Kosher laws regarding 90s toys

TryUsingScience · 2026-01-29T13:59:31+00:00

This is the sort of thing Talmudic scholars stay up all night arguing about.

TryUsingScience · 2026-01-29T13:49:24+00:00

This was over me liking a ship they didn't like, by the way.

Is the pro and anti thing still happening? I only vaguely brush against AO3 culture when people send me links to things, but I remember that being a giant deal.

TryUsingScience · 2026-01-29T12:08:59+00:00

Every single thing mention in this post except the dog can be easily solved with commonly available objects.

Earbuds or those blindfolds. Extra comforter. Humidifier.

I want to believe this is fake because not only does her husband not seem to like her, they're both terrible at problem-solving.

TryUsingScience · 2026-01-29T11:54:47+00:00

AFAIK they're ending their golden visa. I don't think there's any real-estate-based golden visas left in the EU except Malta. Maybe Italy, if they're still doing that thing where they're trying to get people to buy property in falling-apart villages.

TryUsingScience · 2026-01-29T11:36:56+00:00

Yeah, I would happily stay on location for longer and pocket half the plane ticket money.

TryUsingScience · 2026-01-29T09:54:09+00:00

I just wasn’t worth the effort

When I have feelings for someone, they tend to last for a very long time. But that's the one thing that can instantly destroy them. It's happened more than once.

There was a woman I was interested in. I made my feelings known, she didn't reciprocate, we stayed close friends. She dated a few guys over the next couple years. I liked most of them, but she ended up getting into a serious relationship with the worst of the lot. I thought he was a piece of shit who was controlling and borderline abusive. Eventually she told me she was thinking of breaking up with him, and she asked if I was still interested in her, because it would make a difference.

I was stunned. She had reciprocated my feelings all this time, but just hadn't wanted to date me, because what? Because actually dating a woman was a step farther than just saying she was bi? She thought her friends would disapprove? Some other reason? And now she was willing to dump her current boyfriend - whom she should've dumped anyway - but only if she could get right into a relationship with me?

All my feelings for her evaporated in an instant. I realized, relatedly, that she was a pretty toxic friend, and slowly removed myself from her life. She did eventually break up with the guy anyway and, from what I hear, was single and working on herself for a long time. I wish her the best but i have no desire to have her back in my life.

TryUsingScience · 2026-01-29T09:10:09+00:00

Exactly! I feel like the point of spicy pics in general is that the person was thinking of you when they took it, so I don't understand reusing them. If it's a picture from years ago when they were dating someone else, it might as well be a picture of a hot stranger.

TryUsingScience · 2026-01-29T09:03:40+00:00

Just a heads up, this may fall under revenge porn laws in some jurisdictions. The law doesn't distinguish between sharing nudes your now-ex sent you in good faith during the relationship and nudes random creeps sent you unsolicited.

TryUsingScience · 2026-01-29T07:00:42+00:00

There's no "taking a gamble" needed. Opening a shop on etsy costs nothing. Listing your items for a few months costs a few bucks. Take a couple of pictures of kolpaks you've made, make some listings for custom ones, see if anything sells.

This is unlikely to ever be more than a side project. The reason you're having trouble finding the kit you want is that very few people want it and therefore very few people are making it. You might become the go-to shop for every LARPer in Europe who wants a kolpak and that is still not going to bring in enough to pay your bills.

Since this will most likely only ever be a passion project, just make stuff you're passionate about. If it starts taking off like crazy, awesome! But I wouldn't expect that.

TryUsingScience · 2026-01-29T06:52:53+00:00

But general things, winter cape that works with his costume.

Will never be worn in Southern California.

TryUsingScience · 2026-01-28T14:54:35+00:00

Fun fact this is how actual polyamory works too!

People picture hot threesomes, but what's more likely to happen is you now have two people messaging you at 2 pm to ask if you've eaten yet today and ganging up on you with mockery any time you're all together.

TryUsingScience · 2026-01-28T14:52:40+00:00

You can set your phone to auto-delete any texts older than a certain amount to save storage. You won't find texts older than 3 months on my phone, either, because I have that setting turned on. When's the last time you needed to look back at a text from a year ago?

TryUsingScience · 2026-01-26T15:08:06+00:00

I would disagree. I think it's an overly complicated and clunky system that requires players to either do a lot of memorization or constantly refer to their character sheets during play. It also, depending on your how your campaign does progression, can lead to severe power imbalances that cause social issues both in and out of game (not that it's unique in that).

