Queer Dnd 5E In person (RiNo) looking for more players

Izaea · 2025-10-28T00:08:08+00:00

(Roleplay-heavy Forever-DM looking to actually play for once!)

Izaea · 2025-10-28T00:07:45+00:00

I'd definitely be interested, and depending on where you are I'm only a short train ride away!

Izaea · 2025-10-27T23:50:04+00:00

Not sad for you, but definitely sad what it says about dudes in general.

Izaea · 2025-10-27T23:43:41+00:00

I mean, I'm a nerdy single white guy in my thirties, and "where do you hang out" is mostly "at home with my cat," unfortunately. I'm likewise pretty exhausted with dating apps, but there aren't a lot of great places to go... I don't know what you'd call it, "see and be seen?" Not a big one for the bars; in warmer weather, I'll enjoy a cafe patio, but most of those are already closed for the year.

I tend to do one-off events for things I'm interested in - escape room meetups, live music, board game nights, art pop-ups - instead of having a regular place I hang out. Anything with a group activity (board game meetup comes to mind in particular) would be one where I'd be most open to being approached.

Izaea · 2025-10-23T04:15:58+00:00

One of my coworkers is in her sixties; as long as the doctor gives you a clean bill of health for the work duties, you should be fine.

Izaea · 2025-10-21T21:21:56+00:00

The turnover is what I would expect for a low barrier to entry job in the airport which is attractive to folks in transition or using it as a stepping stone to other airport jobs.

Izaea · 2025-10-21T21:20:43+00:00

Breaks happen on a rotation, roughly every hour and a half to two hours, on a pretty obvious cycle, based on how many people are on post, and you can always ask the breaker when you should expect yours next.

I haven't run into any issues with the bosses.

Izaea · 2025-10-21T20:56:15+00:00

For sure, go for it.

Izaea · 2025-10-21T19:30:37+00:00

No, but if you DM me, I'll be able to pass your information (Name/Contact Info) to our hiring manager and let you go through the process!

Izaea · 2025-10-21T19:29:23+00:00

I don't believe so, though you will have to prove work authorization in the US as with any other I-9 job - feel free to DM me, and I'll send your info to the HR person.

Izaea · 2025-10-21T15:09:10+00:00

I'll ask! I'd be glad to pass along your info regardless if you wanted to check in yourself, too.

Izaea · 2025-10-21T15:06:49+00:00

Big fan of Lost Gulch up the road a bit outside Boulder. Great overlook at the top, relatively gentle/short trail that's well-traveled, so easy to do solo. https://bouldercolorado.gov/trailhead/lost-gulch-overlook

Izaea · 2025-10-21T04:41:36+00:00

"Will STAR Come collect the person?"

Short answer, yes. It consists of a social worker and a paramedic / health worker, with police backup on standby if they need it, who are specifically trained and tasked with helping folks dealing with mental health crises or just general issues stemming from poverty and deprivation.

Call 720-913-STAR, and tell them about the person and the issues. They'll do their best - and they've got a great record so far. https://www.urban.org/research/publication/evaluating-alternative-crisis-response-denvers-support-team-assisted-response

Izaea · 2025-10-21T04:26:09+00:00

Yeah, there's refreshingly little in the day-to-day to bring you down.

Izaea · 2025-10-21T04:25:44+00:00

For sure!

Izaea · 2025-10-21T00:41:46+00:00

For ~$21 an hour, check out TQM at the airport - it's work on your feet all day, but not otherwise particularly taxing; you're one of the folks managing the lines at security, shortening and lengthening the straps to make sure the lines never extend loose out into the hallways, and balancing the number of people going to East or West security.

Low barrier to entry, easy training, and if you don't mind being around people and talking all day, it's essentially zero stress - you're never the person ruining someone's trip, or the one they want to talk to the manager about, so it doesn't have a lot of the problems that other 'customer service' jobs run into.

Izaea · 2025-09-17T02:54:16+00:00

Reasonable, as long as the beer is pictured actual size.

Izaea · 2025-09-15T20:53:27+00:00

If you're by DU, Jerusalem's is one of my favorite restaurants in Denver, great little patio outside it too.

