom species even when the DM explicitly tells them those races don't exist in that setting or are unplayable. Some people just want to play a game with the Tolkien Four and clear divisions between good and evil societies, not sparkledogs and softboi orcs.
 
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Flaming Insignias said:
I honestly don't mind the use of the term “Freakshit,” as I feel it a rather prominent issue in modern tabletop where it seems everybody wants to play some sort of monster race, beastfolk, or lolsorandom species even when the DM explicitly tells them those races don't exist in that setting or are unplayable. Some people just want to play a game with the Tolkien Four and clear divisions between good and evil societies, not sparkledogs and softboi orcs.
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The issue I have is it sounds autistic as fuck whenever I hear it.

Like, it sounds so fucking autistic that it's as big a red flag as "I was inspired by Critical Role" to me as a DM. Also, based on the people who unironically use it, I'd have a decent shot of finding them as much of a problem player as the person who shows up with their special tabaxi variant. Hell, probably moreso since I'd never quite know where they'd chimp out or rape an NPC to death while pretending their sociopathy was accurate. I'd at least expect some weird fetish shit and complaints about how the game isn't scripted from the latter.

And just like the wokies, they try to lie and control how the game should be play an awful lot. Case in point trying to cull even the most basic of playables that have been a thing for fucking 40+ years.
 
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Flaming Insignias said:
I honestly don't mind the use of the term “Freakshit,” as I feel it a rather prominent issue in modern tabletop where it seems everybody wants to play some sort of monster race, beastfolk, or lolsorandom species even when the DM explicitly tells them those races don't exist in that setting or are unplayable. Some people just want to play a game with the Tolkien Four and clear divisions between good and evil societies, not sparkledogs and softboi orcs.
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I don't post on /tg/ because I actually play games but I agree with the sentiment behind freakshit. Too many retards wanting to be weird or monster races but without any of the negative side effects or they want to turn the game into being about that. Same way these people do IRL.

It starts with noble Savage orcs and now it's demons and bug monsters and they complain when I tell the paladin he shouldn't compromise his RP for the sake of the ADHD fiends emotional state.

My best example of proper """diversity""" is Magnificent Seven. Aside from Chico, everyone is a different flavor of European from Steve McQueen to Charles Bronson to Yul Brynner.

Human Fighters are like White Men, the more you have in your party, the better the game is.
 
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Adamska said:
The issue I have is it sounds autistic as fuck whenever I hear it.

Like, it sounds so fucking autistic that it's as big a red flag as "I was inspired by Critical Role" to me as a DM. Also, based on the people who unironically use it, I'd have a decent shot of finding them as much of a problem player as the person who shows up with their special tabaxi variant. Hell, probably moreso since I'd never quite know where they'd chimp out or rape an NPC to death while pretending their sociopathy was accurate. I'd at least expect some weird fetish shit and complaints about how the game isn't scripted from the latter.

And just like the wokies, they try to lie and control how the game should be play an awful lot. Case in point trying to cull even the most basic of playables that have been a thing for fucking 40+ years.
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"RED FLAGS could be here" he thought, "I've never been in this server before. There could be RED FLAGS anywhere." The lack of games felt good alongside his bad posts. "I HATE RED FLAGS" he thought. Blood & Guts reverberated through his empty voice channel, making it lag even as the $2 soda circulated through his struggling thin veins and intensified his (autistic) fear of red flags in strangers. "With no games, you can do nothing but fantasize and post on /tg/" he said to himself, out loud.
 
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Green Door Red Panic said:
I don't post on /tg/ because I actually play games but I agree with the sentiment behind freakshit. Too many retards wanting to be weird or monster races but without any of the negative side effects or they want to turn the game into being about that. Same way these people do IRL.

It starts with noble Savage orcs and now it's demons and bug monsters and they complain when I tell the paladin he shouldn't compromise his RP for the sake of the ADHD fiends emotional state.

My best example of proper """diversity""" is Magnificent Seven. Aside from Chico, everyone is a different flavor of European from Steve McQueen to Charles Bronson to Yul Brynner.

Human Fighters are like White Men, the more you have in your party, the better the game is.
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Well, they would be if fighters weren't perpetually playing second fiddle to every caster class in the fuckin' game.
 
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