Quote from: Kyle Aaron;917195Maybe his t-shirt or social media posts are also exaggerations which ought not to be taken seriously? What's that? Right-wing fruit loops get to make nasty jokes, but left-wing fruit loops don't? Ah, it all makes sense now.

You see, in the world of adults, if you're representing your business publicly then you tend to not want to make tasteless jokes.  No one's saying he can't make a 'joke'.  But if I make a joke about blacks on welfare, you can bet your ass I'll be looking for a new job in a matter of hours if I am disclosing my place of employment on the same social media page.  This isn't hard, it's pretty straightforward.

Quote from: Kyle Aaron;917195But really, it is important to ensure that every thread eventually turns into a discussion of US domestic politics.

Absolutely none of this is particularly about 'politics', but people we can't suffer.  I'm left on some things, right on others, but there are simply some things I cannot tolerate.  And I didn't know 'Communism' and 'Che' were American domestic politics, but it's been a few years.

Quote from: Kyle Aaron;917195Can we talk about games now, Walter Sobchak?

We can start with you.  I'll gladly see your contribution.

Quote from: Crüesader;917183It's an exaggeration.  Don't take it so seriously.

Oh so it was more of the usual Internet tough guy bullshit by some unwashed, whiny ass, mouth-breather living in his mom's basement. Right Ho! Carry on soldier.

Quote from: Bren;917232Oh so it was more of the usual Internet tough guy bullshit by some unwashed, whiny ass, mouth-breather living in his mom's basement. Right Ho! Carry on soldier.

Nah, it was a joke, not a cock.  You don't have to take it so hard and squeal as much.

Fuck it.  I've nothing better to do.

You know, I won't sit and pretend to be the biggest badass on the block, or even in my own driveway if the neighbor's dog is out.  I won't say 'the gaming world needs more of me'.  I'll just say it needs less of you.  Are you so insecure with yourself that you simply have to pretend that someone is 'lying' or an 'internet tough guy' if they aren't some limp-wristed, trillby-tipping, useless little boypussy like yourself?

Would it blow your mind to know that we have Warhammer and D&D nights on base?  Would it trip you out to know that we ran Oriental Adventures when I was in Iraq?

Face it, dude.  Not everyone is a pussy.  It's just you, and no matter how hard you try to frame it otherwise- it's just not true.

Quote from: Crüesader;917233You don't have to take it so hard and squeal as much.

You are too, too precious. You are a typing caricature. And speaking of somebody squealing there's you, squealing like a baby who skinned his wittle knee...again.

Now maybe you aren't some fat troll who lives in his mom's basement. Maybe you really are a tough guy in real life. It's the Internet. Anything is possible. But if you really were a real-life tough guy then your constant bragging about how tough you and your peeps are speaks volumes about your extreme insecurity.

Now the adults want to talk some more so go fondle your gun so you can tell yourself how big and powerful it is.

Quote from: Bren;917246You are too, too precious. You are a typing caricature. And speaking of somebody squealing there's you, squealing like a baby who skinned his wittle knee...again.

Rich, coming from the insecure manchild that can't possibly accept that he isn't the alpha of his hobby.  Please, I've purchased trembling lapdogs for children that are more a man than you.

Quote from: Bren;917246Now maybe you aren't some fat troll who lives in his mom's basement. Maybe you really are a tough guy in real life. It's the Internet. Anything is possible. But if you really were a real-life tough guy then your constant bragging about how tough you and your peeps are speaks volumes about your extreme insecurity.

I've done no such thing.  I've stated I served.  I've stated I own firearms.  If that's 'bragging' to you, then you truly are the incompetent loser you wish everyone else to be.  Stop projecting your personal failures at your betters, peasant.

If you misread my post- it was more a reflection of the area I'm in.  I don't physically harm people for their opinions, as too many of them have a persecution complex.  It'd be like giving you a bottle with a nipple and a diaper to help you grow the fuck up and stop being such a bitch.  

Oh, and my 'peeps' are generally pretty normal guys, a couple of them are pretty damned fat and some are skinny to the point I demand they eat more.  Though, I'm pretty sure that even a baseline male human being with a job is 'overcompensating' and 'a braggart' when compared to whatever level of 'sniveling worm' you're dangling at this week.

You're projecting an argument that no one is having, fabricating a statement no one made, all because you're an insecure loser and everyone fucking knows it.

Quote from: Bren;917246Now the adults want to talk some more so go fondle your gun so you can tell yourself how big and powerful it is.

The adults let you speak for them?  Because you certainly aren't one of them.  I'm sure you have a katana to polish or something, mister 'three feet of steel on my arm'.   I bet you have a trenchcoat to match, too.  

And the discussion was rather fine until you felt your fragile little ego threatened by someone who's done something other than play dress-up and pretend to be a pirate.  

And I'll never say gaming needs more people like me.  It just needs less people like you.  If it did, you wouldn't have been cuckolded by the outrage brigade and driven into corners to bleat and whine.

