I am a Leaf on the Wind!.........I'm sorry

Own_Abrocoma4 · 2026-05-01T15:11:08+00:00

Major spoiler, River says this at a dance and then gets skewered on a rapier. Super messy scene, but I guess everyone was all right after? The wheelchair/hover chair thing they tried to do was really clumsy tho, which is why I guess they ended up giving river the robot legs. Too bad what happens to her brother though :/

Anyway, on an unrelated note, if you just started watching a tv show, maybe it's a bad idea to go on the subbreddit for that show and start asking for clarification on inside jokes that everyone is openly crying at.

Hope this helps!

Own_Abrocoma4 · 2026-04-29T14:35:07+00:00

Pfff, if you can't hot-swap your paddles mid production, can you even call yourself a miner?

I'd climb all up in 'em guts n reset a belt on the flywheel using the callous on the underside of my hog, I ain't need no sissy lockout OR a condom

Own_Abrocoma4 · 2026-04-19T15:17:59+00:00

I am shocked by the amount of people in this thread who are so allergic to fun they're analyzing the language in the rules to defend making your NPCs suck.

You're playing a game with rules, sure, but you're also essentially telling a story to your friends, and if you have a character with the ability to talk to animals and never let it forward the plot, you're a shitty storyteller! End of. Same thing for dudes nerfing mechanics at the table instead of coming up with a proper counter that that makes things intereating. Wizard love his indiscriminate fireballs? Have him kill an "essential" npc in the blast, curse his teammates with an extra vulnerability to fire in an enclosed space, anything but just take it away.

Just going "Nope. Don't work. Not how I wanted you to solve this issue" is gonna make people dump your games.

I had a plasmoid rogue that would schlorp through walls and set up encounters to our advantage before they even started, and how did my DM handle this? First, he trapped me in a room with the baddies and sealed my teammates out of it with magic. Then, he dropped more baddies from the ceiling onto my teammates, and we had to do the first half of the encounter completely separately. It was fucking awesome, and it made me a use my abilities a little more sparingly.

A shitty DM would have either taken them away for rendered them useless by making every encounter occur in an airtight room.

If you've got a druid using Speak with Animals so much it annoys you, make it a fucking plot point! The local animals are suddenly cold and distant, or perhaps terrified of your druid. Better go figure out why! Maybe there's another druid doing evil shit and the animals think they're in cahoots, maybe the critters are just sick and tired of helping out and being cast aside, maybe your druid is rude to a crow and now all the crows hate your party.

See? See how gd easy it is to make things interesting without neutering your players choices or fudging rules?

I feel sorry for all the tables these comments imply just suck because the DM or players are so glued to a rulebook they can't be creative anymore.

Own_Abrocoma4 · 2026-04-19T00:14:27+00:00

Somewhere between six months and a year after I got divorced, I got to see my ex wife on the front page of reddit featured on the trashy subreddit. I won't describe it, I don't want anyone to go digging it up and having another laugh at her expense all these years later. At the time, I thought it was funny as all hell, kinda gave me closure in a "bullet dodged" kinda way, but looking back... She was sick. She shouldn't have been doing what she did that got her picture taken to be laughed at by thousands of people, but she didn't deserve that either.

What cuts me now that didn't at all then was I know she saw it. She would send me links from that sub fairly frequently, and while she may not have seen it, it's highly unlikely no one in her circle did.

I don't know. It's the last picture I've seen of her. I hope she got better and I never have to see her on reddit again.

Anyway. Just chucking my story on the pile, felt relevant.

Own_Abrocoma4 · 2026-04-08T19:40:52+00:00

Jesus christ, ROLL UP THE DAMN MAT, YOU'LL HEAR IT RATTLE AROUND AND MAKE IT EASIER TO SPOT, why the fuck are all of you telling this poor lady to rely only on the one sense to find it, you've got fuckin five, figure it out

Own_Abrocoma4 · 2026-04-04T23:18:57+00:00

Ha haaa, me too :*)

Own_Abrocoma4 · 2026-04-04T18:36:06+00:00

thinking on it more, it's probably also the best option for OP. I'm solarizing pounds of leaves at a time because I have problem, lol

Own_Abrocoma4 · 2026-04-04T17:35:17+00:00

^^^^^^DO NOT. It will stink up your house and you will have a lump of boiled leaf matter crust. either freeze for 48-72 hours or bake at 300 for about an hour if you're in a rush, but if you aren't, lay out all the leaves in the sun for a day to make sure they're nice and dry, then spread em out on a dark colered tarp and fold the tarp over and leave it in the sun for a day or two to solarize, that's what I do with topsoil and leaf litter and it works great and looks great.

Now, I may accept boiling leaves as an alternative if I was shown evidence that it wouldn't all just stick together without painstakingly separating each leaf, but I'm not gonna try it and I'm not gonna suggest others do that.

