And it only takes one me to tell that guy to knock it the fuck off or GTFO. By comparison, all the X card faggot has to do to disrupt the entire game is flip over a card without even justifying whatever he's bitching about.
saying "knock it off" and pointing at a card are equally disruptive, the effect is literally the same. the former even more so depending how it's said. "flipping a card and the game comes crashing down" is hyperbole, and you know it. and the same retards don't need a card to be disruptive anyway.
So, fuck off with that entryist nonsense. We've done demos for literally hundreds of randos these past 15 years, and nobody stormed out in a way X cards could have helped. You're far more likely to lose a random player to a roll-related ragequit, loss of interest when they're not allowed to play a catgirl, or an interpersonal problem with another player instead.
that's good for you, so going by your "rules" I should never run games for kids? they're not adults after all. and according to you this hobby is only for certain people you deem acceptable to be in "your" hobby? gee good thing I guess you're not a dangerhair, I might take it the wrong way otherwise...
I shouldn't have to tell you "didn't happen at my table, so it never happens" is dumb af, but you hopefully already know that. but let's say you had that situation and that card could've helped, is this an acceptable statistical threshold that would allow the use of that card? or does it need to be double or triple digits first?
see, I get your point, but I'm not going to engage in some retarded "gatekeeping" under the conditions you or anyone else deems acceptable to "save the hobby from being infiltrated" (by using a fucking card no less) because this is some retarded MUH FEELS logic, and more importantly because it doesn't work this way. whatever someone screeches about something somewhere else has zero effect on my (and your) table, and this will literally never change. going on a crusade "how the game should be played" and "who the players should be" is the same crap wokeshitters try to do, which gets the exact same reaction from me. so being borderline paranoid about change, entryism or whatever else is "problematic" is as retarded as thinking orcs are literal niggers.
I was speaking from the basic premise that X cards were being used "as intended" and how dumb and counterproductive their actual purpose is, because that's (presumably) what ZMOT was talking about. I would hope everybody in this thread already knows just how easy to abuse these things are, and how some people have only gotten into the hobby so they self-insert, power-trip and ruin the fun for everybody else. And no, I don't just mean the wokescolds. Anyone can abuse X cards, because the whole purpose of the system is to force a change without recourse. If someone plays the X card for something you as a player or a GM did, and you try to argue about it, as far as the X card system is concerned, you're doing it wrong.
the intention is and always was to "knock it off" as
@AnOminous said. that's all there is to it. when someone has a problem you don't interrupt the game for an endless debate, you move on and afterwards ask "wanna talk about it?", and when you get a no you leave it at that. you've done demos for over 15 years, you wanna tell me you don't know and understand this already?
I really don't get what you guys think happens when using that card, like putting it on the table attracts every dangerhair in a 50 mile radius to have a free invite and mess with your game by going full retard and absolute zero options to react? how is this even supposed to work, you immediately lose the ability to tell someone to fuck off or simply leave yourself?
you could use a fucking beanbag to throw at players to fulfill the exact same purpose, that would apparently keep the dangerhairs at bay or something...
