Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.

[Misadventure]

@Cupcake Sorry, the "you" in my post is meant as the generic you, and the loss of game value when skipping over parts of the learning process. To me, this skip to the end, combined with "make it like this TV show" are problematic in current online RP.

I got what you were laying down, and was aiming to support your experience and link it to wider concerns.

[Arkandel]

@Cupcake I think the issue here isn't work-friends or not, it's having established personal relationships so people know where you're coming from.

For example a work-friend started coming to our basketball games recently but I know him, we char regularly, etc. So when we played I'd give him pointers ("you shouldn't let me get positioned inside for a rebound, push back man!") and I didn't feel it was received as anything than what it was meant to.

But if I went to a guy who had never met me, shoved him out of the way and then 'advised' him on what he 'should' have done... that's a whole different thing.

[Ghost]

@Cupcake Yeaaaah. Dudes are weird. For some it's always either flirtation, pissing on territory, or both.

The problem I'm dealing with involves a married guy telling one of my female friends with ridiculously low self esteem that he'd sleep with her if she was desperate, but he's not because he doesn't find her attractive...but would totally throw her a bone.

I wish that in certain cases beating someone up wasn't so illegal.

ETA: Oh, and then the guy proceeded to tell her how fascinating she is and comment on how x and y parts of her body are really cute.

So. Predatory.

[Ganymede]

@Ghost said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

If he's attractive and can be trained to not,be a douche, you may want to evaluate if he rolled a '1' on his flirtation attempt?

If you saw a girl in a hallway who had dropped her books, do you:

A. Ask her if she needs assistance;
B. Ask her if she needs pointers on how to carry books properly; or
C. Pick up her books for her?

The proper answer is A. Anything else is unacceptable. Cupcake's dickbag pulled a B.

[Ghost]

@Ganymede Oh I know this! I know a lot of really awkward, stupid guys that try to flirt by showing how much of an expert they are in stuff that the girls they like are interested in, and its like: FUCK, man noooooo stooop. A train wreck in slow motion.

A lot of the nerds in my town are into the Comicon scene. Ya see this a lot here.

What? The pretty girl I like also enjoys X-Men comics? I will woo her by testing her width of knowledge and then proving to her that I'm more of a superfan! She will be overcome by sexual attraction to my dominance that SHE WILL BE MIIIINE.

Anyway, no. Not in this cake. That's annoying AF @Cupcake

[Alamias]

@Ganymede said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

@Ghost said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

C. Pick up her books for her?

See, this would be me. I'd help pick up the books, but I would help pick up the books if it was a male, female, alien, Sasquatch, Yeti, Frankenstein's Monster, etc. I'm just wired to help out, and it wouldn't even dawn on me to ask if they wanted or needed help, I just would want to help.

(Yes, I am also the kind of person that opens the door for people (regardless of gender), and does all that other stuff.)

[Ghost]

@Alamias In Texas you can be legally murdered with a shotgun for touching someone else's books without permission.

Probably true.

[Alamias]

@Ghost Good thing I don't live in Texas then...

[Lotherio]

@Ghost said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

What? The pretty girl I like also enjoys X-Men comics? I will woo her by testing her width of knowledge and then proving to her that I'm more of a superfan! She will be overcome by sexual attraction to my dominance that SHE WILL BE MIIIINE.

As this is the Real World Peeve thread and a lot of fellow fans/nerds/etc. do this among their friends, in the middle of movies ... a PSA, please stop. We don't care if the dagger Clint Barton used when his arrows ran out was from issue 12 of secret avengers which foreshadows that Ronin, the original owner of the dagger, would be involved and you're predicted this will relate to Kree/Skrull stuff in later movies. Honestly, whether a fellow nerdist knew what you're poining out or not, or the person next to you is a new fan to the movie-verses, we don't need to listen to you talking over five minutes of movie time to impress your friends or some girl or boy or whatever you think you're impressing.

