Senior Chief Petty Officer. Starfleet is in my blood, and I’ve spent my entire adult life in service to boldly going.

Keiko and Molly are my favorite humans, but Transporter Room 3 will always be my favorite.

Just don’t ask who what’s in the pattern buffer.

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Cake day: August 27th, 2024

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  • My favorite group I have ever DMd for was at a convention, it was 2am, and nobody had ever met before except the two couples in the mix of 9. I just ran part of a campaign I was working on for a different group.

    I barely had to interact with them for RP stuff unless it was to drive the plot, or play a character they convinced to join them.

    It was great seeing a large muscular guy dressed like a Dwarven blacksmith role play a halfling, and the smallest person there was playing as a half-orc barbarian from the plains of icewind dale.

    And of course since it was a convention, and some of them had LARP gear with them, a friendly competitive sword fight broke out during a rest and instead of rolling, they just went ahead and used foam swords and stepped away from the tables. And borrowed dialogue from the princess bride.

    Most groups definitely prefer combat, and to be honest so do I unless I’m running the game. Maybe I just haven’t played with the right group or character, or more likely I just suck at it. Either way…

    I think everyone has “that one group” they wish they could play with forever and never have scheduling conflicts…


  • At least you all can get your family to use it.

    I can’t even get my spouse to use it unless she thinks what we are talking about might be illegal where we are (it usually isn’t)

    I’ve tried convincing family to use it, but all that happens is I just never hear from them until I see them in person or they call me.

    They don’t even feel the need to back up their Amazon Kindle collection before they get cutoff from it… Thousands of dollars wasted if they ever lose access to the account.


  • Weird, I just had a bunch of mls tell me just the other day that a comment I made was strawmanning a hypothetical tankie telling me I’m wrong.

    And here we see yet another ml strawmanning.

    Super Weird.

    All I see is a bunch of people saying this is dystopia nightmare shit, and so far the only person I’ve seen do anything other than call it what it is is the ml comparing this to China.

    Surveillance states are bad anywhere, you won’t get many people arguing that city wide government facial recognition is a good thing.


  • Shhhhhhhhhhh

    If I don’t know my master plan, then THEY certainly don’t either!

    Also I do intentionally leave some things a bit more vague, with ideas of what I want to do, but I’m hoping the players will start theorizing amongst themselves so I can incorporate their stuff into the game.

    It gives them a nice sense of accomplishment to have “predicted” something, and I think they feel more engaged in the campaign.

    Or maybe I’m just a bad DM…






  • “tech enthusiast” vs “IT guy” in a nutshell.

    Tech enthusiast: a little privacy breach is okay, as a treat for the headphones I already paid them money for. It’s not their fault their app wants to know these things. It’s mostly all good.

    IT guy: shoot it 417 times after you uninstall it to make sure it’s truly no longer on your phone.

    Side story: I forgot my good earbuds at home one day and decided I didn’t want to hear tools all day, so I bought a new pair at the store I was working at that day. 2 minutes later I’m at the counter again to return them because they wanted me to download an app and wouldn’t pair without it. Bought a $1 pack of earplugs instead.