Why do traditional games seem to attract the most socially undesirable people? Not trolling, I seriously would like to get to the bottom of this. I don't get it, tabletop games are social in nature so why do they attract anti-social weirdos, you expect these types to stay at home and video game. Why are some games MUCH worse that other when it comes to players, ie. Warhammer 40k is worse than historical Wargames, compared MtG to Chess, etc. Is there an explanation for this phenomenon?
>>96486188Anon, I legitimately ask how old you are to not remember the satanic panic regarding so many full grown adults throwing shitfits over the idea of little timmy pretending to fight evil monsters in a board game in someone's dusty basement.Traditional games are not a cool hobby. Until recent year, very few conventionally cool people will admit to it. So you're going to get social reprobates. The guys that don't have anywhere else to go or get pushed out of every space, whether because they deserve or they don't. It's that simple.P.S. look for something called "The Five Geek Social Fallacies"
>>96486188Historicals skew older (older guys just learned to mask their sperginess better) and chess doesn't have enough player interaction beyond the game itself to let people really flaunt their sperginess
>>96486202this
>>96486202Given modern times I can definitely be 'satanic panic' being the result of widespread grooming using tabletop as an in. Look at how troons will use children's games like roblox
>>96486390Also see how /pol/tards will use children's games like roblox to indoctrinate kids into their psychotic murder cult. Remember the sharty literally banned roblox discussion because it was flooding the site.
The kind of personality that makes you think its a good idea to play MtG, D&D, or Warhammer leads easily to being a pathetic subhuman. Just look around this board.
>>96486407So why are you here?
I think a lot of people in the hobby are pretty sociable, if anything /tg/ complains all the time about people who are too social and normal. But it does attract huge weirdos, I think they look worse because they are pushing themselves to do something they are bad at but that's how you get better so they could be on the right track,I think they pop up because they manufacture an ideal version of themselves and then crash with the reality of their own limitations. Instead of seeing their issues and improving they double down on their weirdness and make shit unconfortable for everyone.
>>96486202If you remember the D&D satanic panic you're well into your 40's if not 50's. Don't expect people here to be that old.
>>96486412Yeah they're honestly not that common. I go to a convention every year and there's one bad sperg player or GM on average that I stumble intoI did once witness a loud spergfight at a neighboring table though
>tfw to much a dork to be included in your friends ttrpg games
>>96486188male competitive drive + unable to compete at anything physical
>>96486413>people need to be groomed in to disliking mentally ill men in dressesLol
>>96486188Being a grown adult and playing with toys tends to mean that you will get some people who haven't fully matured yet. Also what >>96486596 said.>>96486390>>96486395>>96486413Its both. >t. was into WW2 German groups back in 2012-2014. Because sci-fi groups burned me out and I still wanted to play bad guy so others could play good guy.Groomers of all kinds are an open secret on that site anyways. You'd be ignorant to deny the existence of any kind of grooming collective on Roblox.
>>96486188If you actually have the option of going to fun social outings, interacting with women, and enjoying your life, why the fuck would you ever play an rpg?
>>96486202There are no spaces to be pushed out of. The post collegiate social scene is a hellscape. Gaming was one of the few that remained which is why it’s under full on liberal assault.
>>96486642Those outings don't magically turn into Napoleonic battlefields or the women into princesses Games of imagination are for people who have an imagination regardless of other factors
>>96486188>>96486202>>96486277>>96486412>>9648662740kids are uglyWarhammer Fantasy fans are good looking, muscular and high iq
>>96486697Don't hoist up an exception like that. It only proves the rule that Warhammer fans (including me) are not exactly the best specimens of human beauty. You found an exception.Like when Henry Cavil started his PR campaign about being a 40k nerd and Reddit cockgarbled him digitally.
>>96486710Sorry anon but you need to start getting in shape or you're gonna get left behind.
>>96486409/tg/ is older than /pol/ newfag
>>96486596this is totally a thingI've seen som rules lawyers that think the game works best a certain way and want the game to go quickly as intended, obnoxious but well intended, and some that are trying to show everyone they have the biggest dick because they know how much damage falling on lava from 100ft does.
>>96486642I like the consensual sadistic fun of adding more and more complications on a gang of fictional dudes just trying to survive, or having a compilation of weird absurd shit after each door and seein how different people interact with it, or spreding tidbits of information and hear them build their own completely wrong interpretation of what's going.You know, social interactions you don't get in another hobby.
