dunstabzugshaubitze@feddit.org This is why I did not plan long term plots for my family game, and then the chaos monkeys decided they wanted one.

So I put one together.

They ignored it.

osanna@lemmy.vg There’s a vast, vast gulf between “life is not imbued with inherent meaning” and “I just don’t see the point in anything”. Nihilism, as a world view, isn’t generally crippling. It just boils down to “this is what this is, and nothing more”.

You don’t sound like a nihilist, you sound deeply depressed. You can be a nihilist and depressed, but what you’re expression sounds much more like depression rather than nihilism.

sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz That’s just the Level 83 Bristle Boar. Unfortunately, Archives of Nethys believes it’s only a Level 3 monster.

My guess would be, because there are many more people with strong autistic traits out there than there are with diagnoses, thanks to autism, medically, being a disorder rather than just a ‘neurotype’, and the bar to be labelled with a disorder can be rather high, and also that you are probably mostly having your meaningful or significant interpersonal interactions with people who have high levels of traits that are similar to your own neurotype.

200ok@lemmy.world Solar wind.

So, a couple of things to keep in mind:

• ADHD and Autism are fairly closely related, and can have significant overlaps in how they present. Special interests, collections, and knowledge cultivation are not uncommon among people with either condition.
• Repetitive gestures can be very small things – I rock gently, squish my toes, tap my feet, crack my knuckles, and rub my thumb along my fingertips , and I do all of these things without thinking about our noticing them. I wasn’t aware I did any of these things until others called me out on them.
• Rituals are often incredibly informal, and amount to “I like schedules”, “I like plans”, or even “I have strong preferences”. What things are are very difficult to identify by yourself, because they are just everyday life to you. It’s not like OCD-style rituals.
• The reasons why you have difficulty doing things matter in things like this. Do you find doing your taxes painfully boring? Do you find them overwhelming? And if so, is it because you have too much on your plate?
• Sensory issues are a cornerstone of ASD diagnoses, and you don’t mention having any. If you were to explore that option, it would come up. The issues do not have to be in any way crippling – at least, not all of the time – but they need to be there.
• Social impairment is another cornerstone, and remains central to the actual diagnostic criteria for Autism Spectrum Disorder, which you also don’t mention. This is the thing that usually most directly causes disordered lives (though the sensory issues can cause real impairments, too).

theminions@lemmy.world The prone stuff also just seems unbelievable. Jabbing someone with your off-hand isn’t going to knock anyone over. It’s not a running body check against someone who isn’t bracing.

I see this all of the time in the PF2r subreddit. Everyone wants to know why it’s so hard to push enemies around or knock them over, as if they’re pro-wrestlers desperate to oversell for you for a paycheque, and not creatures who are opposing your attempts to do those things.

wendyz Reddit has a real problem with being built around oversized, hyperactive spaces, and sround tyrany of the majority thanks to their up/downvote mechanics. This resulte in a space where being early to a discussion and then dunking on someone or on some unpopular strawman gets you not just attention, but also a metacurrency that grants you access to more “discerning” spaces.

When communities become too big, thy just become voids to scream into, because no one is reading the comments. They’re just trying to get noticed. That turns them into deeply toxiv plates that turn on anyone trying to have an actual discussion about things.

affiliate@lemmy.world I have a masters degree in physics, and I just straight up don’t do mental math, and never have. Math is for pencils and notepads. And I love pencils and notepads!

I haven’t actually run any APs, but I have Season of Ghosts and Wardens of Wildwood, which I’ve used to scavenge things from. Season of Ghosts, from what I’ve seen, is really quite good. Wildwood had less that I was interested in pilfering, but it seemed much better than people have said.

MyBrainHurts The AL East consists of the Blue Jays, who even on years where they have not been competitive in the division have been potentially good enough to win other divisions, the Yankees and Redsox, two very old teams from major US markets with shit tons of money, the Rays, who are possibly the most efficient team in all of professional sports when it comes to Wins/Dollar, and Baltimore, who are also sometimes a problem.

Most years, if you were to spread those teams out around the league, 4 out of 5 of them would make the playoffs. Meanwhile, there are divisions in baseball that if their leaders were in the AL East, they’d be in the basement.

It’s an absolutely crazy alignment.

When it comes to actually winning in the post season, differences between teams matters. That’s really where the good vs bad teams really stand out. During the course of the season, though? There are 162 game. Getting into the playoffs is very often just about being marginally better than whoever you’re playing all season long, not about being crazy dominant powerhouses.

Unless you’re the current Dodgers team, which has like a half-billion dollar payroll. They truly are juggernauts.

MyBrainHurts I mean, if you really want to see the trial by fire, they play the Dodgers in, like, a week or something like that.

excessshiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com I’M NOT YOUR BRO, PAL!

It’s hard to say. Especially for the really bad teams, it doesn’t necessarily take that much to make them significantly better. A couple of years ago, the White Sox were on track to be the worst team of all time. The next year, they were a reasonably OK team, with the biggest differences in rosters being a couple of players coming back from injuries.

This year, the Rockies seem like they’re a much better team than last year. Last year, they were a clown show. This year, they at least seem to be a baseball team.

The Yankees are a real contender, and the Tampa Bay Rays are a perennial threat as well. Very different teams, both usually good measure. The Orioles are supposed to be much improved this year, and should be a solid team, too. The Athletics are pretty bad, and the Marlins are usually a reliable example of a go-nowhere team, too. Oh, and the Angels – they have a few really good players, but they consistently wildly underperform as a team.

arcanepotato@crazypeople.online That’s amazing! But the question remains: Can you sail an oil tanker through it?

4am@lemmy.zip Something something Mankind, somethibg something BY GAWD HE’S BROKEN IN HALF!

Have a nice day!

lime! Yes! This is the kind of thing I’d be OK with. Unfortunately, I’m seeing people on social media just post about highly anticipated rumours being announced by companies and whatnot, which serves no purpose other than to get people who haven’t looked at the calendar excited about something they’ve been quietly hoping for for a long time, and it just seems to mean and unkind.

It’s ok, the whole league sees them as “that team from Canada”, so that’s how I choose to see them, too. At least, until they return the Expos.

We’re celebrating Hobbit Day today! It’s supposed to be on the 25th, but today is the closest weekend day. We’re having breakfast, second breakfast (we know about second breakfast), elevensies, brunch, luncheon, afternoon tea, dinner, and supper.

Find some vine ripened cherry or grape tomatoes from the local farmer’s market during the early/mid summer (or grow your own – there’s something incredibly satisfying about growing tomato plants, as they grow so large and so quickly). These will be incredibly sweet and berry-like compared to your standard grocery store beefsteak or plum tomato.

If you can handle eating those, you can, potentially, gradually work your way toward gradually less flavourful tomatoes, recontextualizing them as boring berries rather than slimy vegetables. If you can’t, you can start researching believable and sympathetic excuses that don’t make people give you Spock eyes.