What hobby has the highest sperglord content?

[Hasbinbad]

Originally Posted by Kagatob [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

In my experience Magic the Gathering tops the sperglord chart.

Originally Posted by Kagatob [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Magic is more than tournaments. Magic is more than winning individual games. Magic is more than finding the shortest route to victory.
Magic as a community in general might not be, but as a game it certainly is.

[Alawen]

Originally Posted by Kagatob [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Alawen, at first I was confused by your comment about you enjoying the parts about magic players that piss me off, however you've since made it clear that you're another one of those players that can only enjoy the game by winning. Only focused on the "best play" and not having fun by actually playing the game.

Magic is more than tournaments. Magic is more than winning individual games. Magic is more than finding the shortest route to victory.
Magic as a community in general might not be, but as a game it certainly is.

There's a reason I switched almost exclusively to playing Commander (EDH) where every game results in multiple ridiculous board states with at least one interaction that you've never encountered before.

Haha, I understand your whole rant now. We didn't play the same game at all.

[fuark]

I think all the fundamental nerd arenas have the same level of sperglord tbh

Go to an MTG tournament, warhammer fantasy tabletop convention, big dnd get together... the only difference is the age of the players usually.

The only truly annoying thing about them (besides the smells) is the overly immersed, my way or the highway attitude that a shit ton of them have.

[Kagatob]

Originally Posted by Alawen [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Haha, I understand your whole rant now. We didn't play the same game at all.

I don't mean to lump you with the worst of them either, you at least understand 'to each their own'. The seprglords look at someone playing a game 'for fun' and will point out that they aren't playing the game correctly, or to quote Tiggles that they are "Casual garbage" or in other cases claim that they aren't playing Magic at all. Fun never even enters the fucking equation with these guys.

[Alawen]

There is one thing prevalent in Magic that used to drive me kind of nuts, but I ran into it again in EQ and WoW. The bad theorycrafters. They want to sit and patiently explain how they should have won based on ridiculous luck. They then continue to play bad cards and make bad plays. That was a constant theme on Sullon Zek, too--the hate tells about how lucky I was. So dumb.

[Ishukone]

god damn i hate theorycrafters

[Alawen]

Originally Posted by Ishukone [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

god damn i hate theorycrafters

I like it when they're actually good at it. My knowledge of statistic isn't usually strong enough to contribute but I think it's fun to read or listen to from smart people. It couldn't be worse when it's dumb people. Sam Deathwalker might be the ultimate bad theorycrafter.

[Hasbinbad]

then i found the light of dark pact in the days when people used to play for ante or not at all, and would play it in this deck to piss people off

[Hasbinbad]

i made someone quit playing coz i took his nether void .. the irony of which is that it wasn't any fun without him and i quit playing very soon after.

[Hasbinbad]

also, things like "control decks" didn't really exist at the time .. the closest you came was blue heavy counter decks with 4 Tims.