SCUMBAG DnD Player FAKES Addiction For Attention

[@poesenpai6475]

As a recovering addict myself, that whole BS of pretending to be an addict is insulting AF. For someone to have the balls to make light of something that has taken so many friends and family from me pisses me off to no end. 7 years 5 months and 6 days clean as of this comment if anyone is wondering.

[@BlueTressym]

Congratulations; I am incredibly glad for you. What I think of Thom is unrepeatable.

[@RMD00]

Congrats my friend. Here is to many more years clean and happiness!

[@AdmiralBlackstar]

Oof, that canned air thing reminded me of my sister's ex. After she left in what was meant to just be a break, the a-hole tried to get her back by chugging down a bunch of pills. She did call 911 for him, but did thankfully have the wisdom to leave him for good. Though in later years she admitted regretting saving him. In her defense his own sister and mother have suggested they wouldn't have judged her if she hadn't...so gives you some idea of how bad he was.

[@Xalerdane]

_JFC._

[@asioca1992]

Man, this story...I'm honestly at a loss for words. Thom has some serious issues and it's a shame that Mandy didn't take the hint and GTFO when she had the chance. Seriously, anyone who would risk self-deletion just to get back at his girlfriend for calling him out for pretending to have an addiction is not someone you should be hanging out with, let alone agreeing to marry.

[@Imtheakeyboard]

You gotta feel a little bad for Thom though even though he is a a asshole he literally had some fucked up parents that literally recreated some sad backstory that a character would have in a tv show but still no excuse to be an asshole Thom

[@lyudmilapavlichenko7551]

Younger people today don't realize what life was like before the internet. We didn't have the resources available today and the collected wisdom of community. You learned how to play D&D from a friend or friend group. If things were toxic you didn't know any better. If you had a "that guy", power gamer, in your group You either put up with it or you didn't play as finding groups was much harder. They usually consisted of already established friend groups. Just to make it clear I'm not trying to sound like a old lady yelling at youth, I much prefer the access to information we have now. Spotting toxic players, finding gaming groups that fit for you and Examples of good play are a good thing for the hobby. Although I still prefer face to face play around a table, take it from someone who's been playing D&D for Over 30 years, stories like these have improved the hobby tremendously. 🖤

[@Renkencen]

The whole Tom family have no photo of Tom on display explained alot on why he is such an attention seeker!

[@TigerKirby215]

Mandy needs couples therapy (after a breakup ideally, with the therapy being her talking about everything Thom did) and Thom needs so many different types of therapy I can't even begin to list them.

[@Theokal3]

"You won't come out of this with your faith in Humanity reinforced." Oh, that's fine, I have lost that a loooong while ago.

[@corvusdove874]

I'm the OP for this post, and thank you for sharing this story. It was a ride, and taught me a LOT of lessons.

[@marybdrake1472]

Holy freaking crap, pretending to be a recovering addict might just be worse than faking cancer.

[@evangedeon2194]

Thom is a Batman villain. Mandy needs to dump him. In a landfill!

[@hatihrodvitnisson]

I know it’s no excuse, but it sounds like Thom’s relationship with his parents really messed him up.

[@zacharysieg2305]

6:38 Say it with me: mal-ISH-us-lee.

[@patjacksonpodium]

J E S U S. That dude's actions are unironically exactly like something Sweet Dee from It's Always Sunny would do for attention. Stealing sensitive documents from people to be the hero later when you "find them?" That is *textbook* Sweet Dee. 😬

[@chariotboi5061]

"The gang ruins D&D"

[@LiteraryDM]

Hears "book of erotic fantasy." Oh this is going to go grreeeeaat. EDIT: Whooooaaaa that went in so many directions. I feel like I need red string to follow everything. Wow!

[@patjacksonpodium]

Oh yes. That's one of those weeeeird books published under the Open License rules. Goes for a ton of money now because it's rare. I remember hearing about it from Spoony on his show Counter Monkey, if anyone else remembers that bit of internet history.

[@LiteraryDM]

@@patjacksonpodium yeah that's where I heard about it actually. Looked it up despite warnings and regrets were had that day.

