Wandering Adventure Party

An Adventurer's Daily Grind at Age 29

@steffo@a.junimo.party usually 5PM or so. This is a bit early in my books, but that’s because work usually folds out in such a way that I have to take all my meals an hour early.

@yon@sakurajima.moe That is the draw of history. Humans are not much different over the last ten thousand years. I could be dropped as a baby in ancient Rome, and no one would know me as anything other than roman once/if I made it to adulthood. You can learn a lot about humans by just looking at what they did previously.

There is just a strange exceptionalism that exists around social media; People think it's a distinctly modern phenomena and disorder. But the roots of all that exist in our psyche and history. People with the means wrote obsessively to their parents complaints, and those who didn't have the means complained bitterly. People even had public boards that they'd attach public replies to. It was for many also a form of entertainment. I think it gets lost how much people, in the absence of mass forms of cheap entertainment, just talked and thought about what they heard. With only some exaggeration, even a reclusive hermit in pre-modern times would probably be considered a shameless gossip today.

@alltherum@freeradical.zone Yes! They were the same chatty, catty bitches that we are often to each other. Maybe even more so, because lacking as ready access to entertainment, many of them had nothing else to do but sit and think about how Mr Johnson in the paper was SO WRONG and needed a STERN REMONSTRANCE, by God.

Anyone who thinks there is something strange about us and our social media habits should really look at Victorian-era letter writing.

In London they’d had letters delivered and picked up potentially a dozen times day. You could exchange several letters a day. They’d copy letters to each other and send along clippings (boosts, anyone?)v verses, whatever.

They would fall into social media in a heart beat and even recognize some things. The notion of being able to post a letter instantly would have driven them wild.

@craignicol@glasgow.social @rysiek@mstdn.social yes. But Microsoft stopped caring about home users needs a long time ago. The whole real point of selling to retail consumers is so that users train themselves in Microsoft products, which in turn makes it easier to wrangle enterprise contracts, the real prize.

@ielenia@ck.catwithaclari.net goodnight. ​​

I guess people were generally surprised by the safety measures I was talking about. For example, I want to do the first game in a public setting so everyone knows everyone before they come to my residence. I also stressed that participation in the game would be on a NOTAFLOF basis.

Some other interesting observations from the LFG event.

* people were interested if I had dog (as a game host), and were generally relieved if the answer was no.
* a lot of people wanted a flexible game of one-shots rather than campaigns.
* a lot of people were surprised that I had a gaming content consent form, which I told them I expected them to fill out. Some GMs wanted a copy for themselves.
* almost everyone was more interested in hearing my scheduling plans than game plans.
* a lot of GMs I talked to seemed a lot more structured and less off the cuff than me ​​

@ielenia@ck.catwithaclari.net the Luna is on loop.

The power switch on the printer seems to have broken such that is stuck on 'on'.

I don't want to buy a gun but that machine cannot be trusted to keep its own hours. It must be put down.

There is a LFG thing soon, where a bunch of players are meeting GMs who are expected to ‘advertise’ a campaign.

I want to do this as a Call of Cthulhu GM, so that plan is kinda insane. I can’t run or plan a horror campaign before I sit down and talk to the players. I might have based my campaign around big goopy sea monsters, and they’re a great fit except they have a phobia of big goopy sea monsters and that’s a hard no. I can work with that, but I need to know first and not waste an entire week of planning. Safety is paramount.

So I am going to have a pair of one shots ready, and then offer to run that while we come to terms. ​:zerotwoshrug:​ hopefully people still bite. Over 10 other GMs are showing. Could be tough.

My family never seemed to consider that visiting a cat cafe on the eve of the anniversary of my cat’s death was maybe something I wasn’t interested in.

Just a hop in, we’re already paid and going to this instead of our original plans. Gee thanks. I was doing really great job not even thinking about it until this stunt. I know they meant well but Jeeze.

@billiglarper@rollenspiel.social how is it going? What are your impressions?
The group is having a bit of a hard time adjusting, but we’re so far having fun. Its very different from other games we’ve ran

I jokingly proposed to a friend in another state that they should hold a tea party. They repeated this to a bar tender friend, who took them seriously and got the owner to agree to provide space. Now it’s a thing that is going to happen. ​​

I am not sure what I want to do the extra reader. I am not sending it back.

These things feel a bit delicate. So I could hold onto it in case the screen cracks.

Alternatively, I have a nibbling who likes to read (amazing in this age). But they’re still of the age where every device ends up cracked and I don’t trust them to not break it.

I don’t want to sell it, that’s more stress/effort than it’s worth to me currently

I ordered a viwoods ereader and a case because I just wanted a phone sized color ereader and Boox burned me.

Well… they didn’t send the case, but they did accidentally ship me a second ereader. So now I have two of them.

Today has been weird. I’ve cited specific legal codes in like … 4 different conversations.

@ielenia@ck.catwithaclari.net hm. I’d like to say yes, but you could make the argument that those instances also come with specific other indicators. (namely crossing grades, stop sign + bus). The law treats them as specific exceptions. At least on their own, the RCWs are pretty clear.

Looking it up, the laws in question are RCW 46.61.065 “Flashing signals”, RCW 46.61.340, “Approaching railroad grade crossings”, RCW 46.37.190
“Warning devices on vehicles—Other drivers yield and stop” and RCW 46.61.370 “Overtaking or meeting school bus”

We could make a cultural argument, but I don’t have the time (or will) to look at other state laws and figure out what the “consensus” is.