What hobby has the highest sperglord content?

[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.

[Alawen]

Now I'm confused, though. Why would you go play in a big tournament and expect it to be non-competitive? Just play with your friends, or go to pre-releases.

[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]

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

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.

I agree with this. It's often the same people. I haven't been around any mass of anime people, though. I don't really get it at all. I'm not really into any cartoons, though.

[Kagatob]

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

Now I'm confused, though. Why would you go play in a big tournament and expect it to be non-competitive? Just play with your friends, or go to pre-releases.

It's not the competitive attitude in general that I find unappealing, if I have a deck that I believe can carry me well I'll obviously play to win, it's the attitude that competition is the life of the game that bothers me.

These days it's certainly unrealistic to ask for any amount of good sportsmanship in anything higher level then FNM, but it doesn't have to be that way and it definitely wasn't that way in the past.

[Halfelfbard]

The hell is a sperglord?

I play MTG, i only have a elf deck but damn it is fuckin awesome.

[Abacab-Godking]

Originally Posted by Kagatob

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[Alawen]

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

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.

I haven't played competitively since 2000. I went to Grand Prix Minneapolis in 2009 to hang with old friends, but I didn't even enter the main event. Wait, or did I? I can't even remember. Whatever, the tournament wasn't a primary consideration either way. When I play now, it's usually EDH with more focus on beer and weed than anything else.

I'm the same way on P99. I raided hardcore for a few months in 2010. Now I'm very casual. That's actually why I got so pissed at BDA. Chest sold it to me as a casual friendly guild and then there was pressure to poopsock. Count me out of that crap.

I find both experiences fun, but playing any game hardcore takes too much time to be sustainable. I only played tournament Magic as long as I did (2-3 years) because my girlfriend at the time liked to play tournaments, especially draft. I quit when she got tired of it.

[Kagatob]

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

I haven't been around any mass of anime people, though. I don't really get it at all.

I'm obviously biased. That said, in my experience it's just a positive environment. I don't know if you've been to any comicons or anything of the sort, it'd be like that only more specialized so a larger % of the people you encounter there are into the same things that you are so it's very easy to meet someone and strike up a conversation.

[Hailto]

I always wanted to get into warhammer table top stuff, but its so fucking expensive.