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ROR 154: A Tough Nerd · Red Onion Randy - Life in a Supermax Prison

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  Speaker 1: Hello, this is a prebate call from and if they
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  Speaker 1: the present a Department of Correction read an in state
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  Speaker 1: present to accept this all crass zero. This is Randall
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  Speaker 1: Bob currently serving one thousand, two hundred and fourteen years
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  Speaker 1: for capital murder on Roberts, currently being housed at key
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  Speaker 1: Mount Correctional Center in Oakwood, Virginia, US A. Welcome to
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  Speaker 1: on Randy dot com. I hope you do. Let's get
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  Speaker 1: started with the podcast. It often was recently brought to
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  Speaker 1: my attention. I'm in prison for murder because I've cut
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  Speaker 1: people's throats since I've been in prison. I fought the CEOs,
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  Speaker 1: I fought gang members. I've I've pretty much fault everything
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  Speaker 1: you could fight in prison, including myself, you know, because
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  Speaker 1: occasionally just kind of looking on as us good for
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  Speaker 1: the soul, and I was asked, you know, because I
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  Speaker 1: love fantasy. You know I like dn d uh, you
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  Speaker 1: know Pathfinder RPG. So I've absolutely fallen in love with
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  Speaker 1: lit RPGA. How how can I be a tough guy?
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  Speaker 1: How can I be a fighter? You know? How can
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  Speaker 1: I have the reputation that I have in prison well
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  Speaker 1: yet still be a nerd? You know, to love these
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  Speaker 1: things that basically, you know, kids in high school get
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  Speaker 1: picked on and beat up for loving. And on the
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  Speaker 1: surface of it, it's a really simple answer, because if
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  Speaker 1: you tell me what I can or cannot like, I'm
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  Speaker 1: loppel slapt out of it. I am a tough nerd.
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  Speaker 1: I'm the kind of guy that if you call me
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  Speaker 1: a nerd, I can and probably will stuff you went
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  Speaker 1: into a trash can. But if you just dig a
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  Speaker 1: little bit deeper, singing get Past began a little bit
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  Speaker 1: funny there. It's because I know who I am. I've
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  Speaker 1: won that battle. I don't care what people think about
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  Speaker 1: I'm comfortable with who I am because I truly know
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  Speaker 1: who I am. I've been forged in the fires of life,
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  Speaker 1: but I had a rough I think anybody who's listening
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  Speaker 1: to my podcast enough would agree that I've had a
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  Speaker 1: pretty love life. So why should I care what others
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  Speaker 1: think about me? Because I love fantasy novels, because I
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  Speaker 1: like dungeons and dragons and path Finder and RPGs and
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  Speaker 1: you know, role playing and whatnot. Like I find that fought.
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  Speaker 1: I find it pretty damn awesome, because it is if
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  Speaker 1: you can get around the right group of people, if
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  Speaker 1: you can get with the right dungeon master, if you
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  Speaker 1: can get with you know, guys who the girls didn't
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  Speaker 1: mean to leave you out there, ladies. If you can
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  Speaker 1: get with the right guys and girls who know what
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  Speaker 1: they're doing. They enjoy playing is they know the rules,
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  Speaker 1: they understand it, and they actually get into it, like
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  Speaker 1: they're not embarrassed to play, to play a character. Now,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not talking about to the point where you know,
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  Speaker 1: you start saying, you know, stuff like it's been a
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  Speaker 1: fortnight since our last rolics, my heart heats my pleasant
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  Speaker 1: heat with the weight of your ass, or something like that.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I've got that from an American Dad episode.
