In important change I'm seeing in D&D is that there's a lot more emphasis on homes and headquarters than there used to be.

I assume this is because Home Ownership is the ultimate in Fantasy Gaming these days.

Three year old threw my laptop down the stairs, and the screen replacement costs more than the laptop did. And the other laptop with a broken screen I have is the same way.

Fuck.

I was making less than 1/5 of what I make in 2022 in 2021 and spent most of the year on EI
Now that I make more, I find out there's a maximum EI payment and the wealthy don't pay into EI (meaningfully) in Ontario, and I have been enraged

I could have been struggling way less!

Mohamad Safa

2022-10-07 18:21:41

I don't mind paying my taxes when the poor can't. But I do mind paying my taxes when the rich won't.

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Anti-climax in tabletop RPGs is a really weird story moment - because it's usually an incredibly different story moment and table moment

I dunno - I'm tired as shit

I just excitedly ran across the house with pizza dough "Shæ Shæ remember how I said there was a plant that spit out air to make it pump up like a ball! Look!"

And that is my parenting style

Experimenting with a system:
I am currently *super* happy at my job - so trying to actively recommend someone I know is currently under/un employed when I recruiter reaches out to me directly.

Not sure if it's gonna work - but I hope.

Where do people buy screws for HDDs?

Last time I did this I took apart a broken laptop and stole the screws

I am looking to do the stunt where you buy chocolate bars the size of your arm as Halloween candy - but I am looking to not buy chocolate for reasons of chocolate is a conflict good.

Was thinking a small tub of cotton candy - anything else work better?

Started Strattera (nonstimulant adhd med) a few weeks ago and finally starting to process the world around me is an interesting thing. I never knew what it was like to not have my thoughts all like a jumbled mess before and today I'm starting to actually be able to think about situations from a perspective that isn't immediate and I gotta say... it feels very unusual but quite nice and the more I get used to it the more I like being able to think clearly.

I've been anxious to talk about it because I don’t have the formal dx and so I still feel unsure claiming it as my space too, but the medication is certainly not doing nothing

Forrest Brazeal

2022-10-04 14:04:26

new little song:

"The Re-Org Rag (I'm My Own VP)"

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My son talks about the cakes @FireflyLeigh and I made him for his 2nd and 3rd birthdays a lot

And the fact that he's talked about a cake for over a year *at three years old* makes my heart burst with joy that we can make him happy like that

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So my dad is probably going to be homeless soon. He's very paranoid (in the clinical sense) and won't let us help him and is afraid I'm going to kidnap him if I ever drive even somewhat close to city edges of the place he lives. He won't even tell us what's going on, I found out thru other means

I don’t even know what to do. I'm so scared I'm going to wake up one day and he'll have disappeared into oblivion and I'll have no way to find him, because it's already a challenge to find him

The only other people who care are just as powerless as me & Sean: my sister and his brother

My grandmother spent actual years fueling his paranoia about all of us and this is where it's led and it's hard not to be upset about it, even though she's gone now

I just don’t even know what to do

Okay, it's been about a week since I made some intense connections between some of my past traumas and while I don’t feel like all my weird stressors around everything that changed are gone, I feel like that sense of connection and contentment within myself for myself has returned, so that's extremely encouraging.

It was an incredibly rough month beforehand, so I'm extremely grateful to be internally more peaceful and not so turbulent

One thing I feel like I know know about trauma recovery is that it really gets to the worst point right before it turns around

An RPG called Going Broke Together where you put 100 golden d6s in a bowl. Whenever there's a problem roll some and throw them in a dirty pail. Any die that comes up a 6 makes one good thing happen.

Players are encouraged to keep fights about remaining dice in character.

By default LibreWolf bans autoplaying media - and that's great

But it means that if I turn on a playlist to listen to, I have to hit play again after every song, or disable it - and I don't know how to manage the middle ground!

When designing a tabletop exercise - and I find a massive problem - do I fix it right away or until after the tabletop is done?

I feel like I'm probably gonna fix it, and not mention it until the end of the scenario >.<

Thinking about referencing, and writing code based on the reference, my copy of Object Oriented Perl

Stop me!

Becky has given up disagreeing that "Robert Bobert" is too far from "Rowan" for a nickname

Shæ still calls him Rowby Bowby

@patcharcana@furry.engineer

2022-09-27 19:03:25

@HippyWizard You do understand that you JUST created a trouble ticket for me by even mentioning this possibility right?

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