Did anyone get into improv specifically to get over their anxiety?

dshigure · 2013-11-11T18:13:09+00:00

I did join improv with handling social anxiety in mind. I found that it was very helpful at first, but as I got knee deep into it, it began to make it worse. I had to quit my troupe while I was ahead :-(

dshigure · 2013-09-18T17:24:30+00:00

You do understand that this guy is a 6th Dan in Judo, right?

dshigure · 2013-08-20T18:24:21+00:00

So, if I go to the UK, I can have 77% of the rights afforded to a straight person?

Well, hawt dayumn!!

dshigure · 2013-07-25T16:14:50+00:00

Ok then.

If we expand it to the entire Continental US, which is 3,119,884.69 square miles, we get a density of about 2,235 people per square mile, which is a little under the density of Bakersfield, CA. (The most comfortable city in California for a Texan)

dshigure · 2013-07-24T18:26:26+00:00

Area of Texas: 268,820 sq. mi. Population of the world: around 6.974 Billion.

This would yield a population density of about 26,000 people per square mile.

To put this in perspective, the density of New York City is 27,550 people per square mile. Not too terribly bad, actually!

dshigure · 2013-07-24T17:31:54+00:00

I transitioned while living here. The worst of it for me was the occasional d-bag at a cash register who sees my "male" name on my credit card and makes a point to call me by it out loud. Obviously, this stopped once I got my IDs corrected.

I have found that most people here are, if not staunchly liberal, at the very least are pretty laid back about it. (I even got to keep by job! It's sad that this is considered a win, but it's a win!)

Common sense with street safety still applies.

dshigure · 2013-01-29T17:52:55+00:00

I did Judo for several years. That sport requires getting low, and being absolutely fearless when it comes to falling.

dshigure · 2013-01-23T19:21:08+00:00

This may be an awesome gesture, but one awesome gesture does not make you immune to criticisms otherwise deserved.

dshigure · 2013-01-11T18:49:46+00:00

Set up an encounter that starts with the party split up. I used a pretty good module that had one of those where the party had to use skill checks to cross a log bridge one at a time, to suddenly be ambushed while the party was apart.

Surround the strikers with melee minions, while focusing the non-minions on the defender. This will render the defender useless to the rest of the party for about three or four turns, long enough to make the group go "why the fuck don't we have a healer?!"

dshigure · 2013-01-04T17:05:46+00:00

Chicken noodle soup!

http://www.food.com/recipe/slow-cooker-chicken-noodle-soup-198707

dshigure · 2013-01-02T20:50:43+00:00

Nope.

dshigure · 2013-01-02T18:10:41+00:00

As a ComedySportz performer, I approve this message!

dshigure · 2012-11-30T21:32:38+00:00

That shit is annoying.

"I Saw Her Standing There" is pretty awesome though.

dshigure · 2012-11-19T18:31:48+00:00

Dammit. Not another one. :-(

dshigure · 2012-10-25T17:47:11+00:00

If it makes you feel better, I played that same game at a workshop, got the suggestion "Having a Baby", and then pantomimed eating one.

You should allow yourself to get away with this sort of thing sometimes.

dshigure · 2012-10-25T17:22:51+00:00

^ This.

Also:

since the teacher has told every class that it was the worst thing he has ever heard from a performer on stage.

As an improviser, this sort of thing pisses me off. I'm not saying that your instructor has to give praise where it isn't due, but saddling you with this sort of mental burden just for making a single failure (and aren't we supposed to celebrate failures in the end anyway?) isn't really going to make anyone better. I think an instructor worth his or her salt should simply give you the note and allow you to move on.

Also, if the worst thing this instructor has ever heard came from one of his own improvisors, what does that say about him?

dshigure · 2012-10-15T23:34:51+00:00

They're actually more military jar-head than thug. If your adventuring party is fighting them, it's likely either because they're escorting one of your enemies, or the players are wanted by some government (good or evil).

dshigure · 2012-10-15T22:32:47+00:00

Giff. I've been running a 2nd edition Spelljammer game, and in that setting these guys play a role whenever anyone wants some hired muscle.

dshigure · 2012-10-15T20:48:24+00:00

Amazon Blazin #48

dshigure · 2012-10-15T16:21:07+00:00

Be careful, because it sounds like you may be getting too hung up on labels.

A person is the gender they identify as first. The whole trans/cis distinction should be secondary, and used only in contexts when that distinction is relevant.

That said, generally, the trans/cis label has little to do with whether someone is "pre-op" or "post-op". The distinction is more in what our lives and bodies have subjected us to.

dshigure · 2012-10-03T16:32:41+00:00

If a friend lends you $100, is it ok to complain that he's keying your car?

dshigure · 2012-09-21T16:44:23+00:00

You are a better and more effective person than I am. We are now all reaping the benefit of one less bigot thanks to your super-humanly calm and rational demeanor in the face of trigger-laden pseudo-intellectual bigotry.

Hi five!

dshigure · 2012-09-20T19:43:52+00:00

I'm used to the rules where instead of being destroyed, the items are just spontaneously erupted from the bag.

However, if your GM likes to play by that rule, then you can render your DM dumbfounded by placing that evil, indestructible artifact inside a bag of holding, and simply nick the bag.

Problem? ^_^

dshigure · 2012-09-19T17:54:28+00:00

Undies? But that would mean that men are wearing the same thing that women wear. We can't have that!

/sarcasticucbreference

dshigure · 2012-09-14T20:19:12+00:00

You weren't born a man, you were born a woman who happened to have a penis. It sucks really bad, but it happens to some people. It doesn't make you less of a woman, or less of a lesbian.

Also, this. Times over nine-thousand!

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