>We can't play Sundays in the Fall because of Sportsball
>But there's also Sportsball on Monday, Thursday, and Saturday
>And a pre-season in the Summer
Man alive, are we just not supposed to game six months out of the year?
And where are all the oldschool nerds who realize sports are the hobby of the bullies? People complain about them("neckbeards" etc) but you don't seem to meet them anymore. I feel like I'm the last one left who doesn't want to watch a bunch of morons chasing a ball.
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Old school nerds have mostly been corporatized out of existence. Expect many tik-tok educated zoomers to make fun of you for not finding spots interesting
Tiktok zoomies are the ones who care the least about sports when it comes to ttrpg players.
Honestly I'll take speculating on the rigged and gay rules of penalty ball anyday over cringe stuff like
>Kingdom Hearts as an rpg
>I'd rather suck dick than be GAY
lmao tripgays. Every single time.
kys autist
What is friday and Saturday?
Friday works ok if people aren't too tired from work. It's bad if you have to play boardgames/minis/RPGs at the LGS though, because the MtG hordes are always screeching and stinking up the store.
Anon we all know the rule. The more niche the hobby, the worse the smell
Careful with all those projections, or you gonna burn something
When actual people with actual groups play games, but OP being a projecting homosexual doesn't know. See
if you are in doubt
Drinking days where people are too tired from work to actually play a game.
Past 30 people just want to lay down on a sofa and die
Can't relate anon. My group's fairly athletic, at least compared to the fa/tg/uy stereotype (3 of us lift together 3x week, 4 of us go to the same mma dojo at least once a week) but no one cares about football. Don't know where you're finding players that do.
I don't think anyone who's athletic gives a shit about sportsball. Watching Black folk chase an egg around a field on the television is basically the activity of choice for out-of-shape boomers.
>associating with people who watch Black folk throw balls
Sounds hellish
Only fat morons watch sports, athletic people do their own sporting as you attest to.
>calling your mma gym a 'dojo'
I think he mistyped McDojo.
>´mma dojo
Why the frick are you playing with people that prioritize the sportsball? If they don't prioritize the game as a hobby, tell them politely but firmly to leave.
>sportsball
You can not like sports, but saying it like this just makes it obvious you don't because you got picked last every time
NTA but I get it.
Most people into watching one sport are into watching a few. The only meaningful difference in this paradigm is that baseball plays literally every day instead of once a week, so people only get autistic about big games.
t. Played sports pretty seriously in high school and college
Get over yourself. It's important to be derisive of things that people take too seriously.
I guarentee you that the average ‘sportsball’ fan takes sports far less seriously than you take roleplaying games.
>B-b-but he wants to watch sports over playing a game
That’s called prioritizing. Some people like two things, so when they can’t do two things they do whichever they prefer. OP’s just butthurt that his campaign is less interesting than watching the Dolphins score 70 points on the Broncos.
Black person, we are on a board dedicated to painting toys and pretending to be wizards and it’s full of people who take it far too seriously
>t. insecure sportsballer
Friday is a HUGE day for college football.
For you.
I joined a Saturday game during summer and had to drop out of half the sessions because I ended up getting invited by friends on the weekends. But also because the game dragged on for more sessions than expected because of short session length and the other players being morons. I feel bad for the GM, but couldn't tell him because he deleted everything about the game after the last session. (which I missed while having fun with friends)
Yeah, you could cite something for every possible season and day of the week. Summer is vacation season and the kids are out of school. Autumn is a busy time at work and there's back to school. Winter is dark and depressing and the weather is bad. Spring is finals, cleaning, etc. Weekdays people are too tired, Saturdays get interrupted by wives/girlfriends, Sunday is sports.
Sometimes it just feels not worth it. Like we're foolishly trying to recapture some halcyon era when we had more free time and our brains hadn't been totally destroyed by smartphones.
It happened around 2010 here. Like an overnight switch.
I guess logically I can speculate it was just nerds realizing that sports hits a lot of the same brain switches as geek hobbies. EG austistically memorizing stats and historical tidbits.
It's also a socially acceptable venue for autism, like how normoids just jabber to you at work about some sports thing you obviously haven't seen and that's hunky dory but the guy who likes JRPGs or shipwrecks is considered a weirdo.
Have you tried not playing with boomers?
I actually like to play TTRPGs so when my group is struggling with scheduling for an extended period, I look for solutions and will start organizing a new group if there are none. If the group is noncommittal and flaky and cancelling sessions over and over because the players are taking turns being away, then they're wasting my time. I'll still participate in the original group, but my effort and spare time will shift to the new one over time if the original group doesn't sort itself out. This inevitably results in me spending less time with the original group, and when they mention it to me I have the privilege of telling them "I enjoy this hobby very much and I would prefer to spend my time playing a TTRPG over a videogame or just sitting in the group chat doing nothing."