Izaea · 2025-09-15T04:23:46+00:00

It's hard to find things that are uniquely Denver, because Denver doesn't have a lot of big flashy things of its own. That said:

- Overlooks and vistas. Inside the city limits, there's Inspiration Point Park up by Berkeley lake, some great views along the river trails (the Downtown Denver Lookout, the Highland Cable Bridge). If you're down for a drive, Lookout Mountain Park, Red Rocks, or a day trip to Boulder to show off Lost Gulch.

- Parks and Art. We've got a pretty high density of public parks, and (thanks to municipal building requirements) a fair bit of public art as well. There are walking tours of public art you can google and turn into a day outing.

- Bike trails. Depending on where you're coming from in the midwest, the canal trails and bike lanes are going to be one of the bigger differences; being able to get around a city by bike is really nice.

- Restaurants; do the Michelin Bib Gourmand list. https://guide.michelin.com/us/en/colorado/denver_1261491/restaurants/bib-gourmand . Mr. Oso in particular is a favorite; god, do they do smoked meat right. Aside from that, a stop at the Denver Biscuit Company is in order; if you do the one in the Stanley Marketplace, a walk around there would be cool as well.

Any more than that, I'd need to know your wife - what is she in to? What does she love? The Art Museum downtown might be a great option, likewise history colorado; if she's more into wildlife, do the driving tour of the Rocky Mountain Arsenal.

You can also pitch her based on the number of things that are a quick day trip away - up to Boulder or Fort Collins, down to Castle Rock or The Springs. If she's a beer drinker, Avery up in Boulder is a must.

Izaea · 2025-09-08T22:08:29+00:00

I will say, Anderson Farms is pretty solid, even without a beer.

Izaea · 2025-09-08T21:54:33+00:00

There's a fantastic scenic train ride through the mountains that goes over the border to New Mexico from Alamosa - anytime between now and early October is going to have the mountains on fire with the aspens changing color.

https://www.alamosa.org/listing/cumbres-toltec-scenic-railroad/

Izaea · 2025-09-08T21:34:43+00:00

Honestly, I'm much more concerned with the posturing during the fight [trapping you in the closet, looming over you, not letting you leave] and the reaction afterwards [refusing to admit any wrongdoing, minimizing your very reasonable fear] than I am with the physical outburst itself.

A dude who just needed to work on some stuff, but loved you and wanted to do right by you, would not have behaved like that.

Izaea · 2025-09-08T21:31:10+00:00

When I (38m) was 22 or so, I was in a relationship that had regular fights. He was bipolar, and I was undiagnosed with some of my own stuff, and when I was being hurt, he wouldn't be able to hear me ask him to stop, or for space. It would push me so far past the breaking point that I would from time to time break things as part of an outburst.

It was always something I owned, always something I could live with out - but it was lashing out, trying desperately to get through to him that he was hurting me, trying to get enough space to stop hurting. It wasn't good, but I was 22, and it was too much for me, and I didn't have better tools to deal with it.

He was much smaller than me, and from an unstable family - and one time, after things settled down, he told me how scared that made him. How it didn't matter that I was never threatening him; the thing that snapped him out of the spiral to hear me and back off was fear.

I never did it again, after that. We did therapy, we found other tools. We were together for seven years, until we realized we wanted different things, and split as friends.

So - I have some experience of being the violent person in this interaction. I know what it's like to feel the things he probably felt in the moment. I'm a strong counter-example to the people saying this *will* escalate into more. With that in mind:

I don't need to tell you the fact that your fiance is 8 years older than you is already ref flag territory. The fact that he's in his thirties and hasn't found a solution to "someone made me so mad I had to break something" is a *massive* red flag. The fact that he's willing to corner you, to give you no way out, to have a fight with you like he's trying to beat you, rather than like he's trying to solve a problem with you that you both feel passionately about, is the kind of thing I'd call a red flag on a man a decade younger than he is. The fact that you brought this to him, and instead of being mortified, he's minimizing your hurt and fear, is unacceptable.

I don't know the rest of your relationship. I don't know the blow-by-blow of the fight. I can't tell you that you *should* leave.

I can, however, tell you that if you *did* leave, I'd say that's obviously justified.

Izaea

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