That’s the ticket.
Until you realize this, you’re doomed to stress-filled gaming nights and ranting on message boards where you’ll get scant sympathy. Because you know what this guy is going to do on gaming night. And you keep letting him do it anyway.
If it’s not fun, change things or stop and find something else to do.
Geek anger is so cute. It’s almost like real anger, but different.
I’d usually ask you to demonstrate that my posts have been ignorant, as opposed to just going by your say-so. But don’t bother. You clearly forgot you were participating in a public message board, and are having similar issues dealing with other opinions here that you do with other players on nerd night. Take up Magic. I think it caters to a safer group of nerds. Seriously. I’ve never heard of so many nerds just waiting for a chance to bludgeon one of their own. You are either paranoid, or have taken one too many atomic wedgies.
Waverly, you’re being a real jerk. I thought you should know that.
Really, what is your major malfunction? Are your hobbies far more manly than gaming? Are you some kind of all-macho one hundred percent barechested american who scars his own chest for fun?
Scuba diving, hm? Well, I suppose that explains it. The bends have bent your brain, all the little minor strokelets that going up and down cause have given you some kind of obsession with teasing and prodding people.
Divers. It’s like sailing, only without, you know, being able to pay for a boat. Do you visit the great outside, or do you do it all in a pool? Do you actually visit the deep end, or is that too scary for you?
Psst. Red? Dungeons and Dragons. You know, with the paper and pencils and the scary geeks rolling dice on a table. No electricity needed. So, you know, you’re missing a little something.
Honestly, man, it’s cool, but it’s like walking into a Harley convention and talking about your Honda Civic. Different kind of thing entirely. Sure, Harley and Honda sound alike, but one is a bike, and the other is a car.
Seconded.
I guess I’m flattered that you wasted time researching me. I don’t really dive. I only say that to look cool. I snorkel. In my bathtub.
Yeah, in retrospect the last couple of posts were a little jerkish. I object to being told that comments weren’t really desired when the post was made on a public message board, but I shouldn’t have poked fun at someone’s hobby that way. My apologies to the D&D crowd.
For disagreeing with the OP? I don’t think so. If smiling bandit wanted {{huggles}} and support only, he could have put this in {{MPSIMS}}.
At any rate, Waverly’s amusing the hell out of me and that’s all that really matters.
Oh great, now you make me look like an ass for supporting you, you waterwing pussy. I won’t make that mistake again.
Just don’t let it happen again. We’ve got magic missiles and we know how to use them.
Thirded.
Magic missiles? I keep Melf’s Acid Arrow around. They work so well against…well, you know. 
I’m sorry, I forgot it was all about you. Won’t happen again.
I appreciate your comment, though. I stand by everything I have said save for insulting D&D players in general just because one of them comes across as a whiny dork.
This ain’t a democracy, Elminster. If you have a problem with me that goes beyond poking your head out from behind tdn to say, “me too,” then let’s hear it.
I stand by the words of my high school calculus teacher: “A geek is a nerd with social skills.” This guy sounds like neither, just a garden-variety loony who happened to pick a tabletop game as his outlet of crazy rather than, say, a street corner or gas station.
“I attack the darkness!”
Wow, this is just… wow. I’ve been gaming for almost 15 years now, currently with a group from Total Newbie to I Still Have The Original D&D Dice. Drama like this just doesn’t happen.
In fact, we had a session last Friday that was filled with so much laughter it carried me through my cousin’s funeral the next day.
My advice? Let the campaign die, take a month off, then call up the Good Gamers and restart, by invitation only. Gather at someone’s home, not somewhere public. If you can’t stand to confront someone annoying, just let them drop off the radar.
Gamers with wit, social skills, and good hygiene do exist. Find them and cultivate the friendships.
Which is why I’m trying to move the games such that he can no longer attend, or arange alternative . This guy also attends most anything geek-related he can get into. Including, say, wargames (he’s not horrendously bad at them). I don’t know if he’s in card games, although I so rusty at magic I don’t think I can compete on that level, nor can I afford it. I don’t know anyone who can, actually. If there’s an open game somewhere in Knoxville, he’ll be there after bumming another tride from someone. He’ll spend any free day he gets going from one game to another until midnight, when he’ll see if he can’t get into another game.
And thanks for the WoW suggestion. I’m seriosuly considering it. But I do like msot fo the people there, and some of them are long-time friends (close to a decade, some of them). I probably wouldn’t get to see them, which is a big issue for me. I don’t care so much about the gaming (although, as mentioned, I enjoy it for various reasons).
I’ve left a gaming group for much more piddling reasons than that, smiling bandit. You don’t need the stress. WoW is a great option because there are so many players - get in a good guild, and dealing with jerks is an occasional occurrence at worst.
It’s just not the same thing, though. I like paper and dice games because they’re social. And my GM, John, cooks some awesome food. Let’s see your computer do that!
What’s an elminster?
As I stated before in another post I think you’re being way too hard on the guy.
Google/Wikipedia is your friend.
For which, much to my chagrin, he apologized. If you stick around here, and I hope that you do, you’ll find that this is pretty mild as far as the Pit goes.