A lot of people work Sundays.

tosses and turns, occasionally glancing at the clock, getting more and more pissed as the hours go by until finally, exhaustion creeping in, your alarm goes off

Repeat every day.

Every.

Single.

DAY.

“what non piracy reasons are there”

“If you have nothing to hide then what’s the problem with putting a camera in the bathroom. What non crime reasons could there be?”

Really though, if you’re technically proficient enough for torrenting and vpns, you’re proficient enough to convert to newer formats, too.

So even then, it’s really just not that big a deal. Other than being a once-used format for the platform. And honestly how many devices are still functioning that can only use mobi? Heck I have a 10 year old Kindle somewhere that probably has 4 or 5 different formats from about 10 different sources.

I always go with “this is what you can figure out/read on the manual/some old guy in a pub said” and stick with that, because it feels weird to me to outright lie to players about a game mechanic.

For everything, whether they have it totally figured out or not. I set this expectation in session 0 though, because otherwise the party will spend 6 hours trying to investigate a normal wooden chest because I said “as far as you can tell it’s a normal chest” and they took that to mean “… But there’s more you CAN’T tell”

Maybe it’s just easier to lie… I should try that more often.

I vaguely remember reading an article where the gist of if was “musk is busy with other businesses, SpaceX engineers can work unhindered by stupid questions and requirements” and their source was someone who works for SpaceX.

African, or European?

Sure is convenient how quickly some people seem to find someone else. Almost like they were already moving on long before the divorce.

Like my friends’ sperm donor. Got divorced and within a month and a half, oh look someone he JUST MET is moving in, they’re expecting a baby, and he’s already given his daughter’s car that was still in his name because it was a sweet 16 (friend was 19 at this time) and gave it to his new fucktoy’s daughter.

But noooo, nothing untoward going on here, nosiree

With other people who didn’t read past the title agreeing despite literally saying “I did not read any of the articles but here’s my opinion”

Not relevant to the discussion, and Readily admitting I have no idea how tax laws work.

Every time I hear “for accounting purposes…” what my brain replaces it with is “we commit fraud! Here’s how…” mostly as a joke, but sometimes I wonder how true it really is.

To be clear I’m not trying to imply anything about your job lol just think it’s funny

WOAH THERE!

Unless you are at least 51% mechanical, you do NOT have the right to say that word. I understand that a lot of outer rim worlds still hold a lot of resentment toward droids because of how they were used during the clone wars, but droids are sentient too, and don’t deserve racist slurs like “cl*nker”

The wars ended 20 years ago for the rest of us, maybe it should end for droids, too.

You do have a point there. But I have a very poor view of companies and their data breaches, so I’m certainly biased.

Two years is nothing. It’s literally a pittance in order to silence to plebs.

My data got stolen from the DOD in 2015, and I still have identity theft protection from it, and STILL have issues pop up every year. Without the last 8 years of protection, I’d be completely fucked.

Are we talking a world war, or just a war somewhere in the world?

Because one of those things we won’t have a choice over. I can not want a war while still preparing for one.

I don’t believe the US would be left alone in a world War, simple from all the shit we stuck our noses in in the 50s-90s, to say nothing of the last 23 years.

Even if you are 100% in the right the billion dollar companies can bury you in legal fees until you run out of money.

Tune in next week for another exciting episode of 'El Maestro de Mazmorras (dramatic… pause) de Amor"

organ music intensifies

I know a guy who REALLY needs glasses. Can’t see shit more than 3 inches away without them. You can sneak up on him in broad daylight by walking in the open right toward him, he can’t make out the blob until about 15ft away. Probably legally blind, but I don’t actually know that.

He refuses to wear glasses while driving “because all the lights hurt my eyes”.

So basically at night he keeps it between the white/yellow blurs and avoids the blobs headed toward him, and during the day he tries to avoid the colored blobs while staying on the gray/black smear.

Remember, you share the road with these people daily! Incidentally I’m all for mandatory 5 year retesting for driver licenses and a yearly one after a certain age. No, I don’t think that’s ageist or wrong.

ANECDOTE TIME: My own grandfather drove right up until he was moved into a care home, and he was having seizures and strokes intermittently. The last time I spoke to him before he lost access to his truck, he told me he had to ask for help getting back into the truck because his leg wouldn’t move, AND he nearly took out someone’s mailbox because he took a turn so wide he jumped the sidewalk and went into a yard.

Read this as condescendingly as possible.

“akshyully I’ve been well aware of why casual content appeals to the casual audience. I’m a GAMER.”

But seriously, yeah. Generic plots appeal to the most people because they’re easy to follow. I’ve met a lot of people who hated “The Prestige” because “it was confusing as fuck” and “didn’t make sense”. I admit, I ve seen it four times now and I still caught something new on my last watch. But still. It’s not exactly rocket surgery.

But I really did pull most of that campaign straight from a movieand they ate it up, talked about it like it was an 11 course meal. Instead of a truck stop hotdog with slightly too-green mustard.

Luckily we all lived within the same two blocks, so coordinating was easy. Toss your shit in a bag and walk for 180 seconds, you’re there. It made scheduling much easier when you don’t have to factor in traffic time.

I’m gonna disagree with you on the “you have to railroad them”. There’s a reason I put 6 months of work into it, so there was something to do no matter where they went, and most of it could be shuffled a bit for convenience, most of it had a connection in one way or another to another part, so if they wanted to follow a lead after clearing out the last dungeon there’s a new quest for next session, or you can leave and start walking in a random direction until you find something.

I don’t like filler, so no sessions filled with basically nothing but travel.

This campaign was met weekly, for 3 months. I feel like 10-13 sessions is pretty standard for a decent sized campaign. I don’t have the patience for years long shit. In my mind “one shot” adventures are things you come up with for today only. 5 sessions is a “mini campaign”.

I try to shoot for 6 sessions usually. That way if there’s an issue with schedules, we can compress it to 4. If nobody has any conflicts, we can stretch it to 8 by adding in a couple surprises. Hash it all out in session 0.

A good DM knows when to use each type of adventure, and a good group will find what they all like together. Up to that point, we had all liked what we were doing, and aside from minor issues here and there, we worked out any problems at the start of each new adventure.

Them not getting easily hacked =/= your data is safe in their hands.

I once spent 6 months leading up to summer to plan out a campaign that would take us 3 months to get through, and while I allowed the team to do whatever they wanted, let’s just say a few villages grew legs to plop down ahead of their path. Not everything was planned, but the bulk of it was there and details could be filled in as we go and they become relevant. Always keep notes.

Then one day, one of the players couldn’t make it, so we still met but with 5 instead of 6. Nobody wanted to play without 6, so they asked me to pull out a side one if I had one. I did not.

So improvisation it is.

Afterward they asked if they could restart and play THIS campaign instead because they felt I had put more thought into it than the previous one.

I’m gonna be honest, I finished the campaign but that comment killed my passion for it because they essentially told me “your plans are shit, we’d rather just have rehashed tired movie plots instead”

It’s been years and my dice still sit on my shelf, notebooks boxed up I don’t even know where. I don’t think any of my character sheets survived my last move either.

I guess I don’t have a point beyond reminiscing