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  Speaker 1: But hey, when you start talking like that, that's not
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  Speaker 1: what I'm talking about. I'm talking about just simply playing
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  Speaker 1: the game, you know, as who you would like to
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  Speaker 1: be because you can actually find out a lot about
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  Speaker 1: yourself while you're creating a character, because you got to
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  Speaker 1: pick the class. What type of character are you going
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  Speaker 1: to be? Are you going to be a monk? Are
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  Speaker 1: you going to be a ranger, a druid? Are you
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  Speaker 1: going to be a wizard, a sorceress. Are you going
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  Speaker 1: to be a knight, a cleric? Are you going to
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  Speaker 1: be a thief an assassin? You're going to be a
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  Speaker 1: straight up fighter? What kind of class are you going
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  Speaker 1: to do? That tells me about your personality. That tells
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  Speaker 1: me about who you would actually like to be, especially
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  Speaker 1: if you have a tendency to play the same character
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  Speaker 1: over and over again. Then you choose your race, that
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  Speaker 1: tells me a little bit about yourself. Also, you know,
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  Speaker 1: it tells me what you would like to look like. Now,
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  Speaker 1: it's not always one hundred accurate, especially if you're playing
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  Speaker 1: with someone like me, because I actually enjoy playing a
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  Speaker 1: different character, a different class, a different race every single
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  Speaker 1: time I played the game. And as we know, you know,
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  Speaker 1: not everything is carved in stone, but it does give
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  Speaker 1: you insight. So I enjoy that. I enjoy getting that
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  Speaker 1: little glimpse into somebody you know, what would they be
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  Speaker 1: if they could go to a fantasy world. Well, play
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  Speaker 1: a campaign with them and you'll find out. And that's
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  Speaker 1: what it's about. It's about being It's about being yourself.
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  Speaker 1: It's about freeing yourself to be something else for a
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  Speaker 1: little while. It's about accepting who you are. Don't live
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  Speaker 1: your life where people are allowed to judge you because
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  Speaker 1: you play a game. How is playing an ALLTG game
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  Speaker 1: any different from watching Game of Thrones on TV? You
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  Speaker 1: have so many people watched that show, you know, because
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  Speaker 1: it had all the hype, It had a lot of
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  Speaker 1: newity in it, It had you know, like some main characters. God,
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  Speaker 1: they watched it. They loved it, they thought it was great.
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  Speaker 1: They got upset with the way it ended and the
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  Speaker 1: fact that George Martin hasn't released the you know, the
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  Speaker 1: Wins the Winter yet. But yet they make fun of
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  Speaker 1: you for playing the role playing games, like, how does
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  Speaker 1: that work? You like the same thing? I like, It's
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  Speaker 1: just I take it a little bit further and I
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  Speaker 1: immersed myself into it. I've become that character in the
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  Speaker 1: Game of Thrones. I just watch it with my mind's
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  Speaker 1: eye instead of on television. There is no different. There's
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  Speaker 1: no different playing an RPG game with dice and character
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  Speaker 1: sheets and books and whatnot, then there is playing a
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  Speaker 1: video game. It's the exact same thing. Fantasy is fantasy,
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  Speaker 1: regardless of what form, shape, or fashion it comes in.
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  Speaker 1: So be who you are, you know, So to answer
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  Speaker 1: your question to the person who who wrote and you
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  Speaker 1: know and asked me this. Don't let somebody judge you
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  Speaker 1: because you like D and D. Don't let somebody judge
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  Speaker 1: you because you like fantasy. Because if you ask them, amen,
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  Speaker 1: did you watch the Game of Thrones? Three hours later,
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  Speaker 1: they still haven't shut the up about it. I get it.
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  Speaker 1: You've seen some hot girls ticks. Get over it. That's
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  Speaker 1: my problem right there. That right there is my problem.
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  Speaker 1: Most of these people out there that loved the show
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  Speaker 1: only loved it because of the hot girls showing their ticks.
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  Speaker 1: That's what made it a great story. And I'm not
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  Speaker 1: even a fan of Game of Thrones. They're actually playing
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  Speaker 1: in the entire series on the DVD channels up here.