My daughter is old enough to enjoy easter eggs and surprises and then asks for confirmation on what she sees sometimes but I remind her to ask after the movie - and we'll gladly talk about it after the movie over a burger or ice cream or something. She's learning not to talk about this stuff during movies, you the adult should know this by now too.

[Ghost]

@Lotherio My SO, who I very much love, stomped a nerd's dick in the dirt once when he did this.

Guy: Oh, so you like the X-Men? So youre into mutants, like Juggernaut? (obvs trick question)

Her: Cain isn't a mutant, but right now Colossus has the Crimson Gem of Cyttorak

Guy: Whoa, wait, Colossus got it??

Me (mentally): "Yeaaaaaah you kick that ass, baby. You kick that ass hard."

[surreality]

@Ghost said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

@Cupcake Yeaaaah. Dudes are weird. For some it's always either flirtation, pissing on territory, or both.

The problem I'm dealing with involves a married guy telling one of my female friends with ridiculously low self esteem that he'd sleep with her if she was desperate, but he's not because he doesn't find her attractive...but would totally throw her a bone.

I wish that in certain cases beating someone up wasn't so illegal.

ETA: Oh, and then the guy proceeded to tell her how fascinating she is and comment on how x and y parts of her body are really cute.

So. Predatory.

I am very much a 'smile like I sucked a lemon and hate the person and then find a reason to leave the conversation' sort of person in most cases similar to this.

Then there's that rare motherfucker that flips the switch in my brain from 'I cringe from social conflict' to 'anyone present will be cringing every time they look at this poor asshole after whatever the hell comes out of my mouth'.

It's only happened a few times in my whole damn life, but that? Holy shit would that have been one of them.

[Moon-Man]

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[Arkandel]

I know guys, he's already gone.

[Roz]

@Arkandel Lmao. How many reports did you end up with?

His name was MALIGNANT or something like that before I guess he switched to Moon-Man. I was just like, lol, not even trying

[surreality]

@Roz I just send them the links to whatever alt-right memejunk he's referencing now. I guess Malignant was too subtle, and he had to change it.

ETA: I'm almost sad to see that post go. Rick pretending to be a Chad was probably the closest thing we ever had to action in the play-by-post department on the forum.

[saosmash]

This week, I have:

lost 1 job (of two)
broken 1 paper shredder
driven 1 parent to the ER
stained my second favorite shirt with coffee
spilled approximately 3 pounds of goddamned paper discovery all over the floor of an elevator
had a parent admitted to the hospital with the pneumonia (on her second trip to the ER of the week)
may have to cancel a vacation i was really looking forward to due to above-mentioned

aaaand i just broke my motherfucking fingernail. Can I be done now please?

[Sparks]

@saosmash Just look at it as pre-paying luck debt down to a negative amount, so it'll level out again for some really great thing that'll happen to you soon. (Which, hopefully, will be true.)

[Derp]

@saosmash said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

This week, I have:

lost 1 job (of two)
broken 1 paper shredder
driven 1 parent to the ER
stained my second favorite shirt with coffee
spilled approximately 3 pounds of goddamned paper discovery all over the floor of an elevator
had a parent admitted to the hospital with the pneumonia (on her second trip to the ER of the week)
may have to cancel a vacation i was really looking forward to due to above-mentioned

aaaand i just broke my motherfucking fingernail. Can I be done now please?

Clearly you allowed your contract with the devil to lapse. Time to re-up!

[Ganymede]

@Derp said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

Clearly you allowed your contract with the devil to lapse. Time to re-up!

He's hitting a salary cap after signing Le'Veon Bell.

[Ghost]

3 coworkers. All three are friends. 2 female, 1 male.

Coworker female A marries the male. Takes his surname.

Coworker male leaves company. Coworker females remain.

Notice that coworker females A and B don't talk to each other.

TMW you find out Coworker female A is going by her maiden name again, but ALSO find out Coworker female B is now engaged to the guy.

ETA: I swear, my life exists as a mostly drama free cottage on the tumultuous shores of Drama Island. I should not know the things I know.