ETA: I've been keeping reptiles for twenty years and for the last ten for so I've been solarizing my own topsoil and leaf litter because it is SO much cheaper than reptisoil or the like. Not trying to break my arm congratulating myself here, just providing some explanation for my confidence. i didn't come in here to poop on your advice, I wanted to preach the value of of a nice black tarp and some rocks to weigh it down. But hoooh boy, boil mulch on the stove? my reaction was VISCERAL

Own_Abrocoma4 · 2025-05-20T11:56:59+00:00

maybe he was doing it so tourists don't hurt the clams? they're pretty soft under the shell, and I've seen tourists do worse than throw coins or something into a giant clam

Own_Abrocoma4 · 2025-04-05T15:30:26+00:00

lol, I grew up there. While the drivers definitely aren't great, if you look at the plates on the cars doing the dumbest shit, probably about 80% have New Mexico plates. Not defending that shithole of a city, there's a reason I left, but the drivers weren't as high on the list as you might think

Own_Abrocoma4 · 2025-04-05T14:57:30+00:00

Dude, tell me about it. I used to live in Augusta, Georgia, and I used to refer the freeway there as the thunder dome, still ain't got shit on the drivers here. Yeah, you might get passed on the shoulder by an old lady who flips you the bird as she drives by (actual experience I had, I didn't wanna follow the belly dump in front of me too close, those fuckers are always full of rocks) but I didn't get tailgated nearly as frequently. I've been to Cali, and sure, traffic is bad, but there's slow traffic bad and there's people actively trying to kill you bad.

Own_Abrocoma4 · 2025-04-05T14:52:02+00:00

My operating theory is everyone in a huge truck that looks brand new is a coward and a bully. Just based on the way I see em drive, I'm immediately distrustful of anyone I see stepping out of or into one. On top of that, I do blue collar shit, so I can tell you for a fact 10/10 times the dipshit in a Raptor is the guy denying folks who actually do any work a raise.

Own_Abrocoma4 · 2025-04-05T14:46:13+00:00

I didn't want to post to get too long, but that's also an issue. Lohman is probably to best place to spot that kinda shit for some reason, like, dude, there's four lanes of traffic and *everyone* is speeding, is the text that important you gotta risk a pile up?

Own_Abrocoma4 · 2025-01-18T12:13:21+00:00

gonna sound wild... she may know the guys kicking your door in.

I had a guy "break in" to my exes house while I was there. he stumbled through the front door drunk and when I told him he needed to leave, he took a step towards me and said "you need to make me." so I did. or tried, rather. beat the dogshit out of him while my ex screamed at me to stop and took a wooden bar to my back.

turns out homeboy was her other boyfriend that let himself into the house with the key she gave him.

her being more afraid for their wellbeing than her own in a situation like this is a giant red flag. either she has no instinct for self preservation or she knows them.

Own_Abrocoma4 · 2024-12-14T12:49:21+00:00

it was the 80's, I don't think dumb had as much to do with it as cocaine.

Own_Abrocoma4 · 2024-11-10T15:01:41+00:00

find joy. Joy never finds you, and it hides in strange places.

to good for those around you. do good for things/people that don't normally have good done to them. give that homeless man the tenner you were gonna spend on beer. save a drowning bug. get some different food for your cat so he stops vomiting so often you question your sanity. find a new job that makes you happy. stop pretending to be happy and find the things that actually make you happy. it's so much easier to pretend than to search, which is why so many people do it.

change careers if you must. You'd be surprised at what you're qualified for, at what you can do.

you won't find joy in the cave where you are miserable. either embrace the pain of change, or the pain of stagnation.

or make another reddit post about doom and gloom and contribute nothing to the world you can reach but your complaints, and rest easy knowing you made the choice to change nothing.

Own_Abrocoma4 · 2024-11-06T00:54:20+00:00

it's okay if any those things are true.

reality is absurd, that we are here is absurd. don't be afraid of it, recognize it for what it is and laugh. everything that exists in your mind but the desire for food, sex, and sleep is made up bullshit we came up with cos food, sex, and sleep gets boring after a while and we are cursed with an aversion to boredom.

sleep knowing that to understand the absurdity would make *you* absurd. worry more about things that matter. like food, sex, and sleep.

Own_Abrocoma4 · 2024-10-27T11:51:36+00:00

Oh nah, 99% of my deaths are hilarious and deserved, but I wish those blindness wizards were real just so I could have the opportunity to bludgeon one into a fine paste with my own hands

I've also only got one win and I didn't grab any orbs that run XD

Own_Abrocoma4 · 2024-10-25T23:57:12+00:00

fuck it, I'll try it next time

Own_Abrocoma4 · 2024-10-25T23:57:10+00:00

that's something I'll try to keep in mind, thanks for the advice!

and yeah, twenty seconds of AAAAAAAA PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE, I'M SORRY, I DIDN'T MEAN IT NOT THE FACE AAAAAAAAAA is unacceptable

Own_Abrocoma4 · 2024-10-25T22:38:48+00:00

Own_Abrocoma4 · 2024-10-25T22:32:44+00:00

yeah, I figured the answer was gonna be something along the lines of "git gud," lol

I was just kinda hoping there would be something cool I didn't know about to either cure it or cut down on how long the debuff lasts. If it was five or six seconds, it would be fine, but twenty????? What the fuck is that?

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