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  Speaker 1: Every single week they're playing it. I have not watched
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  Speaker 1: a single episode. Get I'm not the biggest fan of
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  Speaker 1: Georgia or Martin for various reasons. I love fantasy because
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  Speaker 1: it allows me, in my daydreams, to be who I
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  Speaker 1: truly would like to be. Granted, I'm a whole lot
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  Speaker 1: closer as I am right now to be and who
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  Speaker 1: I am than most people in this world are, because
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  Speaker 1: at the end of the day, I can actually do
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  Speaker 1: a lot of the stuff in real life that I
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  Speaker 1: could do in a fantasy game, because I really don't
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  Speaker 1: play magic users that much. So I can swing the sword,
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  Speaker 1: I can swing my ax, I can fight with my
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  Speaker 1: hands and feet. I can shoot a boat, I can
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  Speaker 1: use a quarterstack. I know how to do those things.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not an expert by no stretch of the imagination.
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  Speaker 1: But then again, if I need to use a sharp
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  Speaker 1: instrument to hurt somebody, well I've got a stack of
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  Speaker 1: paperwork in here that says I know how to do that. Already.
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  Speaker 1: Be comfortable with who you are. And if you have
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  Speaker 1: somebody who judges you for wanting to play the game,
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  Speaker 1: then tell them to kiss your ass and walk away
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  Speaker 1: from them, and don't talk to them, don't let them
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  Speaker 1: into your life. Go find you a local D and
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  Speaker 1: D game and play. Now my days of playing the
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  Speaker 1: game over with, because in a stick of frustration, and anger.
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  Speaker 1: At the last game I played in here, I gave
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  Speaker 1: my word that I'd never play again. Now, Oh good god,
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  Speaker 1: this it was. It was horrible from They Can't Go
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  Speaker 1: And I blame Michael because his mom sent him to act.
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  Speaker 1: True Lift RPG series by Christopher John's from Mountain Dale Press.
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  Speaker 1: Good series. Didn't really like how it ended so much,
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  Speaker 1: but I loved the books so in love with FLIPOLLPG
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  Speaker 1: right now. It's it. Job's been crazy that I don't
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  Speaker 1: have any more to read at this moment, Like I
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  Speaker 1: just I want to make my whole life about LIFTOLLPG
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  Speaker 1: right now. I'm that gung hole about it. So I
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  Speaker 1: read it and I was like, damn it, man, I
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  Speaker 1: gotta play like I hadn't played since I've been here.
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  Speaker 1: You know, the last time I played was at the Ridge.
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  Speaker 1: We had a little game going on up there, so
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  Speaker 1: I come out and talk to the guys, and you know,
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  Speaker 1: I drew up a character. I was playing, a monk,
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  Speaker 1: it's finally enough, sort of a rogue mark. I wasn't
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  Speaker 1: really a good character. I wasn't an evil character, but
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  Speaker 1: I kind of you know, I kind of dipped my
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  Speaker 1: toe on both sides of the line a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: I had a little fun with it. The d M
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  Speaker 1: he bless his heart. He did the best he could.
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  Speaker 1: He really did he you know, he had he had
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  Speaker 1: a book called The Crimson the Crimson Throne campaign, which
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  Speaker 1: wasn't too bad. You know, he wasn't super experienced with it,
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  Speaker 1: you know, so it was it could be a little
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  Speaker 1: bit dry sometimes. And then you had the people that
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  Speaker 1: was playing, and it was it was horrible. It was
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  Speaker 1: so sad. You have this one guy playing an evil
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  Speaker 1: character in a good campaign. Mind, like you have to
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  Speaker 1: be at least neutral or good to be in his campaign,
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  Speaker 1: Like you really cannot play an evil character. But he
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  Speaker 1: wanted to play an evil character. He won't. He had
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  Speaker 1: a great source. All he wanted to do is just fight.
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  Speaker 1: That's it that he didn't. He didn't do any RPG
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  Speaker 1: like matter of fact, for example. And he's so impatient.
