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.
What's something happening right now that's just clearly good? I don't mean something bad being undone or put to rights, but some signs that things on our little blue dot in the cosmos aren't all getting worse?
@montecook Lots of folks are coming together to test and scrutinize #LK99 which is the closest we've gotten to a room-temperature superconductor so far, maybe. Lots of debate and work showing that the scientific method is still in full swing.
Louis Porter Jr is a dude that makes RPG stuff, and... Is also someone who is proud to pay some of his freelancers a penny a word, and brag about how well he's doing financially and how crap others are.
And that... That is "Drag this fucker across the WHOLE internet" kinds of bullshit, in my book.
One screencap below, a whole bunch more on Facebook at:
@LeviKornelsen Most people get into DnD first. So I'd estimate the people you lose by needing a 7-poly set is near 0 while the people you lose by only using 2d6 is >0
@bedirthan In my experience, I've never had someone go from a board game to a non-DnD rpg directly. Or if they do, they have an experienced DM who already has those dice.
Game stores don't even stock non-DnD/Pathfinder books whatsoever. People need to already be into RPGs to even encounter new RPGs to purchase or try, or know someone running a game who already has the supplies anyway.
@devxvda Time is one of those few albums I can't help but listen to from beginning to end. It just evokes such strong imagery for me.
I used to listen to it while doing homework in high school, and it became almost a measure of time for me. I measured progress by where I was in the album.
@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 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!