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SUPERMAN'S GAL PAL posted:I'm unsure tbh, mostly spitballing ways to encourage participating in DnD sans creeps. I know of people who have started exclusive groups because of past bad experiences, including one black woman where the group is only for same because of racism in previous groups. Noslo's experience does seem to be more common: people of an already existing social circle going "hey, this looks fun, let's try it!" and holding sessions at home as part of a get-together. Tabletop Simulator is how I played my first ever proper RPG. Pathfinder with a bunch of goons I chat with in discord. Worked out really well, our DM just had to schedule around four or five timezones and deal with a bunch of idiots who never played before. There's a shitload of free resources out there, I think a lot of our dungeons were pre-made in Tabletop Simulator and then adjusted as needed by the DM before the party ever saw them. As for horror stories, the only thing I've seen was when I was buying some Warhammer at a Games Workshop over a decade ago. I was browsing the Orks when all the conversations stopped. I looked up and everyone at the painting table and the two occupied game tables were staring at the GIRL who just walked in with her boyfriend. For some reason they got their stuff and left really quickly.
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Perestroika posted:There are also online platforms such as roll20. It's basically a chatroom with a dice-roller, a shared central map where you can push tokens around and make fancy drawings, and a forum for finding groups and players. My Dnd group uses roll20. It also has webcam and voice chat support which does sorta allow that in person dnd feeling. It works okay though it felt more unstable when we had like 7 people. It's been fine with 5 of us though. The built in character sheets work pretty well. I believe the traditional games section of the forums has a sign up spot for open games. You could check there for a new player friendly game.
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LanceFancypants posted:About 8 years ago, my friends at the time and I were avid Yu-Gi-Oh players. The store we would play at consisted of half normal people and half complete spergs. There's little originally to Yu-Gi-Oh and whenever a new set would come out, EVERYONE would build a deck around whatever the new "win combo" was. Except me. I liked to make cheesy burn decks. There is nothing more rewarding as a kid then when you whoop he rear end of an adult stranger in a game and they actually get mad. I beat a dude so bad at soul calibur in an arcade when I was playing single player at 13 and he asked to fight me that he just yelled "gently caress!!" and walked away and my cousin thought I was the coolest dude in the world. I was Kilik and he chose Maxi so I don't know what he was thinking anyway though He was also the overweight beard guy stereotype in his late 20s im pretty sure Aesop Poprock has a new favorite as of 14:54 on Sep 23, 2017 |
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While I hate the term "safe space", nerd shops really should be a place where socially awkward youths feel like they can go and not be harassed. And hilariously, my shop has been getting a series of negative FB and Google reviews because I'm being stalked by one such person. Still doesn't change my feelings on the subject though!
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Rhyno posted:While I hate the term "safe space", nerd shops really should be a place where socially awkward youths feel like they can go and not be harassed. You're being stalked by a child? You can't just bring up that subject without elaborating on it
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Aesop Poprock posted:You're being stalked by a child? You can't just bring up that subject without elaborating on it Well aside from them not being a "youth" they check all the other boxes. It's just an odd situation because I've worked at the store for a very long time that this person was a teenager when I started and has since grown up and now identifies as a woman so I have to be very careful how I deal with this.
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Noslo posted:Not a girl, but in a similar vein to this I've had great luck just avoiding the game stores altogether. The few times over the years I would go in there trying to play Pathfinder or D&D I could never get anything to stick. For every 1 cool person at the table there would be 3 insufferables. I think it's been brought up numerous in this thread, but it's always a good point: Teaching well-adjusted friends to play DnD is a lot easier than teaching creepy DnD players to behave.
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Hyrax Attack! posted:Has anyone been to a nerd store that tried to be a restaurant? It's not something to be half assed. We went to a nerd bar/restaurant and it seemed like a great idea. Sufficient space, fun themed drinks, and lots of available boardgames to try out. I've been to a lot of very cool board game cafes, they're really neat if done right. The worst ones are the most ostentatious because they usually don't have good games for casual players or smaller groups, and the best have a really broad assortment and plenty of silly family games so everyone can play without being intimidated by the really heavy games. There was a good one we used to go to and I'll never forget watching this squat tween frantically taking all the pieces out of a Perfection! board and, upon doing so, turned to his big brother and proclaimed "I did it!". His brother looked at the empty board and said "you're supposed to put the pieces in, you dumbass". The younger brother looked at the board and, with amazing comic timing, it popped up and scared him.
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TheSmilingJackal posted:Mox in Bellevue has a nerd store (mostly Warhammer and board games) attached to a normalish restaurant. The staff doesn't seem nerdy, and they are most just there to do their jobs. Confirmed that Mox in Bellevue is excellent. They have great staff and tons of floor space so the family-casual, MtG, and sprawling Warhammer types of play all have their own areas. I’ve only eaten there once and it was good.
