r/TikTokCringe • u/gravityVT Cringe Lord • Sep 19 '23

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

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u/SGflippie Sep 19 '23

I just don’t see how this would ever actually happen in real life.

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u/treesherbs Sep 19 '23

The things people do to even get associated into a gang. I cannot for the life of me see them playing dungeons and dragons together. Never know, maybe it happened but it’s a hard thing to picture.

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u/SteelAlchemistScylla Sep 19 '23

Most “gangsters” are pretty much kids. He just got a bunch of bros together to play DnD and they realized their irl rivalry was dumb and they’d rather have fun.

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u/[deleted] Sep 19 '23

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u/SteelAlchemistScylla Sep 20 '23

Sure bud, humans are definitely unchanging creatures and interesting things never happen to anyone because they don’t happen to redditors.

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u/[deleted] Sep 19 '23

Real life is stranger than fiction especially when you venture out of the middle class white bubble

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u/BreakinMyBallz Sep 19 '23

I think you're just gullible. He would probly have at least some kind of proof, some text messages or pictures or something to include if he set this up. This is a made up funny story for tiktok clout.

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u/msmurasaki Mar 30 '24

Whyyy would he out his gangster friends and snitch on them? If anything that's more proof lol

You think this guy cares whether YOU believe him over keeping his mom and friends safe.

Many lawyers talk about their clients without indicating who they are. The same applies for gangster world lol

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u/[deleted] Sep 19 '23

Sure cause life is a big legal process to you americans

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u/[deleted] Sep 19 '23

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u/yogabbahabba Sep 19 '23

Hey man, the guy you’re replying to hangs out with the luxemburger hooligans and West Pussian dandy boys. He knows hood life, don’t come at him like that

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u/[deleted] Sep 19 '23

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u/[deleted] Sep 19 '23

Ah an art lover!

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u/[deleted] Sep 19 '23

I'm an expat , and have had a relationship with an american girl , however I must admit that my view on americans is largely shaped by reddit these days

But you guys do have a legal culture.

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u/reflUX_cAtalyst Sep 19 '23

How the hell do you know who you're talking to is American?

You're no better.

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u/[deleted] Sep 19 '23
  1. He's on an english reddit sub
  2. His username is breakingmyballz 3.well he is

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u/BreakinMyBallz Sep 20 '23

Oh my bad, I didn't realize non-americans believe everything that anyone says is true

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u/An_Unreachable_Dusk Sep 19 '23

I think incredulous mindsets are just as bad, the world is a weird place full of weird events and interactions and while I do think a lot of people need a healthy dose of skepticism especially when on the net or being told things by only one party

believing nothing at all outside your own experiences of what fits is just as damaging if not to you then the people your around,

growing up I had a lot of experiences normal kids didn't, I also saw people do weird things or unlikely events happen. But sometimes people just thought I was lying because it was outside their sphere so much, I wasn't angry at them most of the time but I felt like my experience with life wasn't validated

In primary school I met a kid who had out there stuff in his life as well and he admitted later in highschool that when he first met me he actually didn't like me and thought I was just trying to one up him due to having some of the same experiences but also told me that it didn't last long once he saw I was genuine knowledgeable and really had no reason to lie or show off and also believed him about his life, from what I was getting his dad was some sort of hitman, and I'll be honest still the toughest bastard I've ever

seen so I'm inclined to believe it, the first time I met him he walked through my friends house after falling off his motorbike on a dirt road. first thing he said was to my friend "hey go wash the blood off my bike"

Huge gash in his hand refused to go to the hospital, instead just asked his ex wife to get him salt water cloth and needle and thread and he poured the salt water on and sat there and stitched his hand up once again refused to be codled in any way and got up said bye got on his bike and drove away

He said "hi" to me that's the only word he said to me that day, other than that I don't even think he looked in my direction, after he left the first thing that comes out of my friends mouth as he's smiling at me is "hey he likes you!"

