Posts made by GreenFlashlight

Boo. I've been kind of thirsty for a Star Wars game. It sucks about this one.

@SuperiorHuron said in RL things I love:

Love! Fresh cut grass. Hate! The fact it's still wet and clogging the mower. Take the good with the bad

Back when I had a lawn to mow, I wouldn't mow for three days after a rain.

@JinShei said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

Marking.

Who's marking what?

Is it weird that the dying seems somehow less awful than the weeks spent undiscovered?

@Warma-Sheen said in Star Wars Republic d20 SAGA - (Prequel Era):

Not to weigh in on anything specific, but it just generally sounds like everyone would be happier with their funtimes if they let go of 5 year old resentments.

Nah, I think it all sounds super chill and inviting to new players.

@Auspice said in Good TV:

Entrapta giving Bow a belly window in his spacesuit makes the entire new season of She-ra worth it:

The entire new season of She-Ra made me cry in the best way and I keep rewatching it because apparently I like being dehydrated.

@Ganymede said in Good TV:

The Harley Quinn animated series is worth the membership alone.

I dunno. They're not explicitly doing a coming out of the closet story, but the story is following a lot of those beats, so it can be rough to deal with if you're sensitive to that kind of thing.

So sorry for your loss. Please take all the time you need, and heal well.

@Ganymede said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

I would probably report that harassment to his boss, but I'm a no-nonsense kind of person.

I would almost be willing to call the police about this, no matter what my principles about the police are. Let's not forget Belly Mujinga, who got spat and coughed on by someone claiming to have COVID-19 and died of it a week ago.

The progression of time in a game should be a loose suggestion that only exists if there's some actual need to track time but that can be ignored for the needs of any given scene.

@Obie Are the rules of the game available in the help files or something?

@Auspice said in Tips for not wearing out your welcome:

Sure, I'll take a deep breath before I shove my foot up your ass.

Remember to exhale as you kick. It gives your foot more power by tightening your core.

@Auspice said in Tips for not wearing out your welcome:

If I had a dollar for every time someone thought telling me calm down would solve an anxiety attack I'd have no debt to speak of.

"Gee, I hadn't considered not feeling angry or hurt, thanks for that advice, did you come up with it all on your own?"

@TiredEwok said in Tips for not wearing out your welcome:

Not to speak for @Cupcake, but in most social things, calmly means rationally and like an adult. You can still feel whatever way you feel about something or whatever, but calmly means you're not flying off the handle, exploding, going off and throwing tantrums, etc.

To add to this, it is a good idea to learn the difference between feeling a thing and displaying a thing. How you feel only matters if you decide to make it matter. If you present yourself as being calm, then as far as the world is concerned, you were calm because they can't access your inner world to experience the upset you were feeling.

Masking is also mentally exhausting, but again, it's the world we live in.

@Cupcake said in Tips for not wearing out your welcome:

Any time you are in any kind of conversation with someone where you feel like they are being negative toward you and you legitimately aren't sure, or your initial, instant reaction is to extract the worst from what they've said, stop and calmly explain that sometimes you have difficulty processing people's tone, and could they please clarify their intention? If they are in fact hostile they'll make no bones about telling you, but I can promise you, nine out of ten times? They're not.

I agree this is a good approach, so I'm not trying to contradict it, but I do think it's important to disclaim that no tip about communication is universally applicable (including the one I'm about to give), so it's a good idea to build a broad range of techniques to identify a person's meaning so you can check things against multiple tests. For example, my go-to when I can't understand someone is not to ask them what they mean, but to ask myself what I think their speech was intended to accomplish, and I have a lot of success with that... but it's much less useful in a gaming environment, where we're all a bunch of weirdos whose nerves are in overdrive dealing with stage fright and social anxiety, and half of us are just being weird for the sake of deliberately occluding a simultaneous desire to talk to people and a fear of being open with people. And really, even in real life, the "what are they trying to accomplish" advice is mostly useful when people are lying or being confrontational.

So yeah. Ask people what they mean, but have a couple of other tests you can run in case they're lying to you or misunderstanding you or whatever. It's mentally exhausting to have to scan everyone's statements like that, but oh well, that's the world we live in.

@Kestrel said in RL things I love:

My depression has basically disappeared completely and I'm both shocked and perplexed as to how tf this happened.

Obviously you went for a walk and drank some water.

@Waller said in Dead Celebrities 2020:

Jerry Stiller, star of Seinfeld and King of Queens, 92

No. I don't like it. Send it back.

@kk said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

Where is the line between hording and being sensibly prepared?

If you are buying more than you need during a time of scarcity or before an announced time of scarcity in order to ensure that you will have things others cannot, then you are hoarding.

What are good options to replace meat?

Depends on what you want the meat for.

Should we be gardening and raising egg laying chickens and stuff?

I would need to know a lot about your personal finances. Sounds like you can afford to.

@Coin said in Good or New Movies Review:

The animation was on par with the rest.

Yikes.

@Aria said in Critters!:

I have never seen a cat curl the tip of its tail so tightly. That is delightful.