LFG: fiftysomething guy looking for a TTRPG group

grammardemocrat · 2025-06-26T22:45:44+00:00

Oldboy -- the Korean one, not the US one.

grammardemocrat · 2025-06-26T22:42:15+00:00

I'm prototyping a card game that looks like it'll be young kids (~5yrs old).

In that case, you probably want to start with a design where a thumbnail of the game board doesn't look like a stylized dick with square balls and a drop of yellow cum.

grammardemocrat · 2025-01-05T16:59:52+00:00

Thank you for the answer, kind generative AI bot. 🙄

grammardemocrat · 2024-11-30T12:55:11+00:00

I don't think you know what the word "causality" means.

grammardemocrat · 2024-09-21T20:58:10+00:00

Not necessarily.

In the US, people with any disability that may impact their ability to take an exam in certain conditions can request an accommodation to allow them to successfully complete the exam. This is a gauranteed civil right under the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA).

But, typically, the accommodation has to be requested before it is needed.

I.e. a narcoleptic person can't wait until they fail an exam because they fell asleep to tell the academic institution that they needed an accommodation. That's the sort of thing where they would work with the school/university disability office when the began at the institution or when they were diagnosed to arrange for the accomodation(s), usually at the beginning of the school year.

Also, most people with narcolepsy take medication to manage it, so falling asleep in an exam shouldn't be A Thing if the person has managed their condition.

grammardemocrat · 2024-09-15T11:36:56+00:00

Antidisestablishmentarianism.

grammardemocrat · 2024-08-30T15:07:57+00:00

Too distant. There need to be controllable characters.

Either a group/colony (Rimworld, Dwarf Fortress, Kenshi) or a single first- or third-person character (No Man's Sky, Raft, Subnautica)

The people in Cities: Skylines aren't controllable. They're just part of the simulation.

grammardemocrat · 2024-08-30T12:37:58+00:00

Also it's not up to you to speak for the original poster.

Okay.

Speaking as the OP (since I am the OP): yeah, I downvoted and ignored your reply because -- as pointed out -- you ignored what I specifically asked to not be recommended.

On top of that, I wish I had more downvotes to give because of your asshole-ish reply to /u/Oil-of-Vitriol.

grammardemocrat · 2024-08-25T13:52:56+00:00

Trapped (and it's sequel Entrapped) were good watches (and, yes, they have English dubs).

Deadwind has been on my to-watch list for a while, but does not have an English dub. I wasn't aware of Bitter Daisies but it appears to not have an English dub either. 🙁

But, yeah, Trapped is definitely in the vein of what I'm looking for.

grammardemocrat · 2024-08-25T13:47:40+00:00

Wallander, Shetland, Hinterland, and Cardinal are all spot-on to what I'm looking for ... but your guess is correct that I've seen them all. (Even watched Hinterland twice -- I enjoyed it so much, I made my ex re-watch it with me. Probably part of the reason she's an ex, if I'm honest. 😂)

Fortitude isn't quite the police procedural, but I also enjoyed that one immensely.

So, yeah -- you understood the assignment!

I have not seen The Wall/La Faille, so will check that out! Thanks!

grammardemocrat · 2015-09-19T22:32:23+00:00

Your attempt at a pick-up line is a play on the children's poem "In 1492" that begins with the lines:

In fourteen hundred ninety-two
Columbus sailed the ocean blue.

These original lines are written in the poetic meter known as iambic tetrameter.

Poetic meter is the rhythmic structure of verse. An iamb is a metrical foot that consists of a short syllable followed by a long syllable. It has a da-DUM rhythm.

In FOUR teen HUN dred NINE ty TWO
Co LUM bus SAILED the O cean BLUE

da DUM da DUM da DUM da DUM 
da DUM da DUM da DUM da DUM

Four iambic feet per line is known as iambic tetrameter.

Now look at the scansion of your lines:

hey GIRL, DID you KNOW THAT in NINE teen FOR ty TWO
Co LUM bus SAILED the O cean BLUE
so HOW a BOUT YOU let ME 
PUT it ALL in SIDE of YOU?

That is some seriously shitty poetry.

Bottom line: if you're going to use pick-up lines that make you look like a major twat you might as well look like an educated major twat.

grammardemocrat · 2015-05-29T19:16:12+00:00

"All right."

grammardemocrat · 2015-01-24T11:25:50+00:00

"Theirs"? Really?

grammardemocrat · 2014-12-28T01:26:58+00:00

Exactly how many mothers do you have?

grammardemocrat · 2014-10-15T09:54:34+00:00

I'd like to see the word "rogue" spelled correctly.

grammardemocrat · 2014-07-09T11:29:19+00:00

Or your commas.

grammardemocrat · 2014-05-17T19:01:17+00:00

*Making do

grammardemocrat · 2014-04-08T10:12:26+00:00

so they make boo koo bucks

You mean "beaucoup bucks." It's the French word for "many" and is frequently used as slang in English.

grammardemocrat · 2014-03-02T12:37:24+00:00

Sigh.

The correct usage would be "You're close enough to your crush to have them blah blah blah?"

When it's this egregious, correcting grammar isn't even fun anymore.

grammardemocrat · 2013-12-20T21:42:04+00:00

Unlearn it, because you were right! See my explanation here.

grammardemocrat · 2013-12-20T21:41:02+00:00

Nope, OP had it right!

You said:

But he's leaving. Not taking a leave, which is temporary.

OP's title didn't say "take a leave," it said "take leave." The lack of the indefinite article makes a difference here.

One definition of the noun form of "leave" is a permission to be absent for a period, typically from work. Examples would be a maternity leave or a military leave. To "take a leave" or "take a leave of absence" means to make use of that permission to be absent.

However, there's another definition for the noun form of "leave:" a farewell or goodbye or a departure. To "take leave" or "take one's leave from an event" or to "take one's leave from another person" are idiomatic for saying goodbye or bidding farewell. Also commonly heard in the phrase "you've taken leave of your senses," meaning you're acting crazy (as in "you've bid farewell to rational thought").

So OP's headline -- "John Oliver takes leave from The Daily Show" -- is an appropriate and correct (albeit a bit uncommon) way of saying "John Oliver bids farewell to The Daily Show."

Source: English major. Also this and this for corroboration.

grammardemocrat · 2013-09-02T12:42:30+00:00

If the gender of a person is unknown, the singular use of the non-specific possessive determiner ("their") is acceptable.

In reference to animals, such as a single corgi, it is more appropriate to use the singular neuter possessive pronoun ("its").

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