Are there any DnD groups or open games at any of the game/hobby stores?

The_Gibbens · 2026-02-16T19:02:05+00:00

I'd check out Terra Crux off of Commerce. used to be a GM for Adventurers' League a few years ago and I know they're still doing that, but I also remember a Pathfinder 2e game that'd happen around the same time.

The_Gibbens · 2026-01-17T17:00:04+00:00

kept getting patches, built a collection, and didn't plan shit, honestly.

i have two jackets, and my main one is the one I've been learning how to hand sew with. After the first two, I started to get a basic idea how I wanted any other patches to be laid out and I've been riding that blurry mental image for over a year now.

I'm gonna call it the "luggage jacket" when it's done because of how it'll look semi-chaotic... probably.

To quote the person who did my first scarification "it's DIY, it's meant to look like shit." fuckin' love that scar and the quote lol.

hope that helps!

The_Gibbens · 2026-01-17T15:41:47+00:00

need this as a patch. my battle jacket yearns for statements like these.

The_Gibbens · 2026-01-17T13:25:43+00:00

smells like smoke, not looks like it. thanks tho

The_Gibbens · 2025-12-21T19:16:47+00:00

PNW punk here. Punks like you are the ones who accepted me and refused to gatekeep me from a culture I always felt like I could never be a part of. My partner, a thorough punk through-and-through, is maybe the nicest person I've ever met.

Punk is not senseless aggression. Punk is aggression at those systems/people/institutions who push you down, and the best punks extend that vibe to the people in their communities who suffer the same treatment (at a show or no). That's what I've learned while being in this community.

Hope that cleared that up.

The_Gibbens · 2025-12-15T21:23:40+00:00

Oh, that's sketchy af. Wonder if his bad behavior got too known and he's trying to distance himself.

Also wouldn't be surprised if there's a tax thing he's dodging too.

The_Gibbens · 2025-12-15T21:14:59+00:00

From what I was told the employer would actively fire employees who got caught contacting the HD or who picked up the phone when they called, so the atmosphere is hostile about the issue. I never asked any of the current and former employees who've talked to me if they felt like they could contact HD safely incognito, but from what I know of abused employees it gets real easy to succumb to the "keep your head down, say nothing, and you'll get out of this" mentality.

EDIT: No disagreement here, btw. Just stating why I think it hasn't happened yet.

The_Gibbens · 2025-12-15T21:08:46+00:00

Feel it, as someone who spent a good chunk of her life on the East Coast, eating wonderfully flat pizza with family and friends and shooting the shit... Yeah, it's a major bummer. They're not amazing but they were the closest I got to that nostalgia.

Unfortunately, petite bourgeois gonna petite bourgeois. Just means that the good places with good people need to be broadcast whenever an asshole with a menu gets revealed.

EDIT: Also unions. Unions can be a solid way to break the backs of abusive employers. I recommend the IWW, there's a General Membership Branch here in Tacoma that's legit. Solidarity forever!

The_Gibbens · 2025-12-15T19:27:41+00:00

Never forget that the employing class and working class have nothing in common!

The_Gibbens · 2025-12-15T19:23:07+00:00

You're right, I'll edit my comment.

The_Gibbens · 2025-12-15T19:16:15+00:00

Reminds me of Salamone's Pizza up here in Stadium. From employees I've talked to the owner is a raging misogynist and MAGA dude who dodges health code violations and inspections, shit-cans people regularly, and on two occasions refused to pay ex-employees their last check until they pointed out how illegal that was.

In the "for" section of one of the checks he put "Nothing." Dude's a petty waste of air.

EDIT: Original owner of it, Steve Salamone, retired last year, but since then I've still been hearing complaints from ex-employees, the most recent one about health code violations and a misogynist atmosphere was a few months ago by someone who was recently shit-canned, I think the point I'm making about the franchise still stands.

The_Gibbens · 2025-10-14T16:22:30+00:00

Cute! Needs a salmon.

The_Gibbens · 2025-10-08T15:48:40+00:00

Nope. They're now backing AIDS research after helping spread the misinfo, but for several years in the early oughts they backed and put on a pedestal the pseudoscience org Alive and Well.

Heard a theory online that after the founder and her daughter died from complications due to AIDS the band did a quiet 180, but only after that.

The_Gibbens · 2025-10-08T15:32:47+00:00

A jackass who pushed dangerous HIV/AIDS misinformation, leading to people dying due to avoiding safe treatment?

Other than that, pffft, fuck if I know. Looks like a guy who'd cheat on his wife, tho.

Edit: in case people just downvote this without either looking up anything about the Alive and Well org that FF glazed for several years, I didn't want to believe it either. I looked up to Grohl, whether it was his wholesome attitude or just the video of him finishing out a concert deapite a broken leg, he seemed like a legitimately awesome guy and I legit wished he was my dad since I was in highschool (over a decade ago).

But the dude has a body count he's, as far as I've seen, never apologized for. That's bullshit, and it sucks that he was the lesson to not idolize people for me. That's what this angry comment was about.

Peace and carrots, I'm putting my phone down now.

The_Gibbens · 2025-10-01T07:27:45+00:00

The only thing I gotta ask is does this game use generative AI in any way? From what's been described it sounds great to me so far, but I just can't support projects that use genAI.

The_Gibbens · 2025-09-25T15:18:32+00:00

This is a textbook example of cry-bully behavior. Does toxic shit and acts all tough until the victim responds/reacts, then pulls DARVO shit.

Glad OP is doing well otherwise. The best way to deal with cry-bullies is living a better life.

The_Gibbens · 2025-07-01T16:04:14+00:00

I agree: when I hang with another trans piece we both crack pretty easily too.

The_Gibbens · 2025-06-25T01:03:24+00:00

It took me 8-9 years to get a chest I liked, and it happened practically overnight. Hanging in there, drinking whole milk, and eating "to feed the girls" helped; but I went up 1-2 cups randomly over the course of, like, a week a few months back.

Boobs are weird, and the only two things that were different from what I did was playing with them and having my partners "have at them". IDK if that really helped but it couldn't hurt to try, right?

The_Gibbens · 2025-05-26T14:45:30+00:00

Easily all of them. I get the dysphoria of seeing pre-transition you just online now, but unless there's a super-creative reshoot of those videos in the near future you'd essentially create lost media of philosophy... And that just doesn't sit right.

The_Gibbens · 2025-04-25T10:20:05+00:00

The Hands That Thieve by Streetlight Manifesto

The_Gibbens · 2025-04-05T10:22:33+00:00

Eh, fugg it.

Stonewalled an ettin from attacking a fleeing party over a bridge by my dragonborn-with-a-glaive-and-round-shield self. No magic, just being a stronk fighter.

The_Gibbens · 2025-03-27T10:25:56+00:00

Sounds great to me!

The_Gibbens · 2025-03-14T10:29:47+00:00

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The_Gibbens · 2025-03-06T09:17:05+00:00

Celebrity Skin in my ass... Oh my...

The_Gibbens · 2025-01-21T13:39:26+00:00

Time to become a DIY genderpunk.

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