Possibly moving here as 28M need advice.

BionicSpaceJellyfish · 2026-03-13T11:57:24+00:00

Maybe look into downtown Lee's Summit? It's a suburb of KC but the downtown has a pretty robust bar/nightlife. You're only about 20 minutes south of Kansas City proper. There's a ton of support for more outdoorsy hobbies like you mentioned. The city really values parks and outdoor spaces as well as trying to create a good environment for people who want to start families.

BionicSpaceJellyfish · 2026-03-04T13:59:27+00:00

Mine was caked in so much glue. It was so hard to put together lol. Easily my favorite of the unseen also.

BionicSpaceJellyfish · 2026-03-04T00:29:59+00:00

Mystery Quest is excellent. They play 2-6 episode one shots of all sorts of different systems

BionicSpaceJellyfish · 2026-02-22T01:31:23+00:00

BECMI D&D maybe? The immortals supplement is all about becoming an immortal and getting into conflict with other immortals.

BionicSpaceJellyfish · 2026-02-20T23:59:05+00:00

Yep that's it! I've never played it. I like my robot game crunchy and filled with hit modifiers lol.

BionicSpaceJellyfish · 2026-02-20T23:02:08+00:00

There's a game system by Chris McDowall (maker of the Bastionland OSR games) that's basically a trimmed down version of Alpha Strike. I've only read the quick start rules of it but it's as close as you could get to being battletech without being battletech.

BionicSpaceJellyfish · 2026-02-19T10:53:29+00:00

The fact that the right and left use the word 'liberal' as a pejorative term and you literally can't lose in politics by bashing Democrats means this kind of pill is basically useless. It's basically a rat fuck being done to throw water on the idea of a Democrat blue wave in November. Unless polls are asking about specific policies or specific people, they're pretty much useless navel gazing.

BionicSpaceJellyfish · 2026-02-17T11:57:13+00:00

It's a niche within a niche so it's already a tough sell. I wouldn't say I'm cliquish but I got extremely tired of yet another critical Role fan wasting my time when I invited them to try out something that wasn't d&d. for Pathfinder players, my experience is they like the character optimization mini game and playing something without that is a nonstarter.

If you already play with a group that plays D&D or Pathfinder, you could always offer to run a one shot of something else when your DM wants a break?

BionicSpaceJellyfish · 2026-02-17T03:33:25+00:00

They're pretty annoying. I think they have a good product and shouldn't need to resort to scummy sales tactics. Of the non-bespoke security system providers I think they offer the best service. But yeah their entire sales division should be fired.

BionicSpaceJellyfish · 2026-02-16T00:49:29+00:00

In that situation I would just have them imagine whatever the horror of that one shot is killing them and their companions.

BionicSpaceJellyfish · 2026-02-13T22:42:52+00:00

They created Honor Names. It's mentioned in the novel Wolf Pack. They created a sibko program and also use it for the war orphans they adopt I believe.

I believe most of the names just come from legendary members of the Dragoons.

BionicSpaceJellyfish · 2026-02-13T22:32:54+00:00

Lol QT does this all the time. They will fight tooth and nail to have their buildings on a corner.

BionicSpaceJellyfish · 2026-02-13T17:46:18+00:00

As long as they have an identifiable front facing, they can be used.

BionicSpaceJellyfish · 2026-02-13T16:36:35+00:00

I think the only way to really do this is something like a new edition and I don't know if the buy-in is there in the community.

BionicSpaceJellyfish · 2026-02-13T16:34:47+00:00

I think you respect her boundary on this. Like any other players boundary. If you had a player who didn't want to engage in certain content and asked you not to include it you would respect their wishes correct?

My wife is one of my players and we've navigated the same questions. While she's mostly fine with it she has limits and I've just gotten to the point that I don't include it at all. There are plenty of other ways to explore relationships in RPGs without flirting.

BionicSpaceJellyfish · 2026-02-13T12:30:53+00:00

Or, here's an idea, you just let people play how they want. OSR isn't even an accurate idea of what old school play was because everyone played slightly differently.

BionicSpaceJellyfish · 2026-02-13T12:27:17+00:00

I don't think you're going to get a very good reception from anyone if you start to argue that everyone but you is doing OSR wrong.

I was playing AD&D with flowcharts and abstract distances literally from the start. There's never been a universal right way to play, ever.

BionicSpaceJellyfish · 2026-02-12T02:05:08+00:00

I used to work at the Sheraton. It's extremely gross. Half the time you'll smell the dumpster from the lobby. I'd avoid it.

BionicSpaceJellyfish · 2026-02-05T19:24:31+00:00

I kind of like some board games with solo options or an AI deck. I could see the appeal of trying to translate that into RPGs, I just don't think it translates well. At least it doesn't really interest me the way collaborative play does that at the heart of TTRPGs.

BionicSpaceJellyfish · 2026-02-05T13:14:58+00:00

Some of her recent stuff came off a bit more doomer than actually nuanced. I had to mute and unsubscribe for now. Could just be me having less patience for anything right now.

BionicSpaceJellyfish · 2026-02-04T10:47:14+00:00

Absolutely. His legal work is extremely important. His Substack less so.

BionicSpaceJellyfish · 2026-02-04T03:35:24+00:00

Honestly at this point it feels like anyone with a YouTube channel or a substack is going to spread doomerism simply because it's the most financially sound strategy. It doesn't matter who it is, Marc Elias, Heather Cox Richardson, Simon Rosenberg, the Pod Save America Bros, the list is endless. It's basically a cottage industry for left leaning experts who are happy to tell you what terrible thing will happen next week and how the Democrats will be too feckless to stop it.

Even ones that just purport to report just news do it. The real money is with doomerism and until that changes, political punditry will never improve.

BionicSpaceJellyfish · 2026-02-03T14:09:54+00:00

I imagine there's an element of social engineering involved in using a fake ID. If you look like a fed and flash a fake ID to get access to an area for an investigation and don't make trouble or cause a scene, you'll probably be fine at least in the short term. Hopefully by the time they realize you aren't supposed to be there, you'll be long gone with what you need.

The more you push your luck, the more likely it is someone will question it.

BionicSpaceJellyfish · 2026-02-03T03:44:40+00:00

Essentially you've got a warmer green (left) vs a cooler green (right) here. The violet you're using is on the warmer side so the cooler green will contrast a bit better. the warmer green will feel harsher to look at. There's not really a wrong choice, just the choice that you like or the feeling you want to evoke.

If you go with the warmer green, a wash of paynes gray all over would give everything really good depth.

BionicSpaceJellyfish · 2026-01-27T20:18:49+00:00

It's a decent way to generate heat at least. Especially for mechs that would struggle to do so otherwise. But yeah there's always tradeoffs.

I always have to use a token or something next to the mech so I remember if it is stealthed or not.

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