It's a pointed statement that I enjoy telling people because it encourages them to ask themselves if they actually also enjoy games, and if so, why are they not also making the effort to play in one? I'm not interested in peoples' excuses for flaking and missing sessions because I understand there's literally nothing wrong with wanting to do something else- I just don't want people to waste my time by getting me excited and prepared to roll dice only for us to cancel.
Your game isn't interesting enough to compete with other media. Cope and seethe.
You players didn't actually want to play in the first place if you have to compete with a piece of media. They might think they do, but they'll lost interest for one reason or another because it's not for them
>I can play whenever I desire during my free time
Man alive, gaming is great when you don't have to hinge it on a bunch of other people.
It's the weirdest thing, no one in my group cared about Black folk chasing balls up until like maybe 2 years ago when suddenly every lanky nerdy Indian and Asian (my bread and butter) started pretending to love basketball trying to look cool.
Who can I rely on when even Indians are busy watching Black folk?
Nothing wrong with liking sportsball, but if you don't want to play because a game is on. Find another group, preferably one with sportsball enjoyers.
>Oh sorry, we're also doing fantasy sportsball on tuesday, wednesday, and friday
>also my uncle's boss's brother's roommate bought season tickets so we might be taking a road trip in a few months
>also we can't game at my place for the entire month of October because my brother will be staying with me to watch the quarter season divisional semi-playoff exhibition games
Dude, it's like when a girl says she'd like to go out but doesn't have any time for the next two weeks: those people don't want to play with you. Maybe they think they do, but of they wanted to in fact then they'd find time.
This is a consistent problem with people defaulting to saying the socially acceptable thing when they don't even know what they want until something else comes along. Game night is something to do when they feel like it and they've got nothing else going on. It's not even conceivable as a priority for most people because everything else has higher social obligation in their subconscious. People who do not break from that mindset will go to their deathbeds thinking
>I wish I spent more time with my friends when I had the chance
This is the number one LARP of our time. Everyone talks about how they don't have time to do anything but work and sleep to keep expectations low. And then they go and inhale a whole season of a tv show in a single weekend.
I think this is the way to go. None of the compromises to incorporate people with kids and advanced careers ever work. EG if you run every other week instead of every week, the emergencies, honey-do lists, "forgetfulness", and overtime will still happen so now you're a month between games and everyone has already forgotten what's going on and are more likely to flake again.
If you want to game after college you basically need a group of high-functioning losers or people with super unusual lifestyles. Basically, you want lovable misfits. I've gamed with a guy on disability, a rich woman who couldn't have kids, a community college professor, a NEET with a trust fund, etc.
I now start a campaign pretty much straight up with a rule that if you miss it for whatever reason you're out. Your character suddenly got a heart attack or something I dunno. If you can't be fricked to re-schedule on time and tell us beforehand, then the rest of the group shouldn't suffer.
Shit on sports as much as you want, but don't call it "sportsball". It's dumb.
>but don't call it "sportsball". It's dumb.
But enough about sportsball!
People who unironically use the term sportsball are always the most reddit c**ts alive.
Why the frick do you care about sportsball?
Hi, old school nerd here. I played college football.
Fake nerd.
My nerd creds include helping design kinetic strike weapons for the Air Force and rocketry. I think I'm gonna be fine despite your opinions, anon. Just pointing out that in the gnarly old days everybody played sports. It was highly, highly irregular not to. That's why we're not fat.
>My nerd creds include helping design kinetic strike weapons for the Air Force and rocketry
That isn't nerd cred at all. Being an engineer isn't nerdy, dipshit.
>hi, old school vegan here. I used to eat meat
moron.
You too.
Also you.
Football is one of the most boring sports on the planet to watch and only becomes more boring as advertisers and sponsors take precedent over the actual game.
At least pick a decent spectator sport to cancel games over. I mean hell, there’s more than enough time between plays that you could play an entire game session at the same fricking time and not miss anything in either activity.
I was confused about that when someone invited me to watch the superbowl while I was studying abroad. It's like a play for 30s and then 3 minutes of ads for safety precautions. I understand if you just wanna get fricked up with friends, but there are more entertaining sports for the background, no idea how it is the most popular one in the US.
"It's strategic".
It didn't used to be so bad. There was always stopping play every 2 minutes to reset things, but it used to be that the reset happened quickly and there was just halftime.
Football really has suffered from commercialism.
>"It's strategic".
My actual thought the one time I watched the Super Bowl when it was shown by one of our public broadcasters, without ads since they are legally not allowed to show ads when it airs. Much more interesting than our braindead sport of football (or "soccer" for you mutts out there), which is ironic since it literally gives players brain damage. But games take too long to watch on the regular.
