Let s All Be Better Gamers Not The Way You Think

A message from me to you. Let's all be better gamers by being better to gamers.
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[@lauramumma2360]

Absolutely correct, just support fun

[@manfredconnor3194]

Wow. What prompted this? Good points. I am surprised that they needed to be said at all? What happened? All that having been said though, things will still be better, as soon as you acknowledge, that everything is just a microcosim in my Traveller Universe! 😂😊 Oink! 🐗👍🏾 = @ )

[@Archaeo_Matt]

I think most of the vitriol is just a contrivance. It appeals to the basest instincts of consuming the misery of others by reveling in mockery and hateful rhetoric. For the most part, it does not result in anything that viewers can adapt to their own RPG gaming choices. It epitomizes that which is "full of sound and fury...signifying nothing." We have entered an age of mechanical solidarity. Alterity is conspicuous; it is decried by those who peddle influence, whether they truly understand their complicity or not. It is as the masters wish it; they require thralls and drones, to produce and consume, without needing to be given why(s) and wherefore(s). The recalcitrants, that contumacious few, are reduced to a shrinking ice floe rafted upon a boiling sea....

[@elfbait3774]

Heh...alrighty then

[@ANerdsNerd]

Great message! It always struck me as particularly odd to take so seriously something as frivolous as gaming. It's just games. It's a form of entertainment, not a public safety matter. I feel like at some point in what must have originally been a dialogue along the lines of "You should try this other cool thing!" a bit of ego got introduced and it became surprisingly tribalistic. We all love games, we all even love pretty similar types of games. That's something to bond over, not fight over.

[@yeoldegeek71]

"Ripening on the vine" - haha, we've well and truly withered! Spot on Elf, keep on gaming.

[@RIVERSRPGChannel]

It can be fun trying new games and new ways to play too. One of the reasons I like conventions.

[@elfbait3774]

Yes. On a volunteer basis and free of any compulsion or obligation at the hands of others. I am by no means saying people shouldn't try new games.

[@manowar665]

When actual game developers and their flocks of acolytes express that guys like me can't leave the hobby soon enough. What adequate degree of acceptance should be applied?

[@elfbait3774]

It all comes down to personal choice and responsibility. I wouldn't tell you how to play your games and I'd hope you wouldn't do that to others. If a company does something you don't like, you certainly don't have to support them. What I was really calling for is just an end to the constant bickering over what version of the game is best and judging people for the choices they make when it comes to gaming. We all have fun in different ways.

[@gamemasters]

100% spot on!

[@tntori5079]

Great video! Part of me wonders, has the genre always had these issues? Are we only recently learning about it because youtube\media allows expression of opinion over a larger audience? Or is this really a newer phenomenon? Hmm. Thank you for posting! Good food for thought!

[@elfbait3774]

It has always been there for sure. I know that I first really encountered it when the World of Darkness games came out and we ended up with the whole ,"Oh, you play D&D..." attitude. But even before there was the "Role-play vs Roll Play" and a host of other discussions (arguments?). Since the earliest days of D&D people have been talking about what is and isn't the platonic ideal version of the game and how and ,more importantly to this topic, why we should change it and just how (again with strong opinion of correctness) to go about it.

[@FlintFireforge]

Great reminder. Keep up the good work.

[@BX-advocate]

This seems fair and if this was a few years ago I would agree. The problem is that the newer players think they have a right to dictate how everyone else plays and they invade groups to subvert them. You can be peaceful when you aren't being attack but we don't live in those times unfortunately. I'll give you an example, I used to work at a vegetarian restaurant as a server. A customer came in and asked if we serve meat and I said no and explainrd that this is a vegetarian restaurant. This apparently deeply upset him and he threw a tantrum as if I was trying to force him to vegetarian (I'm not vegetarian by the way) he could have just left but instead he decided to act like an asshole. Now while you might say that this lesson is for him unfortunately these people don't listen, so gatekeeping is good and healthy otherwise these people will never stop until they destroy your hobby. You want to be kind respectful to other but that must go both ways however in the meantime gatekeep and gatekeep hard. Again remember it is easy to be peaceful when you aren't getting attacked.

[@elfbait3774]

Well, first of all, it's not MY hobby. It's THE hobby. I'm not sure what's going on in your games but there is nobody who is going to make me play in ways that I don't want to. I'm honestly tired of the them and us converstion. I just don't get this whole "enemy at the gates" mentality that a lot of folks adopt. I guarantee you that the way each and every one of us plays and has played in the past was looked on as "wrong" or even "stupid" by some other group of players. Just play the games you want. Let others play the way they want. Picking your players for your games, isn't gatekeeping but trying to keep people out of the hobby as a whole because you don't agree with their version of fun, is bullshit.

[@BX-advocate]

@@elfbait3774 It is this type of mentality that allows the communist in and once they enter they destroy everything from within. Communists aren't people they are viruses intent on killing their host and moving onto another. They have done it to the video game industry and they are doing it to the film industry.

[@FiLtheThriL]

I agree. It is okay to play with people you want to play with. It's okay to say something is better as opinions are implicitly subjective. It's okay to promote things you like by providing reasons as to why you like those things.