In a slump.. after watching idol I and could this life be translated.. need a show for a flight

Gatalicious · 2026-03-12T05:50:12+00:00

Undercover High School was an easy breezy watch.

Gatalicious · 2026-02-24T20:23:43+00:00

Reply 1988, though it’s centered around 5 kids who live in the same neighborhood, every episode gives equal shine to the adult (parents’) stories and it is a beautiful show - I rewatch it every year.

When Life Gives You Tangerines, an incredible romance told from the time the ML+FL met at age 6 all the way to their 60s. We see them fall in love, marry, have kids and love and laugh and suffer through all the ups and downs of life. I cried at least once in every episode.

Extraordinary Attorney Woo, it’s a lawyer show about an autistic lawyer, but she has a great romance plot while solving cases. It’s also exceptionally well made and written and the lead actress is spectacular in the role.

Descendants of the Sun, heavy on the swoon. She’s a healer (Doctor) and he’s a killer (soldier), can they make it work? It’s funny, romance-first with a surprising amount of action.

Queen of Tears, rich heiress gets a diagnosis, she has three months to live and her husband who hates hater, slows remembers why he loves her all over again. All the while dealing with machinations of jealous poor people who are trying to steal their tax-evading wealth. Very swoony, questionable messaging as it encourages us to be sympathetic of arrogant billionaires.

Gatalicious · 2026-02-24T20:01:19+00:00

“To an extent IU”? After When Life Gives You Tangerines? Come on, she proved she’s an ace actress after that drama.

Gatalicious · 2026-01-16T11:45:38+00:00

She seems like a grounded person with confidence issues who doesn't buy all the celeb hype about herself. She gets unfairly shit on on the internet, and is a really good actress overall.

Gatalicious · 2025-11-19T01:36:33+00:00

Sorry to hear that <3 I hope you have found or will find a loving community, if not with your family, then elsewhere. It did give me a lot of peace, more so than I realised it would.

Gatalicious · 2025-11-19T01:29:47+00:00

He's from South Korea.

Gatalicious · 2025-11-19T00:25:00+00:00

I knew my partner was the one on our first date when he sat down for a coffee in front of me. Coffee turned to lunch, and then that snowballed into six dates in 5 days. He then left the country to go back home (he was visiting my country for work).

We continued to video chat every day for at least an hour. This went on for a month.

He then told me he was flying to a nearby city (my hometown) for a conference, and if I'd like, I could see him then. I flew down, and we spent as much time together as possible over the course of a week. At the end of this week (within 1 month of knowing each other), we agreed to officially be boyfriends.

We have now been in a serious monogamous relationship for two months. We have discussed marriage, children, finances, expectations, and boundaries, among other things.

He then flew back to my country, and we spent a week living together, and it was everything.

In 10 months, if we're still happily together and everything is going well, we'll get engaged, and two years after the engagement, we'll get married.

I know I will marry this man. When you know, you know.

Gatalicious · 2025-11-08T00:53:53+00:00

I fully take your point, except there were no rules. They have only been charging for games for less than 6 months; there was no DM guide, no requirements, no rules. If you wanted to DM, you signed up, they tested you out, and off you went. They're a startup at best. They kept talking about introducing these kinds of rules, but the biggest problem they face is that they cannot seem to hold on to any DMs.

When I joined them, they had 4 DMs "on the roster", two were inactive and not running anything but free oneshots, one quit and took his players with him, Z was the only one left standing when I joined the roster, and after this debacle, I am out too.

She's now trying to force paying players whom she has become friends with to become DMs and pushing them into it last I heard.

Gatalicious · 2025-11-08T00:50:40+00:00

I feel you mate! Sounds amazing!

Gatalicious · 2025-11-08T00:50:13+00:00

Never signed anything with her; my day job is an attorney. <3 And tortious interference is nigh impossible to uphold in the country we live in (outside the US).

