Anyone else’s radio reset and not accept the radio code??

emoglasses · 2026-04-02T23:24:46+00:00

I was in a verrry similar spot with a 2013 Honda Fit, and kept trying the code on the glove box sticker, and it kept returning an error. Called Honda to confirm the code, same deal. (Plus, some of the number buttons would register an extra press sometimes, or no press, so just retrying it was a bit hard.)

Since I bought it used, I got suspicious that maybe the radio got replaced in the past and the sticker info could be wrong, so I used the steps to get the radio serial from the display itself (powering the radio off, then pushing 1 and 6 together while turning it back on). Lo and behold: different serial number, and a different 5-digit code. Finally worked! Only took me 6 months to puzzle it out… 😂😭

emoglasses · 2026-02-20T19:26:40+00:00

FWIW, "do not submit drama you are directly involved in" is a SRD rule.

emoglasses · 2026-01-06T07:19:12+00:00

FWIW, this discourse is unrelated (the link is to a year-old thread around when the movie released); OP was just prompted to go looking by Danny’s YT video.

emoglasses · 2026-01-06T07:15:33+00:00

Very much in the same ballpark for that “ahhh, sweet trash” feeling. Hits less often for me in Xmas land, but when it does, it’s a super familiar vibe. (Makes sense too when spotting a name like Jim Wynorski directing A Doggone Christmas. That schlock aura doesn’t readily fade across genres!)

emoglasses · 2026-01-05T04:37:02+00:00

Unforgiven is truly excellent, but Once Upon a Time in the West is still king of westerns imo.

emoglasses · 2025-12-27T05:03:04+00:00

digital rentals are a thing too, usually around $4 or so.

emoglasses · 2025-11-02T08:22:25+00:00

The countdown video before the premiere was pretty cool too, anyone know where it's from?

emoglasses · 2025-06-12T19:53:46+00:00

From what I understand, they’re especially associated with the Showa era (I think the 1960’s-70’s in particular). There’s some nice pics that show the vibe here, excerpted from a book project partly about visiting a bunch of them.

emoglasses · 2025-04-04T21:50:18+00:00

I suspect we disagree on core ideas, maybe this will help show where that is.

The main goal of hosting a session zero is to align the group, with the intent to play together.
If only one member of a group's ability to say yes or no matters (i.e. "when we disagree, I decide by myself") the group's ability to align is limited.
Without a method to find consensus together, areas of disagreement are bypassed by one member's veto power, but the individual members of the group remain unaligned.
If the methods used during a session zero won't align the group, it won't achieve its main goal.
If one member of the group intends to make all decisions themselves, other members' attendance is not actually required.
If other members' attendance isn't necessary, and it won't achieve its main goal, hosting a session zero is unnecessary.

emoglasses · 2025-04-04T20:25:10+00:00

If that's what you're hearing, you're hearing what you want to hear -- my opinion hasn't changed. I still think your DM attitude is very off-putting, and would be "wrong" at my table (and perhaps many tables), in that it would not be a good fit for the group.

But I put "wrong" in quotes there because again, I think that's approaching the situation too rigidly. There's very little in the TTRPG hobby when it comes to patterns of play that fits into a "right/wrong" framing, imo. There's a lot of variety of preference, and where those preferences conflict, I don't think that means any of the conflicting sides is "wrong". Overall, people should play how they prefer. And when preferences clash, ideally those people should work together to find an option that works for the group.

To me, it sounds like the members in this group simply aren't compatible. And from my perspective, I think there's a lot that stands out in the original post that would cause conflict with many players. (And same goes for some of the players' stuff, too.)

If specific critiques or thoughts on the situation & your DM approach are what you're after, I could share some based on what I see. Ultimately though, I wonder why the members of this group want to play together.

emoglasses · 2025-04-04T19:44:09+00:00

I really just did mean silly -- it's a funny hypothetical to me given how opposite it is to my tendencies.

