Yeah. At this point I try to prepare scenes rather than plots, so hopefully I’ll be able to use my painstakingly prepared battlemap later, rather than not at all.

But it’s fun when the players throw a total curveball, and I need to come up with something on the spot.

I’m not sure Hasbro, the Hensen estate, or Disney would approve where this is going. But I do.

We don’t do that here. The GM provides the model of physics the players accept and expect. If the GM just says “nah” when stuff is inconvenient, players don’t know what to expect, and the world becomes inconsistent.

A big part of the GM’s fun in TTRPGs is improving off that. Players always ruin my plans, but that’s part of the game.

Gonzo. Gonzo has his own view of the world, which is perfect for running a game.

improv intensifies

this is peak GMing

“dingus” is so judgemental.

What about a formal “my good fellow”? Or a friendly “brah”? Perhaps “bean-breath” if you want to push the Lemmy in jokes? Or even “dawg”?

That’s a really interesting set of protections: they’re targeting categories of scams and trying to prevent them.

I can see that causing a lot of problems for people walking relatives through legit tech support, but if it prevent vulnerable people from getting scammed, that may be worth it.

8. Whatever lets me create the biggest explosions

Everything old is new again! 🥲

It depends on community. Some of the shitposting communities can be great (shout out to ncd).

But politics and current events can be a minefield if your views are outside of Lemmy’s tinsy tiny Overton window.

My theory is that we’re mostly here because we have very strong beliefs. We dropped out of Reddit because of their policies or we were banned. Or we’re open source people. We defend those beliefs vociferously. Long beyond what most other people would do.

Whatever. I still mostly enjoy it here. I hope you find a place here too.

Remember: if you’re wet, they’re wet.

They’ve been frantically rolling back repeatedly, and the simulation just keeps going off the rails. Didn’t you see the posts in ten forward?

a concise and lyrical summary of the last 20 years

Her: is that Harry Potter you’re reading?

She approached me on the bus when I was commuting. It was a couple of decades ago when HP was new and fun. She was fun too, but we only went on a couple of dates.

I’m not surprised at all. At the time, I was trying to be as social as possible. If she’d stomped on my toe and then asked me out, I’d probably have said yes.

I thought I was smart/knowledgeable until I started working with people who really are smart/knowledgeable.

I tried to keep up and be one of them, but I do better when I just try to follow along with them and consider alternatives and implications of what they propose.

I wouldn’t say I’m the token idiot, but I have perspectives they don’t, and those are useful. Then again, that’s exactly what the token idiot would say.

Yeah, I don’t get this. If it was George Clooney or some other charismatic/likeable person, they’d still be fucking us over.

I don’t think they specify the brand of hot sauce, but maybe

it isn’t too late

ask your local DM/daycare manager about it today