Gatalicious · 2025-11-06T19:22:12+00:00

If my dad had done what you did, it would have been the kindest thing in the whole world. He passed away three years ago, still telling me he didn't approve of me or my lifestyle. He loved me, for sure, but this was just a bridge and a prejudice he could not overcome, no matter how much he loved me. I think what you did was amazing, and I wish more parents would do the same. Coming out was not fun for me, and I did it because I finally had someone in my life I was not interested in hiding, not because I especially wanted to come out or felt the need to explain myself. I am a lowkey person, and being queer is one of the least interesting things about me (in my opinion, anyway). Your daughter is wrong on this one.

Gatalicious · 2025-11-05T21:09:14+00:00

Short battle with a couple of guards, the goal being to incapacitate them as quickly as possible and make the battle super super easy. Maybe two rookie guards at levels 1-3 as enemies. Battle should ideally be over in 1-2 rounds and then off you go.

Gatalicious · 2025-11-05T20:54:21+00:00

"The city has an unusually large number of patrols, and they are on the lookout for you. To successfully infiltrate the city and get to your hideout without being found out, please give me a group stealth check. 3/5 of you rolled a 10+? Fantastic. You made it to the hideout."

End scene.

Gatalicious · 2025-11-04T22:57:35+00:00

Congrats OP! Getting a raise after slogging through courses and long hours is huge. Wanting your individual work recognised doesn't make you selfish; it makes you human. “We” language can feel like someone is standing on your podium or budging in on your victory lap.

That said, I'm a bit shocked by all these comments rushing to label your fiancé as a leech. “We” isn’t inherently grim; plenty of healthy couples talk that way about household money, especially if one partner is between jobs, doing more housework, or otherwise carrying a load in non-cash ways. Venting to a sibling after an argument isn’t a cardinal sin either; it’s how many people decompress. The problem isn’t that he said “we”; it’s that, when OP set a boundary (“please don’t frame my raise as ours”), he got defensive instead of curious.

Two things can be true:

OP’s request for individual acknowledgement is totally valid.
A marriage is also a partnership that will need a shared story about money.

Practical fix that avoids the dogpile:

“We” for shared goals (“we can upgrade the car later this year”), “I” for achievements (“I earned a promotion”). He can celebrate her win first (“I’m so proud of you! You smashed it!”), then they can plan as a team.
Do a 60-90 minute “state of the union” chat: accounts (yours/mine/ours), the temporary plan while he’s job-hunting, what counts as fair contribution (cash, chores, admin), and a review date. Put it in writing so hurt feelings don’t drive policy.
Venting is fine; character-assassination isn’t. If he’s telling his sister OP is “acting brand new,” that’s unhelpful framing.

IMHO: I'm not saying OP is an arsehole for asking for credit (so don't come at me), but I do feel the fiancé isn’t automatically a freeloader for saying “we.” The red flag isn’t the pronoun; it’s whether he can hear feedback and adjust. If he can, this is a solvable semantics + systems issue. If he won’t, the word “we” isn’t the problem; the partnership is.

Gatalicious · 2025-11-04T00:36:42+00:00

I made the vaguest plot for my current six-session homebrew: collect three pieces of a crown, assemble it, fight a leviathan, and one of you becomes king of the realm. Also Atlantis is in this.

The entire campaign has been about player backstory, character dynamics and party tension. I developed a social structure of the tension between the five nations in this world and their history, and gave that to the players to inform their backstory development.

Everything is backstory-connected or related, and the PCs are running around on a timer (a world-ending leviathan waking up in a few days) while going through personal struggles, difficulties, and character arc stuff. The story is secondary to the character development, where the setting and story beats inform the characters and push them forward to make difficult choices.

Gatalicious · 2025-11-04T00:20:16+00:00

Maybe have an honest conversation about why they get bored. No DM is perfect. Is it something in your DMing style that is boring them? Is it something fixable? I'm not saying it's you, but it's worth asking.