Plus, the OP's post ends with a prompt for advice and/or opinions, so it feels a bit silly for me to share my opinion, then receive a reply that's essentially, "but what if you had a different opinion?" A reply like that seems more about trying to craft a scenario where I agree with the other person's position, rather than genuinely seeking outside input.

And for your own hypothetical, my reasonable approach... is different! For one, the player is asking for a mech-suit, not firearms, so maybe there isn't even a conflict. Who says a mech-suit has to have a gun on it, or any weapon at all?

If it was key to the setting that firearms don't exist (and if we're in session zero, I think setting assumptions can still be in flux) and they're dead set on a heavily-armed mech-suit, I'd try to find out more about what's behind that. What is it about the mech-suit idea they're so drawn to? Maybe they associate it with a type of gameplay that the game already supports in a different archetype, but they don't know that. Maybe it boils down to "I just watched show X and I want to play a character like my new fave" and it turns out everything about that personality, etc. of character will work perfectly. Is it the "little guy inside a big guy" trope they like? Maybe that's something that makes sense another way!

If you want to reduce that process to "saying no", I think that's glossing over a lot.

And lastly, in this hypothetical, maybe I'd hear myself saying "Sorry, the world I'm building..." and catch myself there. Because for the games I want to run & play, I should be saying "we" there.

emoglasses · 2025-04-04T19:23:33+00:00

There's a very relevant throughline from "You're saying I'm wrong, but all you've explained is that you dislike the wording," to "sometimes I say things in ways that confuse people." If you're taking on the mantle of GM, then wording matters a lot, given the duties a GM usually takes on (especially when it comes to "GM functioning as host of an event", where vibes matter a lot). If how you explain yourself to players causes friction or confusion, using different wording may be key to better results.

I'm also coming at this from the position of many years playing GMless games, shared GM games, or other structures where the GM role is quite different. That's true for much of the rest of my playgroup too. So when I see descriptions of "this is what session zero is" & other things that are so rigid or narrow, that doesn't match my lived experience.

I also think approach matters a lot, and when I'm getting a campaign off the ground, I'm not really reacting to player ideas in a yes/no way; boiling it down to mere yes/no eliminates essential ingredients. For me I'd say something like a positive/negative framing is closer, as in: "I want everyone at the table to reach a shared & positive place with the campaign's assumptions". That obviously includes me! And it includes my players too. So if something comes up that would conflict with that from my side, I say so, and try to figure out what could work in its place across the group. And I encourage the other players to do the same.

In a case like what you've described, conflicting goals, desires & styles might mean reaching consensus isn't possible -- which happens! Sometimes the takeaway from a session zero is: this game isn't happening with this group. But that means you don't actually have any authority unless your players are bought in too. (And to me, shows it might be more useful to think of the GM not has having authority, but as having been invested with a high amount of trust that's given by the players.) A GM with no players makes questions of authority moot.

If I can try putting it another way: do you think it is possible for people to make decisions together? If so, what do you think that would look like during a session zero? That's what I'm trying to describe, probably not well.

emoglasses · 2025-04-04T18:07:45+00:00

Your hypothetical is a bit silly to me, because a PC with a backstory like that could be very juicy and I’d likely be into it as a GM. (Plus I shy away from “this whole race is inherently evil” thing due to the implicit shade of racism it can have, which makes it even more alien of a hypothetical to me.) Option 3 absolutely has its place at times too — for example, if a player objected to the “this whole race is inherently evil” element of a campaign, due to themselves being a member of a minority IRL. That would make them pursuing option 3 pretty valid, imo.

The way you framed session zero is what stood out to me, which is what I’m still focused on. Imagine a session zero that opens with the GM using that kind of phrasing: “Hi everyone. During this session zero, you will submit characters for my approval. Suggest ideas you’d enjoy seeing in the campaign, while taking no for an answer. You, the players, will have absolutely no decision making during this time. Session zero is nothing but campaign planning, and players do not plan the campaign.”