[@patjacksonpodium]

@@LiteraryDM Yeah, same. Many regrets lol. (Also, man, I miss Spoony. It's too bad his mental issues seemed to get the better of him, because for me he was the absolute best of the Angry Reviewers™️)

[@dudeist_priest]

That was one of the cutest Lucky clips yet

[@Casandraelf]

The paws!

[@ByrdieFae]

He refused therapy and she still married him?? What in the fresh hell...

[@BlueTressym]

Abusive partners target people who are susceptible to their bs. Mandy needed serious help and didn't get it. I just hope she's still alive and safe - and preferably divorced.

[@ByrdieFae]

@@BlueTressym I hope for all those this, too.

[@notoriouswhitemoth]

Why do all ttrpgs undersell rapiers? They're so big and unwieldy there are training weapons _for their training weapons!_ If you think it's even _possible_ to dual-wield rapiers, then what you think is a rapier is probably a training weapon for rapiers.

[@cadbane7780]

In 5e you can dual wield long swords with the appropriate feat

[@notoriouswhitemoth]

A rapier is comparable in length to a claymore. If you can dual-wield rapiers you should also be able to dual-wield greatswords.

[@aquicandaquak822]

Holy shit they're the weight of longswords

[@naarelservs9713]

I assume they see rapiers as foils

[@cadbane7780]

According to google. Rapier is 41. Claymore is 42. And Long Sword is 33 - 43 inches on average.

[@neckermangames5872]

I know this might sound seriously f*cked up, but if I was Mandy, I might've slept in that day.

[@REfan2002]

Lucky being cute is what we all need.

[@slagarcrue85]

Correct all of doggies cats being cute including lucky is what we all need. Though lucky and nipesy tend to get the most screen time.

[@REfan2002]

@@slagarcrue85 But we kitty parties when they show up!

[@slagarcrue85]

@@REfan2002 o we party all righty because every body every body wants to be a catttttt! Lol

[@tsifirakiehl4250]

I honestly cannot think of anything to say about this nightmare of a story. Holy shit.

[@KugelBlitz0]

Starkiller's death wasn't pointless, he inspires the rebellion to exist in the first place? Before Disney snapped it from canon.

[@patjacksonpodium]

🚩🚩🚩::blows whistle::🚩🚩🚩 "Flag on the play: Fueling Star Wars argument in the comment section. 5 yard penalty, repeat 1st Down."

[@KnightsRealm98]

Starkiller's been non to semi-canon for a long time. George Lucas didn't like the character, so he treated Force Unleashed as non-canon. He did the same with the KotOR games, but liked the idea of Revan (even wanted to write him into Clone Wars). The EU's kind of a mess when it comes to canonization, but Disney certainly didn't help matters there.

[@ArawnNox]

@15:00 What is he, Edward Norton from Fight Club? Edit: HA! Doge and I are on the same wavelength

[@theofficerfactory2625]

Aww. Hello Lucky. Story 1: It started off quite good except for min/maxer. Uh, the pregnancy bit is a big red flag if not handled right. That was quite manic. Ohhh. This is not good; being the forgotten child per say. Ok, the red flags are piling up too fast now! That was clever of DM of blowing up the Galleon but the issues are piling up fast. Ok; that was dickish; attending a meeting just for the ego boost. Uh… I think we have some serious hidden issues with Mandy and Thom. That was Hunter: A Parenting moment there. Brutal. Ok, Thom is starving for attention and his plans are hair brained at that.

[@corvusdove874]

Believe it or not, the pregnancy played out well. Jane's character had the baby, but not as expected, as when she saw the penalties late-term pregnancy inflicted in the BoEF play out, she wanted to get away from the concept. So, I had them enter a "groundhog day" situation where they were ensnared in magic in a village that looped time, but every time the party got the puzzle wrong (such as by killing the Mayor), the day started again, but with the village distressed a bit more, like the plants rotting or the buildings being damaged. I ruled a component of the magic caused Jane's character to give birth to a baby-sized gem instead of an actual baby, one with which the sorceress absconded, but the key to getting out of the trap was to smash the gem at the bottom of the village well. When they did, the town vanished, having been trapped in that loop for thousands of years, and the party was standing in the old ruins. Then there was no more BoEF usage requests lol.

