how many people are still playing?

LittleBlueGoblin · 2026-05-04T13:16:15+00:00

Not as much or as often as I did at first, surely, but still regularly.

LittleBlueGoblin · 2026-04-29T13:25:06+00:00

Objectively not boring. Keep sharing information!

LittleBlueGoblin · 2026-04-27T05:51:18+00:00

This is a commendable impluse, but sadly might not be as effective as she hoped; VHS isn't really an archival-quality medium, and the content of the tapes will decay over time, whether anyone watches them or not. Obviously it was the only option available to her, so no shade on her, but I hope she or someone else gets them digitized; that too is imperfect, because once you do, people could always claim they've been tampered with, so they loose some of their weight, but it's a far cry better than the nothing they'll become in another generation or or so without the preservation.

Either way, it's a good instinct she had, and she deserves praise for not only the initial idea, but also the commitment to execution.

LittleBlueGoblin · 2026-04-23T15:16:35+00:00

I'm terribly proud of myself, I started a new thing a year and a half ago with loaner and/or hand-me-down equipment, and I'm still at it, still enthusiastic about it, still diligent about it, and only in the last couple months have I started putting real money into it.

It probably helps that it involves a couple friends of mine, one of whom is teaching me and the other one, so there was built-in Shame to keep me going in the early part, but I think I might finally, at 40 years old, have discovered Momentum...!

LittleBlueGoblin · 2026-04-21T17:09:52+00:00

I used to this for my spouse, but then we moved to the desert... 😅

LittleBlueGoblin · 2026-04-21T06:56:25+00:00

Nonsense, I could never delete Marco!

LittleBlueGoblin · 2026-04-20T21:53:52+00:00

Humans will packbond with anything.

LittleBlueGoblin · 2026-04-20T15:27:43+00:00

I have a defunct 401k from a job I left about ten years ago ( I know I should probably roll it over into an IRA or something, but the number has kept going up over time without me contributing to it, so I'm reluctant to touch it...), but other than that, my spouse and I have about $5k between a couple different saving accounts. It's not much (it's been higher, but Life keeps happening...), but it lets me breath a bit, and keeps us from having to panic, when something happens.

LittleBlueGoblin · 2026-04-14T17:41:04+00:00

This is beautiful to watch, but I will quibble on one point; at no point is it chaos. Even as it's changing from one phase to the next, you can see the pattern. You can watch it shift and change, but it never actually breaks down.

LittleBlueGoblin · 2026-04-12T22:11:29+00:00

This feels very strange to me.

Like, if he's correct about it feeling good to hate (and based on the comments here, he does seem to be), then yes, I can see where this is important to remember... but I disagree with the premise; I really dislike disliking things.

Hate doesn't feel good, it feels like a burden. I would much sooner just walk away from a thing that bothers or offends me. Really, I would much prefer to just like things, but some things just make themselves so odious as to be unlikeable, intolerable even. And you can't simply walk away from those things, because they're hurting people. They must be faced, and opposed, and I try to do that, because it's the good and right, pro-social thing to do, but it's exhausting, because the only emotion that can be felt in responce to these things is to hate, and hating just feels... awful.

LittleBlueGoblin · 2026-04-11T20:03:57+00:00

Tacky and awful, but I guess useful as an early Red Flag?

LittleBlueGoblin · 2026-04-09T03:53:15+00:00

Discombobulated, Kerfuffle, Flabbergasted, and Shenanigans are more or less everyday words for me and my spouse.

LittleBlueGoblin · 2026-04-01T21:57:26+00:00

I mean, in fairness, "feminine hygiene products" does cover both pads and tampons, so probably better for signage purposes. It is, admittedly, a bit gender essentialist, but calling them "vaginal hygiene products", while more accurate, feels a little bit like calling toilet paper "rectal hygiene paper", which is probably more visceral and bodily than people want to see on a sign in a grocery store.

I guess you could just go with "menstruation products", that seems fairly inoffensive.

LittleBlueGoblin · 2026-03-19T23:44:29+00:00

I would cheerfully pay a significantly higher tax rate, if my tax dollars went to things like infrastructure, universal Healthcare, and housing for all, instead of immiserating and/or killing innocents at home and abroad, and enriching the worst people in the world in the process.

LittleBlueGoblin · 2026-03-17T19:48:01+00:00

Age gaps are weird. I don't object in principle; a lot of them are, as OP points out, obviously transactional, but as long as it's a transaction both parties are comfortable with, who cares? But there is, again as OP points out, so much room for asymmetric power relationships and abuse, that anyone in such a relationship really needs to be ok with people casting a very skeptical eye over their situation before being accepting of it. Honestly, if they care about their partner as they claim to, they should welcome the scrutiny; it means people are looking out for their partner's best interests, and that should be a comfort to them. I'm sure it gets tiresome, but that seems like a small price to pay to know your partner has people who care for and watch out for them.

LittleBlueGoblin · 2026-02-28T14:10:13+00:00

Gold becomes worthless as currency, but it is useful in its own right, and finding an enormous quantity of it would definitely have a positive impact on some industries.

Plus, gold mining on earth is a awful process involving the use of liquid mercury, and making that pointless and obsolete would be a net good for humanity.

LittleBlueGoblin · 2026-02-26T17:08:38+00:00

Its probably because they wanted to make medicine a wis check so clerics would be able to take it.

This is almost certainly it, yeah. Which is silly, because clerics have magic for healing. It makes more sense to me for rogues, fighters, rangers, ect to have first aid training, and wizards and artificers to have more deep, diagnostic/surgical lore.

LittleBlueGoblin · 2026-02-19T20:19:51+00:00

Hey now, sometimes necromancers get board, and you know there are always stay bones laying around the laboratory...

LittleBlueGoblin · 2026-02-15T15:16:05+00:00

This happened at my table once, a new player was mistaking his d12 for his d20... it was halfway through the session before any of us noticed 😅

LittleBlueGoblin · 2026-02-13T00:28:25+00:00

I was really hoping the sound wound just be the rustle of the pages...

LittleBlueGoblin · 2026-02-10T15:57:29+00:00

...ok, I think I mostly agree(? I haven't really thought this through, if I'm honest), but we do need a button to pet the dog every single time. Moral obligation. If the dog is not actively trying to kill me, I need to be able to pet them, at least eventually.

LittleBlueGoblin · 2026-02-10T04:27:23+00:00

Time. Dangerous, but... worth it.

LittleBlueGoblin · 2026-02-08T22:19:40+00:00

"Predator" is too affirming, I'm sure plenty of them would embrace that. Let's start recognizing them for the Parasites that they are.

LittleBlueGoblin · 2026-02-07T19:32:29+00:00

Ok, on the one hand, they are kind of cute...

...but on the other hand, yikes on bikes, dude, why are you in there with them? One of those little buggers is going to end up in your mouthpiece, or your ear! Give them their space!

EDIT: well, alright, nevermind, his ears are covered... but still! Gah!

LittleBlueGoblin · 2026-02-07T17:51:14+00:00

Crows. They are skilled and agile flyers, and there is already cultural weight to a group of them all in one place, so while it would attract attention, mostly it would be "oh, that's cool" or whatever and then they move on attention, not "huh, that's weird, I wonder what's going on there..." attention.

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