I swear it’s like my wife and kids intentionally waits until I sit down to ask for stuff

no one that has used it would be surprised by that.

also did they write the study with ChatGPT?

yeah I feel like that is the minimum I am okay with.

like if a player just wants to roll dice but does not want to be involved in the story itself at all I don’t know why they would be playing a role-playing game.

knowing what they’re trying to get out of the situation or at least how they are sort of going about it is the bare minimum.

I will say though that makes it less fun for me personally. I am just more into the heavier character focused stories and if there is no role-play involved it just feels like basically playing a board game.

I like board games but that’s not why I play TTRPGs.

I don’t know exactly where I fall on this spectrum.

on the one hand obviously you want to be encouraging to your players and create an environment where everyone is having fun.

on the other hand if I wanted to play a game solely based on its mechanics I would play something else. the R in TTRPG is there for a reason.

some of my favorite moments in games I’ve run have been when players improvise something in character and completely derail.

I don’t think I’ve ever run a game where we didn’t have more fun when players act like they are their character rather than act like they are controlling their character.

to be fair though I moved away from 5e and Pathfinder and other crunchy games for that reason, I just have a lot more fun with games that are less heavy on the rules and more involved on the story were telling together.

so could just very well be my gaming groups preference that leads to that experience rather than not.

honestly I would pay an extra $10 for this feature on pretty much any game

ah that’s right, been a while since sociology courses lol

do you mean negative reinforcement?

it’s like a grid right

• positive = add
• negative = remove
• reinforcement = good thing
• punishment = bad thing

so things that we want:

• positive reinforcement = add good thing
• negative punishment= remove bad thing

things we don’t want

• negative reinforcement= remove good thing
• positive punishment= add bad thing

honestly any insect that primarily feeds on blood would be good to go.

• mosquitoes
• bed bugs
• tics
• fleas

screw all of those things

released a novella in between the two of them as well which is definitely worth checking out and very relevant to the main plot

just finished the Olympian Affair by Jim Butcher.

very much enjoying the world building

honestly I got one of these and ended up going back to brushing my tongue. maybe I am like more thoroughly brushing my tongue than other people or something but it never was as clean from a tongue scraper as from brushing

basically a better newer Kinect for my kids. something that’d let them dance or play or see themselves in the game without a controller

toilet paper

Rock and Stone!

Warframe!

Kung Fu Jesus regains his memories and realizes he needs to beat up his girlfriend in order to stop her stupid fat pet from eating too much.

at my old company I had a co-worker who was moderately competent if he tried but didn’t seem to do so all that often.

My boss had been dangling a promotion for me for a few months, and I’d put in some extra work during that time related to my co-worker who seemed to be unable to manage a development team for one of his projects.

promotion time came and even though my manager was very aware that I was doing a significant portion of a co-worker’s job, they offered the co-worker the promotion in order to keep them around since they had another job offer.

I think I was gone in about 2 months? didn’t take too long to line something better up.

I love mine I haven’t changed it in years lol

drop it like it’s hot spot

so many, I’ve been on a muse and imagine dragons binge lately.

but instead of mentioning them much, I’m going to say one that caught me by surprise. Heard my wife’s music in the background the other day and this quote stuck in my head:

“you kept me like a secret but I kept you like an oath”

just thought it was an excellent turn of phrase. turns out it was Taylor Swift lol.

was about to comment and mention how much I agreed about Muse and then I looked at the rest of your bands and I just can’t leave anything out. 100%.