[@theofficerfactory2625]

@Druid of Scosglen Lol. Big D insanity indeed.

[@MyLittlePonyTheater]

Aggressive metagamers generally shouldn't be welcomed in most groups. Either the group is 100% metagamers, or it's 0% metagamers. It's surprisingly easy for a DM to keep information away from their players that their characters wouldn't know, and it's easy enough to explain a player's monster knowledge away as a character's own monster knowledge in a world where these monsters are real. This isn't meta-gaming. For you problem players out there, power gaming & min-maxing also aren't metagaming. It's perfectly acceptable to min-max, and it won't harm any decent player's fun at the table. Min-maxing doesn't automatically make you a worse roleplayer any more than building a terrible character automatically makes you a better one. Metagaming is so heinous because it breaks verisimilitude. You take a logical story with internal consistency and you break that consistency by declaring that a character suddenly acts on information they are proven not to know. The boundary between player and character blurs, and we're splashed with the cold reality that we're just a bunch of nerds playing at a table. This can be fine, of course, and D&D is obviously a game played by a bunch of nerds at a table, but most players in the hobby like to use this game to escape their realities in the same way people do when reading books. We like to immerse ourselves in another world, and suspend our disbelief for just long enough to feel what our characters feel, and truly be there in that fantasy world we've all created. Metagaming ruins all this for everyone, which is why it's so bad. It should really be reserved for pure meat grinder games with no roleplay, and nothing else. No metagaming is acceptable, because what most people consider "light" metagaming can easily be explained as information that characters could be explained to have. It's either blatant metagaming, or it's not.

[@Remoniq]

That sounds like a powder keg ready to explode, I'm in lack of words.

[@thronezwei4412]

*Wow* Thom has enough issues to be Sports Illustrated.

[@Nomorehero07]

What I don't get is why the heck did she get married to that guy. Like WTF

[@trevordawson2727]

That is absolutely addict behavior.

[@rawrpopsicles]

missed opportunity to say “kitty-mine”

[@JacobL228]

Lucky was in top form in this video. So cute!😍

[@solarchos4352]

0:22 - OMG! The Micro-Panther has reared up in a terrifying display of ferocity!! DON'T LET THE PAWS HIT YOU!!!!

[@ImBatmann1986]

They need to make a movie or show about star killer and use the same actor as in the game

[@deepseastonecore3017]

Thanks 4 all the hard work.

[@travisbishop782]

That's a horrible story, if true. The whole "Fight Club" thing was a little far fetched.

[@corvusdove874]

This happened right around 2010. All players grew up in the 1990s, and Fight Club was a big part of our pop culture. I honestly think it's what gave Thom the idea to do it in the first place, and there was a Cornerstone Recovery center about 5 minutes from where he lived.

[@travisbishop782]

@@corvusdove874 first of all, i'm sorry for casting doubt on the story. Second, that's fucked up.

[@corvusdove874]

@@travisbishop782 It's all good. I'd rather have been lying the whole time too LOL. Not something one wants to believe is real. Unfortunately, truth is stranger than fiction.

[@theinquisitorisamage1653]

Oh hell yeah, Doge uploaded on my birthday - and Lucky is cute as always!

[@vortega472]

Lucky wants to be picked up - can you rub his belly or does he turn into a tiny kill machine? My kids (black kitty and tabby) tolerate it but aren't big fans.

[@TalkativeHands]

What a weird story.

[@AzriusN]

Bold of OP to assume I had faith in humanity to begin with.

[@evolution031680]

As sickening as Tom’s behavior was, it sounds like some part of Mandy got off on his antics. Best to stay away from the both of them.

