Why do board games bring the worst out of people?

>if you say something is a gathering place for a certain group of people, it means nobody else gathers there or shares the sentiments of that group

Don't maymay arrow me and then reductio ad absurdum my arguments you fucking illiterate faggot.

Explain? What do critical rolls have to do with personality?

Man that first paragraph is one hell of a wake up call.

Critical Roll is a podcast user, it has brought it a ridiculously massive percentage of the new rpg player base who don't realize that show is 100% scripted, has a dedicated production crew, 3 writers and are all paid actors.

i can attest to this because i've never seen anybody sit through a full game of Risk without turning into a furious, shivering ball of anger who hates the world

I see, oof

If my generation was raised in a hugbox, then your generation was the one that raised it that way. Take some responsibility for once.

You see the conflict in /5e/ where new players brought into the hobby by Critical Roll want to play D&D like WoD LARPing and the old players want to actually play a (RP)game.

I tihnk my group has this issue. We spend hours of game time talking about the most mundane shit. We spent an hour talking about the taste of mint/vomit/dirt for no real reason.

I plan on starting a session of my own soon but it's my only party for now.

No, I def know that this is the case with 99% of people. Not just my friends and family.

I am not a millenial, but I wish I was. I was born in the 80s.

Some games are worst than others, but still the point stands. Certain games will for sure make people boil in anger.

Stop assuming things and go back to your shit containment leddit site, cuck.

I have never seen Critical Roll, but this it nothing new. People getting mad over board games has been true since the beginning of mankind.
I know of game sessions with people yelling at each other, with the liquid in the glass of a player being thrown in the face of other, people walking out of games, people insulting each other, I heard of 2 friends who stopped talking to each other after a game of Diplomacy, and so on.

I heard Risk is particularly infuriating.

Babyboomers are the fucking worst.

>You have it way way better than many people you consider millenials
I do. I've worked for what I have, and didn't bitch the whole time doing it.

>you write with an air of somebody who has it all but doesn't appreciate it.
I know what I have and appreciate it because I earned it

>People who really had it hard don't spout dumb shit about how we need to "toughen up the youth" etc.
Oh no we do. Trust me, we do. Grew up in a poor as fuck family eating govt cheese and blue label food club garbage. No one paid for my trade school, I worked shit jobs and saved for it.

At this point, I'm amazed you didn't call me racist or x-phobic or problematic, you fucking redditor faggot.
Grow up.
Toughen up.
Bitch.

>Veeky Forums where the biggest dregs (psychologically) of 1st and 2nd world society gather
Like you?

That puts you in prime millennial territory, as most put them as being born from the early 80s to late 90s.

No, millenial is being born from '00 to '10

>I earned my slavery unlike you bitches

OP, board games don't bring out the worst in people. People are the worst. Sometimes they play boardgames instead of other bullshit, but they're still the worst, just a different coat of paint.

I've got a theory that explains why despite being more popular than ever RPG's sales continue to decline; almost nobody is actually invested in their characters any more because DM's have been instructed not to give out unique magic items any more.

Reddit is hated because it enforces mob mentality where every new idea that goes against the established narrative gets downvoted and/or deleted with the poster being banned or flagged as the outsider.
But sure at least you can get spoonfed by fellow retards in a safe and healthy environment.
You have to go back.
Especially programming retaled subreddits are a fucking cesspit i wouldn't browse if i was paid to instead of /g/.

>Babyboomers are the fucking worst.
I was born in 96, my mother in 74, what generation am I? Z?
What is hers?
I was never taught any ideology but Zeitgeist pushed me to the far right.

>butthurt redditor has a couple of bevvies and tries to tell Veeky Forums how it is

KYS. :)

>I was born in 96

Millenial.

>Zeitgeist pushed me to the far right.

Also a tryhard faggot.

Wrong. Google it and stop spouting bullshit.

Also, I'm filtering your tripcode because you're obviously a shithead.

>i earned my slavery
Have fun being poor. Also, I own my own business, so who's the slave, you fucking samefagging douchbag?

Where do I find friends with good taste in board games? All my friends like boring normie shit and look at me like Im a freak when I suggest something different. Im so fucking bored of Cards against humanity.

>Cards against humanity.
>playing "edgy" game for "dangerous" normalfags
Find better friends, try a small community or STEM college.

>thinks business owners aren't slaves
>laughinghyperstructure.jpg

>everyone that doesn't agree with me is a SJW millenial bitch that hasn't worked for anything in their life

Anons please.

Yeah mate, like me. Why else would I (still) go here otherwise? The problem is putting shit people together makes everything even shittier, hence the problem of finding people to play/discuss with on Veeky Forums and similar sites, or people to do X with and talk about Y on Veeky Forums in general.

Different ideas can be articulated without insults or memes. You couldn't even wait until the end of your message to write "you have to go back", you're spouting it right there in the middle like you have some kind of lexical Gilles de la Tourette's. Please don't say you can't notice this.
And sure, mysanthropy and elitism is many people's thing so I can completely understand why you would want to visit a forum with less people, fewer possible threads, and thread superiority by bumps/time of posting as opposed to quality. But hey, at least you can post your frog memes and call everyone crabs in a bucket. With other crabs in your smaller, shittier bucket.

user, honey, born in the 80s is most likely Millenial, although it's a little fuzzy for early 80s.
I was born mid-80s, and I fall into the Millenial category.

>I could not articulate an original thought or argument if I was held at gunpoint, but I'll show this guy!

>everyone that doesn't agree with me is a SJW millenial bitch that hasn't worked for anything in their life
Didn't mean it that way, it was directed at more specifically, though I'm sure it would work for most millenials

>Critical Roll brought in a massive wave of new players.

Where does this assumption come from? I've seen nothing to suggest that podcast's existence registers much outside the various preexisting communities.

I've played across four meatspace groups and no one's ever once mentioned it. My current group is as casual as you can get and I'm probably the only one even aware of this podcast's existence. I have this sinking suspicion the people who complain about Critical Roll don't actually play RPGs and are just neckbeards having a knee jerk reaction to a "trendy" YouTube show.

This argument doesn't really work when "trendy Youtube Show" gets centre stage at PAX and Comic Con and is actively advertised by Wizards.

Yeah but how many people who go to those cons actually go home and play RPGs? I have a lot of friends into that kind of stuff and only a few ever showed interest in playing an RPG.

And I personally wasn't even aware Critical Roll was a thing until I heard about it on Veeky Forums. Every experience I've had with RPG communities outside of the internet tells me the "invasion" of mouth breathing normies who think a Nat 1 opens a wacky portal to Cthulu's butthole is a myth.

If you mean, their characters are monsters, then remember what imagination and a lack of need for compassion for other imaginary characters will do.

Because it separates you from reality and sets you and your friends on a path with a different objective in life.

You no longer care for that work-thing, you don't think about the "needs-to" back home. Your here because of other factors. And depending on who you are deep down, you will act accordingly.

I have a friend who is a great guy, fun to hang around and generally nice guy. But when playing games, he becomes the worst rule lawyering prick that can ruin just about any good time. Spent a good 25 minutes wasted on our latest Talisman run because he disagreed on a single word in a sentence. Im not joking, he gets anal about these things. If he gets like this because his drive to win, or because he has a hard time simply following the rules others have written, I don't know, but its annoying as fuck!

because board games bring the worst people out

Competition and/or working socially with others. Some people value their own ego over all else, and will get really ugly if they lose or look like they will because they perceive it as a challenge and/or direct threat to their ego. Other might instead/also try to use such situation where others are forced to hang around them as some form of social leverage they can use against others for whatever reason to forward whatever purpose.