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  Speaker 1: He's such a damn child. I mean, I like the
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  Speaker 1: dude outside the game personally, but inside the game he
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  Speaker 1: was just so just childish. We called this one guy
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  Speaker 1: and we had him tied up in a chair and
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  Speaker 1: we was questioning him to where the boss was. He
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  Speaker 1: didn't want to answer him, so I pulled a knife
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  Speaker 1: out and I stabbed him in the leg. He screamed,
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  Speaker 1: of course, and it was you know, any reasonable person
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  Speaker 1: would do getting stabbed in the leg with a knife. One.
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  Speaker 1: So I pulled the knife out and I asked the guys,
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna ask you again, where is he? I'm not
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  Speaker 1: telling you nothing. So he just pulls his great sword
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  Speaker 1: out and chops his head off right then, right there.
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  Speaker 1: I looked at him like, what are you doing there?
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  Speaker 1: So he wasn't going to answer. We only worked on
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  Speaker 1: him with one little knife room like we haven't gotten
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  Speaker 1: started yet, and that really just it screwed the campaign
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  Speaker 1: from the beginning because nobody else knew what to do.
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  Speaker 1: And this is my first time playing with this group
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  Speaker 1: of guys, so I'm not really trying to take over
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  Speaker 1: the game. I can. I have that ability. I've been
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  Speaker 1: playing for a while. I know what I'm doing, I
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  Speaker 1: know how to lead and so on and so forth.
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  Speaker 1: But in this one, I kind of wanted to follow,
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  Speaker 1: play around the edges, have a little fun, and you know,
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  Speaker 1: maybe if it would have worked out and we would
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  Speaker 1: have continued to play, I would have took a greater
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  Speaker 1: role in the next one. Yeah, that that that did
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  Speaker 1: not happen. That you have this one guy. He's just
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  Speaker 1: sitting there trawling artwork while we're playing, and so every
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  Speaker 1: time it's his turn, is on what's going on and
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  Speaker 1: you have to stop and spend the next fifteen minutes
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  Speaker 1: and it's explaining to him what just happened in five minutes.
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  Speaker 1: Then you have another guy, so he's trying to impress
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  Speaker 1: you with how smart he is when he's really not
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  Speaker 1: very smart at all. You have the other guy, Michael.
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  Speaker 1: He is frustrated with the way things have gone, so
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  Speaker 1: he's kind of just like just standing there mumbling to himself.
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  Speaker 1: But you have this other guy. He made me want
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  Speaker 1: to leap across the table and choke him out. He
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  Speaker 1: just he wanted to sit in so bad. He wanted
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  Speaker 1: to impress people so bad, like way, way worse than
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  Speaker 1: the other guy. And this was his first time playing too.
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  Speaker 1: He's questioning everything. He's calling me up with five different
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  Speaker 1: plans to find a fucking smoothie bar. Yes I know
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  Speaker 1: there's no smoothie bars, and Pathfinder making a point and
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  Speaker 1: it is just it became so frustrating that I just said,
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  Speaker 1: screw it. You have one minute, meaning I ran into
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  Speaker 1: the den where we was scoping the place out, and
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  Speaker 1: I just started to fight. So they had no choice
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  Speaker 1: but to come in after me. So while they were
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  Speaker 1: still fighting, I fought my way through them. I ran
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  Speaker 1: upstairs and I came across the balls, and you know,
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  Speaker 1: the boss started talking and I told the d MS.
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  Speaker 1: I jumped over the table and I kicked him in
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  Speaker 1: the head. You know, I had to roll for it
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  Speaker 1: and everything, and I failed. I missed. You know, me
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  Speaker 1: and him got to fighting and it, you know, he
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  Speaker 1: was just it was too much for me to fight
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  Speaker 1: by my elf, and he wind up grabbing a spear
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  Speaker 1: and chopping my leg off, and that's how my character died.
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  Speaker 1: And I literally walked away from the table laughing and
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  Speaker 1: whistling because I swore right then and there I'd never
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  Speaker 1: ever played that game again. And I won't say I'm
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  Speaker 1: a man in my work. But don't let that stop
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  Speaker 1: you from playing. If you want to play Brin, play
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  Speaker 1: me yourself and trust in who you are. I appreciate
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