[@alanbear6505]

Might need even more kitty after that one. 😢

[@Shadowblader98]

for anyone who knows it the brutal face punching to death reminds me of the moment in hunters the parenting series by bruva alfabusa where the vampire pyotor punches his pack mate apes face in like crazy

[@gnollsuwu3861]

Came for the Horror, decided to stay for future horror (and likely past horror) I am currently a player in Pathfinder 1e, so I guess I know what D&D was like at a time lol

[@thekaiser3815]

lucky is the truth 😹

[@vodostar9134]

What does canned air do? Does it contain something toxic?

[@schalkengelbrecht7859]

Ma-lish-ous. Malicious. Derived from the word malice meaning with bad intent. Jesus Doge.

[@evilthingslol]

Lucky your the best online cat ever.

[@5cream5]

that's why his parents don't love him

[@spoonyluv19]

holy hell, if someone is that desperate for attention they should get a pet

[@BlueTressym]

No, they really shouldn't. Thom is exactly the kind of person who should NEVER be allowed to have a pet.

[@galacticknight55544]

This is unrelated, but the Force Unleashed is a very underrated Star Wars game. A lot of fans hate it because they think Starkiller is too OP, but video game protagonists are SUPPOSED to be OP. The PS2 version is the best because it has more characters and more levels than the PS3 version.

[@stevenschnepp576]

1) Why did Mandy call the ambulance? 2) _Why_ did she stay with him? If you're losing your entire friend group over him, it's either because you're friends with a bunch of assholes or you're dating an asshole... and you, deep down, probably know which is which.

[@travisbishop782]

I think Mandy has some self-esteem issues that need to be sorted out.

[@corvusdove874]

@@travisbishop782 She was curvy, not really fat but I think she had been fat at one point and still had issues with her own body and sense of attractiveness afterward.

[@ChazMcRich1]

MARE-ICUL???

[@dylanbell268]

Nice fatal frame gameplay

[@thomasferris1905]

I always find it interesting that when women play overtly sexual characters people give it a hand wave and don't treat it as the severe red flag that it is. In contrast a dude that plays an overtly sexual character labeled a creeep. Not saying that they aren't, it's funny how a red flag based on the genitalia of a player is ignored.

[@corvusdove874]

In this case, it wasn't. I don't mind sexually charged characters in a game played right, and she did. She didn't present any red flags during gameplay other than initially asking me to dig out my copy of the BoEF, which I normally kept more as a curio.

[@dragowolfraven3806]

Good morning everyone. Book of erotic fantasy?😕

[@travisbishop782]

Yeah, i did a double take on that as well.

[@corvusdove874]

As explained in another comment, it's a rare book now but was "official" under the open licensing of 3.5e. Interestingly, it's approach was quite mature for what it was, speaking matter-of-factly and presenting tables based off of real world statistics. It got a bit cringe when you came across it having "sexual healer" classes, but the mechanics were presented in a way that you could easily "fade to black" and simply do the dicerolls for some things. I used it twice, in that game and one other, and in neither was there actual ERP, just references to it for powers and biological consequences between sessions and, of course, trying to fit in heavy plate male while in the second trimester.

[@prestoncrenshaw2914]

19:54 0_0

[@thegreatcanadianweasel9928]

w...t....f

[@TheOvervoid]

Wtf

[@SnaxTheSnaxolotl]

Lucky!!!!

[@slagarcrue85]

You did what? You Jack ash your going to get it. Fusion double goro and Machamp no I’m ripped. Now you she how much damage an 8 pack fox with 8 arms and has and extra few hundred pounds of additional muscle on him can do. Upper cut body slam jump squash skull base full Nelson rock throw dubbs mission. Finish him! This is going to hurt a lot dude pumpkin king bat breaker. Slagar wins brutality . Lol

[@tuomasronnberg5244]

>playing 3.5 Found the problem

[@vampire9545]

Her: being a b!tch. Op: what's wrong Her:!I'm fine Was he the BBEG?

[@derajtheyuler7101]

142

[@2Foxx2]

Fake story.

[@corvusdove874]

I wish. I lived it.

[@BurroughsProductions]

U got creepes out cause someone wasn't in pictures? God ur so dramatic