EDIT:  What is with you guys thinking about guns as penises?  That's not clever humor, that's a psychological problem and you probably need to seek some help with that.  Are you still the type to pull hot dog weenies out and hold them to your groin and laugh?

I'll put this thread right back on track where it belongs.  

I've never had to in person deal with immature whiners before.  Fortunately, it seems like when you get a group of people together with different opinions on many things they manage to be civil.  I've had a few bad experiences on the internet in roleplaying games and the like, but that's because there's a screen for them to hide behind.  

When City of Heroes was an actual game- we had a guy that was constantly making some really offhand comments.  He'd constantly slam other character concepts that weren't his own (of course, most of his were 'traditional superhero that is a knockoff of 2 or more trademarked heroes'), and anything else was a "Shitty 1990's Character".  Eventually, enough people other than him started to do actual events together and all he would do is lurk around and interrupt the stuff we were doing with snide comments in-character that reflected nothing more than the player's personal opinions.  

While I had very little to do with it, we basically let the fuckwit keep being who he was and eventually he just became 'the guy in the corner' and quit playing.  

Some folks tend to write their own reputations.

Quote from: Crüesader;917154Wearing something like that in Texas with as many veterans as there are around here, you mind end up in a dumpster.

Speaking as a native Texian (and Army vet), I have to say that this statement is, well, let's say a tad hyperbolic (or, if we're gonna go all Texas, it's bullshit). Hipsters in Austin whine their asses off, while rednecks (so many fucking rednecks) talk shit all over this state. However, let's face it, the typical Texan just doesn't give a shit about what other people do. My own relatives are uneducated, racist pigs, but you never hear them shit talk a minority to their face, because there's still such a thing as manners. Soooo, I imagine your typical redneck would talk shit. But it's unlikely they'd do anything, unless you happened to be passing through one of our many podunk towns on a slow night. 'Course the problem is, it's those ignorant shit talkers who end up on TV, thus painting the entire state as THAT. Between that depiction, and our crazy politicians (Dan Patrick, Ted Cruz, especially), we just come across as straight-up fuckers. The stereotypes just keep on comin', of course, because, for some strange reason, being a loudmouth prick is something some people are fond of.

(P.S. I still miss CoX. Least we have that in common.)

Quote from: cranebump;917259Speaking as a native Texian (and Army vet), I have to say that this statement is, well, let's say a tad hyperbolic (or, if we're gonna go all Texas, it's bullshit). Hipsters in Austin whine their asses off, while rednecks (so many fucking rednecks) talk shit all over this state. However, let's face it, the typical Texan just doesn't give a shit about what other people do. My own relatives are uneducated, racist pigs, but you never hear them shit talk a minority to their face, because there's still such a thing as manners. Soooo, I imagine your typical redneck would talk shit. But it's unlikely they'd do anything, unless you happened to be passing through one of our many podunk towns on a slow night. 'Course the problem is, it's those ignorant shit talkers who end up on TV, thus painting the entire state as THAT. Between that depiction, and our crazy politicians (Dan Patrick, Ted Cruz, especially), we just come across as straight-up fuckers. The stereotypes just keep on comin', of course, because, for some strange reason, being a loudmouth prick is something some people are fond of.

It also doesn't help that we have the occasional police standoff like that one at Twin Peaks a while back...  and yeah, we have the loons.  Most of them are relatively harmless, though like you said- there's the 'Wild West' areas where even I hesitate to tread.  I've seen a few of those hipsters get backed down and ran off, but fortunately even if it was a 'good old boy' pushing, it was warranted.  In Austin, there's the 'Hipster Area' if I recall correctly, and it's hard to just tolerate it.  But I mean, it's a diverse state of something around 28 million, if I remember correctly.  

I just know in most places people dislike troublemakers.  And they tend to get handled roughly.  Kind of why I liked the State enough to stay.

Quote from: cranebump;917259(P.S. I still miss CoX. Least we have that in common.)

You know, you might hate me for saying this... but after the way a lot of people in the community behaved after the game closed (threatening letters to NCSoft, accusations of 'racism', actual fucking racism from the gamers, someone claimed to send dogshit, conspiring to do blackfaxing, etc.)... I can't say that giving these people their favorite toy back would be a good idea.

Still, you can roleplay on a version of it- Paragon Chat.  I might re-download that thing again.  No gameplay, just running your avatar around and talking to other people.

Quote from: cranebump;917259Speaking as a native Texian (and Army vet), I have to say that this statement is, well, let's say a tad hyperbolic (or, if we're gonna go all Texas, it's bullshit). Hipsters in Austin whine their asses off, while rednecks (so many fucking rednecks) talk shit all over this state. However, let's face it, the typical Texan just doesn't give a shit about what other people do. My own relatives are uneducated, racist pigs, but you never hear them shit talk a minority to their face, because there's still such a thing as manners. Soooo, I imagine your typical redneck would talk shit. But it's unlikely they'd do anything, unless you happened to be passing through one of our many podunk towns on a slow night. 'Course the problem is, it's those ignorant shit talkers who end up on TV, thus painting the entire state as THAT. Between that depiction, and our crazy politicians (Dan Patrick, Ted Cruz, especially), we just come across as straight-up fuckers. The stereotypes just keep on comin', of course, because, for some strange reason, being a loudmouth prick is something some people are fond of.

