Of course but sometimes talking about it privately still does not work. Or gets ignored. It would be great if people would always be reasonable. Sometimes they are not and one has to be blunt.
Yeah, if they don't heed your advice, the answer is not to resort to consistent verbal abuse. That's like advising someone to lose weight, and then when they don't calling them fat during the sessions. This is not how adults [are supposed to] handle problems.
Sure. but a DM that is that rude is not someone I wanna game with. If someone is stinky, you take them aside and tell them privately.I think it's the other way around. No one likes gaming with players with a player with poor hygiene. I get sometimes that coming from work it's unavoidable. After a point I'm willing to tell both a player and/or DM to wash up before coming to a session. Even if it means being late.
Yep good reason for kicking a GM.
If you smell like rotting death from 10' away, the DM saying it outloud didn't embarrass you; you embarrassed you. I assure you that telling you privately wouldn't alleviate that. Everyone already knew you stank.
stuff like this makes me glad I have almost no sense of smell, unless you come directly from shoveling s!&! I won't notice :-)I think it's the other way around. No one likes gaming with players with a player with poor hygiene. I get sometimes that coming from work it's unavoidable. After a point I'm willing to tell both a player and/or DM to wash up before coming to a session. Even if it means being late.
Yep good reason for kicking a GM.
CHALLENGE ACCEPTED!!! *puts on hip waders and grabs soiled shovel*
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If you smell like rotting death from 10' away, the DM saying it outloud didn't embarrass you; you embarrassed you. I assure you that telling you privately wouldn't alleviate that. Everyone already knew you stank.Sure. but a DM that is that rude is not someone I wanna game with. If someone is stinky, you take them aside and tell them privately.I think it's the other way around. No one likes gaming with players with a player with poor hygiene. I get sometimes that coming from work it's unavoidable. After a point I'm willing to tell both a player and/or DM to wash up before coming to a session. Even if it means being late.
Yep good reason for kicking a GM.
Why are people assuming the GM is always right...maybe the GM was just being a jerk by pointing at the player and saying that is how a rotting Zombie smells like.
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Also, "embarrassment" is an emotion driven by our perceptions of how others see us, not how others see us.
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101: Making comments about the DM's mother, whilst playing in the DM's parent's basement...
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Of course but sometimes talking about it privately still does not work. Or gets ignored. It would be great if people would always be reasonable. Sometimes they are not and one has to be blunt.
In that case you ask them to leave- politely. Being rude is never the right option.
Of course but sometimes talking about it privately still does not work. Or gets ignored. It would be great if people would always be reasonable. Sometimes they are not and one has to be blunt.In that case you ask them to leave- politely. Being rude is never the right option.
Pragmatically speaking; that is a complete falsehood.
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Yeah, if they don't heed your advice, the answer is not to resort to consistent verbal abuse. That's like advising someone to lose weight, and then when they don't calling them fat during the sessions. This is not how adults [are supposed to] handle problems.
Again I never said consistent verbal abuse. A occasional verbal reminder then eventually blunt. To be honest and blunt no one wants to play with a person who has poor hygiene. It can be done just not by myself or my gaming group. I won't remind anyone of being overweight as long as they don't complain about feeling unwell because of being overweight constantly.
Why are people assuming the GM is always right...maybe the GM was just being a jerk by pointing at the player and saying that is how a rotting Zombie smells like.
Entirely possible then the DM is being a jerk. Though I'm assuming that the DM is pointing to a player with poor hygiene.
In that case you ask them to leave- politely. Being rude is never the right option.
Telling a person to leave no matter how polite because of poor hygiene still is rude in a certain sense.
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103: Stealing stuff from the host's house.
People bickered a lot about etiquette. A lot of people thought the whole argument was crazy silly. I'm sure the "spilled milk" joke helped it gain prominence, of course.
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104: For Hiding In My Closet.
I'm confused. I was saying that the comparison between "Don't cry over spilled milk" and "Don't cry over drunk milk" might have made the "foul milkdrinker" stick in people's heads.
Mostly, though, the thread is referenced often because it's a great example of IRL melodrama becoming a Huge Deal on the Advice forums.
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I'm confused. I was saying that the comparison between "Don't cry over spilled milk" and "Don't cry over drunk milk" might have made the "foul milkdrinker" stick in people's heads.