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Rhyno posted:Well aside from them not being a "youth" they check all the other boxes. It's just an odd situation because I've worked at the store for a very long time that this person was a teenager when I started and has since grown up and now identifies as a woman so I have to be very careful how I deal with this. To quote my favorite Anonymous Confessions reply: yikes Good luck, dude. My experiences have been about average, some bad, some not so bad. My worst experience was actually looking for some mahjong tiles. I went to this board game "store", which was underneath a seedy tavern in the poo poo part of my town, and there were just five unwashed men and women playing magic. I asked if they had mahjong (they didn't), and in the thirty seconds we were there two dudes tried to hit on my wife. It was very sketchy and I didn't like it.
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Problem is, there's a pretty thin line between 'Refuge where young people with niche interests and poor social skills can interact with others without being bullied or ostracised' and 'fetid den where neckbeards wallow in their own crapulence and scare off sensible people, especially women'. Depends on where the owner leans and whether they're willing to lay down the law, really; see the Geek Social Fallacies for basically the playbook as to how this works out.
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It's similar with any hobby that involves baby boomer men. I collected used records a lot as a teen and depending on which store I went to, I'd either receive an interesting deep cut recommendation or a weird demonstrative lesson on toxic masculinity. Once at the latter there were a couple women hanging around, and as soon as they left, the owner and his buds called me over and showed me an uncensored copy of The Pros and Cons of Hitchhiking that had just come in.
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Aesop Poprock posted:There is nothing more rewarding as a kid then when you whoop he rear end of an adult stranger in a game and they actually get mad. I beat a dude so bad at soul calibur in an arcade when I was playing single player at 13 and he asked to fight me that he just yelled "gently caress!!" and walked away and my cousin thought I was the coolest dude in the world. I was Kilik and he chose Maxi so I don't know what he was thinking anyway though Yes, I remember playing you
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oldpainless posted:Yes, I remember playing you more like oldgameless that's the only time i'll make one of those jokes
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oldpainless posted:Yes, I remember playing you More like oldgameless. Wait, poo poo, had that one been done before? Edit: ^^^ You motherfucker.
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Intoluene posted:More like oldgameless. haha game on bitch
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SpacePig posted:Old Calibur
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TheSmilingJackal posted:
I was a regular at afk Renton in 2014 and I can confirm it was owned by the same people as ago in Everett. They just had a general manager do everything in Renton, since the owners were always busy apparently. The food was really good at first, but over time they stopped giving a poo poo it seemed z then got called out on Facebook and vowed to change, but never did. They're gaming events sucked in the end too. They had paid a group in the area to run a miniatures night for a while, which is what I went too. It was crazy fun and brought in tons of people. What didn't bring in people was kicking this group out and claiming they could run events themselves. The only events after that were lovely kareoke and cards against humanity hosted by "a human sized pickle". Oh and they had open group interviews for every position at the restaurant before it opened. I think it died just before the 2 year mark.
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Rhyno posted:While I hate the term "safe space", nerd shops really should be a place where socially awkward youths feel like they can go and not be harassed. I agree with this. I have a Very Pretty Wife and every blue moon she goes into the “nerd store” with me. It’s like throwing a rock into a hornet’s nest, and I have mixed feelings when it happens. I’m happy to have a pretty wife, but I remember my hyper-nerd youth, so I understand and empathize with all the other guys in the store. Honestly I’m still a huge nerd but I hide it very well. BURIED SO DEEP. I’ll probably end up going on a shooting spree.
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Going through old Pokemon TCG posts, as a League Leader...Grem posted:I take my kids to the Pokemon League at the local game store. There's never anything really awful except, you know, grown men playing Pokemon and complaining when my son looks over and helps my 6 year old daughter out a bit. I have weaker strategies and things on-par with theme decks, because being blown out of the water when you're just starting is not a way to build a positive environment for new players to come to enjoy. Wins and losses each earn equal progress towards rewards, because at the end of the day, with the sportsmanship (Spirit of the Game) I emphasize, it's not about who wins or loses, outside of bragging rights, but what you learn to improve your game play. (That, and not everyone can afford the best cards; no need to punish players like that twice.) Sociopastry posted:For future reference, male and male presenting goons- call this poo poo out. Nodding and smiling because you don't want to make a scene just makes them think that it's acceptable to do this. You can just say "hey, not cool" and leave it at that, but please call them out on it, make it easier on those of us that are the target of these kinds of comments. Grem posted:So, I may have mentioned this before, but I take my kids to a Pokemon League thing at my local nerd store. It's certainly not my scene, and I am appalled at the poo poo that my kids have to put up with and situations I'm constantly pulling them out of. The adults there playing try to get my kids to put up pretty expensive cards as prizes for games. Playing with different rules than the ones they know. Telling my son he can't help my daughter (who isn't old enough to read well enough to fully understand what's going on). Holy poo poo man, this is a kid's game with little cartoon creatures. Chill the gently caress out. More than once I've had to interrupt some greasy dude's attempt to scam my kid out of a card that was put up as a prize for a game that was played with rules that my son has never played with before. I've had to take my son's cards out of dudes hands. I gotta find a new place to take them.
