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That Irritating Guy
But, what do you do that must annoy your group?
I'm the guy who makes sound effects. Without even realising it. I do screams, sword clashes, gunfire, tanks, spaceship engines: you name it.
What's scariest, is that my noises are consistent. Rob (my co-writer and frequent gaming partner)recently pointed out that I made exactly the same noise each time the Hound of Tindalos moved. And then my brother pointed out that I do a great impression of the Town Portal from Diablo, every time that someone activates a Glyph in Descent.
It figures, though, I guess. I'm the head organiser of the game group (that's not bragging, I just am. Anyone from my group who wishes to contest that is welcome to organise a fucking gaming night sometime), so I might as well double as a soundboard as well.
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- Matt Thrower
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This is not a joke. I'm a vegetarian and I eat a lot of spicy food. We start game nights late, just as my digestive system in kicking in and reacting to the evening meal and when you're sat at a game table, hooked on every minute, you just can't visit the bathroom every single time that the pressure becomes too much. On winter evenings with the windows closed, the game room can start to feel like the inside of a packet of dry-roasted peanuts.
Our usual host has a game table with six seats round it. More often than not, we get four people show up. Guess who always has an empty chair each side of them?
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1. Belching uncontrollably.
2. Playing with my game pieces.
3. Making a lot of sound effects. Playing Formula De with me must be intolerable.
4. I'm a deck adjuster. At the end of my turn, guaranteed I will straighten and adujst my deck of cards. This was pointed out to me years ago that I did this at the end of EVERY ONE OF MY TURNS in Magic--I'd grab the deck of cards with my hand and form and straighten the deck back together EXACTLY. Even after all these years, I still do this. And if you aren't careful, I'll straighten yours too if it gets out of line.
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But, what do you do that must annoy your group?
Anything and everything I can.
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And nobody has ever called me on it, but I sometimes wonder if I come across as a control freak. I don't have OCD or anything, and generally I'm an easy-going guy. But I get tense when people have food and drinks on the table with my games, especially Arkham Horror. Yesterday was tough, we had a 7-player game of AH, including one kid and several people drinking beer. Miraculously, there were no spills. Usually I would have asked everybody to keep their drinks off the table, but there just wasn't any good alternative except for the floor, and there was just barely enough room for someone to squeeze by to go to the bathroom or get more beer. This carries over to other games to a lesser extent, I get annoyed when somebody gets my cards wet and doesn't immediately dry them off. And Cheetos are totally banned from my gaming table.
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- Michael Barnes
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I lie about anticipated play times.
Who here hasn't said the following?
Me: "This game only takes a couple hours"
(3 or more hours later)
Me: "...it usually doesn't take this long..."
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Michael Barnes wrote:
I lie about anticipated play times.
Who here hasn't said the following?
Me: "This game only takes a couple hours"
(3 or more hours later)
Me: "...it usually doesn't take this long..."
I've said it, but it's generally a sincere mistake. We sat down to play Battlestar Galactica at 8:00 last night, with five new players and myself. I said, "This is a 3-hour game. We should be done by midnight at the latest."
We finished at 1:38 AM. I only spent five minutes on set-up and started teaching the rules during set-up, for maybe 10 minutes total. But the old guy had some trouble understanding the rules, and also forgot some rules and then had some serious AP during the last hour of the game. It didn't help that the first outed Cylon kept trying to distract him with smack talk. And there was a huge discussion when one really aggressive admiral invoked martial law and then soon got tossed in the brig. The whole thing was a misunderstanding, as both the original admiral and the original president were humans.
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Seriously, I try to be a good sport when playing a game I dislike - usually some SJG Munchkin-style humor crap - but my misery is obvious.
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