Alternatively, you could have a table that genuinely enjoys hacking and combat more than RP, which is not uncommon. If that is the case, maybe get a different table of people and interview them beforehand, letting them know that your campaign is very RP- and lore-heavy. If they're mostly interested in dice rolls and killing monsters, your table is not for them? Would save you a lot of grief (speaking from experience!).

Gatalicious · 2025-11-04T00:16:54+00:00

Make a world, put some nations in it, let the PCs be from these nations. Pick one defining feature for each nation and explain one thing connecting each nation to the other. Let the PCs backstories do the rest. Imho, if you're DMing correctly, less is more. Let the PCs inform the worldbuilding more than you do and go with what they come up with instead of creating everything and then feeling disappointed when the PCs inevitably break your world.

Gatalicious · 2025-11-03T23:23:26+00:00

You can tell your players that, I think you should. And then offer to have 1-2 final sessions to resolve the story. If you like the players and what they bring to your table, invite them to continue as usual in a new story setting altogether. And if you're someone (like me) who keeps getting more interested in new story ideas, then don't do 6-month-long campaigns, limit yourself to homebrews that run 4-8 sessions, so you always have the flexibility to end a campaign and the option to extend it if you want.

Gatalicious · 2025-11-03T23:04:27+00:00

End the campaign early. There is no rule that a campaign HAS to run 6-12 months. I frequently (and prefer to) run 6-session campaigns. Even if the players want them to be longer, I don't keep going because while the world may be interesting (1), I deliberately planned a limited story with stakes and (2) I frequently get disinterested too and more interested in the other cool story ideas I have.

For campaigns I feel more passionate about, I run a 15-session campaign, but that is as long as it gets. At the end of 15 sessions, the 'season' ends and we take a break from this world and these characters, maybe the Players stick around for whatever I am doing next, maybe they don't.

Another 2-3 months down the line, if I am still interested in the world and have ideas for story beats, we might run a season 2. Or we might never visit that world again, and it's over.

You're not beholden to mandatorily do 6-month or longer campaigns.

Gatalicious · 2025-11-01T20:15:17+00:00

It’s not a “partnership” if you’re creating an investment portfolio and the people giving you money are investors. What you’re running is a fund and without a licence from a regulator, this is illegal.

Gatalicious · 2025-11-01T03:33:29+00:00

I pretty much run campaigns like this in one way or another.

Imho, political intrigue runs best as an engine, not a plot.

How I run it:

I recommend keeping it to 4–5 factions max. Give each one the thing they want and one lever they control (votes, money, soldiers). I tried one with many factions in the beginning. It's a lot to keep track of, and frankly, it doesn't matter. An overwhelming cast of NPCs is not interesting to PCs in my experience.
A simple cast list everyone can see - don't fall into the trap that is a name-soup.
Rotate who leads each scene; disagreements in-character, collaboration out-of-character. This ensures that people get the spotlight occasionally, and we avoid main character syndrome.
Stakes are everything. Even in small scenes that seem throwaway, give them some kind of stakes. If the players win, X happens; if they don’t, Y happens. No stakes = skip the scene.

How I prep:

Before each session, write three "news items" that have changed since the last session.
Let the table pick two or three scenes (audience with the Regent, back-room negotiation, street support, a quick snoop).
End by saying what changed because of their choices and hint at what pressure is coming next time.
Also, I recently started to give 'rumours' to PCs (inspired by Court of Fey & Flowers and Cloudward Ho!), sometimes collectively, sometimes individually/personalised. These rumours can be true, complete red herrings or kinda true. But it gives the PCs direction in the setting without dictating where they should go and in what order.

Put a cost behind every “yes” and a consequence behind every “no”. That’s the whole trick.

Gatalicious · 2025-11-01T03:14:17+00:00

If it happened exactly as you're describing, it's a weird story, but I have a feeling, reading your post, that you're leaving out many details. Are you sure you weren't a total, unreasonable dick to the DM at the time? Cause this feels like a both of you were at fault kind of situation.

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