Posts made by Ghost

Gritty has been absolved of wrongdoing in accusation of punching a kid.

Apparently the kid was wearing a Penguins sweater and the rest of the hockey loving world went "Ferda".

@Testament I'd tread a little carefully, TBH.

If this GM is socially awkward or has any sort of confidence issues, the girl sounds like the sort of strong-willed Yoko that could break up the band. Some people will sell their souls to strong-willed people. D&D is the companionship every few weeks. Girlfriend is daily. Advantage: girlfriend. Some of these people are just fine alienating their SOs friends until they get the person all to themselves.

My gaming group has had a few people being their SOs to game and it's mostly horrible to the point that we implemented a house rule: RPG TIME IS FOR RPG PLAYERS ONLY. Weve had my buddy's annoying girlfriends sewing while we play, reading, etc and making commentary while asking the players to stop so he could get her drinks. I've heard of a few groups where a girlfriend would hang out topless for attention to try to distract from game. SO wants to watch TV while we game? Fucking great, put on some headphones and don't chirp. Otherwise, they can go do something else.

Clearly this girlfriend (cant remember if you said shes playing or not) is doing a little bit of divide and conquer, here.

Other ideas to use house rules as a way to stop this stuff?

• House Rule: No politics or religion
• House Rule: Keep it IC. No coming after people for their personal lives.

The more you try to keep things clear that HER behavior is disruptive despite her hate of YOUR beliefs, the better off you'll be. This is a HER problem. Not a GM problem or a YOU problem. A "THIS SPECIFIC PERSON IS BEING RUDE AND AGGRESSIVE" problem.

She joined into THIS group, not the other way around.

But if you push too hard and if this GM is like: "zoinks, I'll never do better than this girl" your gaming group could be in jeopardy.

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

I love Rifts. It's a glorious monstrosity of a setting where you can be anything and anything can happen. What other game allows a party comprised of a demigod, a vampire, a dragon, and a terminator like cyborg to go up against a Cthulhian like alien monster from another universe?

Oh the setting is just fine. It's the system that'll get ya.

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

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

I'm tempted to make a Champions or Heroes Unlimited MUSH just to spite people.

Riiiiifts.

I almost flagged that post for moderation.

You're a monster.

@Lotherio lol. Eastside Christian Baphomet Heads

Unexpected Lita Ford Ass-Whoopin.

True story. Saw a Christian high school with their team name "Trojans", which is fuckin weird because Troy was dedicated to Apollo.

@Ganymede Sure about that? I'm 99.999% sure the Blue Jackets were named after...

...Kim Kardashian wearing a jacket that is blue.

Those guys seriously need to get a name like "SHARK PUNCHERS" or something better like "UNION RIFLES".

You leave my filthy desert mongrel dogs (who also share the same name as what you call human traffickers from Mexico) alone.

Disclaimer: I get the history behind the Blue Jackets name and it's cool. I'm just talking shit. It's also just...blue jackets. I got a blue hoodie in my closet. Get a monster/animal in there.

Columbus Blue Jackets need to rework their team name/image.

Blue jackets. Pffft. Weaksauce.

@Auspice Dunno what you just said, but in my brain it looked like Nic Cage in Mandy with a keytar and a soundtrack by Europe

@Tinuviel Oh God those are bad, too.

I got one of those today about this horrible article about a horrible serial rapist/killer. The post said "why is nobody talking about this, but still talking about R. Kelly???"

...because that guy didn't write the theme song to Space Jam?

Rumor has it the new Seattle NHL expansion team may end up being the SEATTLE KRAKEN.

If this is true their sweater revenue is gonna be through the roof. This is a fucking rad idea.

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

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

New peeve:

Facebook memes about troops, jesus, or anything that includes the words BET YOU WONT SHARE THIS!

I'll bet that particular branch of the sharing stream dies with me. Fuck off.

Say AMEN if you like this quote and God will bless you with $777,777.77

Hahaha yeah.

So it ended in...

...a good place?

New peeve:

Facebook memes about troops, jesus, or anything that includes the words BET YOU WONT SHARE THIS!

I'll bet that particular branch of the sharing stream dies with me. Fuck off.

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

@Testament

I’d be embarrassed as fuck and be looking for another SO.

Keep your chirp down, bitch, it’s not praccy.

Yeah, was thinking the same thing. If that whole thing is in the early stages, total red flag. GM bunnies kill teams. Gotta get that W. Pants down time.

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

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

Bad Hipster

Is this like the spinoff to Bad Moms or Bad Grandpa? Or Bad Teacher?

The pitch:

Zach Galifianakis and John Cena try to be hipster amongst a population of hipsters including: Jason Schwartzman, Zoe Deschanel, Demetri Martin, and Jared Leto.

ETA: And no Conor Oberst in the soundtrack because I want to be able to watch it.

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

I just spent 5 minutes trying to spell corduroy. My initial attempts were so bad even spellcheck was like 'bitch i got no idea'.

You dont know how to spell corduroy but you like Conor Oberst.

That's some black belt level "Bad Hipster" shit there. In the years I knew the scrawny douche I don't think I ever saw him wearing anything but.

@surreality Yanno, every time I see the word Nazi, I hear Brad Pitt.

"GNAT-SEES"

Thanks Quentin Tarantino.

Second thought: Kinda feel like calling them "gnat-sees" takes a little of that power away from them.

"I am a proud member of the Knot-see-"
"Whatever, Gnat-see"
"Uhm, I believe it's pronounced knot-"
"Oh dont you feed me that Samhain is saaaaw-when crap you anti semite 1940s larper."

(ETA: retroactive sidebar notice)

Trust me after 4 episodes detailing goku's run down some 700 miles of Snake Way across months worth of it, I totally get why there is an abridged version.

Alas, i masochist out of solidarity for my poor friend having to listen to Minmei's yowling.