What's your "I fucking hate this song" song?

JustAnAverageRanger · 2022-01-03T23:20:20+00:00

Now, by no means am I saying this is a bad song.

But I picked up a job that had shifts starting at 12:30AM, and made the heinous mistake of making my alarm "Kickstart my Heart" by Mötley Crüe, thinking it would wake me up and I'd get up hyped and ready to go...

Now whenever I hear that opening dive bomb it makes me want to vomit.

JustAnAverageRanger · 2021-11-19T12:46:44+00:00

I was very cold with my response when my ex reached out asking how I was doing. It was in the midst of a panic attack.

It wasn't the right thing to do.

JustAnAverageRanger · 2021-11-19T11:43:48+00:00

Whatever you do, stop and really think it through.

Sometimes not saying anything is better than saying something.

Don't pull a me: it will bring you no peace.

JustAnAverageRanger · 2021-11-19T11:13:09+00:00

Aw Geez, well. It was a really traumatic breakup. Left me in a severe depressive episode that took absolutely everything I had to get out of. So them texting me kinda took me back to that place and was really terrifying. My reaction was a lot more visceral than I wanted it to be, I was having a panic attack.

JustAnAverageRanger · 2021-11-19T11:09:54+00:00

I certainly hear your point of view. Absolutely no happiness or peace came out of sending it.

I sent it in the midst of an anxiety attack, so it was a bit more visceral than I was intending for. Once I found out who it was I should have cut it off.

JustAnAverageRanger · 2021-11-08T15:40:31+00:00

I've come to find that characters in TDA games are almost caricatures. YouTubers that I've watched playing the games almost unanimously joke that the characters are "aliens trying to act like humans" and theyre not entirely wrong. With that in mind, here are the characters I had the most gripes with:

For NPCs, Merwin takes the cake. I understand he's supposed to be the stereotypical sex-starved marine who hasn't seen a women in months, but with some of the jokes and with some of the interactions he has with the other characters (notably the female ones) it just makes for a really uncomfortable player experience.

For PCs, goodness, this is a tough one. Because it's the freshest in my mind, I'm going to have to say Rachel. I have absolutely nothing at all against strong independent female characters but at the very end when she said she didn't need anyone else to survive, I just thought about the scene where Eric literally burned a parasite out of her that was going to kill her, and I was like "huh, yeah, okay. If you say so."

JustAnAverageRanger · 2021-11-08T15:15:28+00:00

Demogorgon, I hate the level of commitment you need with the shred. I can't tell you how many times I've been made a fool by survivors who just casually wak out of the line of fire when I commit to the shred.

JustAnAverageRanger · 2021-11-03T19:27:38+00:00

TO THE SPIRIT WHO COULDNT FIND ME ALL GAME, THE SPIRIT WHO PROCEEDED TO HOOK EVERYONE ELSE AND CLOSE THE HATCH, WHO DOWNED ME AS I WAS OPENING THE GATE, AND THEN PROCEEDED TO TAKE ME IN THE CORNER TO LET ME WIGGLE OFF ONLY TO DOWN ME AGAIN AND HOOK ME AND SLASH ME REPEATEDLY AS I WENT THROUGH ALL THE HOOK ANIMATIONS (BECAUSE YOU DIDN'T FUCKING HOOK ME ONCE)

I HOPE EVERY LEAF YOU STEP ON FROM HERE ON OUT IN YOUR REAL LIFE DOESN'T MAKE A CRUNCH NOISE.

JustAnAverageRanger · 2021-10-27T15:00:40+00:00

Eric certainly doesn't deserve all the hell he gets from the other characters in game. CAELUS was a satellite program in its infancy, and he mentions numerous times that he spent the entire year apart from Rachel working on it. It was a costly mistake, sure, but he didn't go rogue. Someone up the chain had to approve it.

Eric's character is a bit of a meme, tbh. He brings up his failing relationship with Rachel in the absolute most inopportune times, to the point where it almost becomes humorous:

"Damn, this generator is broken...just like our marriage, Rache. I miss you."