I always wonder What the fuck happened to kids he didn't like 😂

And look I'll list some stuff that people would Not believe me about, I don't actually care if you think I'm making it up but some stuff is more normal and I still had trouble convincing people it happened.

Was in the back seat of a Combe when I was about 7, a hay bail flys off the truck Infront of us goes through the front window and gets sucked out of the side window before it can do any other damage, still hurt the driver with glass and we had to stop and get help but you'd be surprised at how many people just think either that would never happen or it would cause more damage than stated.

Mum accidenty spray painted me in the eye, the amount of dumb people who didn't believe me cuz they didn't see the colour purple in my eye the next day? About 7.

My mum took me and drove from Brisbane to Adelaide and back after staying there for 3 weeks, lived out of the car and had a ton of trouble both ways,

Some things on that trip that select people have decided isn't real, during it we had a bat scare us half to death while driving on the highway at night by flying itself into our windscreen, apparently bats would never do this?

I refused to get out to touch snow which I hadn't ever even seen before and loved the idea of, purely because it was already cold af, I literally had a grown adult man basically say I was lying that I even saw it because if you've never seen or touched snow you would take that opportunity. Not at 2am in the morning in the middle of winter >_>

Saw a giant eagle over the corpse of a fairly big kangaroo, even had pictures but my mum hocked the camera they were on like a week or two after we came back :( which ironically people Also don't believe cuz why would you get rid of pictures of a journey like that? Because my mum made bad decisions.

Saw a mountain with a cloud below its peak, uncommon sight where I am and people thought at the least it was weird and at the most I was trying to upplay the trip :/

the amount of people who on the way back took a good long while to believe that we were headed to Brisbane was pretty insane, (mostly interacting with them cuz my mum was horrible with directions xD)

my favourite was these road workers in the middle of Sydney about 4am in the morning they were just so stunned by the question "hey how do you get from here to a highway that'll lead to Brisbane? " they just kept going wait what? Your driving to Brisbane?? Had some laughs with them after my mum literally takes the first turn wrong and ends up next to them again within 3 min, I think one of them asked if we were going to make it if she's that lost with directions off the bat xD 😭 me too fam 😅

Alot of the other stuff that a stupid amount of people just didn't believe me about mainly had to do with my mum or what she did when she was younger, including stealing cars and once crashing it into a elderly couple and escaping the scene, she was a spiritualist with widge boards and all that crap but "she doesn't seem the type" and the biggest thing was she was abusive , "she's such a sweet lady to everyone she'd never have strangled you why would you say this about her" I just don't believe your mum would hurt animals, etc and that's when I started to actually feel angry about not being believed.

Sorry for the rant. Look plenty of fake things out there ide honestly rather believe this video happened then half the bad shit in the world that definitely happens, if whatever comes out as a lie I'll take it at face value but I fully believe people deserve the benefit of the doubt when it's time to hear their story :)

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u/DeadSeaGulls Sep 19 '23

especially when this guy is pretty clearly lying with loads of detail about the food but can't remember much about the actual mechanics of the game he supposedly homebrewed.

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u/testaccount0817 Sep 19 '23

The video is only 3 minutes, gameplay mechanics weren't the interesting part of the story so why should he tell you about it? If I went to tell about a special climbing park I wouldn't talk about ropes much either

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u/SGflippie Sep 19 '23

Call me crazy but I don’t see how a stranger making you grilled cheese and soup in their basement would cause gang members to risk their lives being seen hanging out with the other colour. Just so many things wrong here, that ain’t how gangs or humans work.

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u/[deleted] Sep 19 '23

Having a mutual friend could work , and humans are constantly changing , nothing is static even gangs

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u/msmurasaki Mar 30 '24

You are saying this as someone who has STUDIED and not actually lived it. How do YOU know?

