Legit, I don’t fudge rolls because it’s not fun for me.
If a roll would fuck up the session/adventure/campaign, I just straight up tell the players I’m making a call and override the results. It doesn’t happen often, and it’s really only when rng just screws things, like when you get multiple nat 1s in a session, way out of line with what makes sense without some kind of gymnastics to explain things in game.
Because it takes longer to roll up a new one than a table really needs as an interruption.
Purely practical imo. You don’t want things derailed that early. Later on, a death can be worked with, made part of a story. In the first three sessions? It’s just a pain in the ass
I do wish that media coverage would stop calling it a regrowth drug. It might get there eventually, but that’s not what it is, and it causes issues with people misunderstanding medical science.
Eh, it doesn’t start out about looks, based on my experience and talking with the serious lifters I used to lift with.
A lot of the guys that end up roided out like that don’t start with that look as the goal. Some do, yeah. The ones that do tend to come from a place of wanting to look like their fictional heroes (wrestlers lol), or from having looked up to previous body builders.
But a lot of them start out ranging low wanting to get strong. It starts because you can feel and see the progression from being a fairly normal strength to being the person people call when a fridge needs moved.
But you always hit a wall. How far you can go is mostly genetic, with nutrition being the next biggest factor. The way over that wall is hormones. You bypass your genetics and push.
Along the path of getting strong you end up seeing so much change in your body. And you’re getting all those move chemicals from pushing your body harder and harder. It turns into a form of addiction and part of the “fix” is seeing your work in your body.
So lifters start out getting strong and getting natural big as the goal. This kind of extreme, steroid driven body is what happens when that becomes an obsession.
Now, my ass was not willing to use steroids, so I didn’t get to this extreme. But I know guys, and a few gals, that did. I’ve never actually met anyone that started out wanting to go this far, but plenty that ended up there. But I can tell you from my personal experience that once you start feeling your body develop, the thought of maybe trying to go there is an easy one to have.
No bullshit, once I hit my personal wall power lifting, it was disappointing to not really be able to make major gains the way I could the first few years. And I was never into the bodybuilding side of things, and definitely wasn’t competitive.
Now, body dysmorphia also factors in. Can’t say otherwise because it’s a massive thing with the folks that go to this extreme. This guy might not see himself in the mirror the same way other people do. Tbh, at my peak, I sure as hell didn’t see myself accurately. There was still that kid inside my brain that was never strong enough, never big enough. I had to have my suits custom made, but I never saw myself as being as big as I was. My personal self view wasn’t as skewed as it gets with some of the serious guys that go to this extreme.
It isn’t that you don’t look in the mirror and see a lot of muscle, you do. It’s just that it never looks right. Again, my version of this was mild as hell, but you can’t imagine how often you’d see a dude like this, flexing into a mirror and saying something like “man, I just can’t get my pecs big. They’re so flat.” It can be so extreme a disconnection between self image and external reality that this dude could possibly think he’s too small still, that he needs to get bigger. I don’t know this guy, so please don’t think I’m speaking for him in specific, I’m coming from a general place.
Eh, it isn’t about the quality of the work, it’s about disposable income vs desire for a modified thing. It’s going to be a hard sell. The form factor limits who will want it as an item for use, and the price is way above what most people would pay for that kind of thing for use.
It’s also very difficult to mount or display, so someone into the art itself would be less interested vs a more conventional form factor for that kind of art.
Like others have said, build a portfolio and try for commissions. The time and effort involved to modify something like this without a buyer lined up is better spent elsewhere if you aren’t doing it for your own pleasure as the primary goal.
Legit, in the real world, wolverine’s healing factor is the most useful. Other stuff is about tricks. His kind of healing means no cancer, no Alzheimer’s, no strokes, no heart attacks, nada. A long, healthy life free of disease of almost any kind.
The only drawback is the semi-immortality. A long life watching others die would suck hard. It’s already bad enough with a regular life span.
I found some by klim that have been very durable so far. Something like five years and no issues. Well built, come with their own case. Wired buds. Sound can be a bit muddy for music, but not unbearable. In calls, they’re great.
Bluetooth wise, check out tozo. They do respectable buds on a budget. Not the best sound, but acceptable, and their mics pick up decently. Battery life is decent.
Back to wired, if you can find a sale, the tin t2 model is damn good sound for the price range. You usually have to be patient to get the 50 price point, or go used. But they really do sound great on a phone with a decent DAC. But that’s sound only, no mic.
Yeah, I used to know cooks there. Back as recently as the early 2ks, they were doing real cooking for the majority of the menu. But that stopped; the last cook I talked to from the place said that except for breakfast, most things were pre cooked and frozen without anyone using more than a microwave. Kinda like most chains tbh, but you can’t do that with some dishes and expect quality.
But holy crap, the ev station idea is brilliant for most restaurants right now. The ones that jump on it early are going to have an edge until others start doing it. Waffle house, Denny’s, all of the ones that like to be right near an exit ramp. Whoever gets there first and gets known for it is going to etch into public memory as the first option.
Yup, that’s the main problem. The chain gave up on quality so long ago that the only reason they still have any customers is habit and a rapidly fading reputation as the only chain doing that style of food.
You know, it actually could, but it never will because pandering is safer, and that’s essentially what it does.
Switch the menu up for more updated country cooking. Keep the vibe by leaning hard into americana music playing, and converting most of the bullshit store space into something you could fit a small bluegrass ensemble in. Have live music on weekends, and use the rest of the store space to promote local music as well as products that support local crafts rather than the mass produced shit they usually cram in.
Maybe do a weekly country cooking lesson, or maybe stories and history, again leaning hard into local lore over general, but not skipping general american bits entirely.
And, ffs, don’t be douchey about employees. Fucking treat them with respect. There’s worse chains to work for, but it ain’t great as it is.
You’d still pull some of the older crowd that comes for the kitschy bullshit, but if the food is good and the atmosphere welcoming, you’ll also bring in more than just the Sunday school crowd. Because, damn. Good southern/country food is hard to come by sometimes. And they’ve stopped doing that kind of food right. They actually used to have good food. But somewhere about fifteen years ago, it changed. Don’t know what happened behind the scenes, but the food went to shit.
I wanted to make a joke about that actually being seven tiny furries in a dog suit, but that may be the cutest chihuahua (mix or otherwise) I’ve ever seen, so I can’t joke about it. That’s cute taken to the level of absurdity lol.