The tabletop RPG hobby is the worst

Mr.Bookworm · 08-28-2013, 10:05 PM

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I know this is a bold theory, but after reading literally (literally) three different discussions concerning rape and how appropriate a subject it is to stick in your D&D game (in much worse terms, I'm simplifying) today, I am fully prepared to join whatever other hobby will have me. A hobby that involves literally eating shit would not be as shitty as the one I am stuck in.

Because it's not like it's just a few deeply awful people. I could deal with that.

It's that most of the responses take them seriously. They answer rape-related rules questions without a twinge of guilt in their black heart, citing that, yes, according page XX of the Book of Whatever the Fuck, her vagina does count as an unarmed strike. They discuss these ideas like they are logical and sane, instead of creepy and twisted and wrong.

And there is nary a single person asking them what the FUCK is wrong with them.

So, then, of course, when I came into the thread to tell some dude that he is in fact a bag of dicks, because he is being a bag of dicks on account of being what is, in my subjective experience at that moment, the worst person in the world, people pile into the thread to defend him, using arguments that could not be more poorly constructed if a master of debate spent his entire lifetime crafting them.

So, in conclusion, FUCK EVERYTHING.

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What frustrates me is not that this is just a particularly shitty day or anything, it's that this is a recurring problem. Not just specifically rape and more generalized sexism, although those seem to be a recurring feature.

It's that the hobby consistently has a seemingly never-ending well of astonishing awfulness to draw from. I see shit like this, thinking about, almost every single week. You combine it with the general-issue awfulness and tribalism that invades the entire thing and I am coming to have a really hard time believing that a substantial number of the people involved in my hobby are not deeply awful people.

08-28-2013, 10:05 PM	#1
Mr.Bookworm YYYEEEEEAAAAAAHHH Join Date: Jul 2006 Posts: 2,034	The tabletop RPG hobby is the worst Like literally the worst I know this is a bold theory, but after reading literally (literally) three different discussions concerning rape and how appropriate a subject it is to stick in your D&D game (in much worse terms, I'm simplifying) today, I am fully prepared to join whatever other hobby will have me. A hobby that involves literally eating shit would not be as shitty as the one I am stuck in. Because it's not like it's just a few deeply awful people. I could deal with that. It's that most of the responses take them seriously. They answer rape-related rules questions without a twinge of guilt in their black heart, citing that, yes, according page XX of the Book of Whatever the Fuck, her vagina does count as an unarmed strike. They discuss these ideas like they are logical and sane, instead of creepy and twisted and wrong. And there is nary a single person asking them what the FUCK is wrong with them. So, then, of course, when I came into the thread to tell some dude that he is in fact a bag of dicks, because he is being a bag of dicks on account of being what is, in my subjective experience at that moment, the worst person in the world, people pile into the thread to defend him, using arguments that could not be more poorly constructed if a master of debate spent his entire lifetime crafting them. So, in conclusion, FUCK EVERYTHING. ---------- Post added at 11:05 PM ---------- Previous post was at 10:57 PM ---------- What frustrates me is not that this is just a particularly shitty day or anything, it's that this is a recurring problem. Not just specifically rape and more generalized sexism, although those seem to be a recurring feature. It's that the hobby consistently has a seemingly never-ending well of astonishing awfulness to draw from. I see shit like this, thinking about, almost every single week. You combine it with the general-issue awfulness and tribalism that invades the entire thing and I am coming to have a really hard time believing that a substantial number of the people involved in my hobby are not deeply awful people. Last edited by Mr.Bookworm; 08-28-2013 at 10:10 PM.