Playing Under The Influence

Pseudoephedrine · December 20, 2011, 03:01:08 PM

Quote from: Aos;496300/tg/ (4chan's RPG board) is a good board and at least as civil as this one.

Moreso. The anonymity of most posters keeps the personality politics from really forming.

Aos · December 20, 2011, 04:44:58 PM

Quote from: Pseudoephedrine;496303Moreso. The anonymity of most posters keeps the personality politics from really forming.

Agreed. I really like that aspect of anonymous posting.

Machinegun Blue · December 21, 2011, 12:25:45 PM

Quote from: Blazing Donkey;496282If you drink coffee, you're a druggie too.

Consider my mind blown, man. :rolleyes:

LordVreeg · December 21, 2011, 10:39:26 PM

Quote from: Pseudoephedrine;496303Moreso. The anonymity of most posters keeps the personality politics from really forming.

not sure if this is good or bad, as i gaze into my vino.

Pseudoephedrine · December 21, 2011, 11:32:01 PM

Quote from: LordVreeg;496582not sure if this is good or bad, as i gaze into my vino.

Consistent personal identification has its upsides, or we wouldn't all have relatively stable names in our real lives.

ggroy · December 21, 2011, 11:52:19 PM

Quote from: Pseudoephedrine;496595Consistent personal identification has its upsides, or we wouldn't all have relatively stable names in our real lives.

Even worse would be somebody who does not have a stable identity in their real lives.

Legitimate examples of this, would be individuals in the Witness Protection Program.

Reckall · December 22, 2011, 10:19:58 AM

Quote from: Pseudoephedrine;496595Consistent personal identification has its upsides, or we wouldn't all have relatively stable names in our real lives.

It is even more than that. A thing I learned in my creative pursuit is that something, it doesn't matter how much ridiculous, complex or far-fetched acquires immediate legitimacy if you give it a name.

"We are planning to send ESPers under the polar ice to try to trace possible ruins from the Atlantis era still containing brain-wavelength emitting..."

"

"

"It is called Operation Kepler. It is the follow up of Operation Galileo".

"Boy, that's really cool!"

Real-life experience. I saved more than a "feature" in a story I was writing by applying a label to it.

Pseudoephedrine · December 22, 2011, 12:22:20 PM

Quote from: Reckall;496647It is even more than that. A thing I learned in my creative pursuit is that something, it doesn't matter how much ridiculous, complex or far-fetched acquires immediate legitimacy if you give it a name.

"We are planning to send ESPers under the polar ice to try to trace possible ruins from the Atlantis era still containing brain-wavelength emitting..."

""

"It is called Operation Kepler. It is the follow up of Operation Galileo".

"Boy, that's really cool!"

Real-life experience. I saved more than a "feature" in a story I was writing by applying a label to it.

Back when I was doing retail management after graduating from university, I used to hand out increasingly authoritative titles instead of pay raises (which I had no authority to offer) to the other employees.

RPGPundit · December 23, 2011, 10:06:09 AM

Quote from: Reckall;496111I don't have that kind of problem during my games. I have some players, though, who agonize to show you "just this one video, we must see it because it is too (whatever)!"

Yes. I can't stand that. Then they get pissed off at you when they don't get why you don't want to go on youtube and look up a 12 minute video of a dog farting or whatever idiotic thing they think is world-changingly important to inflict on the group.

So usually (with rare exceptions) I'm also quite clear about the fact that no, they can't use MY internet connection either.

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Reckall · December 23, 2011, 01:06:51 PM

Quote from: RPGPundit;496829Yes. I can't stand that. Then they get pissed off at you when they don't get why you don't want to go on youtube and look up a 12 minute video of a dog farting or whatever idiotic thing they think is world-changingly important to inflict on the group.

The sad thing is that sometimes there is a video worth watching before a RPG session and that actually pimps you up, like the recent Hobbit and Prometheus trailers. But as soon as you do that you can be sure that the idiot of the day will pipe up with "And now this unmissable dog-farting video!!!" and things go to hell fast anyway.

RPGPundit · December 24, 2011, 04:30:02 PM

Quote from: Reckall;496854The sad thing is that sometimes there is a video worth watching before a RPG session and that actually pimps you up, like the recent Hobbit and Prometheus trailers. But as soon as you do that you can be sure that the idiot of the day will pipe up with "And now this unmissable dog-farting video!!!" and things go to hell fast anyway.

Yes, not to mention that its a kind of captive audience. If a player wants to tell everyone about a great video he saw somewhere, he can tell the group, and then, WHEN THEY GO HOME, each player can decide for themselves if they want to look it up.

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Machinegun Blue · December 24, 2011, 11:05:21 PM

Quote from: RPGPundit;497032Yes, not to mention that its a kind of captive audience. If a player wants to tell everyone about a great video he saw somewhere, he can tell the group, and then, WHEN THEY GO HOME, each player can decide for themselves if they want to look it up.

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My group has a yahoo group to do just that.

RPGPundit · December 25, 2011, 09:42:22 AM

Quote from: Machinegun Blue;497081My group has a yahoo group to do just that.

That's a clever idea.

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Serious Paul · December 25, 2011, 11:32:08 AM

Eh, I'm a part of a group that uses a Google Mailing list for this. Most of the time it's just kind of boring to me. "Look at this cool link!"gets old after a while.

Rincewind1 · December 25, 2011, 02:19:02 PM

Beer or two during a game is tops, and I actually prohibit my players from drinking more during. I once tried to DM while high, and...well, devised a self - imposed rule after that:

No DMIU.

It was a really bad disaster.