• southsamurai@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    I’ve lost two friends playing that kind of game.

    Apparently, they didn’t like the fact that they couldn’t tell I was lying or not. Like, the games are about acting, what did they expect? I’ve done various table top role play games for decades, I worked as a nurse’s assistant with a focus on hospice care. You do either of those long enough, and you figure out how to mask anything you’re thinking and feeling, and then how to present what’s necessary at the time.

    If you can’t keep a good face on while you’re telling someone that’s about to fall apart because their loved one is dead, and tell them it was peaceful and easy even if it wasn’t, you can’t do the job. It doesn’t matter how torn up you are inside, the grief you have, the pain from seeing someone suffer, you fucking well have a job to do, and that’s comfort the family. You put on your fucking mask and you help them.

    Sorry, little mini rant there.

    But yeah, those games have to have the right group, or they’re more stress than fun.

  • Otter@lemmy.caOP
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    1 year ago

    Similarly, when I play monopoly I end up feeling bad and getting charitable… which only ends up extending the game indefinitely