mozz

mozz, 1 hour ago

I think a lot of it is the dopamine of getting to upgrade your character.

Also, I have observed that people LOVE getting everything together to get kitted out for a mission. If there’s some special equipment they’re going to need to go into the temple, and they’re trying to think what they would need once they get there and running around town putting it all together, they just get super excited and it gets them amped up for the adventure. It is fun in my experience, although yes YMMV.

mozz, 1 hour ago

My players stumble upon an abandoned version of one of my Dwarf Fortress cities.

I already know the whole layout backwards and forwards without needing to work with a map, and it has traps, epic architecture, purpose to every room, little random stuff scattered through, and I can usually come up with some kind of theme or ending to the dungeon for if they get that far into it. Easy peasy.

mozz, 1 hour ago

I received a biodegradable plastic cup with my meal once.

When we returned home, we put it in the composter so it could bio degrade.

It then spent years cycling through the composter. Every time it came out the back end we’d stick it back in the front to cycle through again in hopes it would bio degrade. It did not. It was as pristine when we gave up the endeavor and threw it in the garbage as it had been at the beginning.

mozz, 29 minutes ago

I am suspicious. I feel like if this plastic cup I got was exposed to exactly its favorite conditions (which are conveniently difficult to achieve), it still wouldn’t biodegrade (or, worse, would disintegrate into a little pile of microplastics while the manufacturer declared that that meant it was biodegrading).

I have no expertise at all and I’m basically talking purely out of my ass, so maybe I shouldn’t offer any opinion. But the history of plastic recycling makes me cynical about it.

mozz, 41 minutes ago (edited 28 minutes ago)

In high school, one of the students in my shop class told a Polish joke.

The teacher was Polish, and was exactly what you would expect from a shop teacher. He heard the joke. Without saying a word, he walked over to the student, picked him up with one hand by his neck, looked at him steadily for a beat while dangling him in the air, and then put him back down and walked away.

Nothing more was said, then or after, and as far as I know the kid didn’t tell any more Polish jokes.

mozz, 2 hours ago

The U.S. Census Bureau estimated 54.1% of 18- to 29-year-olds voted in 2020, which had the highest youth turnout overall of any election in the 21st century.

Average across all ages is 60%

(Credit to @jordanlund)