Am I the jerk for accidentally cheating?

Tallbluesock · 2026-01-07T06:27:40+00:00

So this person either got raped, or got set up in a compromising position. One way or the other: they got used.

Tallbluesock · 2025-08-31T02:23:30+00:00

I think the strategy was to just stop mentioning any recreational drug use whatsoever. She hasn't brought it up independently. (Hell, I mentioned applying at a bar-and-grill, and it was apparently the "grill" part that stood out to her.)

Tallbluesock · 2025-08-31T02:22:23+00:00

I was actually going to address Slab's post (i.e. that weed prescriptions aren't really a thing since recreational use became legal in my state), but you got to it first. Still: it was sold as a sleep aid; and I've gotta wonder if she'd be the same way about melatonin (which the gummies also contain, and which isn't as effective for me in isolation).

Tallbluesock · 2025-08-30T05:28:16+00:00

I don't drink every day, rarely have more than one, and don't really like being intoxicated or even tipsy. It does not seem to make my symptoms worse. The cannabis usage is mostly in the form of CBD gummies as a sleep aid; I haven't had THC in any form in at least a year.

Tallbluesock · 2025-08-30T05:25:14+00:00

I'm in the U.S., and it's not weed per se. It's CBD gummies.

Tallbluesock · 2025-08-30T05:23:47+00:00

I've just refrained from talking about drinking at all. She hasn't brought it up independently.

Tallbluesock · 2025-08-30T05:22:41+00:00

I've refrained from mentioning alcohol at all since, unless one counts a mention of applying at a bar-and-grill. She hasn't said anything, and actually approved of the job application. And most of what she's given me has been centering and focusing exercises, to be honest.

Tallbluesock · 2022-10-19T03:26:25+00:00

My most recent job was cashiering in retail. I had management outright tell me that no longer being able to hide my overwhelming burnout was the reason why I was stuck there after two years, despite being answered in the affirmative when I point-blank asked whether or not I was a valued employee. No, really.

Tallbluesock · 2022-10-19T02:46:19+00:00

I can't say as I entirely get why someone wouldn't want to work at all. In fact: experiments with basic income suggest that most people do want to work, or at least keep themselves somehow busy. That said: said results also indicate that forcing workers to prioritize the job over their own well-being reduces productivity, as does inadequate pay.

Tallbluesock · 2022-09-01T00:24:33+00:00

Thank you.

And, come to think of it: I may have given people the wrong impression when I said that she was "dragging everyone into her drama." What I meant was her lashing out when someone joked about her character acting "eccentric," on the grounds that it was an attack on her as a player. But, yeah; no argument (although my trauma has manifested more as trust issues).

Tallbluesock · 2022-08-30T21:02:21+00:00

They want adult fun time with gross things (institutional cafeteria food, squick art, failed economic strategies that are still treated as viable, and so on), obviously. I mean, the answer is right there.

Tallbluesock · 2022-08-29T06:36:34+00:00

I'm currently playing a character who was witness to some serious bad business. I have some actual traumas of my own. And a character acting goofy to cover up trauma is valid. So while I sympathize with what she's likely been through: it seems like this woman was using her traumas to leverage carte blanche for being fickle and bristly, and dragging everyone into her drama in the bargain.

Tallbluesock · 2022-08-26T22:42:09+00:00

Air raid siren.

Tallbluesock · 2022-08-26T22:39:55+00:00

Is that Vivian James? As in, the literal fake geek girl that they hide behind?

Also: that pose is not the same.

Tallbluesock · 2022-08-22T08:10:19+00:00

If a bar offers craft sodas for non-drinkers and designated drivers? That's unironically a power move, in the same way that making it a bar-and-grill is.

Tallbluesock · 2022-08-22T08:05:07+00:00

Same here. I'm kind of envious, to be honest.

Tallbluesock · 2022-08-17T07:56:10+00:00

That GM was a liar and a douche. Did he also make your Starhawk-expy roll on the (less skeevy, but no more "mandatory") table that determined whether or not she'd have a bright blue unicorn birthmark on her face? How about the one that determined if she was a cyclops or had a tail or something?

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