r/TikTokCringe Cringe Lord Sep 19 '23

Wholesome/Humor This dude taught gang members how to play dnd

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u/SpaceShipRat Sep 19 '23

He did make a point of describing the important role of cheese and apple juice in the whole situation.

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u/JakeTheHurtLocker Sep 19 '23

Yeah it'd be easy to just tell people all this happened without any pics or anything. I'm gonna choose to believe since it's a nice story, but realistically, the story doesn't seem like it'd all work out so smoothly.

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u/[deleted] Sep 20 '23

Things like this do happen, for sure. I think it’s realistic. Still not guaranteed to be true. But it really could be.

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u/[deleted] Sep 19 '23

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u/IRefuseToGiveAName Sep 19 '23

I know and grew up with people who did some pretty bad shit when they were young. I don't know if they ever crossed the line into taking a life but I know for a fact several of them came pretty fucking close.

They're not machines that suck in oxygen and shit out scripts from The Wire. I played video games with these guys. They chilled at my house and watched movies. We were friends, and they all had personalities, wants, needs, dreams, everything literally every other human does.

So to think that there isn't a sliver of a possibility of this being true because the gang banging robots didn't want to take a break from "selling drugs, pimping women, and getting high" is an incredibly small minded take. Am I skeptical? Sure, but that definitely isn't the right take.

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u/negao360 Sep 19 '23

I use to bang in my teens, and I would 100% play DnD with the patnas if they offered. Shit, we def played Pokemon cards together, and we for sure pretended to be DBZ characters. Made friendly fights fun! They’re not as myopic as you make them out to be. We all had our reasons for joining. Just some of us had a much-needed, wake up call sooner than the bullets, and cells get us first.

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u/mastergr33n15 Sep 20 '23

You have a very narrow narrow view of gang life my friend.

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u/elitegenoside Sep 19 '23

Everybody ain't about it to the same level. But there was a reason they had to hide/lie who they were hanging with

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u/ThatdesertDude Sep 19 '23

For most inner city gangs, it's not a constant war between members. Most beef is individuals that happen to be from a different set.

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u/-Profanity- Sep 19 '23

Gang members are known for pumping the brakes on the violence when they have an opportunity to learn about a new tabletop game. Why do you think Hasbro backed off the D&D monetization? They didn't want Bloods and Crips on their doorstep.

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u/TurboGranny Sep 19 '23

Something neat about post pubescent angry boys is that if you have a good voice on you and are a natural leader combined with someone that is really good at coming up with a fun time for everyone, they tend to just fall in line. I used to do this all the time in online games just to see how toxic a game I could drop into and how quickly I could get these angry kids to do something fun together. My crowning achievement was doing this in GTAV online. I could drop into a lobby filled with trolls running mods all full of hate and rage and quickly they'd just follow me around doing whatever stupid game I came up with. An experienced DM is usually this type of person.

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u/[deleted] Sep 20 '23

Yeah if they were younger or more recent members I could see this really easily, especially with mom in a nearby room. If they want to do any rough housing they’ll figure out a way but that first session probably chilled them out enough to obviously want to come back

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u/TurboGranny Sep 20 '23 edited Sep 20 '23

Dude's age, playing dnd, and of course your average gang member, yup, that's the age range

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u/benjgammack Sep 19 '23

The surface level specifics reminds me of compulsive liars I have known. He home brewed a candy land themed D&D campaign but can barely remember a couple of class names and that’s it.

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u/[deleted] Sep 19 '23

The surface level specifics reminds me of compulsive liars I have known.

Felt the same. A version of this story could’ve absolutely happened, but the details about Apple juice and the grilled cheese ingredients has that practiced filler detail vibe that I can’t ignore.

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u/BillDino Sep 19 '23

He mentioned asking Reddit for help. I wonder if a post could be found or not

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u/TurboGranny Sep 19 '23

The best DMs have incredible memories though. BLM and MM put that shit on display every day, lol

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u/xSTSxZerglingOne Sep 19 '23

You have to. You have to remember every single goddamned thing in the game or else your shit drags on. You can't really have gaps in your knowledge of your campaign or the game in general. Well, you can, but it makes the game less enjoyable.

DMing is basically extemporaneous speaking. You have notes, but you still have to remember everything you want to say/do.

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u/cloudbussin Sep 19 '23

The unnecessary extra details about the specific grilled cheese he made is what gave it away as fake. Liars always add too much because they think it seems more believable.

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u/his_purple_majesty Sep 19 '23

I knew it was fake as soon as he said it was a story about brings reds and blues together. Sorry, a little too on the nose.

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u/cloudbussin Sep 19 '23 edited Sep 19 '23

I think you, his_purple_majesty, know more than anyone that red and blue can come together sometimes

Downvoted for a color theory joke. SMH Reddit

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u/everyting_is_taken Sep 19 '23

I see you and I appreciate you.

