Whaaaaaaaat?
Name ONE time in history where a man let emotions.....
checks all of human history
Okay name 47 BILLION times.
Checkmate, ~~atheists~~ feminists.
Toss a rock at a shitty car? Terrorist
Shoot a thief that stole part of your life by denying you Healthcare? Terrorist
Plot and carry out a plan to kill people due to their political beliefs during a time you know you could have reason to be around them and use shady online services to help plan things in order to coerce political change?
.......... checks every possible definition to find a loophole
Not terrorism? poker face
10/10 government we have, just the best people, I'm super duper thrilled to be trapped in this shit hole country
That's literally what it feels like: being stuck in an objective (the planet) and you have a teammate that's SUPER gung ho about the fact he's got a bomb vest (nukes) on that will go off if he dies, and you're just praying he doesn't catch a stray round (attack) while shooting at people from the doorway (doing proxy war things or just straight up committing/supporting genocide/ethnic cleansing/war of extermination/etc) or lose connection (leadership going insane).
If any of those things happen, you know you're all toast. And it's all mostly outside of your control.
I hate to use video games as a metaphor for literal nuclear war and sorry for spelling it out like I'm talking to a child but I felt it was needed for clarity.
We're all on the planet together, and no one will ever be able to force everyone into submission, the more we fight the shorter time we have as a species.
If that's what you took away from my comments, have fun I guess.
I told him the game focuses on the group and if he's not part of the group then he won't be playing, and since that first game he has participated, with few issues popping up.
I probably could have been clearer before we even got to the table that if you aren't playing with the group then you aren't playing, rather than just expect them to stick with a group on their first game.
I told him multiple times that if he was going to try and do his own thing, he won't be participating with the group, and the group is the entire focus of the game.
I suppose I could have made it more explicit that he could join the group or he could leave the game.
I should add that that was many games ago, and he has since begun participating, although he often tries to go his own way and threatens to leave the group constantly, but so far he hasn't actually tried leaving the group unless it was agreed upon for strategy reasons. (they split up inside a crypt in the most horror movie fashion possible)
let people roll to see if something happens
Oh god so many DMs in the past have done this, and I just roll my eyes every time.
Like I'm okay if you want to roll your own dice behind the screen to see if we get attacked overnight, but that should be the only kind of "roll to see what happens" going on.
The moral high road is filled with corpses.
I really need to do some kind of team building exercise before a game, something that they'll want to do, but requires teamwork, just to demonstrate the point that they need to work together.
When my first character did the whole "I'm gonna be all by myself because I'm a lone wolf" thing, the DM let me go off and the totally unexpected happened and my character got into a scuffle he wasn't prepared for, but a group sure would have been.
And I didn't have any idea what to do, but I knew I needed a click, so we put a click on the 24-track
Which then was then synced to the Moog Modular
I knew that could be a sound of the future, but I didn't realize how much the impact it would be
My name is Giovanni Giorgio, but everybody calls me Giorgio
synth beats intensify
nobody should have nuclear weapons.
Sometimes I wonder what the world would be like if the scientists working on the Manhattan project had all agreed it's too much and intentionally sabotage every test.
They aren't around anymore as of this morning, but they liked the hoodie and hat and I thought someone might like to see two doggos.
They were both good girls and I miss them.
New noises don't bother me. The amount of things that can shake rattle and roll (it's a mess but it's all tools and things I need for work) means a new sound pops up every week.
It's the new slightly different vibration that sketches me out.
Ever so slightly up/down vibration that you can barely feel when you get to 70? Congrats, next week when you drive to work you'll hit a bump at 15 and the whole ~~front~~ bottom falls off. And now you have 3 other problems because drive shafts start flying all over and smashing into things when they break.
No, I love vehicle ownership and definitely wouldn't prefer to relax on high speed rail for 20 minutes with a rolling bag/tool box or literally any other form of mass transit...