>Dragged out to a board games cafe with a bunch of coworkers>OMG, we should play Cards Against Humanity, that would be so funny!>We play various low effort board games, no one even trying to win, no one taking it seriously (ignoring rules etc)>Look over to the opposite table>Group of four diehard nerds dressed up in meme fantasy get-ups and playing a 10-hour game of Twilight Imperium, having a blastFuck bros, maybe I'm the problem
>>98341047Good news anon, you've discovered a group. Ask them when they play, if you can join, and get a costume ready you fucking nerd.
>>98341047>coworkers>Cards Against HumanityMy firm is small enough that we don’t have an HR department and that still made my asshole clench.
>>98341047I wish my coworkers and future ones would be into what I’m into like miniatures and this hobby.>maybe I’m the problemYou’re feeling the same pain I felt when I realized I might be the problem too. I felt it when I learned of an lgs near me that isn’t an official warhammer store and went to it for the first time.
>>98341047Games like CAH and Munchkin are for socially retarded faggots who don't know how to socialize or hold a conversation, so they pull out these bullshit, poorly designed piles of shit because they're wacky and silly and get people to say things like>Pooping out a shit from a buttand then everyone giggles and pretends that was so clever.
>wanting to share the passion and joy of your hobbies>with the heartless backstabbing demons known as "coworkers"Insanity
>>98341047>coworkers>Cards Against Humanity
>>98341565I sincerely will never understand how someone could have coworkers as friends
Can you even imagine for a single instant trying to socialize at all with anyone? I sure can't.
>>98341681I say this.
>>98341676>>98341565What's wrong with having coworkers as friends?I regularly do shit with the guys from work. Last Saturday we had a big bbq at someone's house. Week before that a few of us went shooting together, got a few people who'd never been before into it too. Work is infinitely more enjoyable when you're friends with the people you're spending 8 hours a day with.
>>98341803I work in a factory/warehouse. Though some of them are among the best human beings I've ever met, all of my coworkers are as dumb as a bag of hammers and talking to them is torture. If I had to spend time with them while not being financially compensated for my time, I'd kill myself.
>>98341681I have friends and I have coworkers and they are very separate groups. My coworkers ask me if I saw "the game" this weekend, never clarifying what manner of game it was. I've gone to dinner with them, maintained casual conversations with them, and never once thought for even a minute that I would like to engage in hobby activities with them.
>>98341676I can't imagine spending 30-40 hours per week with someone and not trying to get along. I don't see coworkers outside work often at all, but I definitely have some that I'm happy to talk to or catch up with on occasion.
>>98341047>Dragged out to a board games cafe with a bunch of coworkers>OMG, we should play Cards Against Humanity, that would be so funny!I would fake a siezure
>>98341915>I can't imagine spending 30-40 hours per week with someone and not trying to get along.A lot of people can imagine that, and it's not always them being the asshole who can't get along.
>>98341487>>Pooping out a shit from a buttNot my proudest chuckle
>>98341047dragged? you mean you accepted an invitation?
>>98341803>What's wrong with having coworkers as friends?They only stay friends for as long as they a are coworkers.
>>98341915>spending 30-40 hours per week with someone and not trying to get along.>I don't see coworkers outside work often at all, but I definitely have some that I'm happy to talk to or catch up with on occasion.Very easy to do this without letting them into your personal life.
I'm a shitty incompetent employee, why would I want to be reminded of that by trying to get closer to my coworkers and probably annoy them further. I also despise smalltalk.
>>98341817Factory broSame exact experience though
>>98341047Interacting with co-workers in a corporate, white collar environment is soul-crushing, yet it's mandatory lest you are labeled as "not a team player".It's all alcohol and low effort political commentary ("did you know the mango monarch is literally Hitler? CNN told me so") and don't you dare actually have a discussion with them. It's just sitting there, doing nothing and talking about nothing.I'm in the luxurious position where my work is 80% jusy fucking around so I'll treat this partly as the tax I pay for a cushy job, partly a "don't get ragebaited" mental exercise in dealing with midwits where I nod along with "deporting illegals is literally genocide".Circling back to board games, cards against humanity is probably high effort by their standards. You think these "people" could handle a one-shot dungeon crawl?
>>98342701I just say "I'm washing my hair that night" whenever mine ask me to do something.
>>98342701Tell me more about your job anon I feel like I would enjoy this line of work
>>98342701Damn anon you're so smart for voting for a pedophile twice and coping about it on /tg/
>>98342760I'm not going to dox myself but basically legal affairs with a ministry in my country. Government workers as a whole get really chill working conditions. I could probably earn more as a lawyer, but I've worked with enough former lawyers to know 60 hour workweeks aren't for me?
>>98342701>white collar>"did you know the mango monarch is literally Hitler? CNN told me so"If only this was the kind of stuff I would think is worth complaining about. Hell I wish CNN was the Iranian news channels calling trump a pedophile and child killer like you think it is. Cushy ass air conditioned job with people who aren't easily amused by an ex reality tv host.