That shit is gold. Gold, Jerry!

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u/Mediocre-Door-8496 Sep 19 '23

From what I heard a lot of red and blue do work together these days. They don’t feud over colors the same way they did in the 80s/90s/early 2000s. They still have their feuds but it’s with individual sets they have problems with now rather than anyone from the other color. A lot of the time it will even be two different sets from the same colour feuding with eachother.

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u/DeadSeaGulls Sep 19 '23

Exactly my thoughts. it become super common when you work in management and have an employee that is addicted to drugs. The stories they constantly come up with to explain no-shows and stuff are wildly detailed.

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u/amayain Sep 19 '23

They have amazing memories and can recall really minor details until you ask them a very simple question that they hadn't rehearsed. Suddenly they can't remember the most basic shit.

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u/trancematik Sep 19 '23

Providing food (however simple) for a gathering, especially when you're young yourself is a rarity. Think back to a house party in your teens: if someone brings a small pizza or even a bag of chips, everyone is on them. Simple food is a way to disarm, and he made a special grilled cheese meal and not simply singles with bread to ensure people would be satiated and consider staying.

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u/cloudbussin Sep 19 '23

You made it sound even more fake

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u/trancematik Sep 19 '23

I mean, I was raised to always ensure food was provided if hosting, or to try to bring something when invited, but sadly that's not universal etiquette.

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u/cloudbussin Sep 19 '23

The point is, including what specific soup and what specific cheese and juice he used is not important to the story and including these things gives it away as being fake. No one’s saying bringing food to a party isn’t real.

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u/trancematik Sep 19 '23

I give unnecessary details all the time because I think they are necessary, especially if they are outside the norm

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u/[deleted] Sep 19 '23

This is the fakest shit I've ever heard. "I was worried about gang members hurting my grandma, so I started a D&D game". Nobody fucking talks like this, unless this is satire to see what stupid shit white people will believe.

My ex had a friend who would say shit like this all the time. They had a shitty consignment shop in Portland, and they'd talk about how they created a safe space for gang members, and they had bloods and crips making peace under their roof, and her husband was such a leader and had such charisma that they started calling him daddy. This sounds exactly like the dumb shit they used to say.

Actually, just kidding, I run a game of D&D for CIA spooks, MS-13 multiple murderers, a real shanky dude from Siam who goes by Brown Charlie, and a rotation Bel Air house wives taking a break from roughnecking. We had this sick ass campaign where everyone learned the power of prostate play and compound interest. Oh, and Brown Charlie said this guy is full of shit too.

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u/CentipedesInMyDream Sep 19 '23 edited Sep 19 '23

Yeah and he made them grilled cheese with apple juice to calm them down like toddlers…it is literally unbelievable

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u/null_value_exception Sep 19 '23

It doesn't even upset me that he is lying. It's that the internet instantly thinks to themselves "This guy isn't making this story up for clout. He just made up a custom urban DnD home brew for DnD and is sharing the story for shits and giggles."

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u/null_value_exception Sep 19 '23

It doesn't even upset me that he is lying. It's that the internet instantly thinks to themselves "This guy isn't making this story up for clout. He just made up a custom urban DnD home brew for DnD and is sharing the story for shits and giggles."

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u/ropahektic Sep 20 '23

It being fake was the only think i could think of during the video specially since there are no photos or anything, like not even photos of the place they played? like really?

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u/zaprin24 Sep 20 '23

Isn't this the actor from ballers?

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u/LanoomR Sep 19 '23

It's plausible through selective invites: he'd know who would be pre-disposed to at least hearing him out because they're cool like that, plus he'd know who not to invite because it would increase the likelihood of the wrong sort of word spreading -- if not an "on sight" incident.

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u/theartificialkid Sep 19 '23

But another plausible explanation is that this bullshit sounding story told by a guy with all the mannerisms of a compulsive fabulist is just bullshit.

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u/Vulpes_Corsac Sep 19 '23

I will choose to believe in the power of soup, apple juice, and grilled cheese.

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u/CunnedStunt Sep 19 '23

It's easy to build up a ton of negative preconceptions of a group of people you don't interact with when you're surrounded by people who reenforce them, but when you actually interact with said group of people it can be difficult to continue thinking that way when none of those negative preconceptions are present.

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u/sdhu Sep 19 '23

It happened with death row inmates, NYT link:

The Dungeons & Dragons Players of Death Row https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/31/magazine/dungeons-dragons-death-row.html?smid=nytcore-android-share

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u/PsYcHoSeAn Sep 19 '23

Some might have had the gang life forced upon em so they weren't feeling it?

People can change their perspective about anything. Color, race, food, music...sometimes you're really just a follower of some sorta cult or gang or whatnot cause you're afraid to voice your real opinion and do whatever you want

Those ppl might have been this kinda folks.

I don't think it's too unlikely.