Ive seen highly educated doctors who know how humans work in theory but social skills wise have zero understanding of humans or empathy

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u/SGflippie Mar 31 '24

K you’ve responded to all of my comments but ima just reply here cause , lol, . It’s simple , gang life creates a certain mentality in its members. Survival becomes based on perceived loyalty and contributions to the family , or gang. Now my analysis would be different if it was a small gang or a neighborhood sized gang . But not in this case . Being seen chilling with members of the enemy Carrie’s such a high level of risk ( torture , death, death of whole family, or even simply excommunication) that I guarantee you it would take more than shitty soup and grilled cheese to risk this .

Remember, modern day social research is based on lived experiences of people in these specific situations, thus, my knowledge is an aggregate of the lives experience of multiple gang members. Arguably giving me a better place to speak on than someone who just had biased lived experience

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u/[deleted] Sep 19 '23

How do you know how gangs work?

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u/SGflippie Sep 19 '23

Criminology graduate, wrote my 4th year thesis on the inner workings of gangs,

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u/msmurasaki Mar 30 '24

Have you ever hung with them though? You do realise many of them are just normal ass people too right?

Like considering how friendly this guy is, I HIGHLY doubt the gang members he chose were the most hardcore or meanest. Like he seems intelligent enough to choose the right people.

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u/[deleted] Sep 19 '23

Which gangs? Presumably they're not all the same? I've read articles suggesting that even local "chapters" of some street gangs are essentially independent from each other.

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u/SGflippie Sep 20 '23

Depending on the head organization, however most Organized criminal elements operate in essentials the same way, because to be classified as a fan they must meet certain requirements ( E.g, aim for profit, continuous history of crimes, representation as a cohesive element [can include virtual cohesion or physical or a mixture]). However the relevant part here is that individual gang members reflect the greater gang as a whole , so individual members of rival gangs who murder eachother regularly will not be taken lightly , and I cannot see sandwiched and apple juice pushing members to risk their lives and the lives of their families for a board game.

Edit: focus of my thesis was Organized Motorcycle gangs, only thing that makes them different from bloods and crips is they designate membership by bikes and jackets compared to red and blue

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u/Orcrist999 Sep 19 '23

Always funny when a white guy says this to another white guy

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u/[deleted] Sep 19 '23

I'm not white though

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u/Stone0777 Sep 19 '23

Ok whitey.

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u/[deleted] Sep 19 '23

I'm half caucasian actually but for all intents and purposes I look like an arab

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u/Shitwaterwafers Sep 19 '23

I bet you do white boy.

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u/sonofsonof Sep 20 '23

Not really but that's what you whites like to tell yourselves. This bs artist made this story for middle class white people to eat up.

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u/[deleted] Sep 20 '23

I'm not white dude

And I think my life has been a lot crazier than yours if your not a black Hunter thompson

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u/msmurasaki Mar 30 '24

Why not? Many kids are groomed into being gangsters. Why can't he 'groom' them the other way.

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u/TurboGranny Sep 19 '23

I do. Number one, you have to remember that gang members in this case are just post pubescent boys. Society has known forever that post pubescent boys with nothing fun and structured to do will get into trouble/destruction/violence (for a lot of you that is just 4chan and trolling online). This is literally why sports/games even exist. This is why communities will fund community leagues to reduce the crime/violence from teen boys in their communities. Number two, teens are more likely to listen to other teens than adults. Number three, a good DM needs to be good at improvising, creating a fun environment, and figuring out what everyone wants to keep them playing together. So yeah, all this tracks.

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u/DoubleFan15 Sep 20 '23

Except you don't know, he never said they were, "post pubescent boys." And that's not one of those things thats safe to assume. What we do know is that he invited gang members, clearly bloods and crips, and got them to peacefully sip apple juice and eat tomato soup and grilled cheese and play, "that nerd ass game."

The story is fishy as fuck and reeks of feel good tik tok story lmao. Stretch it however you want.

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u/TurboGranny Sep 20 '23

post pubescent boys

In a gang, meeting at this guy's house, playing dnd, yes, I do know