But professional/spectator sports are stupid in general and we as a society waste too much time and money (as in the license fee our broadcaster paid, but also government funding) on it that would be better spent on doing sports yourself.
You know, this is brilliant.
You could take games that have already aired, edit them so it's just playing, and maybe enjoy them.
It's kind of pavlovian. 3 minutes then shoot the shit, get food, socialize, work on your homework/thesis/whatever, maybe listen to the insepid commentary of the braindamaged ex players and coaches; then the whistle blows and you watch the game itself. Then the ball's downed, back to work. How much attention you pay is context based. Playoff games you sit down and watch, even during a commercial, Thursday Night Games, you don't watch in Protest be TNF is absolutely trash football. Everyone's tired, lots of players are worn down, so there's a bunch of injuries, interceptions, fumbles; it's just depressing to observe. If you're lucky the coaches have a bunch of second stringers out so it's just a bit clumsy for the NFL and not a miserable bloodbath.
>but there are more entertaining sports for the background
I'm honestly curious about this, what sports? Anything 1v1 is interesting for a couple minutes and then it gets old, because there's no team strategy, just a protracted contest. Basketball is beautiful because they move well but I got sick of it after my 2nd/3rd game, the game itself isn't interesting. Baseball is the best game to listen to on the radio and the worst game to watch. I like MMA and sumo but no one else wants to watch that shit, also MMA is going the way of pro wrestling with all the man-hype, sumo is better.
Hockey. They will literally make rules to keep the game going.
>unironically using the word sportsball
reddit moment
People have been saying sportsball since before Reddit you absolute numbskull
Silence, reddit.
No
>Sportsball
Fricking tourist normalgays.
You should go to their sportsball parties, try to play board and card games with the people who look bored, and try to get people to take interest in your game during commercial breaks. Also they have great snacks.
Nerds don't hate sports anymore, all the things that nerds used to hate about sports (celebrity gossip, partisan shit-talk, committee meetings) have been adopted by traditional game communities. Nerds still hate exercise but so do sportsfans.
>try to play board and card games with the people who look bored
I’d like to see you play a board game during one of these things
>nerds don’t hate sports anymore
They do. You’re not a nerd. That’s all.
>the things that nerds used to hate about sports (celebrity gossip, partisan shit-talk, committee meetings) have been adopted by traditional game communities.
Yeah, but need groups with actual nerds also try to get the frick away from that shit.
>Nerds still hate exercise but so do sportsfans.
>hate exercise
>don’t hate sports
Pick one.
some of you guys, particularly the OP, are really emotionally invested in a warped John Hughes high school coming-of-age high film clique view of your self-image, it's profoundly cringeworthy to write shit like "sports are the hobby of the bullies"*
most of the guys I play historical wargames with are outdoorsy types that did or do play sports and many of thoss that did are still involved with their clubs
*as an aside I've noticed a trend of putting definite articles in front of out-group nouns, in social media tabletop as a means to fling shit circles already homosexual "gatekeepers" has become "the gatekeepers" for example
makes it seem like a more unified group, adds to the cringe
1. You type like a gay.
cope and seethe
based
Debased AND bluepilled
>he doesn't understand pills
>nerd
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Playing sports is fine. Obsessing over "your team" and forgoing human relationships and interpersonal activities for the sake of some giant corpo advertising scheme so you can watch overpaid homosexuals get concussions or pretend like every bone in their leg was ground to dust after a light bump with another player is kind of... pathetic. You're allowed to like and appreciate the sport or be impressed with some Black person's skills, if you want, but pro sports aren't cool. They're not respectable. They're not healthy and normal. They're a consumerist religion for sad losers who waste their emotional energy and passion on revolting displays of excess and waste for the sake of a competition they have no stake in and has no impact on their lives.
And before you try and spin this as some gotcha, I think it's pathetic when people do this shit with games, anime, and other fandoms, too. "Sorry, I can't show up, I'm playing BG3 alone for 20 hours straight" is just as pathetic as canceling game night with the bros because the Cleveland Steamers are playing tonight.
Ben, you can’t play any games because no one wants to play with you.
Bro is straight up schizophrenic.
Did you guys see that ludicrous display last night?
What was Wenger thinking sending Walcott on that early?
>plan to meet up with friends ONLINE
>not even necessarily to game, just to talk
>cancel last minute because they're "too tired"
god I hate people
Your friend is jacking off. You know that, right?
Sounds like you're exhausting to talk to
what fricking purpose could this thread ever possibly serve
Can't relate. Of my gaming group, three played sports competitively through highschool and college, one is an ex highschool football coach, and the other is a youth baseball umpire. We'll still play if there's a Bears game on, but we'll typically have it on in the background while we play