[ SECRET POST #3139 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3139 ⌋

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Comments

[elialshadowpine]

What? They get mad for... people finding the games and discovering they like them and want to be part of the fandom? The actual fuck? o.O

[dethtoll]

That's pretty much it. One of them is well known for being an Ultima nut who posts everything in some bullshit fake Old English and acts like he's smarter than everyone else because he thinks Thief is set in the Ultima universe. That's not even an exaggeration.

[elialshadowpine]

This person thinks... it's set in Ultima... the actual fuck? I think my brain just BSOD'd. Jesus fucking Christ on a motherfucking vorpal pogo stick, I'm diagnosed crazy (in multiple ways, even!) and even I think that's batshit nuts. And the Old English? How fucking pretentious can you get? Wow. While I'm sure there's a lot less people perpetuating the crazy, that's up there with some of the shit I've heard from the Supernatural or Bioware fandoms. It doesn't quite win the crazy Olympics, but that's just because people seem to have the capacity to be far, far worse in ways that cause tremendous psychological, emotional, and physical harm to people. As far as I'm concerned, that dubious "honor" goes to the Final Fantasy house/s and the like; I have a very good friend who ended up in a "mini" version of those situations and, I don't even have words. She's managed to recover, after years and years of hard work and therapy, but she had PTSD from that for a long ass time from that fucking nutso roommate from... I'd say hell, but tbh I'd trust the demons more. At least you know what to expect with them. Ugh.

[dethtoll]

Yeah, my best friend wound up in a Gundam-flavored mini House. It didn't last long, as the people involved left, but it was pretty shitty.

Old-school PC gamers are fucking crazy. It's why I avoid RPG Codex as much as possible -- that place is like if Stormfront was about video games and not race.

[(Anonymous)]

Video games fandoms skew older than any other fandoms I've been in, even ones for classic historical novels. This really surprised me.

Mostly it's all amicable, then these grumpy vibes can come out of nowhere. Definitely a case of 'younguns get off my porch till you abide by these unspoken rules which I'm not even going to explain to you'.

[elialshadowpine]

Oh dear gods. I am so sorry for your friend. I was there for mine through a lot of it, and helped keep her sane. But she didn't tell me about everything until after that roommate ditched her with no notice, and she couldn't afford rent on her own. (Thankfully, she was able to get help.) Said roommate would adopt characters from fiction, and her own OCs, into her head, and then talk as them, to my friend, and tell her horrible things, like (when she was very depressed) encouraging her to commit suicide because all of her characters (that she referred to as real people) thought she was a terrible person and deserved to die, etc. Just... let's put it that there are some people I would like to commit violence upon.

RPG Codex, good lord and lady. I think I've got a tab open for a couple things from that, but only very specific things. Someone did a Valdemar re-read (which I found via someone else doing a re-read of one of the books, and someone linking it in the comments) and the replies from that are decent, but I made the mistake of poking through the forum in general. That place is skeery.