>>96486697lol, I remember that retard who could barely speak and repeated cliche red pill stuff. Something Thor or some other egomaniac name like that.
>>96486857He's the next president of Sweden now. I bet you feel retarded now
>>96486868Sweden doesn't have a president, and if he somehow became it I'd think all of sweden is retarded.
I wanted to be an officer in the army but was scared of le boolets so instead I larp as a space man shooting le heretics and gained 25 pounds in 5 years :)))
>>96486188The normies are always saying "UGH PEOPLE SUCK UGH I HATE PEOPLE SO MUCH" yet they continue to go in public and interact. Suddenly we're the weird ones for being socially awkward and not being normal.
https://plausiblydeniable.com/five-geek-social-fallacies/This blog post isn't gospel but it is interesting to read and compare to your own gaming group.Personally, I think tolerance is a virtue, but you really gotta put your money where your mouth is. And how tolerant should you be of actual harmful, destructive behavior (pedophilia, bigotry, etc.)?
>>96486188I dunno, most everyone in my group is a nice boomer with a job and a wife, and even the one dateless wonder is a perfectly normal guy. Are you sure it's not a you problem?
>>96486929Remember, there's always an important line between tolerance and acceptance.
>>96486666lmaoooooooooooooooooooooooo
>>96486843kek
>>96486929there's nothing wrong with bigotry dumbass
>>96486736>left behindwhere are you going
>>96486395>the shartyAnd why should anything they say matter here?
>>96486188>Why do traditional games seem to attract the most socially undesirable people?Because someone has to cater to those people, and they are more numerous than would be believed. Good looking, successful people who have lots of sex can spend their time doing any number of other things so aren't the target demographic.
>>96487073to the gym
>>96486188>sometimes, nerds are weirdDude, no way.
>>96486642Because I think they're fun.
>>96486188>why does a hobby that has been considered socially undesirable until extremely recently have socially undesirable people in itIt's a real mystery isn't it.
>>96486929Tolerance is a stupid concept. Things are either bad, and shouldn't be tolerated, or good, and why would you not tolerate good things? It's only a paradox if you decide that tolerance is a good in itself, which is pointless.As to what we shouldn't tolerate, it's the smellies. Total Smelly Death. Kick smellies out of game stores. Destroy a smellie's space marines. Mug a smelly while he walks back to his mom's car.
>>96486697>swedish homosexual roidder is a dark elf fagMakes sense really.
>>96488383ah, well go on ahead. i'll be there later, i swear...
>>96486188I know there’s a lot of dooming about undesirables in the hobby, buuuut.How does one not be an undesirable in this hobby beyond showering and shaving before going to the lgs?
I can deal with weird people and even autists but what I CANNOT stand is people who smell awful. Idk if it’s PTSD from having to deal with live and dead hadj in Afghanistan or what but I literally go sperg rage when I have to fucking deal with peoples fucking stink. Fucking wash your asses, brush your teeth, and change your shirt you fucking gremlins, I fucking hate you.
What hobby doesn't have its negative stereotypes?
>>96489927Wearing deodorantKnowing when to drop an argument that's chugging the game to a crawlNot being able to lose gracefully(Having a meltie when da space man do no good)Being unable to take a joke as hard as you giveIf you find yourself committing a faux pas being apologetic and trying to avoid it again goes a long way. Normalfags call it "empathy". Just don't try to go "sorry guys I walked in shitting my pants without the pants but come on haven't death guard sales increased since then?"
>>96489927I run open games on discord every week and my tolerance is very high, all I expect from a new player is>listening to other players>speaking as much as other people>being proactive in a rational way>asking questions that contribute to the experiencethat's it, we all just want to have fun and all we ask is that other people do the same without making it bad for other people. I've played in different groups and you learn to either enjoy different things or gently move out when it's not for you. 50% of the experience hinges on the GM being able to manage the table, 40% is matching the general vibe, and 10% is dumb luck.
>>96486395>Also see how /pol/tards will use children's games like roblox to indoctrinate kids into their psychotic murder cult.Oh, the horror! /pol/tards would tell teenage boys to either learn a useful skill or get a real education (not libarts major), and expect government to buttfuck you at every opportunity! The horror!
>>96490007>I run open games on discord every weekAre you one of those 'groomers' mentioned earlier in this very thread?
>>96490015You’re a dumbass
>>96490024no, I just run games in a medium sized server with a bot that spreads the open calls to other servers. No idea why you imagine random people as dangerous out of nowhere, sounds like projection tbdesu.