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Lincoln posted:I agree with this. I have a Very Pretty Wife and every blue moon she goes into the “nerd store” with me. It’s like throwing a rock into a hornet’s nest, and I have mixed feelings when it happens. I’m happy to have a pretty wife, but I remember my hyper-nerd youth, so I understand and empathize with all the other guys in the store. Honestly I’m still a huge nerd but I hide it very well. BURIED SO DEEP. I’ll probably end up going on a shooting spree. I am engaged to a woman who can only be described as "breath takingly pretty" and she had to stop dropping into the store on fridays due to the MTG goobers not being able to keep their mouths shut.
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I stopped in a game store on the way to dinner with a very attractive lady. I told her I was gonna run in, grab my stuff, and be back - 2 minutes tops. She insisted on coming in. When we went in we ran into a guy we went to high school with and talked to him a bit. When we got back to the car she said "I've been eye hosed plenty of times, but i've never been eye raped before."
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I walked into the local fetid nerd dungeon with my VERY ATTRACTIVE wife and BOTH of her huge boobs on one of the rare occasions when she has an off-day from lingerie modeling. As the disgusting hamdemon rang up my Funko Pops while leering at her DD cups he casually asked me if I was going to have sex with my "very attractive wife" (his words not mine!). "Yes!" I shouted so that the whole store could hear, "Me and my very large dong are absolutely going to be having sex with this SUPER-HOT chick who I AM in a relationship with." I then took the Funko pops, my hot wife, both of her huge boobs, and rode off on a Harley-Davidson motorcycle, plotting on how to relate this story and the great sex I'm having in order to increase my social standing on the Something Awful forums.
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BIG FLUFFY DOG posted:I walked into the local fetid nerd dungeon with my VERY ATTRACTIVE wife and BOTH of her huge boobs on one of the rare occasions when she has an off-day from lingerie modeling. As the disgusting hamdemon rang up my Funko Pops while leering at her DD cups he casually asked me if I was going to have sex with my "very attractive wife" (his words not mine!). Post nudes
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BIG FLUFFY DOG posted:I walked into the local fetid nerd dungeon with my VERY ATTRACTIVE wife and BOTH of her huge boobs on one of the rare occasions when she has an off-day from lingerie modeling. As the disgusting hamdemon rang up my Funko Pops while leering at her DD cups he casually asked me if I was going to have sex with my "very attractive wife" (his words not mine!). Thank god she didn't leave one behind this time
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BIG FLUFFY DOG posted:I walked into the local fetid nerd dungeon with my VERY ATTRACTIVE wife and BOTH of her huge boobs on one of the rare occasions when she has an off-day from lingerie modeling. As the disgusting hamdemon rang up my Funko Pops while leering at her DD cups he casually asked me if I was going to have sex with my "very attractive wife" (his words not mine!). Pretty sure that's bestiality
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Good. I had to stop going to MtG fridays because the constant parade of hot wives coming in and out made it impossible to keep my focus on cheating
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Rhyno posted:Post nudes hey, not cool
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Drunk Nerds posted:Good. I had to stop going to MtG fridays because the constant parade of hot wives coming in and out made it impossible to keep my focus on cheating 
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while it's uncommonly adorable that some husbands still call their wives/fiances breathtakingly beautiful, and that's really quite sweet if you can drop the cynicism for a moment, i've posted here before that a few of my friends have definitely had their wives tag along to mtg tournaments and it's been a total creepshow for them - it's a sadly common nerd store experience for women and that's really quite awful if we can return back to cynicism to consider that
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My future wife is super pretty and I love her a lot so I will continue to be super proud of how I'm marrying way up above what I probably deserve. But what you say is true, any woman who comes to an FNM is going to be miserable.
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My wife is a mean old hag - we can attend card game tournaments hassle-free
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A few years ago we had a literal fist fight erupt over the only regular girl in attendance. And the best part is, the instigator of the fight was furiously hated by the girl.
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I once walked into one of the stores because I wanted the cool dragon statue in the window, and the entire store of sweaty neckbeards paused in their card games and turned their head to stare at me. I was also underage and in a school uniform. So, you know, that was great. I do not go into nerdy stores unless I see at least one woman already present.
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Rhyno posted:A few years ago we had a literal fist fight erupt over the only regular girl in attendance. And the best part is, the instigator of the fight was furiously hated by the girl. By "fist fight" I take it you mean "inept flailing".
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NoNotTheMindProbe posted:By "fist fight" I take it you mean "inept flailing". No it was really quite bad. My coworker was barely able to keep them apart. We banned the instigator from the store and word got around pretty quick. I believe he's banned from pretty much every store in town.
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If it helps, as an ugly man I can say that I also get weird looks from nerds in nerd stores and feel quite uncomfortable.
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