Mostly, though, the thread is referenced often because it's a great example of IRL melodrama becoming a Huge Deal on the Advice forums.
Oh geez, are the Paizo forums are becoming a coherent culture in their own right? ABANDON SHIP!!!
It's got raw eggs in it! Two hundred people die each year from raw egg cookie dough poisoning.
Exactly 200? Never 199 or 201? Sounds like a factiod, not a fact.
Oh geez, are the Paizo forums are becoming a coherent culture in their own right? ABANDON SHIP!!!I'm confused. I was saying that the comparison between "Don't cry over spilled milk" and "Don't cry over drunk milk" might have made the "foul milkdrinker" stick in people's heads.
Mostly, though, the thread is referenced often because it's a great example of IRL melodrama becoming a Huge Deal on the Advice forums.
I wouldn't exactly call it coherent.
I see it as something akin to Bartertown.
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Bartertown? Try Toontown.
It's got raw eggs in it! Two hundred people die each year from raw egg cookie dough poisoning.Exactly 200? Never 199 or 201? Sounds like a factiod, not a fact.
The number is kept carefully steady by order of the Illuminati. One year it was 198. Ten people were killed in retaliation.
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Bartertown? Try Toontown.
The number is kept carefully steady by order of the Illuminati. One year it was 198. Ten people were killed in retaliation.It's got raw eggs in it! Two hundred people die each year from raw egg cookie dough poisoning.Exactly 200? Never 199 or 201? Sounds like a factiod, not a fact.
Raw Egg Cookie Dough Suicide Squad reporting for duty!
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105. Taking another player's keys while they are in the bathroom, feigning going out to your car so that you can get your "forgotten" cell phone, whilst actually moving the other player's car around the corner and coming back before the other player returns from said bathroom so that when they leave, they think that someone stole their car.
Yes, this did actually happen.
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105. Taking another player's keys while they are in the bathroom, feigning going out to your car so that you can get your "forgotten" cell phone, whilst actually moving the other player's car around the corner and coming back before the other player returns from said bathroom so that when they leave, they think that someone stole their car.
Yes, this did actually happen.
Sounds like something I'd do to someone in my group ... although I guess it really depends how close and how long you've known the person (this person I've known almost 20 years).
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In high school (30+ years ago) this one guy had a tiny, tiny car that a bunch of us picked up, loaded into the back of a pickup truck, and drove across town and unloaded it at his house. He never knew who did it or how his car got home w/out him.
Sounds like something I'd do to someone in my group ... although I guess it really depends how close and how long you've known the person (this person I've known almost 20 years).105. Taking another player's keys while they are in the bathroom, feigning going out to your car so that you can get your "forgotten" cell phone, whilst actually moving the other player's car around the corner and coming back before the other player returns from said bathroom so that when they leave, they think that someone stole their car.
Yes, this did actually happen.
The two players in question have known each other that long.
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The two players in question have known each other that long.Sounds like something I'd do to someone in my group ... although I guess it really depends how close and how long you've known the person (this person I've known almost 20 years).105. Taking another player's keys while they are in the bathroom, feigning going out to your car so that you can get your "forgotten" cell phone, whilst actually moving the other player's car around the corner and coming back before the other player returns from said bathroom so that when they leave, they think that someone stole their car.
Yes, this did actually happen.
Then unless they hate each other that's not a reason to kick someone out of a group :-P
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105. Taking another player's keys while they are in the bathroom, feigning going out to your car so that you can get your "forgotten" cell phone, whilst actually moving the other player's car around the corner and coming back before the other player returns from said bathroom so that when they leave, they think that someone stole their car.
Yes, this did actually happen.
Wow I'm glad that never happened with our group. Chances are whomever moved the car would get punched in the face. Deservedly so imo. Were pretty easy going yet this kind of BS behavior disguised as a "joke" we are not impressed. It might be funny for the person who played the prank. Not so funny for the guy who has to call the police.
I never got the whole "this is my milk, food etc.. n one is allowed to use it". I get if it's a special kind of milk that a gamer is allowed to drink. As a group we share the food. Any gamer that does at my table better bring a cooler because he is not putting his milk in my fridge. He or she is also not allowed to take food that others brought. Fair is fair and it works both ways imo.