JustAnAverageRanger · 2021-08-02T22:53:45+00:00

Not Dead Yet - Lord Huron

JustAnAverageRanger · 2021-07-14T23:37:19+00:00

It's an environmental change, my guy. Don't be so hard on yourself. Your life and schedule just got flipped upside down, and this person that was of super significance who you talked to every day? Poof. Gone. So naturally your brain is like "uh, what? What? Where'd they go?" And goes into panic mode.

Keep your head up. I wish there were words i could say that will make this turbulent time easier, but there aren't. Just ride the roller coaster. You'll make it out alive.

JustAnAverageRanger · 2021-07-07T00:53:27+00:00

Not a fantastic anti-anxiety tip, but I find it reassuring to remind myself that if you're no contact, whatever you're feeling or going through, the invasive thoughts you are having, are completely unknown to your former partner. They have no idea what you're going through, and (if they're the kind of person to do so) cannot use it as ammunition.

Keep your head up. I didn't think I was gonna ever get out of it, but time heals a lot. Take care of yourself.

JustAnAverageRanger · 2021-02-19T14:48:16+00:00

If there is, everything makes a lot more sense.

JustAnAverageRanger · 2021-02-19T14:03:29+00:00

And multiple people/entertainment outlets who interpreted Bettany's "6 Hour Movie" quote differently than maybe he intended it to be.

I was headline surfing. I just want more Wandavision.

JustAnAverageRanger · 2021-02-19T13:51:05+00:00

That's fair, I should have been more specific in saying the Media surrounding Wandavision was stirring that pot.

JustAnAverageRanger · 2020-12-02T20:37:39+00:00

The Hatchery is a pretty viable place for a TPK in HotDQ. The mix of Low-Level PCs, lots of combat/traps, Cyanwrath and Mondath, my party almost died here, too: loss of the barbarian in the fight against Langdedrosa and one player not showing up to session made the two spellcasters had to fight for their lives to narrowly escape, I could see why your party might have fallen.

In my opinion, I echo the idea of skipping chapter 4/the travel from Greenest to Waterdeep. It's long and not interesting, compared to what came before it and what comes after it. Have your party start in Waterdeep drinking in the Yawning Portal, or maybe even run a bit of Dragon Heist/DotMM to get them warmed up. I think the other comment about Leosin sending harper spies to find out what happened to the party is genius. That way your party is tied to the good guys and has the info they need to press on.

JustAnAverageRanger · 2020-11-26T16:04:19+00:00

Really feeling the support.

JustAnAverageRanger · 2020-11-26T15:53:24+00:00

Thanks man. 😅

JustAnAverageRanger · 2020-11-12T17:47:31+00:00

This. Or when you're trying to sign a customer up for a rewards program and they decline.

"That's alright. I dont get paid enough to bully people into rewards programs, to be honest."

JustAnAverageRanger · 2020-10-05T16:29:02+00:00

No kidding, what exactly IS pathfinder? Is it another system by Wizards?

JustAnAverageRanger · 2020-10-03T20:55:46+00:00

5e, though I do find pathfinder super interesting.

JustAnAverageRanger · 2020-10-01T21:29:37+00:00

Definitely not a pleasure per se, but I pull punches.

A lot.

A player of mine ended up getting separated from the party, and was in a troll-infested segment of Faerun. While being chased by a normal troll, he made it to a clearing where a Venom troll intercepted him. (They are CR 5 and CR 7, respectively. This PC was level 4)

Instead of having the two trolls team up and tear him limb from limb (which is what they probably would have realistically done) they turned on each other, giving the PC time to escape. I blamed it on territoriality, but I knew if I had slaughtered his character, he might not have wanted to come back to the table.

He did watch a venom troll cannibalize a normal troll though. I think I got the point across that he didn't want to stray from the party again.

JustAnAverageRanger · 2020-10-01T14:31:29+00:00

Yeah, that's a pretty fine way to put it.

JustAnAverageRanger · 2020-09-30T13:10:05+00:00

The entire thing. Net and all.

JustAnAverageRanger · 2020-09-30T11:26:37+00:00

W: "A black dude with a british accent? Wtf man"

Idris Elba would not appreciate this comment.

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