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On some real quasi-leftie shit, organizing a tabletop game of any sort shows how little control regular Katz have over their lives. The fact we can’t just to sit around a table with our friends with ease shows just utterly borked our notion of free-time is. I don’t think most nerds are flakes (some are for sure but In general most are pretty solid) but most nerds are often just beat down by time and work.
I don’t have any real labor theory backing me up on this but I do feel the average RPG player is a worker and workers have a raw deal across the board.
Tabletop gaming in my opinion requires a lot of emotional investment to bring the fun out and make the magic happen, and it fuckin hard to do after work/school/life. Worse yet I would assume most nerds genuinely do want to play but this hobby of collective conversation with dice rolls is just hard in our modern world where we aren’t allowed to just with each other. Playing a tabletop game (rpg,minis, board games, whatever) is not passive consumption, you actively have to engage with play for the wonder to come alive. People just beat these days sadly.
I feel you bro, it’s rough to just find people to enjoy “play” (in the rhetorical sense and the gaming sense) in adulthood. Not saying it’s impossible but needlessly difficult to play pretend with the homies these days.
I think that the concept of shared storytelling (which is what I believe table-top gaming is at its core) is an aspect of humanity for me.
My work schedule is on months and off months, so I can game during off months but is impossible during on months, so I have only gotten into one-shots and the like.
Also want to say that the emotional/time/labor investment of the person running the game is often more so than the rest as they tend to become the logistics person as well as taking on alot of the work of the game itself.
In some ways, the widespread use of online tools and platforms for ttrpgs is fantastic but I find that in person gaming is ultimately more satisfying.
On some real quasi-leftie shit, organizing a tabletop game of any sort shows how little control regular Katz have over their lives. The fact we can’t just to sit around a table with our friends with ease shows just utterly borked our notion of free-time is. I don’t think most nerds are flakes (some are for sure but In general most are pretty solid) but most nerds are often just beat down by time and work.
I don’t have any real labor theory backing me up on this but I do feel the average RPG player is a worker and workers have a raw deal across the board.
Tabletop gaming in my opinion requires a lot of emotional investment to bring the fun out and make the magic happen, and it fuckin hard to do after work/school/life. Worse yet I would assume most nerds genuinely do want to play but this hobby of collective conversation with dice rolls is just hard in our modern world where we aren’t allowed to just with each other. Playing a tabletop game (rpg,minis, board games, whatever) is not passive consumption, you actively have to engage with play for the wonder to come alive. People just beat these days sadly.
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I feel you bro, it’s rough to just find people to enjoy “play” (in the rhetorical sense and the gaming sense) in adulthood. Not saying it’s impossible but needlessly difficult to play pretend with the homies these days.
This 100%
I think that the concept of shared storytelling (which is what I believe table-top gaming is at its core) is an aspect of humanity for me.
My work schedule is on months and off months, so I can game during off months but is impossible during on months, so I have only gotten into one-shots and the like.
Also want to say that the emotional/time/labor investment of the person running the game is often more so than the rest as they tend to become the logistics person as well as taking on alot of the work of the game itself.
In some ways, the widespread use of online tools and platforms for ttrpgs is fantastic but I find that in person gaming is ultimately more satisfying.
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