>>96490036>>96490044Trannies detected. Alerting ICE.
>>96486929Neat article
>>96486188This is not exclusive to /tg/ hobbies. This is a problem with society in general, as most people are poorly socialized, mentally ill, and low IQ.
>>96490119most people can't be low IQ, 100 is the middle ground of the population.At least know about your made up pseudoscience if you're gonna use it, it's like a crystal mommy not knowing what an onix looks like.
>>96490170it looks like this btw
>>96486188I honestly thought that dude was the boxes in the back. Wild.
>>96490187>indians>stealing all the jobs>low iqyeah, sure, cope
>>96490241>Anon thinks cheap slave labour demands a high IQ Speaking of IQ, yours is on full display
>>96490187>confessed in public to not knowing how IQ scoring works.>somehow still thinks he is superior to someone
>>96490241anon, nothing you said is like a contradiction.
>>96490024top of the sky scraper, last window on the right.
Kill yourself OP
>>96490015they'd tell you to be insanely racist & misogynistic, both bad ideas in modern western society, frankly more socially maladaptive than chopping your dick off
>>96490396>both bad ideas in modern western societyModern Western Society is a bit like Holy Roman Empire. It's neither Western nor a Society. When a "norm" is clearly pathological, not fitting into that norm is a sign of health and intelligence. Or at least being too stubborn to give in. But most so-called 'people', including even Whites, are herd animals that are inferior to house cats in every way.
>>96488732man, you have like, no theory of mind for other people. sad!You tolerate things for two reasons.1) you are tolerating something that is neutral or generally good, but which you find personally distasteful or grating2) you tolerate things that are neutral to bad when you recognize that the cost of removing those things vastly exceeds the benefits one would gain from removing it.there are opportunity costs associated with every choice of action and inaction, and you have a finite amount of time and energy to spend on things, so you have to prioritize what you use them on.shrimple
>>96490643to give an obvious example, you tolerate the pain after a surgery because you know it's the body healing. Similarly you tolerate toddlers because you know they'll grow out of it.
>>96486710You can still improve yourself.I'm never going to be a professional athlete, doesn't mean I don't push myself
I like to play with my friends. After a certain age, playing with strangers is just asking to have a bad time. Why? Probably the magical circle theory (Huizinga).Sidenote: I play sex games with OP's mom
>>96490700Then why is tg still like this?
>>96490015>useful skill or real education>on fucking /pol/lmao
>>96488800Why does the Swedish have anything to do with it?I'm an Australian homosexual who's roid curious and I play Druchii too.
>>96490873Why do you choose to live in that corrupt, mafia-controlled shithole?
>>96488732>Things are either bad, and shouldn't be tolerated, or good, and why would you not tolerate good things? It's almost like what is considered good or bad is mostly subjective and it varies between groups and individuals.
>>96490187You idiot the IQ scale was literally based on white people.
>>96490809>playing with strangers is just asking to have a bad timethis
>>96490903>different people think different thingsAutists do not have the capacity to understand this. They lack automatic theory of mind.Hence, the confusion about tolerance.
>>96490951Is that because they have no souls?
It's funny visiting conventions nowadays, because the crowd looks way different than it used to. Back in the day, it was all greasy hair, ill fitting shirts your mom bought you, and a lot of out of shape guys packed into a hall. Now the newer generations seem much more well kept.I think part of it comes from cross-pollination - cosplayers, anime fans, and the video game community mixing into the same spaces. On top of that, conventions themselves have shifted from niche gatherings into big, family friendly events. The result is that the turbo-geek atmosphere has smoothed out into something more mainstream, polished, and approachable.Socially undesirable? Heh, brother, you haven't seen nothing.
>>96491046The culture is healing.
>>96486929>words words words.pngisn't it just that these are socially awkward people who are afraid of confrontation?how many threads do we have every week where anons complain about problem players when they could just talk to them or call them out or do anything at all
For some reason Kill Team has a lot of chads and Infinity has a lot of usually friendly but highly outcast creatures
>>96491143I cum during confrontations.
>>96491162aka involuntary erections under trauma
>>96491189Don't have a dick.
>>96491242don't have a cow, man
>>96490015>/pol/tards would tell teenage boys to either learn a useful skill or get a real educationLMAO. Delusional. /pol/lacks blame "da j00s" for all their failing at getting a crumb of pussy. 1-800-BE-SERIOUS-NOW.