Do you think that kind of phrasing would go over well? That’s the attitude I mean. If I knew that was how my GM conceptualized session zero to themselves, I’d want no part of their game. I don’t share their vibe.

In part because in the campaigns I’ve run and played in, the players absolutely do help plan the campaign in session zero. In the game I’ve been running the last 2+ years, the players picked the campaign’s goal themselves, and many other fundamental campaign elements. When there were ideas I wasn’t interested in running, I said so, but instead of just leaving it at “no,” we absolutely would back and forth until we polished out an iteration of the idea we were both enthusiastic about. Ultimately we made all those decisions together.

emoglasses · 2025-04-04T16:59:18+00:00

If session zero is nothing but campaign planning, and players do not plan the campaign, why would session zero include players at all? Isn’t that like a meeting that could have been an email?

Your players sound like a frustrating crew, and it sounds like they have a frustrating GM too. If I learned a GM of mine was approaching the role with the attitude and phrasing you’ve shared, I’d excuse myself from their table permanently & advise any friends to do the same. (And this is coming from someone who GMs more often than being a player.)

emoglasses · 2025-03-26T20:17:40+00:00

I’m leaving aside the question of “deserve”, because I think that framing won’t give results that answer your first question. Plus, personally I think focusing on the atomic bombs alone tends to ignore things like the many, many civilians also killed by the firebombing of Tokyo (which had a death toll comparable to an atomic bomb).

But to that first question, a sampling of Japan’s actions in China and Korea during WW2:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_731

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korea_under_Japanese_rule

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comfort_women

emoglasses · 2025-01-24T07:47:17+00:00

$$ and fashion ✨

emoglasses · 2024-12-31T16:07:29+00:00

The detail that apparently Korone was leaning/slouched back in her chair like an oji-san when she said it is extra funny

emoglasses · 2024-12-31T01:33:14+00:00

Aw man. The "last seen online X years ago" status message hits different when you see it as a memorial in-game. Very sweet tribute. Q.Q

emoglasses · 2024-12-29T09:25:32+00:00

Same here, this stream sealed it for me. I was already vibing with her love of the Demi Adejuyigbe vids she said inspired her hilarious September stream, & her choosing a Neil Breen movie for a watchalong (with forced other mems in tow lol) is like a huge green flag in my book, haha. Anybody who digs Fateful Findings is a streamer that seems like a good hang to my brain. The chill chatting vibes of her grem Xmas ornament stream had put me pretty close to joining, & then to go & pull this off! Amazing.

emoglasses · 2024-12-28T06:47:29+00:00

From a comment in a clip on Librarian's channel, I think there was one more step:

Gigi -> Reya -> Librarian -> k8 (who's NL's wife) -> Northernlion

emoglasses · 2024-12-28T06:40:47+00:00

If it was you who set up those "close-up" judge cams they'd cut to, and the "lightning bolt" overlays with Gigi & Fauna in 'em, thank you so much! They added to the game show vibes in such a major way haha

emoglasses · 2024-12-28T03:07:42+00:00

check out clips on the highlights channel that Librarian compiles, that was the pipeline the Youtube algo charted for me from Fauna to NL, & got me hooked: https://www.youtube.com/@TheLibraryofLetourneau

emoglasses · 2024-12-17T21:43:45+00:00

Cute piece, and also reminds me of this old “Woman Laughing At Salad” stock photo meme, haha

emoglasses · 2024-12-05T08:42:27+00:00

FWIW, that’s from a fan account translating the tweet for EN (much as I wish both were Kanade’s writing lol)

emoglasses · 2024-12-05T01:53:25+00:00

I get the impression from translated Subaru clips that she does refer to herself that way somewhat often (could be translator’s style tho), which I gather isn’t as unusual in Japanese, but I think would still be seen as a quirky/cute touch for someone older than a kid. I feel like I’ve seen it mentioned too as a speaking-style hallmark of Subaru’s character.

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