>>98341047Imagine you have to play CAH to be able to say some 'edgy' shit. I worked jobs were we would march lockstep trough the warehouse asking for coworkers their ausweiss! nightshifts can be wild if no real management is there
why the fuck are you retards working office jobs LOL
>>98342701>anime tranny instagram-american 2016 election tourist trying to socializeGave me a good chuckle, thank you for your pain anon!
struck a nerve huh bitch? LOL
>>98343619>anime tranny too scared to even direct quote
>>98342701Ironic you call others midwits LOL
>>98341047People seem to like Codenames well enough, anything with some words and no math really.>>98342707Bonus points for sticking with that same excuse long after all your hair has gone.
>>98341896>never clarifying what manner of game it wasYou just lost The Game.
>>98343583Because I like the million-dollar house I bought last year.
>>98341896The guy asking you if you saw "The Game" is a /tg/ autist trying to strategically make friends at work to bring in to his elaborate wargaming campaign. You fucked it up, anon.Also, keeping moderately informed on the doings of Local Sports Team is a cheat code to maximize social ability. Turn on TSN/ESPN while you get ready for work in the morning to overhear the highlights and you hacked the normiesphere.
>>98341047I tried going to a "board games singles event" in a major city and it was fucking awful. Low turnout, Gender ratio almost 2:1, men to women, everyone there was painfully normie, and the two games on the table were Uno and Jenga. And the organizer's boyfriend was there being an incredibly off-puttingly obvious wingman/greaseman. I brought Boss Monster, because it was the simplest boxed card game I own. Someone asked me about it, opened the box, started explaining the concept, saw the utterly blank expressions around me, and just stopped mid-sentence and wordlessly closed the box again and put it away.Then some new chick came in and the wingman immediately started on her. she was suspicious and he wasn't taking the hint, so I leaned in and said>He's a plant, he's here to warm people up and be every dudes' wingman. Just pretend to talk to me for a minute and he'll go away.At one point the wingman bothered me again and gave me some schpiel about bEiNg YoUrSeLf and how I'll do great, I have hobbies and such. I was able to not blow up at him, but I left.
>>98343863Materialism must be one hell of a motivator.
>>98343891>Turn on TSN/ESPN while you get ready for work in the morning to overhear the highlights and you hacked the normiesphere.What if I don't care about sports and have no interest in a conversation about sports with people who care about sports?
My coworkers are into shit like MtG and LoL and I still don't want to talk to them
>>98343863lmao dumbass
>>98343913do you think people talk about sports because they care about sports? jesus christ
>>98342701>>98342827>trump is a common talking point for anon and his coworkers>not even AmericansThere are the jokes, just writing themselves itt
>talking to coworkers outside of workLOL, never ever. Cards against humanity is normieslop though.
>>98344351>small euro country>news feed is:>1/3 murrica/israel/iran>1/3 russia/ukraine>1/3 what actually happens in the country
>>98344141Typically yes you ingenuine social parasite
I know for a fact that I have coworkers who play D&D, MtG, and 40k. But I play Frostgrave and Battletech, so we don't really have anything in common other than "hey, that guy also plays tabletop games" and basically leave it at that. Some of them have game stickers on their lockers or hard hats.
>>98341690but what do you look like
>>98344460lol clueless retard
>>98344871>the entire multi-billion dollar sports entertainment industry exists solely so people have a way to small talk with eachotherDo you have to practice being this stupid or does it come to you naturally?
>>98342631Not true, my long-term D&D group came about from the guy who trained me at my first job, then quit a couple weeks later, we stayed frens, and he got some guys from his new job to play D&D with us, and 10 years later we are still playing.
>>98344437Gnarly life in Czech Republic.
>>98341047I unironically play classic battletech at a boardgame Cafe with 4 other people on a table that is much too small and ends up with record sheets everywhere and take for too much time doing it and order hardly anything and one guy makes loud exclamations whenever anything interesting happens and then we all drunk drive home.
>>98345069Am I being gangstalked?
>>98344962who are you quoting, dumbfuck?
>>98345200You are in the website of the Hacker on Steroids, anon, there's whole armies of basket weavers looking at you having a wee.
>>98341082Kek this. I would immediately bail. You cant play this game in todays Western society in general. You play it with normies you walk a very thin line with actual, existencial consequences if you fuck up once and your prize/goal is essentially blending in so much you are not seen or remembered by anyone as if you never played in the first place, you play with counterculture and you know beforehand that everything goes anyway and you are probably in the same room with femboy nazis from discord, incels, groomers, 4channers and people wanking to hardcore carthel rape-torture 12h compilations blasting at 150 dB high on amphetamines for days in a row. Nothing you can make up will result in more than an raised eyebrow at the very most.There is no reason to get involved with this game in any way.
>>98342780>you voted for pedophile #1 and not pedophile #2? FUCK you dude
What companies do you people even work at? The only time my current employer got upset that I did a Hitler impression was because my NeinNeinNein was more convincing this his.
