Wandering Adventure Party

@ielenia@ck.catwithaclari.net just use protection you crazy kids ​​

@Elizafox@social.treehouse.systems It's honestly not even the song, it's the singing at me.

There's no where else in my cultural norm where I can expect a group of people to burst into song for my 'benefit'. It's just F'ing weird and cringe.

@yon@sakurajima.moe If a player started ignoring me at the table flat, I would just ask them to leave. I don't like having people just hanging out at the game. They're inevitably distracting. They need to leave, or play. There is no middle ground.

It is interesting to note that the neighbors stupid Trump flag is down, and now it's just a sports flag.

@croyle@wandering.shop yeah. This person has a young kid. It’s understandable. I’ve given them a blanket pass on kid things; so it’d be better to me if they just said “I fell asleep” than lie.

This person does not deal with sleep deprivation well at all. This is actually the third time, which makes the lie even more confusing.

I’d be lying if I said that having a player fall asleep mid game didn’t sting a little. But I try to understand their circumstances.

@sludgecatheter@outerheaven.club I think we all want the world to move just for us on some level.

Remote play last night.

Player goes silent.
We start hearing snores on the mic
I call them. We hear the phone. Snort, turn off phone
Us: “you… fell asleep”
Them: “…no I was doing stuff with my kid”

…yeah. Ok. It happens and I know you’re kinda sleep deprived. Just be honest about it.

#TTRPG

@pawv@tech.lgbt I really wish it wasn’t so hard to implement AP or similar. I’ve thought of creating one to my own tastes multiple times.

@Elizafox@social.treehouse.systems yeah even up to the early 80s, Oregon and Washington were places racists often considered far enough from the “evils” of the East coast liberals that “true white men” could ‘live in peace’. Thus why people like Robert Mathews showed up.

I feel like the thing people don’t realize about the PNW is that the city/rural political divide is VERY stark, and that’s because it’s swing more liberal is relatively new.

@sludgecatheter@outerheaven.club the organizers choose a list of 3 and we vote on them. It definitely leans towards the organizers tastes which is fine. Liking the books isn’t a requirement.

I do pan the books, but I do so in a way that gets people to laugh, so if there is stigma there, I bypass it. Most others there begin more positive about the books. I worry if I am demoralizing the organizer though. This is specifically a horror Bookclub.

@sludgecatheter@outerheaven.club yeah I feel the exact about myself as well. I just find if harder to sit down and make myself read these days (which makes it all the more important to try). I feel a certain … anxiety reading meaty fiction. If it’s mindless, I can turn off my brain. If not, I’m thinking “shouldn’t I be reading something educational/productive?”

Are you enjoying the books? I appreciate the different selection - kinda. I have to admit the people who organize this club have completely different tastes than I do. It is still nice to try other things even if I’m kinda annoyed at the plot.

@sludgecatheter@outerheaven.club too real. I’ve come to accept that despite my best efforts, I will keep procrastinating until the last week, and then I will shot gun the book.

… I finished the last one literally 20 minutes before the meeting was to begin.

Sherwin-Williams has the city by the balls, apparently ​​

Today I learned that the nearby city mandates in code not only the color, but the exact brand of paint that the fire hydrants must be painted with.

I have ordered a bunch of native wild flower varieties. It’s more seeds than I have space for, so I may have to see if I can find places to casually spread them about.

Waste is very often subjective. To a system, waste is expression in which the system does not intend. Therefore the removal of waste in a social system is the removal of freedom for actors within the system.

@fujiwara@sakurajima.moe Slay The Spire(‘s stairs).

Sometimes I don’t know what to say to people struggling. Sometimes I send them duck pictures.