(P.S. I still miss CoX. Least we have that in common.)

Well said. Im a resident out here in the badlands of Texas (Between El Paso and Abilene) and concur. (Austin excluded, they aint Texans in my book)
A guy down the street flew his Mexican flag on the 4th. Fine, but he flew it over and above his USA flag. We are sitting there watching fireworks and it was just too much for us God fearing, patriotic, good ole boys to handle. So we did something about it! Yeah we marched the fuck down there and we.... well no, actually one of us was delegated (the most diplomatic and sober) to head down there with a six pack and offer it in exchange for exchanging the positions of the flag, given this was the USA and it birthday and all. The guy did it no prob, said he didn't know there was a law. He ended up joining us later. That's the type of Texan I can be proud of, doesn't take shit but isn't an idiot either, and that's most of us!

Crüesader, meet Bren. He's one of our part-time SJWs.

There was a couple that came to PFS briefly.  Their main purpose seemed to be to fuck with and attack the other PCs.  When they were told they couldn't do that in PFS, one of them responded with "So what's the point then?"  They weren't exactly run off but they left after they found out what the PFS rules on attacking other players were and that those rules would be enforced.

Quote from: jeff37923;917290Crüesader, meet Bren. He's one of our part-time SJWs.

I've encountered him once before.  I mentioned being in the military and he went hardcore trigger-kin and started claiming I was 'bragging' and 'talking like a tough guy'.  I noticed he went straight for the "Mom's basement" comment like those losers do, though.

...I wish I could live in my parents' basement.  I wouldn't have to cook my own meals and the bills would be a lot cheaper.

Quote from: yosemitemike;917292There was a couple that came to PFS briefly.  Their main purpose seemed to be to fuck with and attack the other PCs.  When they were told they couldn't do that in PFS, one of them responded with "So what's the point then?"  They weren't exactly run off but they left after they found out what the PFS rules on attacking other players were and that those rules would be enforced.

What's PFS?

Quote from: Crüesader;917293What's PFS?

Pathfinder Society.  It's an organized play setup for Pathfinder.  It's meant for walk-in and play so it has rules to rein in certain shenanigans and problem players.

Quote from: yosemitemike;917295Pathfinder Society.  It's an organized play setup for Pathfinder.  It's meant for walk-in and play so it has rules to rein in certain shenanigans and problem players.

Oh, well that explains those random weirdo encounters the Outrage Brigade is always talking about.  For a while I was scratching my head trying to figure out how you just end up playing an RPG with random degenerates.  I'd been scratching my head wondering how 'Safe Inclusion Zone' signs or whatever would ever be relevant as a product.

Didn't D&D have something like that- Greyhawk?  I don't remember, I didn't play it because the guy I talked to about joining was kind of a dick about classes and the like.  He didn't clearly explain it so I just went and played something else.

Quote from: Crüesader;917296Oh, well that explains those random weirdo encounters the Outrage Brigade is always talking about.  For a while I was scratching my head trying to figure out how you just end up playing an RPG with random degenerates.  I'd been scratching my head wondering how 'Safe Inclusion Zone' signs or whatever would ever be relevant as a product.

Didn't D&D have something like that- Greyhawk?  I don't remember, I didn't play it because the guy I talked to about joining was kind of a dick about classes and the like.  He didn't clearly explain it so I just went and played something else.

There's the RPGA and the Living campaigns.  I think they are still around.  D&D 5e has D&D Adventurers League.  There's always convention games and demos too.  Creepers and jerks are a real problem just like they are in video games.  That problem has been hugely overblown by melodramatic SJW looking to virtue signal and use it to gain leverage and control.  That's how a few creepers and assholes at a large con becomes a "white male terrorism problem".

Quote from: yosemitemike;917308There's the RPGA and the Living campaigns.  I think they are still around.  D&D 5e has D&D Adventurers League.  There's always convention games and demos too.  Creepers and jerks are a real problem just like they are in video games.  That problem has been hugely overblown by melodramatic SJW looking to virtue signal and use it to gain leverage and control.  That's how a few creepers and assholes at a large con becomes a "white male terrorism problem".

I mean, the good side of shit like this is that those dudes get 'publicity' when they behave like scumlords at the table.  I kind of have to agree with you about it being overblown- having open games like this tends to make sure these guys creep out just once.  As opposed to video games and online RPG's, where they can just come right back- or even persist because the person uses an 'ignore' feature and doesn't report them.

Like the 40k players and M:tG players- you can only be a colossal scumbag a couple of times before you're ran off.