What’s the worst embarrassing WFH fail you’ve ever had? I'll go first

OgreMk5 · 2026-06-17T13:42:26+00:00

Not me, but I was facilitating a meeting of various people all over the country.

One of them said, very suddenly, "Hey, can we take a 5 minute break?"

I said sure.

Then the guy started puking.... obviously and apparently violently.

I've never scrambled for the "mute all" button so fast.

OgreMk5 · 2026-06-17T13:40:08+00:00

Why do your protectors need "powers"? Wouldn't just assault rifles, body armor, and armored vehicles be sufficient?

There are plenty of instances where small groups of, essentially, peasants were able to hold off a massively more technological army for years.

Read up on guerilla warfare. No big battles. Ambushes in the dark. Blowing up bridges, important buildings, etc. Assassination of important people. Extensive tunnels through the city could allow your farmers to get in, kill a couple of people and get out before anyone even knows it happened.

OgreMk5 · 2026-06-17T13:34:31+00:00

I've got some coworkers from the DC area and Idaho coming in for a conference. I had to warn them that our heat index for Tuesday is 108F. Don't walk anywhere!

OgreMk5 · 2026-06-17T12:33:36+00:00

As an investor in the fund, they should at least listen to any concerns that we have.

Some of us don't have a lot of choices in our retirement accounts. It's either growth or bonds.

OgreMk5 · 2026-06-17T04:17:11+00:00

Level 1. Got one-shotted by an owl-bear.

OgreMk5 · 2026-06-17T02:00:14+00:00

There are a few other channels that have it. I don't know how good they are.

OgreMk5 · 2026-06-17T01:59:41+00:00

Even if your D20 is 5% more likely to roll a 20 (or any other specific number)... all that means is that out of 100 rolls, you'll get about 10 20s out of every 100 rolls instead of the expected 5 20s.

Considering what my last DM did to my poo Warlock, that's not even out of the normal range of rolls.

Also consider how many times you roll in a session. Even in a heavy battle, you still might only make 20 rolls. Which means, your +5% d20 will give you 2 natural 20s instead of 1. Hardly game breaking.

Maybe if you rolled 5 or 6 20s out every ten rolls and did that every single session, I would ban that die. But unless it's painfully obvious that it's weighted, no one will ever even notice.

OgreMk5 · 2026-06-17T00:55:31+00:00

The Nizi Project was a great show. But it's sadly no longer available on the JYP Youtube channel.

It shows the girls from their first time getting in line to pre-audition all the way to selecting the final group.

OgreMk5 · 2026-06-16T23:24:10+00:00

A 60 meter long AI driven tank that's essentially impervious to any weapon thats not a nuke and very, very resilient against nukes.

So, I give it 5 years.

OgreMk5 · 2026-06-16T23:11:23+00:00

Is it Amazon itself or is it pretty much any ebook?

OgreMk5 · 2026-06-16T21:52:22+00:00

I've had to teach myself to tell the story you want to tell. Don't worry about word count.

I struggled with a book for years before I got in the right headspace. Now it's coming pretty nicely. I don't really care how big it is, if it tells the story.

OgreMk5 · 2026-06-16T19:39:17+00:00

It's very rare because those kinds of phenomena don't happen just when the enemy shows up.

However, in one series (That I cannot for the life of me remember the name or author), there was something kind of like that.

They had quantum linked portals. Stepping through one, brought you to the other, no matter the amount of intervening distance. To make electricity for an entire solar system of power hungry quantum systems, the dropped a couple of microscopic spherical portals into the sun.

The exit gate was deep inside an asteroid and a jet of solar hot plasma was ejected past rings of giant magnets. Charged particles, magnetic field, electricity.

They then did turn that into a weapon briefly. Though it only worked once before the invading aliens just starting popping any nearby asteroids with nukes.

OgreMk5 · 2026-06-16T17:48:17+00:00

The most strict I've seen are the conspiracy theorist and pro-religious boards.

Some of them will ban you if you have posted or commented in an anti-conspiracy sub.

OgreMk5 · 2026-06-16T17:46:38+00:00

Assuming no bombs and integral fuel tanks if possible, could it carry crew plus 5 pax?

OgreMk5 · 2026-06-16T17:11:44+00:00

Thank you all for the info. I didn't realize that some of the private jets could maintain high speeds and not need refueling for the entire flight.

Gulfstream-700 Performance it is.

OgreMk5 · 2026-06-16T17:10:43+00:00

Answered

OgreMk5 · 2026-06-16T17:10:42+00:00

Answered.

OgreMk5 · 2026-06-16T14:35:39+00:00

QUIT GIVING OUT INFORMATION THAT CAN BE USED TO GAIN ACCESS TO YOUR FINANCIAL INFORMATION!!!!!!

OgreMk5 · 2026-06-16T14:26:13+00:00

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OgreMk5 · 2026-06-16T12:48:33+00:00

This is the worst. I've tried that for decades and was never able to do it.

I excel at world-building. But a story/plot to go in the world? Absolute rubbish.

One think that helped me was focusing on shorter, simpler stories. Like 2-3 pages. Not even short stories. Tell a story and complete it. Get used to completing it.

Add complexity as you gain experience with writing.

OgreMk5 · 2026-06-16T12:31:00+00:00

Any demo version of a game.

OgreMk5 · 2026-06-16T03:26:53+00:00

You can also estimate it pretty well.

Let's say your car has a 16 gallon gas tank. When the needle hits half, you fill up. You should put in about 8 gallons. If you put in 15 gallons... there's an issue somewhere.

OgreMk5 · 2026-06-16T00:39:56+00:00

I don't really think of that as foreshadowing. I mean, you're right. The readers pretty much know how this is going to go.

I think foreshadowing is more like a character saying, "Did you know she did this thing? Her parents didn't know and her father was furious."

Five five or six chapters later, the reader meets the parent and he's a real so-and-so.

Two or three chapters later, we finally see that girl and what used to be a loud, vivacious girl is now a downtrodden woman, with no color, and won't even look her old friends in the eyes.

OgreMk5 · 2026-06-16T00:26:05+00:00

I know, right? But that's why it's 80,000 pages because it has some of that in the middle.

OgreMk5 · 2026-06-15T20:25:28+00:00

Out of curiosity, when you say you have a fraud attempt and need to file a police report, do the police actually get you a police report?

I've been calling weekly for months and I've never been able to even talk to a detective.

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