Demand for housing in my city is going down. Many buildings being built are sitting 3/4 empty. So why the fuck are landlords offering gift cards to coffee shops instead of lowering rent?
A thing you make money by renting out goes on the books as a particular multiple of its rent value. If it's standing empty, you can use the rent you got last time you had a tenant. If you lower the rent, the value on your balance sheet goes down.
And while the value stays up, you can borrow against it.
People are so weird about alcohol. I drink, yet people get offended when I say I don't need to drink at every restaurant.
They say I'm a prude or sanctimonious? Sometimes I just don't feel like a beer or glass of wine.
Don't get me started on drunk driving. Tons of people treat drunk driving like no big deal. If I've had one drink I wait an hour. I won't drink more if I have to drive. Sometimes I've walked home. It's not overly-judgemental to disapprove of drunk driving.
I hope this doesn't sound too angry but I just don't understand why people expect everywhere to have alcohol. If I feel like drinking but the place I'm at has none, I just won't drink. I don't find it personally offensive -- it's the same as if I wanted a crab cake but the restaurant has none. There's no moral component to me not having either, it's just that neither are required in all contexts.
Men's shirts: $15, made of aerospace-grade polyester blend. Specific tensile strength of carbon fiber. wash high heat tumble dry extra heat 1.5 hrs. R7 insulation rating.
Women's tops: $65, made of sheer fabric, rips at the touch of wind, must be washed by misting with vodka and dried by clothesline in the austrian alps, lets the wind chill you to the bone
Heinlein, Asimov, and Clarke are supposed to be the "big three" in sci fi and many of their works are mostly excellent but all three display such tremendous and unapologetic sexism it feels like finding mouse turds in your caviar.
@HeatherNatalie By now I’m somewhat convinced that they do this on purpose to mislead & enrage canon nerds just to show them “it may not look like it, but we definitely know what we’re doing”.
@devxvda For sure. In high school, I wondered aloud why iTunes sold songs individually, when it would break up the flow of an album... I was astonished to learn most albums aren't arranged thematically, but just kinda... a bunch of songs in a bag. I mostly listened to prog rock, classical, musicals: the three genres that are unusually coherent in every album.
Even Gorillaz seems to have moved away from concept albums.
I haven't told my parents I'm trans. My dad keeps telling me he'll still love me if I "come out as gay" even though he "disagrees with the lifestyle" and I do believe he'll be ignorant but accepting.
My mom told him not to tell me that or else I'd "become" gay, as if their acceptance or lack of would have any sway on that.
I am often disappointed by TTRPG books that have a great binding, beautiful art, great layout... but have about one typo per page. And some paragraphs that have clearly outdated terminology/keywords from a previous draft. No work done on proofreading the text! What other publishing industry has so many issues with the text fall through the cracks?!
@PlaneSailingGames Find and replace drives me up the wall! It's not hard to write a regular expression that decreases the false positives significantly, and even then you should tab through each replace and judge it manually!
@HeatherNatalie Absolutely! I will do find and replace often, especially when I realise I need to change a term - but would only ever step through each one individually!
I don’t consider myself good enough with regex to use it regularly, but I do have a couple saved away - I like the Oxford comma for instance, and I’ve got a regex that can spot when I’ve missed that out. Very useful!
@HeatherNatalie I mostly GM at cons. The experience depends on the nature of the con: a few weeks ago I was at a small gathering of self-publishers with a heavy focus on Indie, Story-Games, and playtesting, where I knew a lot of people personally. Other times I've been at more mainstream cons, just another pitch among hundreds.
My main advice would be to manage expectations, and to aim your focus on the experience of the players over any notions of achieving anything with the game*.
A while ago I found out that in 4D, the dice would be d5, d8, d16, d24, d120. A little tempted to make a zine-sized 4D #ttrpg that utilizes these dice and 3D 'flat' battle maps.
Of course, a gelatinous tesseract would be a must-have.