Monday, March 08, 2004
Drama and Gaming.
Its seems that gamers, at least the gamers I know love two things. Drama and games. I think we do as much crying as we do playing. Between the anal retentive guys trying to force everyone to conform to their rules, to obnoxious assholes going for shock value to the out of control anger fits that we have seen it’s a wonder that we game together at all. We are so dysfunctional as a group its not even funny.
I read this article called Five Geek Social Fallacies. I read this and I see our gaming group in it. We suffer from all of these to one degree or another. However I think we suffer from #1 the worst. If we didn’t we could have cut the disruptive folks right out.
See there is a long history of gaming with about 80% of the group. They have played together back in middle school, and it’s not even conceivable to anyone that some of those people are not adding to the gaming group. I’m not saying we can’t be friends with everyone, but I think gaming together and being a functioning gaming group might be more then we can hope for. The newer folks in the group are not all innocent either. I wonder how the drama would be if all the new folks just let the original gamers be and do their own thing. I don’t want to do that though, since I like everyone in the group, some more then others however.
What’s funny is just by posting this, it is almost for sure going to cause some drama all by itself. I have a feeling some folks are going to take this personally, even though I never mentioned any names. We are all so ready to be oppressed.
I read this article called Five Geek Social Fallacies. I read this and I see our gaming group in it. We suffer from all of these to one degree or another. However I think we suffer from #1 the worst. If we didn’t we could have cut the disruptive folks right out.
See there is a long history of gaming with about 80% of the group. They have played together back in middle school, and it’s not even conceivable to anyone that some of those people are not adding to the gaming group. I’m not saying we can’t be friends with everyone, but I think gaming together and being a functioning gaming group might be more then we can hope for. The newer folks in the group are not all innocent either. I wonder how the drama would be if all the new folks just let the original gamers be and do their own thing. I don’t want to do that though, since I like everyone in the group, some more then others however.
What’s funny is just by posting this, it is almost for sure going to cause some drama all by itself. I have a feeling some folks are going to take this personally, even though I never mentioned any names. We are all so ready to be oppressed.
