Wandering Adventure Party

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.

@magnetmagician@sakurajima.moe Freedom to do is also freedom to not do. I wouldn't do anything that gave me anxiety like that.

I'm in a similar boat. Weed makes my thoughts race a bit, and gives me the annoying sensation in my head like someone is playing TV static nearby, but otherwise has no other discernible effects. It's purely unpleasant for me as well.

@julia@eepy.moe At one point I understand that people are at different abilities. At another, I noticed the Gam Gam 'somehow' figured out the fucking poorly designed smart TV when it meant not missing her favorite show.

@cthellis@urusai.social

After all with D&D it was part of the set

I don't think this is entirely true. It is of later editions, but I believe the original White Box (1974-77) did not contain dice, only some booklets and sheets, and if I recall with CHAINMAIL combat, the d20 was optional ​​ but I don’t have a copy on hand to verify that so take with salt.