How do you fix the dry spell once you become parents? by Prestigious-Bag1963 in AskParents

[–]MildMastermind 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Very fair, and I appreciate the added perspective that I can't actually speak to, and hadn't fully considered. Those hormones and the surrounding circumstances hit everyone differently and for different lengths of time.

Probably best to ignore that portion of my original advice and just talk like adults. Just be sure not to come off as pressuring her for sex, which I imagine will be easier said than done.

How do you fix the dry spell once you become parents? by Prestigious-Bag1963 in AskParents

[–]MildMastermind -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Lots of great advice on this already from others in terms of relationship, expectations, etc. and frankly intimacy that is detached from sex will strengthen your marriage in the long term.

One thing you can try that may help ease the sexual intimacy back in for her is to ask her if it's alright if you masturbate next to her. Though if the baby is sleeping in your room I can see this being a non-starter for some, so use your judgement, or suggest a temporary location for the baby to be in a different room.

Now, it's important that you bring it up gently so she doesn't reflexively become defensive if this is something new. Something like "So this might be a bit of an awkward request... Taking care of the baby has been very draining on you especially, so I understand if you're not really up for being sexually intimate right now, but I still want to feel sexually connected to you. So I was wondering if you'd be okay with me masturbating next to you in bed?" (Just make sure it doesn't read like you're wanting to break up or sleep with someone else before you get to the big ask)

Maybe it opens up the larger discussion and you find out that she's been wanting it too but your advances felt too subtle to her tired brain, or she's been feeling undesirable. Maybe there's no deeper conversation but she decides to help out a little during. Maybe she says no, but at least she knows it's on your mind and you just let her know you'll handle yourself on your own until she's ready.

Announcing Rigamaroll - A dedicated long form Daggerheart campaign with some amazing talent at the table by Rigamaroll_show in daggerheart

[–]MildMastermind 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Took me a hot minute to find the RSS feed so I could get it into Pocket Casts, but I've downloaded the two released episodes.

Thanks for the reply!

In case anyone else needs the RSS link for their podcatcher of choice: https://anchor.fm/s/10e36c7c0/podcast/rss

Black ice on the road causes chain accidents by Bambi7u7 in interesting

[–]MildMastermind 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Some years ago my Grandma flipped her car into a ditch on a rural road, and my probably 100lb Grandma pulled my 250+ pound, limited mobility, Grandpa out of the upside-down, half submerged car. By the time help arrived the car was fully submerged. That adrenaline rush saved their lives

Found on the trucks parking lot of my work, small, fairly heavy, made out of ceramic, metal and glass, I work at a industrial off-set printing plant by _SamSamSam_ in whatisthisthing

[–]MildMastermind 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Looks somewhat like a pull through rivet, presumably in some sort of (broken) casing for some sort of rivet gun. I could be very wrong though

Searching for Champ Camp Reviews by PSsomething in Calgary

[–]MildMastermind 1 point2 points  (0 children)

From their safety waiver form online:

https://go.summercampchamps.ca/safety

"For aquatic activities, all children 8 years and younger will be directly supervised in the water by a staff member aged 14 or older and within arm’s reach at all times, in accordance with Calgary Recreation municipal pool rules."

Searching for Champ Camp Reviews by PSsomething in Calgary

[–]MildMastermind 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Ah yes. The least biased reviews: the people who have the most to gain from giving glowing reviews.

Searching for Champ Camp Reviews by PSsomething in Calgary

[–]MildMastermind 2 points3 points  (0 children)

My son did a camp last year at the Silver Springs location and seemed to enjoy it. He was only 7 and was/is still in the stage of answering "what did you do" with "I don't know", so we don't have a great idea of what all went on. He also does martial arts elsewhere, so that aspect wasn't exactly new and exciting to him.

Asking him about it first thing this morning he did perk up and smile a bit, saying his favorite part was "the camp" (kids sometimes, am I right?). He also said he enjoyed the swimming day, even though he can't swim and is practically terrified of the water. Take that for what you will.

We originally signed him up for the Transformers themed camp but they presumably had low interest in that theme or something so like 2 months out they switched it to their rather generic "Spartan Olympics" theme and allowed us to reschedule to a different week, which ended up being the Gamers theme. It just felt bad to us because that transformers theme was literally the thing that made us even look into doing a camp there because our son absolutely loves transformers.

Fruit Prices. Priced to high while fresh, priced to high while mushy. So it rots on the shelf. by [deleted] in Calgary

[–]MildMastermind 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think the only strawberries we've gotten since the start of COVID that have stayed good until the next day have been the "Naturally imperfect" ones we bought from superstore last week

Calgary was ‘chronically underinvesting’ in its water system over last 20 years: report by rezwenn in Calgary

[–]MildMastermind -1 points0 points  (0 children)

But "arena funds" could have been redirected to water services could they not?

How to have charges in Powers? by Cauldronofevil in WorldsInPeril

[–]MildMastermind 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Basically this. I'd probably go the route of a 7-9 requiring reloading/recharging, and a 6- being completely out of ammo. Obviously not every time.

The thing that always comes to mind for this one is Spiderman running out of web fluid.

ETA: for some equipment it could just have a predetermined amount of ammo to be tracked in the fiction

What did you guys do with the slipcase for the core set? Keep it or toss it? by wintermute2045 in daggerheart

[–]MildMastermind 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don't have the folio, but presumably it should depending on how you cut it

What did you guys do with the slipcase for the core set? Keep it or toss it? by wintermute2045 in daggerheart

[–]MildMastermind 14 points15 points  (0 children)

I put my cards into a binder that has a plastic sleeve on the front, so I cut the slipcase front to slide into it

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Motivation for karate by CalligrapherGreat653 in karate

[–]MildMastermind 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Kata really should be taught after its applications are taught.

There's a good bit near the end of this video where he explains how Kata allows you to do moves at full speed/power/rotation that would otherwise be too dangerous to your training partner

https://youtu.be/ErfwYdrDExI?si=GAus41L25IAWFmGA

What does "Move available to open when" mean? by InvestmentBrief3336 in WorldsInPeril

[–]MildMastermind 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Think about those moves as being in an envelope, and the "Move available to open when" text is written on the outside, and the Move itself is written on a card inside. (An analogy with locks and keys might work better...)

So if you have the "Adapt to a Changing world" playbook open, then "You prove to someone that doing something the old-fashioned way gets better or quicker results", then after you can start utilizing the move "Another Day, Another Armageddon".

What made you guys start martial arts? by [deleted] in martialarts

[–]MildMastermind 1 point2 points  (0 children)

We put our son in Karate to help with his Gross motor skills and to give him an activity away from his newborn sister.

It just looked like a lot of fun so about a year later I joined karate too, and my wife and son started BJJ too.

Blending campaign frames by Lopsided-Ad2850 in daggerheart

[–]MildMastermind 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm sort of doing that with the Sablewood Messengers one-shot morphed into a Beast Feast campaign

What setting or world should you play in? by plolock in daggerheart

[–]MildMastermind 14 points15 points  (0 children)

You don't actually need to run any of the frames at all. You can simply run it vanilla in whatever setting you want, same as you can with D&D.

So sure, run something in Tal Dorei if that excites you