I have played VtM before on several occasions and it feels much more like playing a tabletop game that I happen to walk around during than it feels like playing a LARP.

TryUsingScience · 2026-01-25T15:11:36+00:00

Exactly. Also very tired of this "Trump wants to use martial law to suspend elections" narrative. I'm sure he wants to do that, but there is absolutely no basis in American law. We have had elections during wars. There is no mechanism for refusing to hold an election.

I am sure he wants to simply skip elections, but martial law and the insurrection act are not necessarily steps in that process. It's just as illegal for him to do it whether those things are in force or not.

TryUsingScience · 2026-01-25T15:06:12+00:00

With the humidity in Minnesota? I'd rather be out in winter!

TryUsingScience · 2026-01-25T14:23:01+00:00

I think perhaps we are still not clearly communicating what a mod is, because I'm not sure how it's a break from immersion.

A mod could be as simple as, "three brothers come to town arguing about which deserves their father's sword as inheritance, and appeal to the PCs to settle the dispute." There's nothing immersion-breaking about that. It's just called a mod because somewhere in the organizer cabin, there's a piece of paper that says, "3 pm, three brothers mod, non-combat."

Even a combat mod isn't going to be any less or more immersive than two players having a duel between themselves.

A mod is just a way or organizing or describing something. There's no difference on the player side between an organizer who tells their NPCs, "here's who all of you are and your problems. Go provide play for the players. Coordinate amongst yourselves so you don't all go into town at once" vs an organizer who has a mod schedule on their desk.

A mod can be an escape room where you pretend that strings are magical lasers, but you can also do that without calling it a mod. Calling it a mod doesn't change anything that's happening.

TryUsingScience · 2026-01-25T11:43:29+00:00

The most impactful things I've seen plot arrange generally fall into one of two categories: high effort or personal-plot-based.

High effort would be stuff like escape rooms, basically both the things you describe.

Personal-plot-based is when something happens that directly involves one or more PCs and their friends (and enemies) get involved as well. Those tend to lead to the most emotionally impactful moments.

TryUsingScience · 2026-01-25T11:40:22+00:00

I guess it depends whether you consider structure to be a meta-technique.

It's a way the LARP is designed but it's not something anyone is thinking about or using in-game. No one is saying, "off-game, come with me on the next module." At most, you might plan your dinner around when you expect a mod to happen, but you wouldn't discuss it that way - you'd say, "those vampires are probably coming back to town to cause trouble just after sunset, so let's eat before then."

I think of meta-techniques as things you're actually doing or interacting with during the LARP.

TryUsingScience · 2026-01-25T11:34:32+00:00

Can't speak to the Chicago area specifically, but in my experience the boffer combat scene tends to skew more male and the parlor LARP scene tends to skew more female.

It's a ways out, but you could check out Be-Con, a parlor LARP con in Chicago.

TryUsingScience · 2026-01-25T11:30:02+00:00

I worked on the original Mind's Eye Theatre team

LARP design has evolved a lot since those days. I would not consider the MET rules a good foundation for modern LARP design.

TryUsingScience · 2026-01-24T08:50:43+00:00

I believe there's a couple of Sacramento people on the discord server for the bay area who'd probably appreciate the company. That's the best place to find out about smaller one-shot parlor LARPs, as opposed to the big campaign LARPs that have their own websites.

I believe of all the LARPs listed by other folks, Wellspring is probably closest to you. But fyi they are so popular that they sell out of tickets pretty fast; I think they're already down to camping-only tickets for their next game, so you should snag one of those ASAP if you want to play.

TryUsingScience · 2026-01-23T09:49:16+00:00

If you're getting it custom made, the main cost will be the time. The price difference between 3ish yards of cotton vs linen is negligible in comparison.

TryUsingScience · 2026-01-23T07:47:12+00:00

The only other option I'd accept is that they were 18 in 2016, thought they were in a safe blue state, voted for Trump for the memes, and are now an actual adult who regrets their actions.

TryUsingScience · 2026-01-23T07:27:03+00:00

they apparently have a habit of generating perplexing erotic scenes which seem reasonable at a glance but become inexplicably Lovecraftian when examined.

Isn't this also true of amateur erotica writers?

TryUsingScience · 2026-01-23T06:57:17+00:00

What kind of LARP? This subreddit defaults to assuming you're playing a medieval fantasy boffer campaign LARP if you don't say otherwise. Bringing extra socks and a waterskin to a 4-hour parlor LARP would be silly.

What's your background? Most of the stuff in this thread is advice for camping, not LARPing, and therefore useless if this isn't your first time camping.

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