I played maybe five hours of 3 and maybe it was because I was older than for the previous two, but the sunny “we’re friends and everything is so positive and love and sunshine” was really really grating. It felt like it was way more excessive than the first two, but, again, could be the ages I played them at.

Otherwise it played… Okay? The Disney things were stupid. It felt pretty blah otherwise. Nothing remarkable.

The worst was probably splintering my tailbone. Apparently I have oddly dense bones, so they don’t like to full out break, but just splinter.

I was snowboarding and trying to keep up with my mom. At the very very end of the run, I snagged my back edge and got slapped so hard to the ground, I’m pretty sure I blacked out for a few seconds (wear a helmet, kids). We rode the rest of the day and I don’t remember much about it all except my butt hurt so bad. I couldn’t sit down normally for over a year. I sat on my knees or in a snow tube in the living room because I couldn’t stand to sit on the couch or in a chair at all.

A separate incident that might also tie for worst, but I think I fractured my skull when I was around 8? It could just be one of the growth plates, but I have a scar in my skin, and then a serious dent in my forehead in the skull which is attached to a long crack that goes down to my eyebrow before I’m not able to feel it anymore. We didn’t go to the hospital or anything, I just dealt with the swelling and the small split. I did dent the corner beam in our house though. Thick skull I guess?

Oh this is wonderful, thank you!

In my most recent game, we started joking about all of the players inadvertently having come under a curse where they randomly become cardboard cutouts of themselves. It’s created some really funny moments – “Oh! It’s raining! Kolton is going to get wet!” Or opens the trunk “holy hells! I forgot Laios was folded up back here. Hey buddy, don’t mind these potions.” Closes the trunk

But in other games, yeah, we don’t usually name where the player has gone. It’s just a moment of them being sorta there but quiet.

Soy un perdedor

I was young and didn’t know how to say no…

Timeshare.

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Similar to above commenter, I’m just flinging poo, but

Those who are trained in the tougher situations are, I imagine, more desensitized and therefore don’t do the egads! sort of gasp. I imagine they probably don’t necessarily need to rely on that burst of air because they’ll take a purposeful deep breath before heading into the fray.

That being said, I think professionals do still gasp. It’s probably just not something one’s brain really catches onto. But it is a startle reflex - so if a surgeon is squirted in the face with blood, if there’s a close call with a firefighter, if a cop walks up to a car and has a gun out under their chin… I imagine each of these will get a little gasp at the very least.

I don’t really listen to podcasts often, but when I do they’re usually radio play, types. So I’ll absolutely start at the beginning.

For others that have topics that are done in pieces, like for Last Podcast on the Left, I’ll just usually scroll until I find something that sounds interesting. I absolutely love their Black Plague episodes, or The Donner Party ones.

Not at all unreasonable.

If it’s within your means, could y’all take a long trip out that way? I can’t at all imagine what the draw is to rural Wyoming. It’s hot as hell and dryer than an oven in summer, and it’s insanely windy and cold in the winter. Maybe go take a week during each season and get an idea. I’m sure there are some ranchers out there that would hire a temporary farmhand as well.

Good luck.

What about the headless chicken fish?

I have a family member with four medium sized dogs. Their house is very well kept and clean. But the couch smells so bad. It’s just dog. Dog all day. Ugh

As a GM, I keep my laptop with me. I don’t usually have a DM screen up, so the laptop serves many purposes to that end. I don’t think I could run a game from only a tablet, personally, and I could never run from just pen and paper.

For my players, I prefer they don’t have a laptop, but tablets are totally fine. For the same reasons another commenter mentioned about being readily there at the table.

For DnD, there are a billion options for online character sheets. I prefer they use their paper sheets if possible - I feel like it keeps you more in tune with your numbers. But I definitely understand having spells or items or abilities separate. They’re so wordy and there’s so little space to write them down.

For Pathfinder 2e, I’m all for ditching the paper sheet and using something easier. It’s not too awful in the beginning, but the quick math needed to do “I rolled a thirteen, plus four for expert proficiency, plus eight for our level, plus one for guidance, minus two for sickened, minus four for MAP. That is… Uhhh… Wait, I gotta start over.” Pathbuilder or just opening a Foundry character sheet on your phone or tablet is so much easier.

Oh absolutely.

If I’m writing, my face usually contorts to the part I’m on. If a character is sleepy, I yawn, if they’re mad, I snarl, if they’re sad, I’ll pout.

Otherwise, often my intrusive thoughts win. To be fair, my anxiety meds sometimes kick up and “activate” as my psych calls it, which makes me entirely manic and unable to hold onto that impulse control.

I think that might be part of it. For a lot of people, it was that the formula was old and tired. I know Odyssey did fairly well, but it’s still just an AC game

My dad is a master mason and can’t find anyone at all who wants to do the job. It’s hard, hard work. Unfortunately, it seems like he’s going to have to retire with no apprentices to carry on all his incredible knowledge.

My dad liked to use Weedeater as a sort of verb. To Weedeap. So he’d love to say he was going outside to weedeap the knee deep weeds.

I don’t have a link, sorry, but I know there’s a YouTube channel called “Dad, how do I…?” And it’s a lot of basic adult things. Such as change a tire, check your oil, resumes, tie a tie, things like that.

I don’t know if it’s long form, but I agree with you that videos are preferred for learning and disagree with the person saying Rule 1 for adulting is reading.

This is my best friend who I’m going to propose to soon.

Thanks for moving and not shutting down.

I’m not super savvy on how this’ll shake out, but does this mean any posts users previously favorited will disappear?