The 60s and 70s (for me) had no awareness of my problems. Only now am I discovering that I did what I could, but I wasn’t equipped to deal with people well....
That’s hard. Real hard. I can’t say what atonement would look like, that’s maybe therapist territory, but I can say that it’s OK to protect yourself. You can’t change the past and undo the hurt you did. I don’t see anything wrong with avoiding people you have hurt after you apologize.
First, vibe check. Let the players shoot the shit a little more than usual out of game. While they do this, you do a little last minute brainstorming or note-taking/reworking.
Second, if you let them drive the convo, they will usually give you some clues when they finally get bored and start asking each other to calm down and start the game. Things like “I want to find out what so and so has to say about the mission we just got from who’s his face!” Or “I want to kick that (minion of the bbeg)'s ass! Let’s get moving!”
This tells you what your players want. Now you have some focus on what you need to spitball.
Now it’s down to your improv skills. Yes-and helps a ton here. You ask what they do and it just works, or works with consequences. Ask them to roll some checks and if they roll high and it isn’t stupid they succed and do the thing or get the info.
If they roll low something bad but not lethal happens. Minions show up, NPCs laugh at them, etc etc.
If you panic, ask them to roll a check and figure out what is is for while they are rolling the die and adding the result. At some point it’s just art which you get good at with practice.
I wouldn’t believe the same things I believe now. I don’t think I am some kind of truth oracle.
But I wouldn’t believe Trump is an honest or God fearing man. That requires an emotional investment in the lie that I don’t think any version of me could sustain.
The divorces, the lechery, the misogyny, the racism, the repeated refusal to pay his contractors. (Theft)
Those are matters of public record. They vastly predate his status as a politician. Trump was a real life movie villain back in the 1980’s when Back to the Future was made.
If I was still a Christian hearing my pastor sing Trump’s praises every week would make me question the pastor, and if the congregation stuck by him I would question the whole church.
This is nonsense. If you believe that you should skip to violent revolution because you are not getting anywhere peacefully.
I’m (edit:not) saying I think that’s a good idea. But if you are going to refuse to vote for the better guy because he’s not good ENOUGH then you were never going to vote at all, and the rest of us will go back to persuading the last 3 swing voters.
Who will bail them out when nobody is working to pay the taxes?
I’m not saying it will work itself out, but at some point the country will start to look like south Africa. The infrastructure will break faster than it can be fixed, degrading the system further and further.
We got the most left wing president since 1968 and you are over here saying “they just keep getting worse!”
It’s a war not a battle. Biden has moved left because he saw the protests in 2020 and how much support Bernie got. He got called out on student debt forgiveness and low and behold he got billions of dollars forgiven even after the supreme Court ruled to block him.
The man listens to the people.
But please, bring the criminal back into office so he can pardon himself and all his fellow criminals. So he can write netanyahu a blank check. Hang Ukraine out to dry! They don’t matter! The Palestinians are being killed!, and honestly what’s the worst that could happen? Jan 6 will never come back for round 2!
Former President Donald Trump’s attorney on Thursday argued that a president could order the assassination of his political rival and stage a military coup without being prosecuted for it....
Preventing geanocide with more genocide.
The tragedy of the Holocaust was the death, not the enthnicity of the slain.
They lost the plot, and so have our leaders.
I think Johnson got into briefing rooms with the white house, the CIA, and the Joint Chiefs, and realized that the maga games have the potential to spiral into world war 3. Death and destruction beyond anything humanity has ever seen.
And he started figuring out how to givern like an adult. McCarthy had already burned too many bridges with Dems. They hated him. Johnson was a fresh face and Dems were desperate for someone they could cut deals with.
Why are so many people ok with a world where you have no say in what your employer does, and they can do whatever they want to suit their bottom line?...
I recently moved to California. Before i moved, people asked me “why are you moving there, its so bad?”. Now that I’m here, i understand it less. The state is beautiful. There is so much to do....
Americans, what's the plan if Trump wins the election in November? (serious)
So many of my cringe moments growing up were when I responded inappropriately to social situations and got laughed at. I felt so alone growing up.
The 60s and 70s (for me) had no awareness of my problems. Only now am I discovering that I did what I could, but I wasn’t equipped to deal with people well....
You're the GM, but haven't prep anything for tonight. How do you make tonight game a succes ?
Pretty sure it happened to everyone, you lacked time to prep tonight session, and now the first player just arrived...
The silver lining in a very bad poll for Biden (www.vox.com)
Anon's sister is a NEET shut-in (sh.itjust.works)
A few days late, but a timeless message
Trump-appointed judge halts Biden administration credit card late fee cap (thehill.com)
Fox News won’t bother mentioning this to their viewers.
Italy's falling birth rate is a crisis that's only getting worse (www.euronews.com)
Italian welfare systems are already struggling to cope with the ageing of the population, and there is no consensus on what to do about it....
Democrats make no promises about bailing out Mike Johnson again (www.axios.com)
YouTube accused of censoring Macklemore's "Hind's Hall" (www.newsweek.com)
We'll push Biden left, they said (lemmy.world)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/15000107...
Vanguard just went live and LoL players are already claiming it's bricking their PCs (dotesports.com)
Anyone else?
Trump Lawyer Argues He Could Legally Order Assassination Of Political Rival (www.huffpost.com)
Former President Donald Trump’s attorney on Thursday argued that a president could order the assassination of his political rival and stage a military coup without being prosecuted for it....
College administrators are falling into a tried and true trap laid by the right (theconversation.com)
I don't consent. (lemmy.world)
I didn’t know that was an option… has that been an option this whole time?
Congress passes $60.8bn billion Ukraine aid as speaker’s fate hangs in the balance (www.independent.co.uk)
The corporate boot licking of Google after firing the palestine protestors in insane
Why are so many people ok with a world where you have no say in what your employer does, and they can do whatever they want to suit their bottom line?...
Why do people dislike California?
I recently moved to California. Before i moved, people asked me “why are you moving there, its so bad?”. Now that I’m here, i understand it less. The state is beautiful. There is so much to do....