>>98342448That's the secret to CAH's humor. The first couple times you hear some of these cards, they are funny. If it becomes a game that hits the table every single time you get together with people, it loses all humor and just becomes tedious.
>>98345079Typical Jade Falcon behaviour
>>98345200Yeah. Your fly's open btw.
>>98345500that can't be me, I'm not wearing anything
>>98345428Real companies not full of barely sentient proles
>>98345428Corporate IT, stuck between technical dev people with no social skill and social sales people with no technical skill.
>>98341803Because friendships and any type of "emotional" connection in a workspace is just asking for some meaningless drama to happen at any point that may fuck up the whole work thing. Also adds an implied obligation of joining the friend group if someone new joins in and those people get excluded from potential opportunities and just connections because they chose to just be an employee and not someone's buddy while doing their job.Also, nepotism, closed circle issues that ends up stagnating companies when things start to go south, etc.
>>98344437Maybe you should focus on local news and actually improve your own country/state/county/prefecture/city/village instead of wasting time talking about US politics you don't even have a single ounce of control or influence over. Might as well talk about saint peter's decisions on the local weather. >>98345069It's called "Czechia" now.
>>98343863Why did you buy a million dollar house unless you have a family of four with another one on the way?
>>98343904Boss Monster is a terrible pick. Too thematic, pixel/gamey art and requires a modicum of understanding of sequencing and mechanical understanding.Carcassone is the perfect boardgame to get normies into the idea of a proper board game while also being incredibly easy to teach and old medieval french countryside is a much better theme to sell to chicks than dungeons and boss fights.
>>98345428I work in a physical document archive where I organize documents, discard old stuff and scan relevant stuff for the staff to access more easily. Occasionally I have to dig through older boxes, but it's rare. I talk to maybe 2 people a day, at most. It's an archive for a transport company.
>>98345464Uhm actually I play clan hells horses.
>>98341487CAH is barely a game. We had a family get together and my sister in law insisted that we bust out my CAH (it was a gift) and drink and play it. I'm not actually a fan, so I said we could if we use the Rando Calrissian rule, where you add an extra random white card to the pile and if that's the winning card everyone loses a black card. It completely broke the illusion of the game, and now it never gets brought up and we play Bang! or dominos, real games that feature things like decisions and strategy. I'd rather play Mille Bornes or RISK or even Monopoly. I'll admit it was fun to watch her struggle with the word "Oedipus" and not know what it means.
>>98341817>If I had to spend time with them while not being financially compensatedThe work is the easiest part compared to dealing with some of these fucks
>>98344437>aka 3/3 US
>>98348156>Czechnya
>>98343913> Good Morning Anon! Man, its a hot one out there, isn't it!> It is frequently warm in the summer. I am not interested in continuing a meteorological conversation. (leaves)>.... Is that guy always like that?>.... Yeah. Local Sports, local weather, local news are how people make small talk and feel each other out. You dont need to spend all day at it, just keep the lines of communication open.Further, for you autistics on here; a massive cheat code to get someone to like you is to find out what they like and ask them a few questions about it. Let them talk a bit about their favorite thing. The reason it works is because everybody else in their life is likely tired of hearing about their hobby, so a person who is interested and encouraging is going to be the coolest person they meet all day.Imagine how you would feel if someone actually wanted to hear about your new army, or terrain project, or rpg campaign. You'd love that person. It'd make your day.
>>98348496Bang is a really solid alternative. Cockroach Poker was one I brought to my family's table to get them to stop playing CAH and whenever they want to play something at a family get together, they ask me to bring it.
Fortunately I met a group of people i play games with at a game store and only have sports conversations if sports are on at the place we are playing games and the game is related to the place one of us is from.
The thought of playing a rule-heavy game with co-workers is anxiety-inducing. Playing a dead-simple game is the correct call in the context of being forced to play with co-workers or people you don't know well.
>>98348893>Bang is a really solid alternative.And I integrated a drinking element for those that drink.>(you) drinkWhen you play a beer, when you pass a barrel check, when you lose a duel.>Target drinksPanico!, Cat Bellou, unanswered Bang!>Everyone drinksWhen the sheriff is shot, when saloon is played, Indiani!, when an outlaw is killed, when dynamite explodes.You cannot drink in jail.
>>98342701>low effort political commentary ("did you know the mango monarch is literally Hitler? CNN told me so")as opposed to high effort political commentary (''did you know liberals call trump a mango monarch and is also hitler? CNN told them so'')
>>98348165>3 bedrooms>3 offices>1 guest room>dedicated game room>dedicated library>dedicated exercise room>sitting room with nice furniture for entertaining more formal guests>living room with comfy furniture for sprawling out in on lazy weekends>decent-sized yard for the dogs to run around inHaving space is nice.
>>98349964>Stop noticing how we all sound alike you CHUDStop sounding all alike and we might.
>>98351814cleanup and maintenance can be a bitch though
>>98341047Grab the nearest Uwe Rosenberg game and start setting it up in front of everyone without saying anything.
>>98341047Kot
