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KORNdoggychub @korndoggychub.bsky.social · 2h

Nightmare fuel

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KORNdoggychub @korndoggychub.bsky.social · 1d

This happens an awful lot doesn't it. It's almost like they're all projecting.

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KORNdoggychub @korndoggychub.bsky.social · 1d

If you see this, quote a repost of a vampire that isn't Dracula

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KORNdoggychub @korndoggychub.bsky.social · 1d

It's either the same person or all these shit bags are singing from the same hymn sheet

KORNdoggychub @korndoggychub.bsky.social · 2d

Damn...and here was me thinking it was the robbers who were responsible for the robbery.

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KORNdoggychub @korndoggychub.bsky.social · 2d

It's been a weird discussion that's for sure.

How someone can basically say "if you're not killing things or exploring dungeons you're doing it wrong and should play something else" and not see that as gatekeeping is mind boggling to me.

I feel like I'm in the twilight zone or something lol

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KORNdoggychub @korndoggychub.bsky.social · 2d

Why do they need to?

It's like how people speedrun games using exploits and skips. They play using self imposed rules for additional enjoyment or challenge. These aren't inherent mechanics of a game. And yet they exist. Devs don't need to start catering to them for it to be a valid way to play.

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KORNdoggychub @korndoggychub.bsky.social · 2d

You might get more sales when people start using your hammers as bottle openers and have fun doing it.

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KORNdoggychub @korndoggychub.bsky.social · 2d

Do you agree that there are lots of people who play D&D off-rules? That they incorporate role playing and world building outside of the rule sets based on combat and puzzles?

If your answer is yes. Then D&D using that in their advertising isn't the stretch from reality that you think it is.

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KORNdoggychub @korndoggychub.bsky.social · 2d

Except you're not a fellow tradesperson in this scenario. You're entirely detached from a group of people having fun at a big gay festival while they play D&D.

It really shouldn't bother you.

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KORNdoggychub @korndoggychub.bsky.social · 2d

Not what I said at all.

Me not wanting to butt into someone's life to tell them what they should and shouldn't be enjoying extends to them buying and playing a queer made game, just as much as it does them buying D&D and having a big gay festival in the middle of hacking up some monsters.

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KORNdoggychub @korndoggychub.bsky.social · 2d

If people want to roleplay queer content and interactions into their D&D session then that sounds totally fine to me. Regardless of their being rules for it.

I wouldn't feel like I needed to direct people elsewhere if that's how they're choosing to have fun.

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KORNdoggychub @korndoggychub.bsky.social · 2d

Seems an awful lot like you telling people to go play a different game because you don't like how they're playing D&D.

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KORNdoggychub @korndoggychub.bsky.social · 2d

"better" in the case of the D&D argument, is subjective.

It doesn't benefit them to tell them the way they're having fun isn't the correct way they should be having fun.

That's not altruistic. That's being a gatekeeper.

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KORNdoggychub @korndoggychub.bsky.social · 2d

I didn't realise they had a name change.

"Correct got a shitty take"

better? El oh el.

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KORNdoggychub @korndoggychub.bsky.social · 2d

You seem to be assuming that the rules are either being used entirely or not at all. Which isn't usually the case. People are dungeoning and dragoning using all the mechanics that are in place...they're just having a nice festival in between to decompress. You don't need a ruleset for that.

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KORNdoggychub @korndoggychub.bsky.social · 2d

If it isn't your hammer, your nail, or your board. Why do you care what they're doing with any of it? Lol

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KORNdoggychub @korndoggychub.bsky.social · 2d

Telling people to go play another game because they're playing the game you're playing "wrong" sounds an awful lot like gatekeeping to me. Lol.

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KORNdoggychub @korndoggychub.bsky.social · 2d

The mechanics aren't the be all/end all of a TTRPG. If there are people playing the game the way Hasbro are depicting it in their promotional materials (which a lot of people are) then where is the disconnect aside for the fact YOU don't play that way?

It reads as being very "no fun allowed".

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KORNdoggychub @korndoggychub.bsky.social · 2d

1. It reeks of gatekeeping.

2. Why do you even care what other people in their own games that you're not even a part of are doing while they play D&D?

3. People can both follow the rules of D&D AND sprinkle in their own roleplaying. That's half of the appeal for most people. Worldbuilding.

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KORNdoggychub @korndoggychub.bsky.social · 2d

Cavegirl got a shitty take. Lol

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KORNdoggychub @korndoggychub.bsky.social · 2d

This is too close to "dropping the kids off at the pool" which has an entirely different meaning 😅

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KORNdoggychub @korndoggychub.bsky.social · 2d

Also laziness! I'm very lazy! Ordering food is a lot more convenient than making it...and so I was ordering most days...sadly most takeout is carbs...sweet sweet carbs! Ha.

Now I cook 6 times a week. Look at me being an adult!! Lol

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KORNdoggychub @korndoggychub.bsky.social · 2d

For me it was boredom eating. And eating big portions because "satiated" meant "uncomfortably full" for me lol

That's all changed how. I don't even really get cravings.

My "sweet thing" a day is usually a low sugar/low carb protein bar. It's no KitKat but it scratches the itch.

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KORNdoggychub @korndoggychub.bsky.social · 2d

😅 tell me about it. But I literally do that just so I can keep some of the things I used to enjoy.

It's coming up on a year since I started eating better but I don't think I would have kept it up this long if I didn't have some small moments of mouth joy.

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