>>96486188>>96490204that nigga camouflaged fr
>>96491513You WILL listen to me right now, you insigificent little retard. These kids NEED the guidance of a bunch of socially maladjusted NEETs posting at 4 AM on a wednesday.
>>96491607This but unironically. As a failure myself, I know failures can teach others not to repeat their mistakes. Send me back 20 years in time and I have the tools to become an absolute Gigachad.
>>96490015You don't get it. They're talking about some bizarre cult that operated on roblox. Not about some magatards.
>>96491728Bro. If you don't have the motivation to get your shit sorted out now, you wouldn't magically get the motivation if you went back in time. The best you could do is know to dump money into bitcoin and sell when it hit 60K or whatever, but that is a function of foreknowledge, not a function of you having anything other than the mentality, motivation, and mindset of a fuckup and that would be reflected in your life.
>>96491753By your logic, making repeated, major mistakes doesn't demotivate people.I'm pretty sure that's not how that works.
>>96491805You still made the mistakes, bro. The trauma is still there. The effects will still haunt you. Moreover you are still the kind of person who would have made them. Avoiding those pitfalls just opens you up to new fuckups. You can dream that everything would be different if you just got a chance to do it all over, but the simple fact of the matter is that garbage in = garbage out.
>>96491830You seem to be implying that someone who has made a lot of mistakes, is just as motivated (or demotivated) as someone who hasn't yet.
>>96491856A statement mired in the exact kind of squirming lack of accountability that would doom you. If you won't fix yourself now, you wouldn't fix yourself then. Sending you back would be a waste of your time.
>>96486188We get to this bitter state because many game manufacturers (not all, Battletech is still using pretty much the same system and models from 40 years ago) engage in unfair practices to boost sales that are detrimental to the gamer.Imagine, you become invested in a game, use up valuable time, money, study and effort to finally build and paint up a collection to play with, gain a group of likeminded friends to play, then enjoy playing for a few years. You then find out that your collection, rule set or edition has been changed by the manufacturer and the collection of models, rule sets or edition you own are no longer supported, just because the company wants you to dump everything you have and buy another set of everything.You see new players coming in and instead of enlarging the current player player base, they start a new one that is incompatible with yours. The more vulnerable of your friends fall for this and start the cycle again and again, constantly trying to keep up with the ever changing cycle of buy, dump, buy, dump, instead of just playing the game they previously enjoyed.This is what makes many of us bitter. Much of the bile isnt directed at the players of the new editions, its often because we are trying to save them from the same disapointment and betrayal we feel. The current players often laugh at us still trying to promote early versions, but the idiots don't realise that they to will soon be joining us, as their current collection/version will be supplanted as well and they will be considered 'grogs' by the new generation of players that replace them. We are like ex drug users trying to warn off new innocent people from buying drugs from the pushers that ruined us.
>>96486666lol loser let me guess your poor af
>>96486929>bigotryRetard.
>>96490700>you tolerate the pain after a surgery because you know it's the body healing.No, you suffer through it because you have no other choice (unless you want to get addicted to painkillers).
>>96491906Yes, mostly because of my other more expensive hobbyI don't know why anyone wants to hang out with normalfags, they're boring as fuck.
>>96486188it's not a cool activity, sitting inside and moving pieces around the board for hours, cool kids cannot be seen doing that
>>96486188>Why do traditional games seem to attract the most socially undesirable people?They don't. That would be the Super Smash Brothers and Steven Universe 'hardcore' fandoms.
For all the talk of "gatekeeping" and keeping your groups pure and based online, nerds in real life tend to be really bad in calling out undesirable behavior in their communities and friend groups, and it applies to all sorts of nerds. I do not believe this thread has a single person who has ever told an undesirable to be less undesirable to his face.
>>96486395>the sharty literally bannedYou can't even say bullraisin on that website.
>>96490175Kek
>>96490501>lovecraft was a kike trannygrim
>>96490501yes, this is the end game of being groomed by /pol/, and it's bad for being able to exist and function in the world. thanks for demonstrating.
>>96491728>Send me back 20 years in time and I have the tools to become an absolute Gigachad.You have them right now, but you won't.I don't know where this idea comes from, that the issue that keeps you from self-actualization is lack of knowledge on some secret to success. You're fat because you're lazy, you don't have friends because you're too socially anxious to talk to people, and you're poor because you're too dumb and/or lazy to get a college degree in a well-compensated field.
