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Tabletop gamers are very social, but still nerds. Typical tabletop game also has a lot of rules that need to be discussed and interpreted before playing, and if you want to regularly play you need 3-6 people who can consistently show up and focus for a number of hours.

Polyamorous people are the sort of people who have a very clear and precise picture of what they feel counts as cheating and what their personal boundaries are, and who before beginning a relationship will sit down and litigate the rules and boundaries of the relationship, revisiting them as needed later on or as people are added to or leave the polycule. The ones who don't do this tend to not be in poly relationships for long. Additionally, speaking for myself here as an ethically monogamous person, you kinda need to have the spoons to deal with lots of people having big feelings around you (good/bad doesn't matter, all intense feelings are intense) which weeds out the introverts.

The venn diagram of these two groups of people isn't a circle, but the overlap is really huge. Highly social, likely autistic, respects rules, likes learning. And add to that people who are dating are already spending a whole lot of time with each other, which removes one of the difficulties of board games.

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  • [–] 33 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    Idk why people are calling him cutie mcshootie. He hasn't shot anyone. I remember how when he crashed on my couch during the first week of December he told me "I have never owned a gun and have intentions of shooting anyone." What a legend who never left my sight that entire week, especially when we had breakfast together on December 4th at 5:44am CST.

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  • [–] 10 points 3 weeks ago* (4 children)

    What do you mean knitting wasn't present in the roman empire? That's slightly less absurd than saying knots didn't exist in the bronze age! Lack of evidence doesnt mean it's not present! There's lots of things we know for sure happened during the roman empire despite no one writing about it, like child baptism in early christianity. We don't know what it looked like, but we know where it happened and that everyone was in agreement about the method.

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    This Post was made by the League of Smaug Haters. Suck on on this, you tiny whelp of a dragon.

    Did you know that Smaug is named after the dwarvish verb smougon, which means to squeeze yourself through a little hole? (Because Smaug is a tiny widdle skinny baby with his delicate widdle belly.)

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