• Asafum@feddit.nl
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    11 months ago

    I have a strange type of social anxiety that keeps me from playing multiplayer games online with anyone other than people I know in person because I feel like I’m going to group with one of these weirdos and then get stuck with them following me around or messaging me constantly lol

    I know it’s an irrational fear, but my brain is dumb.

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      It’s not irrational, you aren’t dumb. I feel the same. I still don’t want to play with you.

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      Weirdly I have no problem with being left with people I’ve never met as long as I know someone and they introduce us. If a friend trusts us together, we can skip the awkward feeling out steps

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      Yeah, as a DM if these were player characters I would be ecstatic. I always have trouble pulling creative ideas out of my players, even if those creative ideas are borrowed.

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    Second kid looks like he’s a creative thinker that knows what he wants and how to achieve it. Seems like an asset for a D&D group if he’s not also an asshole 🤷

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    Shit I gotta vibe-check other players as a player; if your table gives me Elder Scrolls racist vibes, I can’t be fuckin with it

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      I mean… its possible to play a character that is racist, but like evil characters I wouldnt trust a first time player doing it.

      Even Gimli and Legolas were racists after all

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        Oh no, I think you misunderstand my meaning-- when I say “elder scrolls racists”, I mean like-- have you ever seen how the comment sections for those AI voice Dagoth Ur videos always end up bleeding to a point where people are saying Stormfront-level shit but swapping “jews” for $pickAnElderScrollsSpecies? The people who always seem to have a lazy fill-in for a fantasy race that sounds like it was lifted part and parcel from the things 4channers like to say about existent minorities? That. If your table feels like that, I ain’t fuckin with it.