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Everything that you love and hate about this hobby and then some. 03/02/26(Mon)06:11:51 No.97643173
Everything that you love and hate about this hobby and then some. 03/02/26(Mon)06:11:51 No.97643173
Everything that you love and hate about this hobby and then some. Anonymous 03/02/26(Mon)06:11:51 No.97643173 [Reply]▶
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Your love-hate relationship with this hobby and adjacent hobbies to the tabletop role-playing and war games.
I love the stories, the tales, the world building, especially of the ad hoc, halcyon days of a hobby that I missed out on.
But I also feel that I'm coming in at the tail end of the party where it feels like the song 'closing time' is playing. Also on top of that I kind of live in the middle of a table top hobby desert.
Not to mention finding a game online that doesn't dry up in five sessions or less, it's pointless unless you have a already long-standing group of lads you can trust. Truly The catch 22 of the tabletop hobby. You need a group to have games, but need to find and make a group that have games. And even then the group can dissolve for any reason whatsoever. Leaving you at square One over and over again.
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>>97643173
I love the narrative freedom that I have, even as a player. No other media lets you take part of the creative process.
I dislike how slow combat can be and having to wait a week or more before I can play again. Sure solo games and AI GMs exist, but it's not the same.
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>>97643173
You need to put in the effort. My longstanding group of 10+ years started here and continues. When my IRL group of 5 years collapsed due to life issues, I put ads at the FLGS and lurked the discord. A month later, I had a group that is lasting 1 1/2 years so far. Meeting new people is the worst part, but you just have to be persistent and weed out the undesirable players.
Just do it.
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>>97643359
Easier said than done.
I did that once, put quite a bit of effort into for about 2 to 3 years. But I was backstabbed by someone I considered a friend. I know it's been a couple of years now but I'm still feel 'emotionally' spitting up blood, on the occasion especially when the thought of playing or running a tabletop role playing game.
The reason why I use that analogy is because when I was first betrayed all I could compare to the feeling was spitting up my own teeth. For quite some time I still felt my own teeth rattling around in my mouth along along with a feeling of choking on my own blood. The sharp acidic iron taste along with the ever-present ache of nerves.
I'm much better than I am in the past, but I still need a bit more time to heal. Along with the thought of being part of a group that is fill me with other thread like knowing eventually it's all going to end. The question is would it be a whimper or would it be an explosion.
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>>97643173
>Everything I love about this hobby
I get to interact with the most autistic, petty, goofy-ass people I’ve ever met, who know about my niche hobbies and can discuss them intelligently.
>Everything I hate about this hobby
I have to interact with the most autistic, petty, goofy-ass people I’ve ever met, who know about my niche hobbies and can discuss them intelligently but don’t.
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I love painting minis, building terrain and playing seminarrative wargames. I hate how the hobby isnt about the hobby anymore but the community and either its total safe space attempted fag colonization or I got to listen to how woke is ruining everything and be reminded that transexuals exist.
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>>97643173
I find the normies of this hobby much easier to interact with than the greasy unwashed neckbeard telling me how epic his Mono Blue deck is for the umpteenth time, but then lie and tell me it's a Low 2 while constantly vaporizing my lands preventing me from playing the game.
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>>97643868
La di fucking da, you got the play during the'90s.
You got prosecuted and persecuted by the satanic moral panic. The go tell someone else that father bad touch perform an exorcist on you by anal probing.
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>>97643173
The thing about an activity that doesn’t require engaging with anyone outside of your closed group is that you can always be selective about who you let into the group and how you engage in the activity. Nothing has passed you by, you merely lack the conviction to create the group you want to play in.
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>>97644430
Based!
>>97643868
Based!
>>97643791
Ultra giga based
>>97643301
Based!
>>97643260
Based!