While moving someone's car is a pretty s&~%ty thing to do (my brother did this to me once) I hardly think it deserves a punch to the face:-) seems a bit of an over reaction doesn't it,
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I never eat anyone else's food if I haven't brought any to share:-)
And I never go in someone else's fridge with out asking every time I do, its just good manners :-)
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It's easy to say that when no one moves your car. It's a huge hassle. Not to mention depending on the police officer mood he or she might even fine the person who taught it was a joke. Maybe not a punch in the face. Definitely not wanting to talk or even possibly no longer be friends. It's all fun and games up until the person can the police. Or had something of value stored in the car. Which depending on the neighbourhood it gets moved to maybe stolen.
Well if they take it so far that the police are involved then I can understand a little more, but in case you missed my post above I said it did happen to me, but my brother didn't take it that far! :-)
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The police weren't called. It lasted just long enough to get a reaction from the guy who's car was moved.
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If Someone took my car keys and moved my car without my permission just to get a reaction out of me, I will make sure to see the reaction they have when I call the police, have them arrested and brought up on charges for theft. I don't care who it is, my best friend, my girlfriend, my mother, the pope. They crossed the line and it would be over between us.
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If Someone took my car keys and moved my car without my permission just to get a reaction out of me, I will make sure to see the reaction they have when I call the police, have them arrested and brought up on charges for theft. I don't care who it is, my best friend, my girlfriend, my mother, the pope. They crossed the line and it would be over between us.
Wow ...
If Someone took my car keys and moved my car without my permission just to get a reaction out of me, I will make sure to see the reaction they have when I call the police, have them arrested and brought up on charges for theft. I don't care who it is, my best friend, my girlfriend, my mother, the pope. They crossed the line and it would be over between us.
If your police are anything like the ones I know, they'd laugh it off.
You'd be asking to bring up serious criminal charges on someone for a prank. Hell, you could even be arrested for 911 Abuse if you piss the officers off for wasting their time.
Really though, trying to have someone arrested for theft, because they moved your car is a serious dick move. You could potentially ruin someone's life with criminal charges, just because they made you upset for a bit.
Forget 101 reasons to be booted from a table, that'd be #1 on the list of "101 reasons for your friends to immediately remove you from all of their lives."
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I wouldn't call 911. I would just call the main number. Then I can't get brought up on charges for 911 abuse. If they laugh it off, fine. It would still be over between me and whoever did that to me and thought it would be funny. Certain things you don't do that crosses a line for me. What if after car was moved I get a call that my girlfriend was in a bad accident and I spend time looking for the car. While I am looking for my car to go be with her, she dies. It's still funny right?
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I wouldn't call 911. I would just call the main number. Then I can't get brought up on charges for 911 abuse. If they laugh it off, fine. It would still be over between me and whoever did that to me and thought it would be funny. Certain things you don't do that crosses a line for me. What if after car was moved I get a call that my girlfriend was in a bad accident and I spend time looking for the car. While I am looking for my car to go be with her, she dies. It's still funny right?
Ooh, or what if a meteor crashes onto the Earth, and the Nanomachines inside take over the world, while the only thing that can stop them is locked in your car?
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Really though, trying to have someone arrested for theft, because they moved your car is a serious dick move. You could potentially ruin someone's life with criminal charges, just because they made you upset for a bit.
Hmmm. Involving the civil authorities might indeed ruin someone's life with criminal (indeed, felony) charges, because the charges would stick. Not because they made you upset for a bit. Because. They stole. Your car.
106. Grabbing a small piercing weapon and attempting to kill the GM with it.
Nobody said it was a nice thing to do, that's sort of what pranks are...
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I just try to play with grown ups and that removes a lot of these problems. While some people find the moving the car thing amusing, I know I don't. I'd likely find another group.
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Really though, trying to have someone arrested for theft, because they moved your car is a serious dick move. You could potentially ruin someone's life with criminal charges, just because they made you upset for a bit.
Hmmm. Involving the civil authorities might indeed ruin someone's life with criminal (indeed, felony) charges, because the charges would stick. Not because they made you upset for a bit. Because. They stole. Your car.
106. Grabbing a small piercing weapon and attempting to kill the GM with it.
Adding. Periods every. Few words. Doesn't make. Your point. Any better.